Part Even More! Flashcards
- Which 5 cities beginning with the letter
Mhave hosted the Summer Olympic Games since 1896?
Melbourne, Mexico City, Munich, Montreal and Moscow
In The Simpsons, who replaced Sideshow Bob?
Sideshow Mel
What James Bond film was the first not be based on an Ian Fleming novel or short story?
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Goldeneye
Between them, the six wives of HenryVIII were of three different nationalities. English, Spanish and what other?
German (Ann of Cleves)
- In which film did Mel Gibson play a character who was frozen for 50 years?
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Forever Young`
Deckard is the main character in what 1982 film?
Blade Runner
Who plays Dr Jekyll in the 1996 film Mary Reilly?
John Malkovich
Written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which poem starts with the line On either side of the river lie?
The Lady of Shalott
Mary Westmacott (Giant’s Bread)
Agatha Christie
Herge (The Adventures of Tin Tin)
Georges Remi
Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Go now : Nights in white satin : Isn’t life strange
Moody Blues
Something got me started : Fairground : Sunrise
Simply Red
Your town : Twist & shout : I’ll never fall in love again
Deacon Blue
Just the way you are : What am I gonna do with you : You’re the first, the last, my everything
Barry White
In 1845, the New York Knickerbockers became the first organised team to play which sport?
Baseball
Which country staged the first Olympic Games after World War II?
England
Charlotte Edwards led England`s women to World Cup glory in which sport in March 2009?
Cricket
A feathered shuttlecock contains how many feathers?
16
In which sport do people compete for the America`s Cup?
Yachting
How many points do you get for a field goal in American football?
3
At which sport do the team called the Minnesota Twins compete?
Baseball
How many times have the Olympic Games been cancelled due to war?
Three
What nationality is the racing driver Mikka Hakkinen?
Finnish
horseracing, what term is given to a horse that has not yet won a race?
Maiden
many players are there in a Handball team?
7
which sport did Johnny Weismuller, who played the character of Tarzan on screen, win 5 Olympic Gold medals?
Swimming
How many lanes are there in an Olympic sized swimming pool?
8
What is the diameter of a puck used in ice-hockey? 3 inches, 4 inches or 5 inches?
3 inches
What is the final event in a triathlon?
The marathon
In which city were the 1980 Olympic Games held?
Moscow
In which city would you find the Happy Valley race course?
Hong Kong
Which synthetic fabric was first developed by Dupont in 1958 and is worn regularly in a variety of sports?
Lycra
FINA is the governing body of which sport?
Swimming
What sport do the New Jersey Devils and the Detroit Red Wings play?
Ice Hockey
Which Olympic sport needs a planting box?
Pole Vault
Which US city is home to sporting teams known as the Browns, the Cavaliers and the Indians?
Cleveland (NFL, NBA and MLB teams)
In inches how wide is the balance beam in Olympic gymnastics? 2, 4 or 6?
4
which sport is there a yorkround?
Archery
How many players are there in a hockey team?
11
How many players are in an ice-hockey team?
6
Which golf course hosts the US masters?
Augusta
What sport involves stones and a house?
Curling
In which four films did Humphrey Bogart and Lauran Bacall co-star?
To have and have not, The big sleep, dark passage, Key largo
Which four US Presidents died of natural causes while in office?
William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G Harding, FD Roosevelt
Escalated Ditch
Deadliest Catch
Feel Sixth
The X files
Bad Boy Newton
Downton Abbey
Which U.S. music superstar missed a penalty kick during the opening ceremony festivities at the World Cup soccer finals in 1994?
Diana Ross.
Macbeth belonged to which royal house or dynasty?
House of Dunkeld
Where in Scotland was the famous Irish manuscript The Book Of Kells illuminated?
Iona
What are the dry constituents of dry Martini?
Gin and Vermouth
How many symphonies did Mozart compose?
41
Who deposed Richard II in 1399?
Henry (Bolingbroke) IV
In 2006 there were approximately how many pubs in the UK? 47,500, 57,500 or 67,500?
57,500
Who, in 1960, became the first woman Prime Minister in the world?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
A Taste Of My Life
Raymond Blanc
What was the title of Jean-Paul Sartre’s first play?
The Flies
What was Bedloe’s Island officially renamed to in 1956?
Liberty Island
Who married Catharine von Bora, a former nun?
Martin Luther
The death of which Swedish king inspired an opera by Verdi?
Gustavus III
How did Tollund Man die?
Hanging, not strangulation
The behaviour of dynamic systems, which renders long-term prediction almost impossible
Chaos Theory
Continuous deformations including stretching and bending, but not tearing or gluing.
Topology
Study of motion and forces producing motion.
Mechanics
In which film can you the Sulaco spacship
Aliens
In which film will you find Guild Transporters
Dune
In which film can you find the Oberon spaceship
Planet of the Apes
In which TV series will you find the Colonial Shuttle
Battlestar Galactica
Who were the two lead detectives in both the TV Series and the movie version of Miami Vice?
