This month marks the centenary of the death of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. To celebrate the life and work of the brilliant author, whose works include 'War And Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', today's quiz takes the theme of people whose first name is or was Leo.
1 English singer Leo Sayer appeared in what persona at the start of his career when singing songs such as 'One Man Band'?
2 Pope Leo XIII, who headed up the Roman Catholic Church for 25 years during a period spanning the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries, became famous for asserting that religion could co-exist with what?
3 Belgium remains one of the modern European nation states with a monarchy, how many Kings called Leopold has the country had?
4 Welsh social reformer and longserving Labour MP in the UK parliament Leo Abse had a famous poet as his brother, what was he called?
5 Despite the humanist egalitarian lifestyle Leo Tolstoy adopted later in his life, what Russian aristocratic title was he entitled to adopt?
1 English singer Leo Sayer appeared in what persona at the start of his career when singing songs such as 'One Man Band'?
2 Pope Leo XIII, who headed up the Roman Catholic Church for 25 years during a period spanning the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries, became famous for asserting that religion could co-exist with what?
3 Belgium remains one of the modern European nation states with a monarchy, how many Kings called Leopold has the country had?
4 Welsh social reformer and longserving Labour MP in the UK parliament Leo Abse had a famous poet as his brother, what was he called?
5 Despite the humanist egalitarian lifestyle Leo Tolstoy adopted later in his life, what Russian aristocratic title was he entitled to adopt?
The answers to yesterday's quiz on prisons and prisoners were:-
1 A candle & barbed wire.
2 Nelson Mandela.
3 Patrick McGoohan.
4 Elba & St. Helina.
5 Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz.
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