Lucky Dip Trivia Quiz

Answer: Madrid

Madrid has been the capital of Spain since 1562. It is 650 metres above sea level and is 300km from the sea. According to FIFA, its football team Real Madrid was the most successful team of the 20th century.

Answer: Strings

Sergei Prokofiev wrote "Peter and the Wolf" in 1936. It is a children's story telling the tale of how a young boy called Peter outsmarts a wolf that comes out of the forest. The parts of the different characters are performed by different instruments from the orchestra, and the music is accompanied by text spoken by a narrator. Prokofiev wrote both the music and the text.

Answer: Cats

Other names for this phobia include felinophobia, elurophobia and cat phobia. Statesmen Benito Mussolini, Napoleon Bonaparte and Julius Caesar were all famous people from history who were reputedly afflicted with this fear.

Answer: Earth

Earth is the only planet in our solar system that is not named after a Greek or Roman deity. The moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

Answer: Tees

The waterfall in question is called Cauldron's Snout. It is immediately below the Cow Green Reservoir. At 200 yards long, it is considered to be the longest waterfall in England, and at 200 feet high it is considered the highest.

Answer: 5 cents and 10 cents

On March 3, 1847, an act was passed in the United States of America allowing the issuance of stamps. The 5-cent stamp depicted Benjamin Franklin and was red-brown in colour. The black 10-cent stamp depicted George Washington. They were declared invalid for postage on July 1, 1851.

Answer: George Cross

The George Cross was instituted on September 24, 1940 by King George and replaced the Empire Gallantry Medal. The medal was designed by Percy Metcalf. It was awarded on a collective basis to the island of Malta and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Answer: American

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine.
Longfellow is best remembered for his poems "Paul Revere's Ride" and "The Song of Hiawatha". He died of peritonitis on March 24, 1882 at the age of 75.

Answer: His bow and arrow

The origins of this rhyme are said to be a parody of the death of William Rufus, King of England, in the New Forest in 1100. Buckland Rectory in Gloucestershire, England depicts the death of a robin by an arrow in a 15th century stained glass window.

Answer: The Silver Ghost

The founders of Rolls-Royce were Sir Charles Stuart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce. It was founded in 1904. The Silver Ghost model was produced between 1906 and 1926, and there were 7,874 made. The Silver Ghost name was not officially recognised by Rolls Royce until 1925 when the Phantom range was introduced.