1. What vegetable forms part of the Indian dish mutter/matar paneer?
2. Gibraltar is renowned as the home to which primate?
3. The F1 motor racing Grand Prix venue of Interlagos is in which Brazilian city?
4. Which Inner Mongolian location features in the title of songs by Olivia Newton-John and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Titch, and is also mentioned in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
5. How many stars are there in our solar system?
6. Richard Bachman, author of the novel The Running Man, is a pseudonym of which horror writer?
7. Who did Yuri Andropov succeed as general secretary of the Communist Party in November 1982?
8. Despite being on screen for only eight minutes, which actress won an Oscar for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in the film Shakespeare in Love?
9. Doctor Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik is the antagonist of which video game character?
10. In the Bible, which of the seven deadly sins comes last alphabetically?

QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Peas 2. Barbary macaques 3. São Paulo 4. Xanadu 5. One - the sun 6. Stephen King 7. Leonid Brezhnev 8. Judi Dench 9. Sonic the Hedgehog 10. Wrath

Questions set by John Cunnane