1. The 'three legged mare' is a colloquial reference to which gruesome but extremely popular structure in London in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries? Tyburn Nelson's Column Marble Arch Admiralty Arch

2. These three military and flamboyant heroes appeared in three novels by Alexandre Dumas. Can you name the musketeers for me? D'Artagnan, De Winter and De Niro Finlay, Young, Rhys-Davies Richelieu, De Mornay, Depardieu Athos, Porthos and Aramis

3. Which ancient Greek philosopher described three as the perfect number, expressive of ?beginning, middle and end? and therefore in his work he made it the symbol of deity. Pythagoras Aristotle Euclid Plato

4. Which of the following best describes the mathematical 'Rule of Three'? A method of counting frequencies of thirds The method of establishing if a number is a factor of three The method of finding the fourth term of a mathematical proportion A method of finding the cube root of a number

5. The Three Choirs Festival is a famous musical festival for the performance of sacred music performed since 1724 by the combined cathedral choirs of which three cathedral cities of England. Do you know which? Lichfield, Bath and Evesham Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford Canterbury, Westminster and St Paul's Bath, Bristol and Chichester

6. Which of Napoleon's battles was also known as 'The Battle of the Three Emperors'? Jena Marengo Austerlitz Borodino

7. Isaac Newton developed the 'three Laws of Motion' which are fundamental to so much of our engineering and scientific accomplishments since his days. What was the 'Third Law of Motion' as described by Newton? Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. It is a universal law that an object falling from an apple tree will hit the head of a philosopher. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

8. On British Television (BBC) a quiz show had a title based on the three 'Kingdoms of Nature' do you know what these were? life, spirit, body earth, sea, and air body, mind, spirit animal, vegetable, and mineral

9. Please tell me the three cardinal or primary colours? White, Black, Brown Red, Yellow, Blue Blue, White, Yellow Yellow, Black, Blue

10. What were the three languages in which the inscription on the Cross of the Crucifixion was written? Hebrew (or Aramaic), Greek, and Latin Greek, Latin, Egyptian Egyptian, Latin, Greek Persian, Latin, Welsh