1. What is the only American state not to currently have a flag, having retired its last version on 30 June 2020?
2. Oscar The Grouch, Count Von Count and Elmo are all characters from which children’s television programme?
3. In which motor sport would participants wear helmets coloured blue, red, white or yellow and black?
4. Poitín, also known as poteen, is a distilled beverage from which European country?
5. What did Pope Gregory XIII introduce in October 1852?
6. Which Charlotte Brontë novel was first published on 16 October 1847?
7. What smoked spice is used in the making of the Spanish sausage chorizo?
8. Clair de Lune and Arabesque No.1 are works by which French composer?
9. The Battle of Stalingrad took place during which conflict?
10. Made up of the anther and the filament, what is the name given to the male productive organ of a flower?

QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Mississippi 2. Sesame Street 3. Speedway 4. Ireland 5. The Gregorian Calendar 6. Jane Eyre 7. Paprika 8. Claude Debussy 9. Second World War 10. Stamen

Questions set by John Cunnane