1. Which Italian architectural style was introduced into England by Inigo Jones?

Palladianism

Neoclassicism

Mannerism

2. What are the flat and treeless plains of Argentina called?

Tundas

Doras

Pampas

3. Which acute infectious disease seen mainly in children is also called pertussis?

Whooping cough

Smallpox

Chickenpox

4. What is pop star Elton John's real name?

Richard Starkey

Paul Hewson

Reginald Dwight

5. Which British reformer led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade?

John Wesley

William Wilberforce

William Lloyd Garrison

6. On what sort of tree do coconuts and dates grow?

Spruce

Pine

Palm

7. Which natural phenomena are measured on the Richter scale?

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Hurricanes

8. Which Austrian-born Israeli philosopher wrote the influential work I and Thou?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Paul Tillich

Martin Buber

9. In which story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did Sherlock Holmes first appear?

A Study in Scarlet

The Valley of Fear

The Hound of the Baskervilles

10. Who wrote A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth?

Mark Twain

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens