This document contains 18 trivia questions about various topics including sports, history, literature and more. The questions provide information about the number of players on different rugby teams, the first Catalan basketball team to win the European Championship, Chelsea football club's stadium location, Formula One driver Jaume Alguersuari's racing team, tennis player Roger Federer's nationality and sport, the location of the 2008 Olympic Games, the country Germany invaded starting World War 2, the British Prime Minister during World War 2, the year India gained independence from Britain, the US President who was assassinated, the leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the battle where Napoleon was finally defeated, the evil character in Harry Potter who must not be named,

1. Ariadna de la Cruz.
1. How many players are there in a rugby team? It depends on the type of game.
Rugby Union: 15 players. Rugby League: 13 players. Rugby 7: 7 players.
2. Which was the first catalan basketball team to win the European Championship
in the season 1993-94? Club Joventut de Badalona.
3. What’s the name of Chelsea’s stadium and where is it? Stamford Bridge, in
London.
4. What was Jaume Alguersuari’s racing team’s name? Toro Rosso Ferrari/ Scuderia
Toro Rosso.
5. What country is Roger Federer from and what sport has he been number 1 in?
He is from Switzerland and he has been the number 1 in tennis.
6. Where were the Olympic Games held in 2008? In Beijing, China.
7. What country did the Germans invade in 1939 which was the origin of the 2nd
world war? Poland
8. Who was the British prime minister during the 2nd world war who said: “we will
never surrender!”? Winston Churchill.
9. When did India become independent from the British empire? 26 January 1950.
10. Which America president was killed in a theatre? Abraham Lincoln.
11. Who was the leader of the Russian revolution in 1917? Vladimir Lenin.
12. In what battle was Napoleon finally defeated in the XIXth century? In the battle
of Waterloo.
13. Who’s the evil character, whose name mustn’t be mentioned, in Harry Potter?
Voldemort.
14. What did Miguel Hernandez, the Spanish poet, devote his “Nanas de… “ to? To
his son.
15. Who wrote the novels in English “David Copperfield” or “ Oliver Twist”? Charles
Dickens.

2. 16. Who was awarded the literature Nobel last year? Mo Yan.
17. “Journey to the centre of the Earth”,“ Twenty thousand leagues under the sea”
or “ Around the world in eighty days” are books written by Julio Verne.
18. “ to be or not to be” is the beginning of a monologue from the play Hamlet
written by William Shakespeare.