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1 With which country did the UK have the long-running ‘Cod War’ disputes over fishing rights?
A Iceland
2 Which two countries joined the EU on 1st January 2007?
A Romania and Bulgaria
3 What type of rock forms the Rock of Gibraltar?
A Limestone
4 Which country was first after Ireland to announce it would guarantee all bank deposits, in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis?
A Greece
5 In the Church of England, which office is below that of a bishop, but is the head of the chapter of a cathedral?
A Dean
6 Where in the British Isles are territorial divisions called Bailiwicks?
A Channel Islands (a Bailiff heads each Channel Island bailiwick)
7 What does a costermonger sell?
A Fruit and vegetables (a street seller)
8 If you went into a shop in Athens and asked for the ‘Acropolis’, what would you be buying?
A A daily newspaper
9 Which biscuit was called Rowntree’s chocolate crisp when launched on 29th August 1935, priced 2d?
A Kit Kat
10 Who was the Norwegian fascist leader executed by firing squad in 1945, whose name entered the language to mean collaborationist?
A Quisling (Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling) (he was a Norwegian military officer, politician, and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II)