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To enter our competition, simply email your answers and book title to quiz@ace.org.uk.  

September quiz answers can be found at the bottom of the page.

October currency mix-up quiz

...No, we're not talking about the current world financial crisis, but the fact that for this month's quiz, you have to match up the list of currencies below to the countries they belong to. Good luck!

Currencies:

1. Forint

2. Colon

3. Lek

4. Dong

5. Gourde

6.  Kwacha

7. Rand

8. Nuevo sol

9. Kuna

10. Pula

Countries:

a. South Africa

b. Croatia

c. Botswana

d. Hungary

e. Vietnam

f. Peru

g. Albania

h. Costa Rica

i. Zambia

j. Haiti

September quiz answers

1. Which church-going Sunday school teacher is alleged (she was never convicted) to have murdered her parents, as immortalised in the following rhyme?

“________ ________ took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."

Lizzie Borden.

2. Which schoolteacher, who taught in Croydon from 1908, became a famous writer? His first novel, The White Peacock, was published in 1911.

DH Lawrence.

3. Mr Sumner taught for two years at St. Paul's First School in Cramlington. He then found fame and fortune as the lead singer of The Police, followed by a distinguished solo career. By what stage name is he better known?

Sting.

4. Which New Hampshire schoolteacher was selected to be the first civilian in space but then sadly perished along with her six fellow astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger when it exploded just seventy three seconds into the flight in January 1986?

Christa McAuliffe.

5. In 1981, which former Sunday school teacher became the oldest American president to be elected?

Ronald Reagan. He died on 5th June 2004 at the age of 93, the oldest US president who has ever lived.

6. Which half of a singing duo was teaching mathematics at the Litchfield Preparatory School in Connecticut in 1971, the same year their hit song, Bridge Over Troubled Water, won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year?

Art Garfunkel.

7. Which former schoolteacher became the leader of Cambodia in 1975 and was responsible for the deaths of a million people? Ironically, he executed people for being educated.

Pol Pot.

8. Which best-selling author started his career as an English teacher at the Hampden Academy in Maine? He supplemented his income by writing short stories and his first novel, Carrie, which led him to international recognition.

Stephen King.

9. Sentenced to life imprisonment for heresy in 1633, which Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher once supported himself by teaching mathematics in Florence and Siena?

Galileo Galilei.

10. Which American singer-songwriter was a school teacher during the day and progressed her music career at evenings and weekends? She went on to have chart-topping success with 'Killing Me Softly with His Song' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'.

Roberta Flack.

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