1.  In his “Iron Curtain” speech, Churchill talked of it running from a Polish port on the Baltic to an Italian one on the Adriatic.  Which 2 ports ?

Szczecin
Trieste

2.  Which 2 species of ‘Birdwing’ butterfly are the world’s largest – one named after Edward VII’s wife, the other an Old Testament figure ?

(Queen) Alexandra's
Goliath

3.  According to UN figures, which are the most populous cities of the northern, and southern, hemispheres ?

Mexico City (20+ million)
Sao Paulo

4.  Which group(s) of Caribbean islands were named in honour of Saint Ursula of Cologne & her 11,000 followers - and who was it that gave them their name ?

Virgin Islands
Columbus

5.  Which is the world's largest and heaviest fish, and which is the heaviest of the world’s ‘true’ or ‘bony’ fishes ?

Whale Shark
(Ocean) Sunfish

6.  Which are the worlds two deepest freshwater-lakes ?

Baikal
Tanganyika

7.  Which two types of land mammal are the world’s smallest, in terms of length (the ‘Savi’s white-toothed pygmy’ & ‘Etruscan’), and in terms of weight (‘Bumblebee’ or ‘Kitti’s hog-nosed’ ) ?

Shrew
Bat

8.  Which are the commonest and rarest of the natural elements to be found in the earth’s atmosphere ?

Nitrogen
Radon

9.  Which are the ‘noisiest’ (audible in air at 10 miles) and the ‘loudest’ (188 decibels) of all the earth’s creatures ?

Howler Monkey
Blue Whale

10.  Which is the earth’s largest active volcano (height, not altitude), and which is the solar system’s largest known volcano (active or otherwise) ?

Mauna Loa
Olympus Mons