1. What is a pillory?

A small blood vessel

An instrument of punishment

A cash bribe

2. Which sometimes fatal infection is caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila?

Malaria

Legionnaires' disease

Pneumonia

3. In which English county can the Forest of Dean be found?

Gloucestershire

Worcestershire

Somerset

4. Who was Britain's prime minister from 1905 to 1908?

David Lloyd George

William Gladstone

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

5. What is the largest seabird?

The albatross

The cormorant

The emperor penguin

6. Which town is revered by both Jews and Muslims as the burial place of Abraham?

Hebron

Mecca

Tiberias

7. Which synthetic transuranic element is represented by the symbol Fm?

Francium

Flerovium

Fermium

8. Who was the director general of the BBC from 1927 to 1938?

John Reith

Cecil Graves

William Haley

9. What is the capital of Barbados?

Charlestown

Bridgetown

Kingstown

10. Which US novelist wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Jack Kerouac

Hunter S. Thompson

Ken Kesey