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1. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what ?
2. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit ?
3. Name the ex-Green Party leader and its first UK parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in UK's May 2010 general election ?
4. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read ?
5. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country ?
6. A navarin casserole is cooked using which type of meat ?
7. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave ?
8. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the Emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice ?
9. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village ?
10. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt ?
11. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice ?
12. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai ?
13. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games ?
14. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby ?
15. In a right-angled triangle whose shortest sides are eight and six metres how long is the other side ?
Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.
1. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what ? Books
2. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit ? Popliteal fossa
3. Name the ex-Green Party leader and its first UK parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in UK's May 2010 general election ? Caroline Lucas
4. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read ? Louis Braille
5. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country ? Turkey
6. A navarin casserole is cooked using which type of meat ? Lamb
7. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave ? Napoleon Bonaparte
8. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the Emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice ? The Emperor
9. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village ? Canada
10. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt ? Lotus
11. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice ? Othello
12. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai ? Bombay
13. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games ? Atlanta
14. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby ? Hebrew
15. In a right-angled triangle whose shortest sides are eight and six metres how long is the other side ? 10 metres
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