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

Florence

Foggia

Cremona

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

WH Auden

WH Hudson

WB Yeats

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

Spanish Civil War

The Crimean War

The Boer 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 Joseph Halifax

Sir Frederick Handley Page

Sir Michael Fields

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?

Donald Davie

Phillip Larkin

Ogden Nash

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 Michael Trow

Maynard Keynes

Sir Thomas Gresham

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

Triton

Ganymede

Daemus