1. What did Benjamin Disraeli buy from the Khedive of Egypt in 1876?

2. Turku was the capital of which northern European country until 1812?

3. Which famous Scottish philosopher and historian was known as the Sage of Ecclefechan?

4. Who was the leader of the American Black Nationalist movement, the Nation of Islam, before Louis Farrakhan?

5. Who was British Prime Minister in the year that the Clean Air Act was passed, enforcing the burning of smokeless fuels in some areas?

6. What cost $950 when it first went on sale in 1908, but only $290 in 1927?

7. Who is this? Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna in 1914, she married an arms manufacturer when she was 18, starred in the famous (or notorious) film Ecstacy, fled to the USA, filed a patent for a frequency-hopping system for use in electronically controlled torpedoes in 1942, and later starred in many Hollywood films, including Samson and Delilah.

8. Prince Norodom Sihanouk ruled which Asian country between 1941 and 1970, and again between 1993 and 2004?

9. Who was the sailing master of HMS Resolution on Captain Cook’s fateful last voyage 1776–79?

10. Who was the first Grand Prince of Moscow to call himself Russian tsar?

11. Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon’s generals and his brother-in-law, became king of where in 1808?

12. Which prominent Nazi was born in Tallinn in Estonia? He was a major ideological theorist and became Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories.