MINDBENDER MASTERQUIZ

1. Ricardo has been on a diet for three days. On the second day, he consumed 500 calories fewer than twice the calories he consumed on the first day. On the third day, he ate one and a half times as many calories as he did on the second day. If he has eaten a total of 3,550 calories so far, how many did Ricardo consume on day one? 2. What connects horseshoe, noctule and barbastelle? 3. Which celebrity hotel-owner might DISLOCATE TOWN? 4. Which is the odd one out: smooth, rough, exceptional, phenomenal? 5. Which three-letter word completes the following longer words: ---t, re---, ---ker, am---h? 1. What was the surname of the two brothers who played in the England team which won the FIFA World Cup in 1966? 2. After which pope is the Sistine Chapel in Rome named? 3. In the Shakespeare play, Richard III calls for which horse to be saddled for the Battle of Bosworth? 4. With a salary of £400,000, who is the highest paid female presenter on BBC Radio 2? 5. Who was British Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of World War I? 6. Australian-born singer Shirley Abicair is most closely associated with which instrument? Answers on opposite page