Test your knowledge

1 True or false: bamboo is a type of grass?

2 What career did John Keats abandon for poetry?

3 Excluding Russia, which European country has the most lakes?

4 Nicosia is the capital of which Mediterranean island country? 5 In which Australian state is the Barossa Valley wine region?

6 Which 2002 film starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks? 7 In computer terminology, what does the acronym RAM stand for?

8 Baron Lawson of Blaby is the father of which famous English chef?

9 The Danube river runs through which four European capital cities?

10 What name is given to the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere?

11 How many riders are there to a team in polo?

12 What type of bird is the title of a 1968 hit song for Fleetwood Mac?

13 What body part is particularly prominent in a proboscis monkey? 14 The resin from which tree is used to make turpentine?

15 Who directed the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic?

16 To which continent is the aloe plant native?

17 Is selenium a metal or nonmetal chemical element?

18 What is the English translation of Cirque du Soleil?

19 What is the name of singer P!nk’s debut album?

20 In which country is the Komodo National Park?

21 What is the largest living species of animal in the deer family?

22 What is Crown Princess Mary of Denmark’s maiden name?

23 In which English town was William Shakespeare born?

24 What is Bear Grylls’ first name?

25 What is the name of Kristen Bell’s character in the TV series TheGood

Place? 26 Which US state’s official song comes from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?

27 The three most commonly spoken languages worldwide are Mandarin Chinese, English and what?

28 What do you call an animal or plant that is unable to produce pigment in some or all of its organs?

29 What temperature has the same value in both centigrade and Fahrenheit?

30 On which continent are jaguars found? Answers, this page