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

Mannerism

Palladianism

Neoclassicism

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

Pampas

Tundas

Doras

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?

Reginald Dwight

Paul Hewson

Richard Starkey

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

John Wesley

William Lloyd Garrison

William Wilberforce

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

Palm

Pine

Spruce

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

Volcanoes

Hurricanes

Earthquakes

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

Martin Buber

Paul Tillich

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Valley of Fear

A Study in Scarlet

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

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen