Named After...

Can you answer the following questions on the theme of what things are named after?


1Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods?
2Which Shropshire town is named after the civil engineer who built viaducts, roads and bridges in the area?
3The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova was visiting which country in 1908, when she was presented with a fruit and cream merangue in her name?
4Which subatomic particle is named after the Greek for "first"?
5Named after four renaissance painters, what are the four names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
6Which town in Yorkshire has liquorice based sweets named after it?
7The Phillipines were named after which Philip II, king of which country?
8What is the full name of the owner of the company AMSTRAD?
9Volgograd, a Russian city on the river Volga, was known until 1961 as what name?
10Dame 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?