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?

Pampas

Tundas

Doras

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

Smallpox

Whooping cough

Chickenpox

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?

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?

Martin Buber

Paul Tillich

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

A Study in Scarlet

The Valley of Fear

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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

Mark Twain

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens