1. Who was killed playing poker while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights leading to expression `dead man`s hand`?
2. From which country do the band A-Ha come?
3. On what occasions would the royal standard be flown at half mast?
4. What were the first names of the two main characters in the film `Grease`?
5. Who wrote the novel `Salem`s Lot`?
6. Which two metallic elements form the alloy bronze?
7. What was the name of the world`s first test-tube baby?
8. In which country was actor Russell Crowe born?
9. Who played Poison Ivy in the 1997 film `Batman and Robin`?
10. How many stories make up the `Canterbury Tales`?
1. Who was killed playing poker while holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights leading to expression `dead man`s hand`? Wild Bill Hickock
2. From which country do the band A-Ha come? Norway, wot has done well in the Winter Olympics - good old Marit Bjørgen with 3 golds, 1 silver, 1 bronze........
5. Who wrote the novel `Salem`s Lot`? Stephen King
6. Which two metallic elements form the alloy bronze? Copper and Tin
8. In which country was actor Russell Crowe born? New Zealand
Here Marit celebrating winning a gold medal in the women's 4 x 5km relay, she in the blue bib and anchored them to an easy victory.
10. How many stories make up the `Canterbury Tales`?
I had a vague notion that it might be either 12 or 24 (bit of a 100% margin for error there 
), and that Chaucer might be supposed to have intended to write a greater number but that the Tales were incomplete - so I checked and I was fairly quite a lot Rong; there are 24 plus the General Prologue, but in the Prologue he says there are 29 people in the group plus himself - through he doesn't describe them all in detail - and the plan is that they will each tell four stories (2 on the way out and 2 more on the way back). So you might say the Tales themselves pretend there will be up to 120 stories, but I don't know what Scholars reckon he actually intended in reality. (well there are 100 in the Decameron, so ...)
Anyway, 24 people actually tell a story (and I don't remember if any of them tell more than one, but I don't think so, although they do sometimes interrupt each other). 
3. On what occasions would the royal standard be flown at half mast?
Expected answer:
No occasion. [since there is always some British monarch to take over when the previous King or Queen kicks the bucket, the Royal Standard always flies at full mast.]
Correct answer:
The Royal Standard flies at half mast as it is being raised, and as it is being lowered.
well spotted Asy and well done Helio - I had to read one of those tales, the Pardoner's, for A-level - it wasn't my favourite A-level text I must say but quite lively I suppose and nicely sarky about religion well done Midge too
4. What were the first names of the two main characters in the film `Grease`?
Danny and Sandy.
7. What was the name of the world`s first test-tube baby?
Louise Brown
9. Who played Poison Ivy in the 1997 film `Batman and Robin`?
Uma Thurman