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

Palladianism

Neoclassicism

Mannerism

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

Tundas

Pampas

Doras

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

Chickenpox

Smallpox

Whooping cough

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

Paul Hewson

Richard Starkey

Reginald Dwight

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

John Wesley

William Wilberforce

William Lloyd Garrison

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

Hurricanes

Earthquakes

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

Paul Tillich

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Buber

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

The Valley of Fear

A Study in Scarlet

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

Jane Austen