SUNDAY CHALLENGE

1 If a person was anthropophagus, what would you expect them to eat?

2 Which great military leader rode a horse named Bucephalus (meaning bull-headed)? 3 The Olympic Games of 776 BC saw the earliest recorded Olympic footrace which was one stade in length. Which modern race would be the nearest equivalent of the one stade footrace?

4 What is the fatty substance found naturally on sheep’s wool called?

5 The Thinker is a bronze and marble sculpture held in Paris. Name the sculptor who crea tedit?

6 On what day is Saint Patrick’s Day generally celebrated?

7 Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE, known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh pop music singer. What was his first UK number one single?

8 Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps. The first and most notorious commandant of the concentration camp from 1940 to 1943 was executed at Auschwitz in 1947. What was his name?

9 Who became the first American to orbit the earth in 1962?

10 What does a belonophobic fear?

11 It is situated between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia to the north, Brazil and Uruguay to the northeast, and Chile to the west and south. Which country is it? 12 Ernest Hemingway, the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1961, some 33 years after his father had died the same way. In which US State was the home where he died situated?

13 Who starred as Joe Turner in the 1975 espionage conspiracy thriller, Three Days of the Condor?

14 It was founded as a colony in 1822 by freed slaves from the United States. Its capital is Monrovia. What country is it?

15 What were the first names of the Wright brothers of aviation fame?

16 Of which two sports does a winter biathlon, which debuted at the Winter Olympics in 1960, consist?

17 The Southern Alps has as its highest point Aoraki / Mount Cook at 3,754 meters, in which country are they situated?

18 Which city became the second to have been the victim of atomic or nuclear warfare?

19 It is a cocktail made from mixing Drambuie and Scotch. Many prefer less Drambuie to decrease the sweetness. It has a fairly biting and hot taste that is counterbalanced with the honeyed, herbal overtones of the Drambuie. It is most commonly served over ice. What is it called?

20 What highly poisonous substance does the Cassava root contain?