The Bro ons family quiz

Can you rise to Horace’s challenge?

1. In knitting what does YRN stand for?

2. How many stars are there on the national flag of Australia?

3. Who wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago?

4. The Gruesome Twosome are characters in which children’s TV cartoon series?

5. Composers Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert were born in which country?

6. If something is sigmate, it is in the shape of which letter of the English alphabet?

7. The name of which city translates into English as “river of January”?

8. What is the name of the two-dimensional surface with only one side?

9. What type of plant is an opuntia?

10. What are baby beavers called?

11. In The Bible, what is the surname of Judas, who betrayed Jesus?

12. Helena is the capital of which US state?

13. Comic book artist Bob Kane created which superhero in 1939?

14. Orville the Duck was a puppet used by which ventriloquist?

15. Raclette and Sbrinz are types of which foodstuff?

16. In maths, an icosagon has how many sides?

17. Who stepped down as leader of Scottish Labour last week?

18. Napier University is in which British city?

19. Who directed the 1957 film Bridge Over The River Kwai?

20. In which year was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?