Again this year, each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As always, they’re designed to be difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so have a bit of fun.

General Knowledge (1)

1. What type of clothing is a Glengarry?
2. Which country features a shipwreck on its national flag?
3. Which two months of the year are named for mortal men?
4. Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire is famous for which two foods?
5. Name the type of rigid airship, first flown commercially in 1910, and carrying many thousands of fare-paying passengers before WWI?
6. Benjamin Disraeli once described William Ewart Gladstone as “A sophistical rhetorician, _____ with the exuberance of his own verbosity”. What is the missing word?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.