Bet you’ll lose your A+ average with this quiz.

1. What is a guppy?
2. Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia?
3. What attaches muscles to bone?
4. Which country gained its independence from Australia on 16 September 1975?

5. What sort of bird is on the flag of the Commonwealth of Dominica?
6. Which river forms part of the border between the USA and Canada?
7. What was the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by Germany in World War II?
8. Kippers are smoked what?
9. What was King George VI’s first name?
10. What is “Midway”, the site of the Battle of Midway?
11. Claudius is the murderous uncle of which character in a Shakespearean play?
12. In which sea is The Grenadines island chain?
13. The word “pronto” comes to English from which language?
14. What is another name for the throw, or toe, line in a darts game?
15. In 1984, who had a hit single singing about how he “got my first real six-string, bought it at the five-and-dime, played ’til my fingers bled?
16. A courgette is a type of what?
17. What was the name of the bald bespectacled scientist and his assistant in the Muppet Show?
18. How many lines are there in a sonnet?
19. Which former American football star was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping?
20. “RBT” is a reality TV series (first screened 2010) focussing on what?

Bonus question: Lucky Man is a 2003 autobiography by which US actor? Answer in Quiz #27.

Answers: 1.A fish 2.Amy Johnson 3.Tendons 4.Papua New Guinea 5.Parrot 6.St Lawrence River 7.Channel Islands 8.Herring 9.Albert 10.Pacific Island 11.Hamlet 12.Caribbean Sea 13.Spanish 14.Oche 15.Bryan Adams 16.Vegetable 17.Dr Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker 18.14 lines 19.OJ Simpson 20.Random Breath Testing
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #25): The first name of American homeopathic physician and wife murderer Dr Crippen was Hawley.