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

Foggia

Cremona

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 Crimean War

Spanish Civil War

The Boer 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 Frederick Handley Page

Sir Joseph Halifax

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

Liverpool and Juventus

Arsenal and AC Milan

Chelsea and Benfica

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?

Mary Robinson

Gerry Adams

Mary McAleese

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

Daemus

Ganymede