Trivia Quiz 5

By Kay McMahon, 15 April 2001

1. Where would you find a felloe?
2. What is a kraken?
3. What, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, are jim-jams?
4. What is the capital of Bahrain?
5. Historically, what fraction of a pound sterling was a noble?
6. Where might you suffer from convolvulus?
7. What nationality was the composer Gustav Holst?
8. Which two planets rotate in the opposite direction to the other six?
9. What is Britain’s smallest native bird?
10. Of which constellation is Betelgeuse the brightest star?
11. Of what nationality was Edvard Munch, painter of The Scream?
12. From which plant is linseed oil derived?

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