| NAMED AFTER... |
| 1. | Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? |
| | Mercury |
| 2. | Which Shropshire town is named after the civil engineer who built viaducts, roads and bridges in the area? |
| | Telford (after Thomas Telford) |
| 3. | The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was visiting which country in 1908, when she was presented with a fruit and cream merangue in her name? |
| | New Zealand |
| 4. | Which subatomic particle is named after the Greek for "first"? |
| | Proton |
| 5. | Named after four renaissance painters, what are the four names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? |
| | Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo |
| 6. | Which town in Yorkshire has liquorice based sweets named after it? |
| | Pontefract (Pontefract cakes) |
| 7. | The Phillipines were named after which Philip II, king of which country? |
| | Spain |
| 8. | What is the full name of the owner of the company AMSTRAD? |
| | Alan Michael Sugar (AMSTRAD = Alan Michael Sugar TRADing) |
| 9. | Volgograd, a Russian city on the river Volga, was known until 1961 as what name? |
| | Stalingrad |
| 10. | Dame Nellie Melba the Australian soprano was ill in the London Savoy in 1893, and would only eat one thing that was later named in her honour. What was this? |
| | Melba Toast (Note: Peach Melba was inspired by her singing at Covent Garden) |