Following on from this introductory piece, here is the first of my “oven-ready quiz rounds”.

First, last or somewhere else

Here are 10 questions about people, places or things that are part of a group or list, or can be identified by their geographical position. For example: which is the northernmost of a group of countries, or who is the oldest member of a band.

The 10 answers follow a straightforward pattern. If you can identify it, it should help you with any missing answers.

1 In an alphabetical list of the countries of the world, using their usual English names, which country comes first?

2 In the colours of the rainbow, starting with the colour RED, which colour comes fifth?

3 If you take the Piccadilly Line from any station in West London and head east and north to the end of the line, many miles away in North London, which station do you end up at? In other words, which station as at the eastern, northern end of the Piccadilly Line?

4 In Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, which of the seven dwarfs has the shortest name?

5 The Baltic States are Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. When you look at them on a map, which one is furthest north?

6 If you arrange the seven days of the week in alphabetical order, which one comes first in the list?

7 Which of the Spice Girls was born first? Or, who is the oldest of the five Spice Girls who appeared together on the band’s first hit, “Wannabe”? We can accept their first name, or their nickname

8 In the Periodic Table of chemical elements, which element has an atomic number of 1 and comes first in the list?

9 In the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, which starts Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and ends with X-Ray, Yankee and Zulu, what is the only country that appears in the list?

10 Older quizzers will remember The Osmonds, a family of singers and entertainers who had numerous hit records in the 1970s. Who was the youngest member of the family? He had the UK’s Christmas #1 in 1972

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