BRAINtest

This week all answers begin with the letter B.

1. What “B” was a baroque composer, father to 20 children and composer of “Toccata and Fugue in D minor”?

2. What “B” is the capital of Switzerland?

3. What “B” is the city that is home to the European Parliament?

4. What “B” is manufactured by a cooper?

5. What “B” is a place to where you would ride a cock-horse to see a fine lady upon a white horse (according to a nursery rhyme)?

6. What “B” was the age that preceded the Iron Age?

What “B” is a country with Bengali as the official language?

What “B” is a character played by Rowan Atkinson in the 1980s over four comedy series set during historic periods?

9. What “B” was an Egyptian goddess who had the body of a woman and the head of a cat?

10. What “B” directed the film

“Pearl Harbor”?

11. What “B” is a gangster film on the set of which Warren Beatty met bride-to-be Annette Bening?

12. What “B” wrote the novel that begins “All children except one grow up”?

13. What “B” is a musician who named himself after a knife as his real name is shared with a musician in the Monkees?

14. What “B” is a song by The Doors with lyrics: “You know the day destroys the night, night divides the day, tried to run, tried to hide”?

15. What “B” in chemistry describes a solution which tends to resist changes to its level of acidity? 16. What “B” is a disease caused by the lack of vitamin B1, that takes its name from the Sinhalese meaning, “I can’t, I can’t” which is a reference to the weakness felt from the ailment?

17. What “B” holds the record for the most drop goals, the most conversions and the most points in a career in South African first-class rugby?

18. What “B” is a battle where Henry, Duke of Richmond (later Henry VII), killed Richard III?

19. What “B” wrote the novel “Tarzan of the Apes”?

20. What “B” was a Formula One team with whom Michael Schumacher won his first world drivers’ championship?

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