Test Your Knowledge

Answers on page 43

1. In which year did Panorama feature the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest in Italy?

2. In 1977 The Guardian published a travel guide to which mysterious island grouping?

3. What is the collective noun for a group of koalas?

4. What are the Golden Raspberry Awards given for?

5. What is the punchline in a shaggy dog story?

6. Which is the largest landlocked country in the world?

7. Who wrote The Idiot in 1869?

8. Who created the character pictured below left?

9. Whose picture was on the first UK postage stamp?

10. Which actor played the leading role in the 1975 film, 12 Angry Men?

11. Where in your body can you find 25% of the body’s bones?

12. Whose tombstone has an epitaph intended to ward off grave robbers?

13. What is M.C Escher best known for?

14. Which Jewish festival was Jesus celebrating with his disciples at The Last Supper

15. Who designed the emblem pictured below right?

16. Which four flora represent the four UK Nations?

17. What was the nickname given to the leader of the forces opposing Field Marshall Montgomery during the North Africa Campaign?

18. What has a neck but no head?