Problem: On the 1st. January 2012, which artist was appointed to the Order of Merit?
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A: david hockney

Problem: Which city, whose name means 'fortification at Eidyn', was the first to host the Commonwealth Games twice?
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A: edinburgh

Problem: In 1936, Germany re-occupied the officially demilitarised province of the 'Rhineland', in defiance of which treaty?
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A: treaty of versailles

Problem: July 20, 1919, was the birth of what New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, who made sherpa Tenzing Norgay an international celebrity?
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A:
sir edmund hillary