Homeworkfor grown-ups

Try our quiz…and see how of much you can remember what you learnt at school

1. Durum, hard red and hard white are all types of: a) Mushroom b) Lentil c) Wheat d) Apple

2. Who wrote the piece of music known as Ride Of The Valkyries? a) Beethoven b) Mozart c) Verdi d) Wagner

3. Which is the seventh planet from the sun? a) Mercury b) Earth c) Uranus d) Neptune 4. How many players are there in a Rugby Union team? a)11 b) 13 c)15 d) 17

5. The ancient Greek goddess of rainbows was called: a) Persephone b) Iris c) Demeter d) Pandora

6. Who wrote the classic novel Things Fall Apart? a) Chinua Achebe b) Ernest Hemingway c) Vladimir Nabokov d) Iris Murdoch

7. Where are the Apennine mountains? a) Eastern Europe b) France c) Italy d) Scotland

8. What kind of food is bavarois? a) Soup b) Pudding c) Fish d) Stew

9. Which boxer had the nickname ‘The Greatest’? a) George Foreman b) Joe Frazier c) Muhammad Ali d) Rocky Marciano

10. Madonna, tiger and royal are types of which plant? a) Lily b) Orchid c) Pansy d) Lilac ANSWERS 1c;2d;3c;4c;

5b;6a;7c;8b;9c;10a