1. Which former Beirut hostage wrote an evil cradling?

2. Tripoli is the largest city in Libya. In which other Mediterranean country is a Tripoli the second largest city?

3. What kind of Christmas present is 'oil of Lebanon'?

4. What did 80,000 men cut to build Solomon's Temple?

5. Which city is the capital of the Lebanon?

6. Which river flows from the Lebanon through Syria and Turkey to the Med and is used mainly for irrigation?

7. What is the middle name for the eastern region of the Mediterranean consisting of the coastal regions of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Turkey?

8. Which word is both the name for a political party in Lebanon and the fascist movement in Spain during the Spanish civil war?

9. What kind of tree graces the flag of Lebanon ?

10. Which English World War II veteran was a Beirut kidnap victim?

ANSWERS

1. Brian Keenan

2. Lebanon

3. Frankincense Lebanon was the place where Frankincense resin was sold and traded with Europeans.

4. The cedars of Lebanon

5. Beirut

6. Orontes

7. The Levant

8. Phalange (Falange)

9. cedar

10. Jackie Mann