1) Three ducklings are having a race, one of them has a genetic mutation where it has a third leg, another has a third wing, the third has a brain divded into three parts rather than hemispheres. Part of the race takes place across water, part of the race across sand. Which one of the ducklings is called Keith, and why?
2) Paul Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. If Paul has three apples in each hand, how cubist will his paintings be? Given that a hand containing two bananas results in a watercolour 30" x 45" being 7 cubist.
3) Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital of region Veneto. It has lots of canals. Other things in Italy are the leaning tower of Pizza, The Roman Colliseum and some spaghetti bolognese. But what do all these things have in common?
4) Lepidoptery is the collection and study of butterflies, skippers, and moths. Butterflies are not really made of butter. Name three other things which are not really made of butter.
5) Paul McCartney was once married to famous vegetarian Linda McCartney. If Linda McCartney had eaten meat she would never have died. Which famous footballer proved this using science, and how?
6) Mowing the lawn is a well known way to ensure that your grass does not get too long. However the inventor of lawn mowing was originally stoned to death for heresy, before being retrospectively pardoned and ultimately beatified. What was his name? What Yorkshire village did her grow up in? And what was his siginifcant contribution to the UK Disco scene?
7) People in wheelchairs are able to leave their chairs in order to sleep, make love and poo. Which european monarch was the subject of scorn for openly stating his mistaken belief that wheelchairs were a part of a person's body attached from birth? - prompting the headline 'His Royal Davros' in the Mirror.
8) Fishing is a popular pastime wherever large bodies of water are to be found, and 99% of the human body is water. 'What a hot body' (derived linguistically from 'water hot body') is a popular exclamation made by human beings when they find sexiness in another's form. But which sexy Hollywood starlet had her Oscar nomination revoked in 1999 after it was discovered she was made entirely of hot water?
9) Chess was invented by Sir Michael Chess in 1946 to give people something to do after World War II, when ennui was high and the iPod had not yet been invented to appeal to peoples covetousness. In Chess there is only one positioning of pieces possible which would allow one player's Rook to rape the other players Queen. In what year did Mick Hucknall use this move to defeat Nelson Mandela, thereby freeing Africa from slavery?
10) In Geography Spain is located in the Northern Hemisphere. In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a given frequency. In music, a whole note or semibreve is a note represented by a hollow oval note head, like a half note (or minim), and no note stem. Its length is typically equal to four beats in 4/4 time. If you wave at a Spaniard briefly, what is he likely to do in reply - assuming he is married and of above average intelligence?
Bonus Question: Tyre is an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido). How does Tyre relate to all your previous answers? Clue: Billy Connolly.