1. 

   Let us start off gently. What is the next line from this famous Shakespeare speech? 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'

   1. To sleep, perchance to dream — ay, there's the rub

   2. Conscience doth make cowards of us all

   3. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

   4. Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps, please

2. Who is said to have yelled "Eureka!" and leapt out of his bathtub to run naked through the streets of Syracuse after a revelation about how the displacement of water works?

   1. Pythagoras

   2. Archimedes

   3. Eratosthenes

   4. Hubris

3. 

   What was Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous line of commentary at the end of the men's 1966 World Cup final between England and West Germany?

   1. Some fans have run on to the pitch! They think it’s all over! It is now!

   2. Some people have rushed from the stands! They think it’s all over! It is now!

   3. Some people are on the pitch! They think it's all over! It is now!

   4. Some citations are in the text! They think it’s all over! It is now!

4. 

   In 1993, Tony Blair declared that the Labour party was intending to be …

   1. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime

   2. Tough on poverty, tough on the causes of poverty

   3. Tough on inequality, tough on the causes of inequality

   4. Tough on AI-sourced footnotes, tough on the causes of AI-sourced footnotes

5. 

   Which of these is the correct piece of philosophy from Eric Cantona

   1. When the salmon swim upstream, the bear believes patience will be rewarded

   2. When the owls watch the night, it is because they think silence will speak

   3. When the wolves circle the herd, it is because they think weakness will reveal itself

   4. When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea

6. In a proverb often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, it is said that an army marches on what?

   1. An army marches on its achievements

   2. An army marches on its stomach

   3. An army marches on its happiness

   4. An army marches on its feet

7. 

   John F Kennedy famously once declared …

   1. Je suis un Parisien!

   2. Sono un Romano!

   3. Ich bin ein Berliner!

   4. Ik ben een Syldaviër!

8. 

   Is this quote real or fake? "The trouble with the internet is anybody can put words on a picture of you, and people will believe you said it" – Henry VIII

   1. Fake

   2. Real

9. 

   Noel Gallagher once described his brother Liam as …

   1. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup

   2. He’s like a man with chopsticks in a world of porridge

   3. He’s like a man with a compass in a world with no north

   4. He's like a man with a chatbot without an editor checking it

10. Which author said: "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

    1. Dan Brown

    2. Douglas Adams

    3. Jeffrey Archer

    4. Terry Pratchett

11. 

    Which of these is the opening line of a Jane Austen novel?

    1. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

    2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

    3. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with

    4. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day

12. 

    And finally … how was this quiz written?

    1. By using careful authorative sources on the internet and then double-checking them

    2. Asking an AI chatbot to write it, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best

Solutions

1:C - This, of course, is the famous speech from Hamlet, 2:B - He realised that the displacement of water could be used to measure the volume of irregular objects, 3:C - For the familiar New Order song World In Motion, Wolstenholme re-recorded the quote with the slightly different words – "Well, some of the crowd are on the pitch" – but the original commentary definitely says "people", 4:A - Blair was attempting to steal the Conservatives' traditional claim to be the party of law and order, 5:D - He said this at a press conference some time after kung fu kicking a fan in the stands, with the seagulls representing the media, him the trawler, and the sardines the story. Or something, 6:B - It is meant to imply that the more well supplied an army is, the likelier the chance of success, 7:C - Kennedy was delivering a speech about communism during the height of the cold war after the Berlin wall had been erected, 8:A - Of course it is fake. It sounds much more like the kind of thing Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein might have said, 9:A - Lovely brotherly sentiment, 10:B - Bless him, he left us far too early, 11:B - Indeed it is, the others are from Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, 12:A - No Matt Goodwins were harmed in the making of this quiz

Scores

1. 9 and above.

   Excellent stuff, you probably are safe to publish your own book

2. 0 and above.

   Are you a chatbot in disguise?

3. 5 and above.

   A little bit more work needed here