People: Semi-Final Time Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mick Jagger

The record, entitled 'Street Fighting Man', was banned by some radio stations as it was felt 'it could incite further riots here'.

Answer: John Lennon

He was 16 when he formed that band in 1956, the following year he invited McCartney to join. Harrison and Starr joined later and the name was changed to the Beatles.

Answer: Lee Marvin

The word 'palimony' was coined for this case in February 1972. It means 'a form of alimony awarded to one member of a non-marital couple who have separated'.

Answer: First air hostess

She persuaded Boeing Air Transport to allow nurses (she was one herself) to work on board planes to combat the then widespread public fear of flying. Her first route was between Oakland and Chicago in May 1930.

Answer: Bunsen

Icelanders were the first to observe and document the behaviour of the Great Geyser. Bunsen visited the Great Geyser in the 1840s.

Answer: Ellis Peters

Brother Cadfael is a twelfth century monk and herbalist at the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He has a penchant for solving mysteries with the help of the local sheriff. Sir Derek Jacobi played the medieval sleuth in a great TV series.

Answer: 15

He was just 15 years and 3 months old in August 1860. While serving in China, he rushed under heavy gunfire to help a wounded soldier. He then continued running forward to help a second soldier. Andrew was wounded severely in the effort. He is regarded as one of the youngest, if not the youngest, recipient.

Answer: Austria

He was born in 1875 at Mattsdorf, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The only formal engineering education he got was at night classes in the Technical University in Vienna. His first car was an electrically driven model which made its debut at the Paris World Fair in 1900.

It reached 35 mph, which was remarkable at the time. He later converted the model to an internal combustion engine. 'The rest is history', to use a familiar cliché.

Answer: Lord Byron

Lord Byron (1788-1824) wrote his first poetry as a schoolboy at Harrow. He later went on to study at Cambridge. He travelled extensively in Europe. He became involved first with Italian nationalism , and later with the Greek struggle for independence.

When he died, his heart was buried in Athens. A request to bury his body in Poets' Corner in Westminister Abbey was rejected because account of his scandalously immoral lifestyle. (He is said to have had sex with over two hundred women during his short life, but that isn't by any means the full story).

His body is interred in the grounds of his ancestral home in Nottinghamshire. 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' is one of his most famous works.

Answer: Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a clever, witty, Victorian writer, and many of his epigrams still survive. He loathed fox hunting, calling it, 'The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable'. This is one of my favourites: 'The old believe everything: the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.'