Ahead of tonight’s final, we asked the question setters to share some of their most taxing starters for 10 for our annual quiz. If the integers from one to 100 are written in Roman numerals and then placed in alphabetical order, which comes last? Which structure was begun in 1173 as the final structure of its city’s cathedral complex? The birthplace of Karl Marx in 1818, which German city is the location of the Porta Nigra gate and a basilica that is the largest intact Roman structure outside Rome? The US biochemist Elmer McCollum is generally credited with the invention of the alphabetical system of naming what group of organic compounds?

Source: The Guardian April 10, 2017 06:00 UTC