Each month we’re posing six pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month.
As always, they’re designed to be tricky but not impossible, so it’s unlikely everyone will know all the answers – just have a bit of fun.

General Knowledge

1. The numbers on the opposite sides of a six-sided die always add up to what number?
2. What was the name of the world’s first artificial satellite?
3. In what year did cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin reach space?
4. Where did backgammon originate?
5. What is England’s official national sport?
6. Since the 1970s in which country has it been a tradition to eat fried chicken from KFC on Christmas Day?

Answers will be posted in 2 weeks time.