Quizzes


Edition 1175, September 20, 2007
 
 
General Knowledge
1. Who crushed the Prussian forces at Jena in 1806?
2. What famous piece of embroidery depicts William the Conqueror’s invasion of England at the battle of Hastings?
3. What is ‘Eau de Vie’?
4. Where is the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula?
5. Who was Elizabeth I’s master spy?
6. Who crushed Lleyton Hewitt’s hopes of a third Grand Slam title?
7. Which female test pilot attempted to rescue Hitler from his Berlin bunker?
8. What in Chinese cookery is ‘Char Sui’?
9. What was the Long March?
10. Who is Duke of Lancaster?





ANSWERS

1. Napoleon.
2. The Bayeux Tapestry.
3. A powerful French alcoholic distillation. Literally the ‘Water of Life’.
4. The Tower of London.
5. Sir Francis Walsingham
6. Argentinean Agustin Calleri.
7. Hanna Reitsch flying a Fiesler Fi156 Storch.
8. A dish of red pork, the red colour coming from the Char Sui marinade.
9. An epic march of 100,000 Chinese communists led by Mao Zedong.
10. The Duchy is the Right of HM the Queen and, while Queen regnant, she remains a Duke.