Try the previous quiz as well, [even if it wasn't on a Sunday], on countries. Answers to that quiz are here. Answers to the quiz below will appear tomorrow. Are you sitting comfortably? Then you can begin …

1 What is a leprechaun's profession?

2 Only three countries in the United Nations have names which start with the letter 'F' in English. Name two of them.

3 Which came first – colour [as a feature film] or sound films?


Bonus point: At the same time as the first of these, one of the most famous Russian films came out about a battleship. What was that film?

4 For which two films did Marlon Brando win an Oscar?

5 Which two US presidents has Anthony Hopkins played in film?

6 From which movie: "Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

7 Contrary to popular belief, brides do not walk down the aisle to the altar. What do they walk down?

8 From which country does the cloth denim, used in jeans, originally come from?

Bonus point: Do you know the town it comes from as well?

9 What shape is the DNA molecule?


10 Which novel begins with the words, ‘At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room’?


Bonus point: Who was the author?

11 Apart from Belgium France Germany and Italy, name the original countries of the European Union [in 1958].


12 What major European event happened on Sunday, May 29th, 2005?


13 Parnassus was the sacred mountain home of the muses and which Greek god?

14 Who was John Kerry's running mate in the 2004 US Presidential election?

15 It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him. Yossarian was in the hospital with a pain in his liver that fell just short of being jaundice.

16 In Roman numerals, what is the letter M with a bar over it?

17 Where did the first traffic lights appear?

18 What English military strategy was the Battle of Culloden famous for [to the English, that is]?

19 Who was the pop duo who travelled by train to Riga, for the Eurovision song contest? They were expected to win, but because of their bad behaviour, they didn’t win.

20 Who is Bibendum better known as?

As mentioned above, answers tomorrow.