1. Which part of the UK is becoming part of Italy today?
2. Which country lost their prime minister this week?
3. Which wild flower takes its name from the French for ‘lion’s teeth’ because its pointed leaves resemble them?
4. Name the show

5. Which royal dynasty was brought to an end by the death of Elizabeth I?
6. Bank, Field and Water are three species found in Britain of which small rodent?
7. Which people, whose civilization reached its height in the sixth century BC, inhabited the part of Italy between the Tiber and the Arno?
8. What is the name of the hormone that regulates the level of glucose in the blood?
9. What links these pictures?
10. Who is this?

11. In computing, what term is used for the form of logic which is based on a notion of degrees of truth rather than something being either wholly true or wholly false?
12. Known locally as ‘El Tigre’, what is the largest species of big cat in the Americas?
13. Where do they come from?
14. What name is usually given to the process of coating iron or steel with zinc to protect it against corrosion?
15. Which Birmingham-based band had six top 40 singles in the 1980s, the first of which was when their lead singer was only 15 years old?
16. In the Roman Catholic church, what name is given to the assembly of cardinals which meets to elect a new pope?
17. What term, similar to the ‘Big Bang’ is used for the theory that the universe might eventually collapse back on itself and compress to a singularity?
18. Replace the question marks with any of + - * / to make the equation below correct:
(6?2) ? (3?4) ? (6?2) = 25
19. What links these pictures:

20. Unscramble the two words: A A A B C D D L M N O S S U W Y