1. What name is given to the formerly heavily industrialised area of central England northwest of Birmingham?
2. What is the full name of the British fashion designer who is the daughter of a member of The Beatles?
3. What was the former unit of currency in Greece prior to the Euro?
4. What is the name of the 19th-century German composer of ‘The Ring Cycle’?
5. What name is given to the small disc of hard rubber used to play ice hockey?
6. What is the name of the American novelist and poet who married Ted Hughes in 1966? She was the author of ‘The Bell Jar’.
7. Which waterway in northeast Egypt links the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea?
8. What name is given to the temple on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece?
9. In Greek mythology, who was the last King of Troy, who died at its fall?
10. What name was given to a supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War?
11. What name is given to a bird’s feather made into a pen for writing?
12. What name is given to a decree or order issued by a sovereign or state?
13. What was the name of the final novel of Herman Melville, adapted into an opera by Benjamin Britten?
14. What name is given to a display of skills given by cowboys, including bareback riding?
15. Which town was the setting for the much-loved sitcom ‘Dad’s Army’?
16. In imperial measurement, how many pounds are there in a stone?
17. Which operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan is set in the Tower of London?
18. What is the first name of the wife of British Prime Minister Andy Burnham?
19. What is the cost of a current colour TV licence?
20. The TV police drama ‘Blue Lights’ is based in which UK city?
Answers will be given in the next U3A newsletter. Good luck to everyone!
Thought for the day:
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day (AA Milne)