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The questions and answers within this quiz were verified and updated in July 2020.

 

A Dolorimeter is used to measure what?

Pain threshold/pain intensity

 

Quito is the capital of which country?

Ecuador

 

Which Spanish football manager left Liverpool for brief spells in charge of Inter Milan and Chelsea?

Rafa Benitez

 

Harald V (as of July 2020) is the reigning monarch in which European country?

Norway

 

Which actress was born Helen Lydia Mironoff?

Helen Mirren

 

Which German title, which roughly translates to an English duke, ranks lower than a king but higher than a count?

Herzog

 

Ni is the chemical symbol for which element on the periodic table?

Nickel

 

A gyro is a style of sandwich closely associated with which country?

Greece

 

Which famous novelist wrote the ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’?

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

When the UK’s first motorway was opened to traffic it was as part of what would eventually become the M6, but what was the stretch of road originally called?

Preston By-pass