1. What tuba-like musical instrument is named after the composer who wrote The Liberty Bell (also known as the theme tune to Monty Python’s Flying Circus)?

2. Which North American international airport has the code YVR?

3. Who was the last tsar of Russia, executed on 17 July 1918?

4. In May 2020, Sam Cane was named captain of which national rugby union team?

5. Which Harry Potter character utters the line: “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be”?

6. What dessert is named after a Russian ballerina?

7. KACL Seattle is a fictional radio station in which 1990s-2000s TV series?

8. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?

9. In what organ of the human body would you find alveoli?

10. Which car marque manufactures the Niro?

QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Sousaphone 2. Vancouver 3. Nicholas II 4. New Zealand 5. Albus Dumbledore 6. Pavlova 7. Frasier 8. Nitrogen 9. Lungs 10. Kia

Questions set by John Cunnane