1. Which British playwright left his wife 'his second best bed with the furniture'? Thomas Carlyle Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare Ben Jonson

2. Which French author's will read 'I have nothing. I owe much. The rest I leave to the poor'? Francois Rabelais Victor Hugo Pierre de Ronsard Blaise Pascal

3. Which British poet left 500 pounds to maintain his mother and a poem entitled 'The Will'? John Donne Rupert Brooke Thomas Hardy John Masefield

4. Which Russian czar left a will advising his ministers to keep Russia continually at war for the good of the nation. Nicholas II Peter the Great Alexander I Ivan the Terrible

5. Which British author bequeathed to God 'a Soul polluted by many sins'? Samuel Pepys Samuel Johnson Daniel Defoe Oliver Goldsmith

6. Which British Admiral bequeathed his mistress to the King and the Admiralty? Horatio Nelson Sir Richard Grenville Sir Francis Drake Robert Blake

7. Which British philosopher left his entire estate to the London Hospital, provided that his preserved remains were permitted to preside over its board meetings? Francis Bacon Jeremy Bentham Thomas Hobbes Bertrand Russell

8. Which German poet left his entire estate to his wife provided she marry again 'because then there will be at least one man to regret my death'? Johann W von Goethe Hugo von Hofmannsthal Stefan George Heinrich Heine

9. Which British playwright left the bulk of his fortune for the development of a British alphabet having 40 letters? Oscar Wilde T S Eliot Harold Pinter Geroge Bernard Shaw

10. Which dictator left his collection of paintings to establish a picture gallery in the Austrian town of Linz? Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Joseph Stalin Otto von Bismarck