1.
This city was founded in 421AD and in 1689
conquered the island of Cyprus. In 1516 the first Ghetto in the world was
established in this city. It is home to one of Europe’s oldest film festivals
and was the birthplace of Casanova. The city gave its name to a South American
country and Marco Polo travelled from
this city to the court of Kulbai Khan. Name this Italian city in which you
would find Doge’s Palace, St Marks Square and Gondola’s floating on its famous
canals?
Venice
2.
This European country has a population of just
over 1.3 million and consists of a mainland and around 2,000 islands in the
Baltic Sea. It is bordered by Russia in the East and Latvia in the South and
joined Nato as a full member in 2004 along with various other Baltic states.
Name this country of which Tallin is the capital city?
Estonia
3.
This German city was stripped of its UNESCO
World Heritage Status in 2009 due to the construction of a road bridge across
the Elbe. It has a long history as the Royal Residence of the Kings of Saxony
and was the site of controversial British and American bombing towards the end
of World War II. Name this Germany city which is the second largest city in the
Free State of Saxony which has been known as “Jewel Box” for its baroque city
centre and “Silicon Saxony” for its important German high tech industries?
Dresden
4.
Signed in 1985, the Schengen Agreement is named
after a town in which country?
Luxembourg
5.
Which river located in Devon is spelt out by combining
the symbols for elements 73 and 74, namely Tanatalum and Tungesten?
Taw
6.
If you were the sail North from the northernmost
tip of the island of Borneo, which country would you hit first?
China
7.
Gold, Lead, Zinc, Neon and which other element
are the only elements on the periodic table to contain 4 letters?
Iron
8.
With the chemical formula C6 H6, which important
chemical compound was first isolated and
identified by Michael Faraday in 1825 and is a natural constituent of Crude
Oil?
Benzene
9. A
statue of this scientists most famous invention stands outside the Stadium of
Light in Sunderland and he also has named after him a crater of the moon and an
annual medal issued by the Royal Society of London. He is also the subject of
the 2005 Nick Darke play “Laughing Gas”. Name this scientist, born in Cornwall
in 1778, who discovered both Chlorine and Iodine and invented a lamp to which he gives his
name?
Humphry Davy
10.
What was the surname of the British father and
son who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their “services to the
analysis of crystal structure by means of X-Ray” and is also the surname”
of the host of BBC Radio 4’s “In Our
Time” series?
Bragg
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