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

Cremona

Foggia

Florence

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

WH Auden

WB Yeats

WH Hudson

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?

Martinique

Grenada

Puerto Rico

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

Sir Michael Fields

Sir Joseph Halifax

Sir Frederick Handley Page

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

Arsenal and AC Milan

Chelsea and Benfica

Liverpool and Juventus

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?

Gerry Adams

Mary Robinson

Mary McAleese

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

Daemus

Triton