QUICK QUIZ

1. US singer Kitty Kallen topped the UK charts with which single in 1954?

2. Which French novelist wrote The Three Musketeers?

3. Which British entrepeneur founded the Virgin record company in 1969?

4. What sort of creature is an avocet?

5. Which British author created the famous Larkin family in the 1958 novel The Darling Buds of May?

6. What nationality was the painter Goya?

7. Which US actor starred in the films A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and The Godfather?

8. Which three countries constituted the Axis Powers which opposed the Allied Powers in World War II?

9. Which 16th-century English writer was married to Anne Hathaway?

10. Which former currency unit of Italy was equal to 100 centesimi?