5 MINUTE QUIZ

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1. Former Labour Party leader David Shearer now heads the United Nations in which troubled part of the world? 2. Which United States president wore a stovepipe hat? 3. A criminal named Macheath features in which popular song? 4. Which potent spirit gets its flavour from the wormwood plant? 5. What category of musical instruments includes timbales? 6. America’s famous Walter Reed General Hospital was established to treat what group of people? 7. Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union? 8. What swamp-dwelling tree did James Cook’s botanist Joseph Banks describe as ‘‘the finest timber I ever beheld’’? 9. What is meant by the Latin phrase Deo gratias? 10. Which 1970s TV character’s armchair is now held in the National Museum of American History?