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.

Classical orchestras can be more interesting than you'd think - sometimes you find the most unlikely instruments alongside the violins and clarinets.

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?

The interval is over - please finish your ice creams and take your seats in the stalls for a second quiz on the famous theatres of London.

Iain Sinclair is one of the most interesting, if challenging, UK writers at work today. Try this short introduction to his work.

I can't say I've ever managed to sit through an entire episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". But if you want to do a quiz about Buffy without knowing anything about the show, then this easy general knowledge quiz is for you!

Directed by Peter Jackson, before he became respectable (with "Heavenly Creatures") and famous (with "Lord of the Rings"), "Bad Taste" is the first of the three low-budget comic horror movies with which he began his career.

Awarded annually by the "Literary Review" for the novel containing the "worst, most redundant or most embarrassing description of the sexual act". Enjoy this not-too-rude celebration of the one literary award that no writer wants to win.