General Knowledge
1. This Nebraskan would not have made it in Hollywood as Spangler Arlington Brugh. What was his screen name?
2. Mr Ed was the name of a talking horse in a 1970s TV sitcom. What was the name of his owner?
3. How many light squares are there on a chess board?
4. What discovery has led to a team of astronomers at the Australian National University being awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology?
5. What was the RAF’s first four-engine bomber in WWII?
6. What is the name of the last mast in a three-masted ship, or the third aft in a four or five-master?
7. Formerly Upper Volta, this African country is now know as?
8. Which nation features a three headed elephant on its royal flag?
9. How many radiators does the eight litre Bugatti Veyron super car have?
10. The car carrying Princess Diana crashed in which tunnel in Paris on August 31, 1997?

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ANSWERS
1. Robert Taylor
2.Wilbur.
3.32
4.The expansion of the universe is accelerating
5.The Stirling
6.The mizzen mast
7.Burkina Faso
8.Laos.
9.Ten.
10.The Pont de l’Alma.


Question 8 in the last edition had the incorrect answer to the question “What was the world’s first jet passenger aircraft?”. It was the de Havilland Comet NOT the 707.