MasterMinds.

Section One - The Swinging Sixties 1. What year was Prince Charles invested as Prince Of Wales? 2. Which pop group's original name was Pete Novak And The Heartbeats? 3. By what name did Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore become known in 1963? 4. Who was voted the face of 1966? 5. Which country singer was killed in a plane crash in 1964? 6. Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of which Cathedral in 1962? 7. Which lord led the inquiry into the 1963 Profumo affair? 8. On April 23, 1964, who became the first commoner to appear on a Royal Mail presentation stamp pack? 9. What year did the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion by US-backed troops take place? 10. Which brand of toothpaste was advertised on television as having a ring of confidence?

Section Two - Famous buildings 11. When was the Sydney Opera House completed? 12. Which American architect des igned New York''s Guggenheim Museum? 13. Which Scottish architect designed the Art Nouveau Glasgow School of Art, and later became a popular watercolour artist? 14. Which Cass Gilbert epic structure, built between 1910 and 1913, dominated New York''s skyline as the world''s tallest building for a quarter of a century? 15. And which two other buildings broke this record in 1930 and 1931? 16. Which great neo-classical Russian museum was designed as a private showroom for Catherine the Great? 17. Who wrote a fictional biography of the life of the mysterious ecclesiastical architect Nicholas Hawksmoor? 18. Whose best-known work, the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, remains unfinished? 19. In which modern country is the Great Mosque at Samarra, the world''s largest mosque, situated? 20. Which architect designed Paris''s Pompidou Centre, and with which other modern master did he form Team 4?

Section Three - Geography 21. To which country does the island of Madeira belong? 22. In which ocean is Polynesia? 23. Captain Cook discovered which island in the pacific in 1777? 24. Name the island in Paris on which Notre Dame stands? 25. Where did Turkey invade in 1974? 26. Into which ocean does the Amazon flow? 27. The island of Zealand is part of which country? 28. Which island has the two official languages Sinhalese and Tamil? 29. Which island in the East Pacific is renowned for its stone heads? 30. On which Caribbean Island is Noel Coward buried? Answers 1973; 12.

Frank Lloyd Wright; 13.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh; 14.

Woolworth Building; 15.

The Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building; 16.

Hermitage; 17.

Peter Ackroyd; 18.

Antoni Gaudi; 19.

Iraq; 20.

Richard Rogers; Norman Foster; 21.

Portugal; 22.

Pacific; 23.

Christmas Island; 24.

Ille de la Cit; 25.

Cyprus; 26.

Atlantic; 27.

Denmark; 28.

Sri Lanka; 29.

Easter Island; 30.

Jamaica .1.

1969; 2.

Herman's Hermits; 3.

Malaysia; 4.

Twiggy; 5.

Jim Reeves; 6.

Coventry; 7.

Lord Denning; 8.

William Shakespeare; 9.

1961; 10.

Colgate; 11.

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See question 1 See question 30