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?

Whooping cough

Smallpox

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 Wilberforce

William Lloyd Garrison

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

Pine

Palm

Spruce

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

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Hurricanes

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

Martin Buber

Friedrich Nietzsche

Paul Tillich

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

The Valley of Fear

The Hound of the Baskervilles

A Study in Scarlet

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

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens

Mark Twain