"R" You Ready? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rocket Man

Taken from the 1972 album "Honky Chateau", "Rocket Man (I Think it's Going to be a Long, Long Time)" gave Elton John his first Top Five single in the UK, reaching number two in the singles chart. In the US, it reached number six and was his second Top Ten single there, "Your Song" having made it to number eight a year earlier.

Answer: Rhinoceros

'Badak' is the Malay word for rhinoceros and 'api' means fire. Legends in southern Asia hold that when a forest fire occurs, rhinoceros will come along and stamp it out. Although there is no evidence of such an event, the folklore was adapted for the 1980 film "The Gods Must Be Crazy", when an African rhinoceros stamps out the campfires.

Answer: Rodin

The 'Musée Rodin' is spread across two sites in Paris, one in centre of the city at the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds, the other at the Villa des Brillants, Rodin's former home in southwestern suburb of Meudon.

He was born François Auguste René Rodin in Paris in 1840, but he is widely known simply as Auguste Rodin, widely recognized as the first of the great modern sculptors. The photograph shows his most famous work, 'Le Penseur' ("The Thinker"), which is part of the collection at the Musée Rodin. Amongst his other well-known pieces are "The Kiss" (also at the Musée Rodin) and 'Les Bourgeois de Calais' (""The Burghers of Calais") which can be seen in the main square in the north-coast port for which it is named.

Answer: Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Named "The National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" when it was founded in 1824, the R.N.L.I. is now the largest charitable organization saving lives around the coast of the British Isles. Granted a royal Charter in 1860, it today oversees the work of more than 440 boats from 237 lifeboat stations.

Headquartered in Poole, Dorset in southern England, the RNLI is operated by more than 40,000 volunteers. More active than you might imagine, crews rescued an amazing average of 22 people per day during 2015.

Answer: Richmond upon Thames

The only London borough with districts on both sides of the river, Richmond upon Thames is the eighth-largest of London's 32 boroughs with an area of 22.17 square miles (about the size of Nauru, the world's smallest island country). With a population of around 190,000 (2014 estimate), though, only three of the other boroughs are home to fewer people -- this is one of the affluent suburbs of London, more than half of which is parkland (including Richmond Park, Kew Gardens, Bushy Park, Hampton Court Park and Old Deer Park).

The photograph shows a typical scene within the borough: Richmond has 21 miles of river frontage.

Answer: Romeo & Juliet

Located outside of the Delacorte Theater in Manhattan's Central Park in New York City, the photograph shows Milton Hebald's 7-foot tall, 1978 bronze statue of Shakespeare's famous star-crossed lovers. One of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays during his lifetime and still one of the most frequently-performed today, "Romeo & Juliet" has been adapted numerous times for stage, film, opera and musical.

Mercutio is a kinsman of Prince Escalus and Romeo's friend, Benvolio is Romeo's cousin and best friend, and Tybalt is a cousin of Juliet and the nephew of Lady Capulet.

Answer: Rick

Humphrey Bogart was nominated for the 1944 Best Actor Oscar for his performance as Rick Blaine in "Casablanca". Paul Lukas won for "Watch on the Rhine", but "Casablanca" did win three awards, for Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz) and Best Screenplay.

Richard Paul "Rick" Astley was born in 1966 in market town of Newton-le-Willows, part of St. Helens in Merseyside. Astley's 1987 hit single, "Never Gonna Give You Up", was written by the British trio of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman (collectively known as Stock Aitken Waterman).

Richard Lee "Rick" Sutcliffe, botn in 1956 in the town of Independence in east-central Missouri, was nicknamed "The Red Baron" due to the colour of his beard and hair. NL Rookie of the Year in 1979, he led the AL in ERA in 1982 and won the AL Cy Young Award in 1984 as a member of the Indians. He led the NL in wins in 1987 as a Cub and was selected to the NL All-Star team three times.

The photograph is of something else with the 'first name' of Rick -- the rickshaw, seen here in their hundreds in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.

Answer: "Rule, Britannia!" (United Kingdom)

The photograph shows the "Armada Memorial" in Plymouth, built in 1888 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the triumphant meeting between Britain's Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada. Britannia stands alongside a lion atop the memorial.

Primarily associated with the Royal Navy, but also used by the British Army, themes from "Rule, Britannia!" have been used by many of the world's great composers including Beethoven, Strauss, Sullivan, Wagner and Elgar. First played in London in 1745, it has remained a popular British patriotic song ever since: today it is traditionally performed annually at the BBC's "Last Night of the Proms".

Answer: Rhône

The River Rhône begins at the Swiss glacier of the same name and heads west, passes through Lake Geneva on the Swiss-French border, and then turns first south and then west again to reach the city of Lyon. It then flows due south, passing through the cities of Valence, Avignon and Arles before completing its 500-mile journey to the Mediterranean Sea.

The spectacular picture shows the French city of Lyon with the Rhône passing through at night.

Answer: T. Roosevelt

Born in New York City in 1858, Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th and youngest ever U.S. President (aged 42) when he succeeded the assassinated William McKinley in September 1901, just six months into McKinley's second term in office. Roosevelt completed McKinley's term and was then elected in his own right in November 1904. At that time, he became the youngest President elected (aged 45), a record he retained for 56 years until J.F. Kennedy was elected at the age of 43 in November 1960.

Theodore Roosevelt became the first serving President to travel outside of the U.S. in 1906, when he visited Panama to inspect the building work on one of his pet projects, the Panama Canal.