The Broons family quiz
Can you rise to Horace’s challenge?
1. Who was the only British Prime Minister to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature?
2. The One-Eyed Bagman is a character in which Charles Dickens novel?
3. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, which word represents the letter I?
4. A Bouvier des Flandres is what type of animal?
5. The resort town of Sliema is on which Mediterranean island?
6. Which month sees the start of the Grouse Season?
7. Un-Break My Heart was a hit single for which star in the ‘90s?
8. How many furlongs in a mile?
9. In which year was Marie Antoinette executed?
10. Sir Walter Raleigh was executed during the reign of which English monarch?
11. Edentulism is the loss of what?
12. The world’s highest waterfall – Angel Falls – is in which country?
13. How many squares are on an official Scrabble board – 175, 225 or 275?
14. Vexillology is the study of what?
15. American singer Frank Castelluccio is better known by what name?
16. What type of tool is a Stillson?
17. Morado is Spanish for which colour?
18. What is the currency of Brazil?
19. Philophobia is the irrational fear of which emotion?
20. In bingo, “knock at the door” is the nickname of which number?