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

Cremona

Florence

Foggia

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

WH Hudson

WH Auden

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?

Grenada

Martinique

Puerto Rico

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

Sir Frederick Handley Page

Sir Michael Fields

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?

Phillip Larkin

Ogden Nash

Donald Davie

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

Maynard Keynes

Sir Michael Trow

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

Ganymede

Triton

Daemus