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 (2)

1. What is a grimoire?
2. Which British coin was introduced in February 1971 and withdrawn from circulation in December 1984?
3. The wood of a cricket bat is traditionally from which type of tree?
4. In the United States, who is second in presidential line of succession after the Vice President?
5. Which film concerns the declaration of war by Freedonia against neighbouring Sylvania?
6. The velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.