MASTERQUIZ

1. How many masts does a brig have?

2. Which American author wrote The Anatomy Lesson and Portnoy’s Complaint?

3. Which crystalline solid has the characteristic smell of the mint plant?

4. Former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, who died recently aged 91, won which prestigious award in 1990?

5. Which cold, dry northerly wind is funnelled down the Rhone Valley to the Mediterranean?

6. Which English colonist, who sailed to North America on the Mayflower, was the military leader of the first settlement in New England?