1. Which 20th century revolutionary political leader, activist, author and military organiser said, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”

2. What humanitarian organisation was founded by Quakers, social activists and academics in Oxford in 1942, its first mission being to get food to starving people in Nazi-occupied Greece ?

3. Which hugely popular American singer, stage actor and film star was born Asa Yoelson in 1896 in a Yiddish community in Kaunas, Lithuania? He was America’s highest-paid entertainer in the 1930s. He starrred in the first-ever talking movie.

4. Who was British Prime Minister when decimal coinage was introduced?

5. How many American presidents have died in office?

6. All of the following occurred in the same year: The first printing of the Pentateuch (first five books of the Bible), completion of the Christian Reconquista of Spain, the European discovery of the West Indies and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. What was the year?

7. What was the name of the battleship aboard which the Japanese surrendered in 1945?

8. What substance was originally marketed in 1895 by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer as an over-the-counter cough remedy and as a means of alleviating addiction to morphine?

9. Who is buried in the Valley of the Fallen in central Spain, in a basilica larger than the nave of St Peter’s and dominated by the largest Christian symbol ever erected, a 492-foot high stone cross weighing 181,000 tons?

10. In 1864, what was Victoria’s second son, Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, offered but he declined it?

11. What was the name of the uprising which occurred in November and December 1989 and ended Communist one-party rule in Czechoslovakia?

12. On October 17th 1956, the world’s first nuclear power station came online. Where was it located?