FREE COMPETITIONS, PUB QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. Who lived at Mt Vernon on the Potomac river, Virginia (one of at least 7 Mt Vernons in the USA)?
   George Washington & family
   
   
2. On what mount was Christ arrested?
   Mount of Olives or Olivet
   
   
3. Who composed an oratorio the title of which translates as Christ on the Mount of Olives?
   Beethoven, Christus am Ölberge
   
   
4. According to Virgil, Enceladus the giant who plotted against Jupiter lay buried here, while other poets say it is the site of the smithy of Cyclops and the forge of Vulcan. Where?
   Mount Etna
   
   
5. Mt Palomar (California) is the site of the one of the world's most important what?
   Observatories
   
   
6. Which is the mount of uncertain location where, according to Exodus, Moses received the Ten Commandments?
   Mount Sinai
   
   
7. Mount's Bay is the name given to the stretch of sea between Lizard Point and which other prominent feature of the English coastline?
   Land's End
   
   
8. The Mount, formerly the site of an RAF station outside Bovingdon, Herts, is now (since 1987) a what?
   Category C training prison
   
   
9. "A tiny island which you can walk to when the tide is low; a place where ancient and modern sit side by side." Such are approximately the words of the website of a tourist attraction in Cornwall that shares its name (in translation) with a not dissimilar tourist attraction in northern France. What is the Norman site?
   Mont St Michel equivalent of St Michael's Mount
   
   
10. At Mount Rushmore the visitor sees Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and which other President?
    Theodore Roosevelt (must have Theodore or Teddy)
    
    
11. Who or what was buried at Mount Li?
    Accept any of: Qin Shihuangdi, the First Emperor of China, ca 7,500 terracotta figures, the terracotta army…
    
    
12. A rubbish tip then a prison, what site is now the largest postal sorting office in London (formerly in the world)?
    Mount Pleasant