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

Neoclassicism

Palladianism

Mannerism

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?

Chickenpox

Whooping cough

Smallpox

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

Paul Hewson

Reginald Dwight

Richard Starkey

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?

Pine

Spruce

Palm

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?

Jane Austen

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens