In the news quiz

Q1) Who is thought to have painted the painting that has just been found in the loft of a house in southern France and which is estimated to be worth £94m ?

Da Vinci

Raphael

Botticelli

Caravaggio

Q2) On which Scottish island has a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio just been found?

Bute

Orkney

Skye

Arran

Q3) A print identified as which noblewoman has hit the news since being listed on eBay as Anne Boleyn?

Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny

Frances Manners, Lady Bergavenny

Joan Fitzalan, Lady Bergavenny

Joan de Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny

Q4) Historian Adrian Greenwood was found murdered at his home in which English city recently?

Cambridge

Oxford

Birmingham

London

Q5) Which two historians have teamed up to present a new series called "Henry VIII and his Six Wives" on the UK's Channel 5?

Dan Snow and Suzannah Lipscomb

Lucy Worsley and David Starkey

Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb

Simon Schama and Suzannah Lipscomb

Q6) Reading Council has announced that it will "co-ordinate the archaeological project and commission companies to survey the abbey ruins" to locate the remains of which English king?

King Alfred

Henry II

Edward I

Henry I

Q7) 15th April was the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, but in which year did the ship sink?

1912

1916

1910

1914

Q8) A manuscript by which physicist and mathematician has been recently rediscovered in a private collection and contains a recipe for "sophick mercury"?

Francis Bacon

Descartes

Isaac Newton

Galileo Galilei

Q9) An 11th century Viking site has just been discovered and is evidence of the first European presence in North America. Where is it?

Vancouver Island

Prince of Wales Island

Prince Edward Island

Newfoundland