Test yourself with Echo Quiz League

THE surprise signing for US team Zenit St Petersburg FC this season was fictional resident of the state of Oregon, Bart Simpson.

That was one of the strange facts to come out of the questions set by the Ashbrooke Sports Club team in the latest round of the Echo Quiz League summer knockout.

Here are a dozen slightly less strange questions selected from the 48 asked on the night. Answers are at the foot of the column.

1 In which European city is the headquarters of the World Scout Organisation?

2 Which punk musician, whose stage name was derived from his limited style of guitar playing, was born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, in 1952?

3 The numerals we use are commonly referred to as Arabic, but from which country do they actually come?

4 Sharing its name with an item of furniture in a well- known nursery rhyme, what is the unit of volume equal to half a bushel or two pecks?

5 Author Sophie Hannah has this month resurrected which famous fictional character after an absence of 39 years?

6 In 2014 who became the first Egyptian player to play in an FA Cup Final?

7 Which female follower of Charles Manson tried to shoot President Ford in 1975?

8 Which British athlete won the first track gold medal of the 2014 European Championships?

9 What was the nationality of Nobel Prize- wnning novelist Gabriel Garcia Maquez, who died earlier this year?

10 Between 1988 and 1994 the actor Conor Grimes was the voice of whom on TV and radio?

11 Whose novel The Ruby In The Smoke published in 1985, the first of the “Sally Lockhart Quartet” starred Billie Piper in a TV adaptation in 2006?

12 Hell, Purgatory and Heaven were the three volumes of whose prison diary?

Results: The Isis 39 Chaplins 24, Museum Vaults 36 Penshaw Catholic Club 37, The Prior 41 Newbottle Workmen’s Club 34.

Archer. Jeffrey 12 Pullman, Philip 11 Adams, Gerry 10 Colombian, 9 Pavey, Jo 8 Fromme, Squeaky 7 Elmohamady, Ahmed 6 Poirot, Hercule 5 Tuffet, 4 India, 3 Strummer, Joe 2 Geneva, 1 Answers: