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 Auden

WH Hudson

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

The Crimean War

Spanish Civil War

The Boer 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 Joseph Halifax

Sir Michael Fields

Sir Frederick Handley Page

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

Phillip Larkin

Ogden Nash

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

Mary McAleese

Gerry Adams

Mary Robinson

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

Maynard Keynes

Sir Michael Trow

Sir Thomas Gresham

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

Ganymede

Triton

Daemus