It’s been a while, so perhaps you’ve got your confidence back up to the mark and are ready for any quiz that comes your way. Let’s see!
1. The fictional store Grace Brothers employed the characters in which British TV series?
2. Which is the name of a panther in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”?
3. What is Russia’s largest port city on the Pacific Ocean?

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4. The mandrill is the world’s largest what?
5. Who led a team to make the Cumberland Gap, a way through the Appalachian Mountains, accessible to pioneers, who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee?6. A character in the Peanuts comic strip is……Patty?
7. Oliver Mellors is a fictional character in which book?
8. Bucharest is the capital city of which country?
9. Pachanga is a kind of Cuban what?
10. What is the standard maximum number of golf clubs a player can carry?
11. What do ostlers do?
12. The Mohs scale measures what?
13. Who signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the USA on New Year’s day 1863?
14. Which actress has a tattoo showing the co-ordinates of the birthplaces of her children?
15. Where is the Sea of Smyth?
16. What is the world’s largest inland body of water?
17. What country was Agatha Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot from?
18. What 1970s song is Carl Douglas famous for singing?
19. John Ross of the Royal Navy led three expeditions in the 19th century to which part of the world?
20. What happens to ouzo if you add water to it?
Bonus question: Where was the Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 passed? Answer in Quiz 16.

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Answers: 1.Are You Being Served? 2.Bagheera 3.Vladivostok 4.Monkey 5.Daniel Boone 6.Peppermint 7 Lady Chatterley’s Lover 8.Romania 9.Dance 10.14 clubs 11.Care for horses 12.Hardness of minerals 13.Abraham Lincoln 14.Angelina Jolie 15.On the moon 16.Caspian Sea 17.Belgium 18.Kung Fu Fighting 19.The Arctic 20.It becomes cloudy
Bonus question answer (from Quiz 14): Modern Daylight Saving Time was first used in 1911-12 in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.


