The Scotsman

How many questions can you answer?

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1 About the size of Belgium, which island is separated from the mainland Americas by straits including Juan de Fuca and Georgia?

2 Which two Greek letters link in phonetics the symbols of two back or near-back vowels, in physics representa­tions of angular accelerati­on and angular velocity and in the Book of Revelation an appellatio­n of Jesus?

Bonus Questions on Iron Maiden:

3 The five word title of which Iron Maiden track appears in Shakespear­e’s Julius Caeser after the words “I come to bury Caeser, not to praise him?”

4 Which track by Iron Maiden shares its name with a 1961 science fiction novel by Robert A Heinlein?

5 The 1983 Iron Maiden track The Trooper was inspired by which military action, the subject of an 1855 work by thethen poet laureate?

6 What nine-letter name is shared by the first wife of the Emperor Tiberius and the mother of the Emperor Caligula?

Bonus Questions on the Millennium Prize problems, proposed by the Clay Mathematic­s Institute of New Hampshire in 2000:

7 Dating from 1971, which problem in computing asks whether all problems with the solution verifiable in finite time can also be solved in finite time? 8 The Riemann hypothesis of 1859 claims that zeroes of the zeta function exist only at negative even integers and at some complex numbers with what real part?

9 To date, which is the only one of the problems to have been solved? It states that every simply connected closed threemanif­old is homeomorph­ic to the three-sphere.

10 What two-digit number is equivalent to the Roman numerals that form the first three letters of the birthplace of William Gladstone, Beryl Bainbridge and Wayne Rooney?

11 Noted for her recognitio­n of rights for women, the sixthcentu­ry Byzantine empress Theodora was married to which emperor who succeeded in 527?

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