1. Which Italian city on the River Po is associated with the violin makers Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri?

Florence

Cremona

Foggia

2. Which British naturalist and author wrote the prose romance Green Mansions?

WB Yeats

WH Hudson

WH Auden

3. In which war did the term 'fifth column' originate?

Spanish Civil War

The Boer War

The Crimean War

4. Which island country in the West Indies was invaded by US troops in 1983?

Puerto Rico

Grenada

Martinique

5. Which British aeronautical engineer set up the company that built the Halifax bomber?

Sir Frederick Handley Page

Sir Michael Fields

Sir Joseph Halifax

6. Which two football teams contested the 1985 European Cup Final at which 39 fans died?

Chelsea and Benfica

Liverpool and Juventus

Arsenal and AC Milan

7. Which American poet and wit who contributed to the New Yorker magazine wrote I'm a Stranger Here Myself?

Ogden Nash

Donald Davie

Phillip Larkin

8. Who was elected Ireland's eighth president in 1997?

Mary McAleese

Mary Robinson

Gerry Adams

9. Which English financier propounded the law that bad money drives out good?

Sir Thomas Gresham

Maynard Keynes

Sir Michael Trow

10. Which satellite of Jupiter is the largest moon in our Solar System?

Daemus

Triton

Ganymede