1. Which of the following works was composed by Vaughan Williams?

The Barber of Seville

Turandot

Hugh the Drover

2. By what name is deuterium oxide commonly known?

Heavy water

Salt

Gunpowder

3. Who was the chief wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton or Ikhnaton?

Tell-el-Amarna

Nefertiti

Imhotep

4. Which French general and prime minister signed an armistice with Germany in 1940?

Charles de Gaulle

Henri Philippe Petain

Georges Clemenceau

5. Which Japanese city was the site of the 1972 winter Olympics?

Sapporo

Toyama

Nagoya

6. Which Italian composer wrote the opera La Somnambula?

Bellini

Puccini

Verdi

7. Which two countries signed the Anti-Comintern pact in 1936?

Great Britain and the USA

Russia and the USA

Germany and Japan

8. Who stars as Dr. Ian Malcolm in the film The Lost World?

Robbie Coltrane

Jeff Goldblum

Richard Attenborough

9. What is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?

Crete

Sardinia

Malta

10. Which French-born British author wrote Cautionary Tales?

Hilaire Belloc

Jean Racine

Jean Pierre Claris de Florian