The British Isles may have a limited range of native mammals compared to some countries, but they are an important part of its natural history. This quiz tests your knowledge of some of them.
A circular blue plaque on a building, marking the place of birth or residence of a distinguished resident or visitor, is a familiar sight around London. How many of them can you identify?
The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts have for many years played a central role in London's musical life. This quiz is a short introduction to the history, music and strange rituals attached to this great music festival.
Do you remember this 1998 video game devised by Squaresoft for the Sony PlayStation? Even if you don't, why not have a go at this "adopted" quiz, which has plenty of clues to help you.
Following on from my last quiz on this subject, a similar mix of the well-known to the downright obscure. Just match the characters with the opera in which they appear.
How many stripes are there on the US flag? What about pawns in a chess set? See if you know which of the options is incorrectly matched to the numbers 11 to 20!
Well, not quite 80, but I hope you enjoy this zigzag tour around the UK, visiting a number of its finest breweries along the way. But please don't drink and drive!
My children are watching TV again, when they should be doing something else. If I give you the names of some of the characters in the shows, can you work out what they are watching?
Using the letters in the words "sin", "good" and "evil", how many of these missing Bible words can you identify? All quotations are from the King James Version.
Charismatic? Maybe, but not in a nice way. This deeply unpleasant pair of gangsters controlled a ruthless East End criminal empire during the 1960s, based on intimidation, violence and murder. What do you know about them?
Take a big, big box of tissues and join your friendly guides the Quiz Makers' Guild for a little journey through some questions all inspired in radically differing ways by what happens when you really, really have to....ATCHOO!
When everything is going badly, sometimes a prayer is all you have left. Or certainly that's often the case in opera. What do you know about a few operatic prayers, some of which were more successful than others?
One of P.G. Wodehouse's classic comic novels, containing many classic characters and farcical scenarios. Anyone with a passing knowledge of Plum's work should enjoy this quiz.
When putting together my "Blue Plaque" quizzes, I came across just about enough people from Eltham to justify a quiz of their own. So here are some more-or-less famous people from this obscure area of Southeast London.
In this 2011 film, director Ridley Scott returned to some of the worlds and themes he first explored in "Alien" (1979). How much can you remember about the new film?
The English county of Yorkshire has nurtured many distinguished people, including a number of musical composers in the classical tradition. How many of them can you identify?
Stuck out in the middle of the Bristol Channel, twelve miles off the north coast of Devon, Lundy Island is a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of life.
Just for fun, here's a rather trivial quiz on a rather trivial song. Performed by the band Fat Les, this unofficial theme song for the 1998 FIFA World Cup reached number two in the UK singles chart.
Born in 1814, Angela Burdett-Coutts became one of Victorian Britain's greatest philanthropists - a kind of Bill Gates of her day. Hopefully, you can learn something of her life from this quiz.
Many of the world's greatest composers have been attracted to Shakespeare's plays as the basis for their operas. This quiz covers some of the most famous, as well as other rather more obscure examples of the genre.
"Viz" is the UK-based adult comic, whose hugely funny parodies of childrens' comic strips made it at one time the third best-selling magazine in the country. How well do you know the regular characters?
He's certainly a man, he's certainly Irish, but a legend? Possibly. Why not find out more by playing this quiz about popular comedian and actor Dylan Moran?
Some of the finest works of art to be seen in London can be found outside the big national collections. This quiz celebrates some of these gems. As before, I name a painting; you name the artist.
Let us pay a visit to a small blue planet, just visible from earth on a clear night. It is too small to have a proper name, but is nevertheless home to a variety of unusual flora and fauna.
There can be very few days in the year when Londoners (and visitors) are unable to attend a top-class classical music performance. This quiz covers some of the major concert venues in the UK's capital city.
One of my interests is church bellringing, and as there isn't yet a specific quiz about it on this site, I thought I'd do one. Even if you are not a ringer, please have a go and maybe learn a thing or two about this fascinating activity.
The gloriously offbeat British comedy series "Toast of London" first appeared on Channel 4 in 2012. In 2014, it won the Eurovision's Rose d'Or (Golden Rose) Award for best situation comedy. How much can you deduce about it from this quiz?
In this quiz, Quiz Makers Guild members Bruyere and Stedman have identified the AGS-certified birthstone for February as Amethyst. This gemstone and its name have given rise to many items of trivia over the years. Enjoy!
When a glacier or ice sheet extends onto the surface of the sea, it becomes an ice shelf. They can be found in Greenland and Canada, but the largest ones are attached to Antarctica. See if you can identify some of these in this quiz.
The music of the English composer Malcolm Arnold has never been as much appreciated as it deserves. Hopefully, this quiz about some of his best-known works will encourage you to listen to some of them.
Following my quiz on British successes at the London 2012 Olympic Games, it seems only right to celebrate our equally fine performances at the Paralympic Games which began two weeks later.
I'll name ten famous paintings, with the year they were painted. All you have to do is identify the artist. All the paintings are in London's National Gallery.
Enjoy this quiz about the characters in the hilarious Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle. Please note - all quotations use Molesworth's own spelling.
Tate Britain contains the UK's national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day. I'll name ten famous paintings from the gallery, with the year they were painted. All you have to do is identify the artist.
Tate Modern is Britain's new national museum of modern art, containing international works from 1900 to the present day. I'll name ten pieces from the gallery, with the year they were produced. All you have to do is identify the artist.
Self-styled "versatile singer/songwriter" and "star" of stage, radio and television, the endearingly unsuccessful John Shuttleworth is a comic character created by Yorkshire-born Graham Fellows. Enjoy this quiz on one of the UK's unsung comic heroes.
Composers through the ages have taken inspiration from Christmas for their musical works. This quiz invites you to identify some of them and their works.
I give you two film titles with the numbers missing, plus the year each film was released. Just perform the required sum, and you get a number which appears in the title of a third movie! It's easier than it sounds, honest.
The Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best novel written in English by a Commonwealth or Irish citizen. How much do you know about the writers and their works that have won or been nominated for this prestigious literary prize?