A quiz a day keeps the cobwebs away.

1. What is the main material out of which a pool cue is usually made?
2. Who popularised the phrase “The buck stops here”?
3. Sergei Rachmaninoff was a virtuoso on which instrument?
4. What actor had the title role in the film “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”?
5. In what year were the first colour pictures transmitted from the surface of the planet Mars?

6. What is the German word for please?
7. Which Indian bread product is leavened with yeast and cooked in a tandoor?
8. Gingivitis causes inflammation of the what?
9. Santa’s Little Helper is a pet on which TV series?
10. Where did 2007s Saffron Revolution occur?
11. In gymnastics, what is a salto?
12. Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner starred in what TV series, first broadcast from 1966 to 1969?
13. Which country forcibly colonised the island now known as Taiwan in 1895?
14. Nick Leeson became famous in 1995 for what activity?
15. By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?
16. Which sea lies between Italy and Croatia?
17. If you were born on November 25th, what star sign are you?
18. The Hundred Days campaign involved which historical leader?
19. Larrimah is a small town in which part of Australia?
20. What was Colonel Sanders (of KFC) first name?

Bonus question: Who was the first person to win “The Big Four” Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year & Best New Artist) in one year? Answer in  Quiz 10.

Answers: 1.Wood 2.Harry S Truman 3.Piano 4.Steve Carell 5.1976 6.Bitte 7.Naan 8.Gums 9.The Simpsons 10.Myanmar 11.A flip or somersault 12.Star Trek 13.Japan 14.Fraud. He brought down Barings Bank.15.Bastille 16.Adriatic Sea 17.Sagittarius 18.Napoleon 19.Northern Territory 20.Harland. 
Bonus question answer (from Quiz 8): The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942 in the US city of Chicago.