1. Who is the only person before Bob Dylan to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?

2. What nationality was the 1970s terrorist, Carlos the Jackal?

3. What nationality was Cnut (Canute) the Great (995-1035)?

4. Who commanded British forces in the Burma Campaign from 1942 to 1945?

5. Ferdinand Magellan captained the first circumnavigation of the globe but did not live to see it completed, dying during the Battle of Mactan in 1521. Where is Mactan?

6. Who launched the Moral Majority movement in the USA in 1979?

7. Which nineteenth-century Romantic poet became so concerned with his weight, that he
embarked upon a diet consisting largely of potatoes soaked in vinegar?

8. Which famed Scottish writer’s dog was named Maida?

9. Which US presidential candidate in 1968 first asked Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, Colonel Harland Sanders, to be his running mate, but eventually settled upon Air Force General Curtis LeMay, a slightly unhinged individual?

10. In 1922 in Dundee, Edwin Scrymgeour, the only MP ever elected for the Scottish Prohibition Party, defeated the sitting MP. Who was he?

11. Signed in 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi, concluded peace between Britain and what other party?

12. The first ever commercial on ITV in September 1955 was an advert for what?

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