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

Foggia

Florence

Cremona

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?

The Boer War

The Crimean War

Spanish Civil War

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

Grenada

Martinique

Puerto Rico

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

Sir Michael Fields

Sir Frederick Handley Page

Sir Joseph Halifax

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

Arsenal and AC Milan

Liverpool and Juventus

Chelsea and Benfica

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

Donald Davie

Ogden Nash

Phillip Larkin

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

Gerry Adams

Mary McAleese

Mary Robinson

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

Sir Thomas Gresham

Sir Michael Trow

Maynard Keynes

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

Ganymede

Triton

Daemus