1. The Nobel Prizes are presented every year on 10 December. Why that date? And in which city is the Peace Prize presented, rather than Stockholm?

2. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on 10 December 1901 and shared by two men. One of them founded a famous humanitarian organisation. Who was he, and what did he found?

3. On 10 December 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In which city was it adopted, and which former First Lady chaired the committee that drafted it?

4. On 10 December 1520, Martin Luther publicly burned the papal bull threatening to excommunicate him. In which town did he do it?

5. On 10 December 1868, the world's first traffic light was put up outside the Houses of Parliament in London. What powered its lamp, and what happened to it a few weeks later?

6. The Treaty of Paris, signed on 10 December 1898, ended the Spanish-American War. Name two of the three territories Spain gave up to the United States.

7. On 10 December 1941, two British battleships were sunk by Japanese aircraft off the coast of Malaya. Name either ship.

8. A mathematician born on 10 December 1815 is often called the first computer programmer. Name her, her famous father, and the inventor whose machine she wrote about.

9. Which American poet was born on 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime?

10. Which actor and director, born on 10 December 1960, won an Oscar for writing a film named after his home city?