'G' is for Go! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Graham Greene

English novelist Graham Greene was born in 1904 and published his first novel, "The Man Within" when he was just 25. "Our Man in Havana" was published in 1958 and was adapted for a film starring Sir Alec Guinness a year later.

Answer: Girls Aloud

Formed by Cheryl Cole (née Tweedy), Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh, English-Irish all-female pop group "Girls Aloud" were formed out of the ITV1 talent show "Popstars: The Rivals". No group in the history of the British singles chart had ever before managed to begin their career with 20 consecutive Top 10 releases. Girls Aloud's run ended in 2009 when their twenty-first single, "Untouchable", stalled at #11.

Answer: Greenland

Denmark joined the European Economic Community (the forerunner to the European Union) in 1972, and with it came the overseas territory of Greenland, which had the status of an 'amt' (or county) within Denmark. Greenland attained the status of 'home rule' in 1979, and in 1985 its legislature voted to leave the EEC, largely due to the EEC's commercial fishing regulations and an EEC ban on seal skin products, both of which are crucial to the economy of Greenland.

Answer: Great grandfather

Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland aka Mary Queen of Scots, became queen regnant of Scotland on the death of her father, King James V, when she was just six days old. She became queen consort to King Francis II of France in 1559 until his death eighteen months later.

Her son, King James VI of Scotland and King James I of England, eventually united the two thrones. Mary's father, James V of Scotland, was the only son of James IV and Margaret Tudor, who were thus her grandparents. Margaret Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, was the only daughter of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, so Henry VII was Mary's great grandfather.

Answer: Georgetown

With a population of around a quarter of a million, Georgetown is the largest city and the capital of Guyana. It is nicknamed 'The Garden City of the Caribbean'. There are numerous other cities called Georgetown including the main settlement in the British territory of Ascension Island.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is called George Town. Georgetown is also the name of a prestigious university in Washington D.C. Of the alternatives, Grytviken is the capital of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, Gaborone is the capital of Botswana, and Gustavia is the capital of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Barthélemy.

Answer: The Great Gatsby

Published in 1925, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in 1922, is widely considered a literary classic. Major characters include Jay Gatsby, a shady millionaire businessman from North Dakota and his neighbors Tom & Daisy Buchanan. The novel is narrated by Yale graduate and WWI vet Nick Carraway.

Answer: George H.W. Bush

Building work began on the George Bush Presidential Library in 1995 and it was opened in late 1997. It is situated on a 90-acre site on the west campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The same university is also the home of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Answer: Paul Gauguin

Born Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin in Paris, France in 1848, he was one of the most important French Post-Impressionist painters. In the 1956 film, Kirk Douglas played Vincent van Gogh.

Answer: George

The first auto-pilot was first developed by Lawrence Sperry and the Sperry Corporation in 1912. The final version was nicknamed 'George' after a member of the development team, George DeBeeson (1897-1965).

Answer: Ghee

Ghee is a clarified butter used in many types of South Asian cooking. The alternatives are other ingredients used in South Asian food: gosht literally means meat or flesh although gosht dishes are usually made with goat or mutton; garam masala is a blend of ground spices; and gajar ka halwa is a sweet Indian dessert.