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Online quiz answers

AFTER COVID-19

The regular Sunday night quiz takes place at the Hollybush Pub, Seighford starting at 8.30pm every week. £1 per person admission fee, cash and wine and chocs as the prizes.

Holly Bush Sunday Night Online Quiz

Round 1 20th September 2020 ANSWERS

1 Presidents What did the S in Harry S Truman 33rd President of the USA stand for?

Nothing it was simply an initial

2 Launches Wikipedia was first launched in which year?

2001

3 Periods In geological time what period directly preceded the Jurassic era?

Triassic

4 Literature Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans was better known by what pen name?

George Eliot

5 Politics Leanne Wood became the leader of which political party in 2012?

Plaid Cymru

6 Scrabble Which letter is the only one in the standard Scrabble game to be worth 5 points?

7 Actors Who is the well known acting daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet leigh?

Jamie lee Curtis

8 Food & Drink What does leavened bread contain that unleavened bread does not?

Raising agent (yeast etc)

9 Films Michael Gough and Michael Caine have both played which loyal butler on screen?

Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films

10 Space Which Apollo mission was the first to land on the Moon?

Eleven

11 News What were the names of the two US reporters who reported the Watergate Scandal (an extra point if you can give the code name of their source)

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

12 Music In what year did CD’s first become commercially available?

1982

13 Geography What is the deepest lake in the world located in southern Siberia?

Lake Baikal

14 Gods Who is the Roman equivalent of Poseidon?

Neptune

15 Keyboard The AZERTY keyboard is used as an alternative to the standard QWERTY layout in which country?

France

TB In what year was Marlon Brando born?

1924

Holly Bush Sunday Night Quiz

Round 2

1 Food & Drink What is the most common pub name in the Uk according to the British Beer and Pub Association?

The Red Lion

2 Literature Who wrote the novel Jaws?

Peter Benchley

3 Space Who became the first Britain to walk in space in 2016?

Tim Peake

4 Politics David Cameron was the UK Prime Minister for how many years?

6 (2010 – 2016)

5 Radio What does DAB stand for?

Digital Audio Broadcasting

6 Translations Deriving from Greek origins the word dinosaur literally translates as meaning what?

Terrible Lizard

7 Films In which film did Paul Newman and Steve McQueen appear and share top billing supposedly even having an equal number of lines?

Towering Inferno

8 Flight What was the name of Charles Lindbergh plane when he completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean?

The Spirit of St Louis

9 Explorer Who led the first expedition to reach the South Pole beating Scott’s expedition by a matter of weeks?

Roald Amundsen

10 Words According to the Oxford English Dictionary which word in the English language has the most definitions with over 400?

Set

11 Votes Which country was the first to allow women to vote (in 1893)

New Zealand

12 Birds Which is the only bird capable of flying backwards?

The hummingbird

13 Kings & Queens Who was the last official monarch of England and the first official monarch of Great Britain?

Queen Anne in 1707 when the Acts of Union came in.

14 Popes Who was the only English Pope?

Pope Adrian 4th (1154 – 1159)

15 Games Which table top game took its name from the Latin for hobby?

Subbuteo

TB The year when Martin Luther King Jnr was shot?

1968

Holly Bush Sunday Night Quiz

Round 3

1 Literature Which Sci Fi author created the three laws of robotics?

Isaac Asimov

2 Famous Lines “I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle” is a well-known line said by which iconic character?

The terminator

3 Poets Who became the first female Poet Laureate in 2009?

Carol Ann Duffy

4 Food & Drink Venison refers to the meat of which animal?

Deer

5 Rivers How many countries does the Nile flow?

Eleven

6 Planets Which planet has the longest day?

Venus (one rotation every 243 Earth days)

7 Monuments The Colossus of Rhodes was a huge brnze statue of which Greek God?

Apollo

8 Television What is the name of the police station in the long running television series The Bill

Sun Hill

9 Art Where can you see Graham Sutherland’s painting of Winston Churchill?

You can’t it was destroyed by his widow

10 Presidents Who served as vice president under Bill Clinton?

Al Gore

11 Explorers What was the name of Christopher Columbus’s flag ship?

Santa Maria

12 Epitaphs Which comedian suggested his own epitaph “I told you I was ill”?

Spike Milligan

13 Railways What is the name of the famous high-speed train that runs between Osaka and Tokyo in Japan?

The Bullet Train

14 Language What German word refers to anything perceived to be pretentious or inferior or in bad taste?

Kitsch

15 Warfare What name was subsequently given to the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes in late 1944?

The Battle of the Bulge

TB In which year did Prince Charles marry Camilla?

2005