SUNDAY CHALLENGE

1 In 1917, the Russian Congress of Soviets elected who as chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars?

2 Which Canadian territory forms most of the border with Alaska?

3 The Brontë sisters had a brother who was a poet and painter. What was his first name? 4 Which sport has the highest ratio of officials to players?

5 He is a father figure to the other musketeers and, by the end of the novel, it is revealed that he is the Comte de la Fère, who was Milady’s husband before she married the Baron de Winter. What is the name of this Musketeer from the Alexander Dumas classic?

6 The Okavango Delta is the world’s largest inland delta formed where the Okavango River empties onto a swamp in an endorheic basin in the Kalahari Desert, where most of the water is lost to evaporation and transpiration instead of draining into the sea. In which country would you find it?

7 What’s the name of a wine bottle that is twice the size of a standard bottle (hint; Dirty Harry)?

8 What was Sting’s profession before he became a rock star?

9 India and Pakistan have neighbouring states of the same name, called...?

10 Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of lake or ocean floors; true or false?

11 Charles Portis’ novel is narrated in the first person by Mattie Ross, a thrifty, churchgoing spinster distinguished by a rare independence and strength of mind. As an old woman she tells the story of her adventures many years earlier when she undertook a quest to avenge her father’s death at the hands of a drifter. What is the name of this excellent novel?

12 In digital imaging, it is the smallest addressable screen element, the smallest unit of picture that can be controlled. It is called a...?

13 He was a British statesman and Prime Minister and is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. His name is Spencer...?

14 It is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid that was later covered by Guns and Roses. What is the name of the song?

15 Poland was the first country occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II. Which was the last?

16 Also referred to as “Late Baroque” it is an 18th century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly more ornate, florid, and playful. It is called Rococo or Bauhaus?

17 Which film was based on Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric

Sheep” (hint; Replicants)?

18 Whose ears did Mike Tyson bite in Las Vegas in 1997?

19 What is the name of the sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area? 20 What is the capital of Belarus? A) Minsk

B) Riga

C) Polokwane