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Answer: U2

Once billed as the 'biggest band in the world', U2 were formed in Dublin in 1976. They have a truckload of gold, silver and platinum albums, including 'The Joshua Tree', 'Rattle and Hum', 'Achtung Baby' and 'Zooropa' in the 1980s and '90s, 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' and 'No Line on the Horizon' in the 2000s.

The single 'One', appropriately enough, hit the Number One spot on charts around the world- it was off the album 'Achtung Baby'.

Answer: GP2 Series

GP2 events are usually raced on the same tracks as their big brothers, the F1 cars. The car specifications will change from season to season, but the concept of equalness will not. Many of the drivers graduate to the F1 class.

Formula 4 is also a single specification class like the GP2, but with less powerful vehicles.

Formula 5000 was a lower cost class of open-wheel racing that folded in the 1980s. Some notable winners in F5000 were Graham McRae, Patrick Tambay, Jacky Ickx, Al Unser Jr, and Jacques Villeneuve.

Top Doorslammer cars are very fast, but only over a quarter-mile course--they are drag racers.

Answer: It quadruples

The volume of a cylinder is calculated using the equation V=Pi*r^2*H, where 'r' is the radius and 'H' is the height. If you plug in r=1cm, you get Pi*H, but try using r=2cm. Your answer will be Pi*4H.

If you tripled the radius, it increases the flow by nine times.

Answer: Rome

Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire from about 240 B.C. till its collapse in 476 A.D. At its peak, Rome was home to more than 1,000,000 people. After the city was sacked by the Visigoths, the population plummeted to around 50,000.

The Moroccan capital, Rabat, was not founded until the eighth century. Oslo, in Norway, was founded in circa 1000 A.D.

London was only small before being taken over by the Romans in the first century. The English capital did not hit the 1,000,000 mark until the early 1800s, but it has increased quite rapidly over the next two centuries to over 7,000,000 in the early 2000s.

Answer: Bryce Courtenay

Bryce Courtenay was born in South Africa, but lived most of his life in Australia. Many of his books had been best-sellers, including 'The Power of One', 'Matthew Flinder's Cat', 'Sylvia', 'The Persimmon Tree' and 'The Potato Factory'.

Colleen McCullough's most famous work was 'The Thorn Birds' which was made into a TV mini-series. Alan Marshall's book, 'I Can Jump Puddles', was an award-winning semi-autobiography on his growing up with polio.

Marcus Clarke wrote 'For the Term of his Natural Life', a story about convict life in Australia, in 1870.

Answer: Shooter

The aim is to discover your own identity, after waking up in a strange room and being shot at by the police. 'One' was named as Best Action Game of the Year in PSExtreme Magazine in 1997.

Answer: Dromedary

The dromedary is also known as the Arabian camel, and is at home in the desert. The two-humped Bactrian is more suited to the colder central Asian region. Vicunas, found in South America, are related to camels, but do not have a hump at all. They look like skinny llamas. A brumby is a wild horse found in Australia.

Do you know what you call a camel with three humps? Humphrey, of course!

Answer: China

The policy has been criticised by many authorities as a breach of basic human rights, and has had some very worrying side-effects, such as forced abortions, male/female population disparity, 'birth tourism' where wealthy couples travel overseas to have children, and even abandonment and murder of babies.

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Franklin was a very clever man and succeeded in many fields. He was a statesman, an inventor (did he invent lightning?), an author, a musician, and even a comedian. His bust is on the 5c issue, with George Washington (10c) on Scotts #2 and SG2, issued at the same time.

Queen Victoria was on the British throne in 1847, but it is highly unlikely that she would be selected. Buffalo and eagles have been shown on various American issues, but not the first one.

Answer: Denzel Washington and John Travolta

Washington is the train dispatcher for the New York subway and the point of contact for Travolta's character, the hijacker, known only as Ryder. A very well-made action film that deserves a look, so I will not spoil the plot for you.

The two Nicks have not appeared together in any movie, Walter Matthau died in 2000 and Robert Shaw died in 1978. Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson starred in 'Shanghai Noon' and 'Shanghai Nights', both very funny movies.