The Saturday quiz

1. "I went looking for trouble, and I found it." The words of the Italian-born founder of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company, on being released from prison in Massachussets in 1934. Who was he?

2. Branches of what type of tree feature on the flag of the United Nations?

3. Jacopo Peri's Dafne, dating from 1597, is widely regarded as the first what?

4. Who are the only two post-Second World War US presidents not to visit the UK while in office?

5. LG Electronics' Chocolate mobile phone; George at Asda; Littlewoods. What's the connection?

6. In 1737 what did the astronomer John Bevis observe which has never been observed since?

7. In the mid-19th century he played 190 first-class cricket matches – asan all-rounder for Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. How does his name live on?

8. White Lodge in Richmond Park, south-west of London, is home to a school for pupils specialising in what?

9. The Dawes Plan of 1924 proved unsuccessful. It was replaced in 1929 by the Young Plan. Both had the aim of doing what?

10. Who was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1979 to 2009?