Answers to Ian’s Trivialus 13 April 2025

Answers

1. Angola

2. The 89th running of the Masters tournament being held at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.

3. Elysée Palace

4. Able

5. On the Waterfront

6. 90 days – the universal 10% levy will remain for all countries, but the additional reciprocal calculation

will be on hold while countries negotiate new positions.

7. Jack London – Yukon, Canada.

8. c) – Manny Pacquiao – currently a businessman and a politician in his home country of the Philippines.

9. b) – the rise in bond yields indicating that bond prices are falling due to widespread selling - the

steepest fall in US government bond prices in 40 years. Domestic and international bond holders is the

one constituency that Trump could least afford to bully. In the UK, it was the bond market that put

paid to Liz Truss and her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng.

10. Black Beauty

11. A French variety of the common bean.

12. Cuba

13. Peter Gabriel

14. Birmingham – 1.2m people are having to live with piles of rubbish on every street on account of no

agreement between the city council and the workers’ unions. Reports claim intransigence from one

union (Unite) is stonewalling an agreement despite the final issue being one that apparently only

affects 17 workers.

15. b) – the Diet of Worms was an assembly in 1521 called by Emperor Charles V questioning the writings

of Martin Luther. When Luther refused to recant his writings, the contents were proscribed, and he

was declared a heretic and an enemy of the state.

16. Sodium Hydroxide, also known as caustic soda, or Lye, and used extensively in numerous

manufacturing processes.

17. True (and false) – in fact it has three; Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius and Stromboli, the latter being one

of the most active on Earth. But the statement is only true if you don’t regard Iceland as part of

Europe, which it is, given its cultural roots. Iceland has around 30 active volcanoes.

18. c) – Ethiopia

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20. b) – George III whose reign was 1760-1820. America seceded from Britain in 1776.