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• Remember that no correspondence, computers or cell phones may be entered into!

• Answers below.

 

 

1    In which European country would you find Savoy? (France)

 

2    Name the Argentine driver who won the Formula One Championship five times in the 1950s. (Juan Fangio)

 

3    The Germans call it glühwein, what is our term? (mulled wine)

 

4    At which entertainment festival do they award the Palme D’Or? (Cannes Film Festival)

 

5    What is an aquifer? (Porous rock which contains and transmits water)

 

6    Donald Trump is the first American president since World War Two, to be elected having had no previous political experience. True or false? (False)

 

7    The lemur is native to which island? (Madagascar)

 

8    Which species of bird once flew across America in hundreds of millions? (passenger pigeons)

 

9  Wendy Perriam is a writer, film star or model? (writer)

 

10  Who wrote The Swimming Pool Library? (Alan Hollinghurst)