1. Which Italian architectural style was introduced into England by Inigo Jones?

Neoclassicism

Mannerism

Palladianism

2. What are the flat and treeless plains of Argentina called?

Doras

Tundas

Pampas

3. Which acute infectious disease seen mainly in children is also called pertussis?

Smallpox

Whooping cough

Chickenpox

4. What is pop star Elton John's real name?

Richard Starkey

Reginald Dwight

Paul Hewson

5. Which British reformer led the parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade?

William Lloyd Garrison

William Wilberforce

John Wesley

6. On what sort of tree do coconuts and dates grow?

Palm

Spruce

Pine

7. Which natural phenomena are measured on the Richter scale?

Volcanoes

Earthquakes

Hurricanes

8. Which Austrian-born Israeli philosopher wrote the influential work I and Thou?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Paul Tillich

Martin Buber

9. In which story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did Sherlock Holmes first appear?

A Study in Scarlet

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Valley of Fear

10. Who wrote A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth?

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens

Mark Twain