-1. Who wrote the series of stories about New York collected in Guys and Dolls?
-2. Who was the British member of the Monkees?
-3. In which year was John F Kennedy elected US president?
-4. On which Hawaiian island is Pearl Harbor?
-5. Who inverted the moveable-scale rule capable of measuring a fractional part of one of the divisions of the fixed scale, and which bears his name?
-6. What vitamin has the chemical formula C20H30O
-7. Which Nazi leader was arrested when he made a secret trip to Scotland in 1941 in an attempt to negotiate peace?
-8. What is the name of the brown pigment made from the ink of cuttlefish?
-9. The painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos is better known by which name?
-10. Who played Dan Matthews in the TV series Highway Patrol?
-11. Who was the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope?
-12. This line is from which 1975 movie?

4. Oahu

2. Davy Jones

7. Rudolf Hess (though it didn't do him a lot of good!)

Bernie

6. Vitamin A

8. Sepia

3. He was elected in November 1960 and sworn in January 1961

Wow - I go away for a short while to have a bite to eat and come back to find the quiz half finished.

Great answers, every single one!

What ?? You leave this quiz just to EAT ?? How could you ??

12. I'm going with Monty Python and the Holy Grail

If that's incorrect, your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

9. El Greco

10 - Broderick Crawford

1. Damon Runyon

5. Pierre Vernier

Another great selection. Cheryl - you have such a way with words, but it wasn't the French taunter - try another film featuring diabolical French accents...

The others all look tickety-boo to me

11. Jean Gravelet (I wonder how I knew that? )

Bernie

AKA the Great Blondin, I believe Bernie. Good call!

Ah, It's Peter Sellers in Return of the Pink Panther. I had forgotten about that.

With the famed "minkey"...