Crockett & Tubbs
Which TV show featured DS Jane Penhaligon?
Cracker
what was the last James Bond film to star Pierce Brosnan?
Die Another Day
Who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat in his bath in 1793, an act which has later been seen as patriotic?
Charlotte Corday
Which guerilla leader during the Irish War of Independence was assassinated in 1922?
Micheal Collins
Who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role as Mrs Robinson in The Graduate?
Anne Bancroft
Who were the first two countries to declare war during ww1?
Austria and Serbia
Who wrote “You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads march by. Sneak hom and pray you’ll never know, the hell where youth and laughter go”?
Siegfried Sassoon “suicide in the trenches”
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Mohammed Ali
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
George W Bush
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.
Adolf Hitler
The 10 Events in a Decathlon?
100 Metres,Long Jump,Shot Put,High Jump,400 Metres,110 Metre Hurdles,Discus,Pole Vault,Javelin,1500 Metres
Jeff Albertson
Comic book guy from the Simpsons.
Patricia Reichardt
Peppermint Patty from the Peanuts cartoons.
Scrat
The Sabre-toothed squirrel from Ice Age.
Which actor, possibly best known for his portrayal of Clark Griswald, hosted the American Acadamy Awards Ceremony in both 1987 and 1988?
Chevy Chase
Who in the early 1960’s became known as the “King of The Twist”?
Chubby Checker
Which author who died in 1998 was the most borrowed author from British libraries for over twenty years?
Catherine Cookson
- Madrid West
- Honolulu East
- Cairo West
- Seoul East
- Glasgow East
- Lima North
- Brisbane East
- Rio de Janiero East
- Aukland North
- London East
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- Portugal
- Mexico
- Libya
- Japan
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Chile
- Namibia
- Russia
- Netherlands
Napoleons horse that outlived him by 8 years
Marengo
Abyssinia is the former name of which country?
Ethiopia
Who was the first monarch of the House of Tudor?
Henry VII
Who played the title role in the movie Billy Elliot.
Jamie Bell
Wha was the first name of Polish ballet star Nijinski.
Vaslav (1890s, male)
What now stands on the site of the notorious Newgate prison?
The Old Bailey
Day in 1944 was the greatest sea-bourn invasion in history. What was the code name for the operation?
Operation Overlord
The greatest British naval victory in 1805 was off of which cape in Spain?
Trafalgar
Which ancient, fierce warrior nation, upon attacking ancient Israel, ‘…. came down like a wolf on the fold’?
The Assyrians (from The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron)
At which naval battle in WWII did the Americans decisively defeat the Japanese Carrier Task Force?
Battle of Midway Atoll
The bombardment of which fort was the act which started the American Civil War?
Fort Sumpter
Which WWI battle occurred on a peninsular south of Istanbul in Turkey?
Gallipoli
Which NBA basketball ‘bad boy’ was renowned for dying his hair bright colours.
Dennis Rodman
In 1982, who became the first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize posthumously?
Sylvia Plath
In which year did a terrorist group kill eleven hostages at the Olympic Games?
1972, Munich
Which 1946 film was an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s crime novel of the same name?
The Big Sleep
Which influential German philosopher wrote ‘Being and Time’?
Martin Heidegger
Which American society magazine merged into Vogue in 1936?
Vanity Fair
Which country is the largest producer of saffron?
Iran
Hansel und Gretel composer
Engelbert Humperdinck
Where would you find the Epiglottis?
In the Mouth
What are the first names of Michael Jackson’s parents?
Joseph(Joe) and Catherine
Balaclava
Crimean War
Java Sea
World War II
Jutland
World War I
Bunker Hill
American War of Independence
Brandy Station
American Civil War
Which Boxer was known as ‘The Brockton Blockbuster’
Rocky Marciano
Which olympic swimmer was known as ‘Eric the Eel’?
Eric Moussambani
Which former Tour De France winner was known as ‘The Cannibal’?
Eddy Mercyx
The Amazon flows through how many countries?
7
Which river originates in the Taurus Mountains, and flows through Syria and Iraq?
Euphrates
Which major river empties into the Gulf of Guinea?
Niger
Which river originates in China and empties in the South China Sea?
The Mekong
Which river originates in British Columbia, Canada, and empties into the Bering Sea
The Yukon
Actor, married 3 times, including Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?
Laurence Olivier
Actor, married 4 times, including Lynn Frederick and Britt Ekland?
Peter Sellers
Actress, married 9 times, including Conrad Hilton and George Sanders?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actor, marries 8 times, including Jan Chamberlain and Ava Gardner?
Mickey Rooney
Who designed Madonna’s wedding dress for her marriage to Guy Ritchie?
Stella McCartney
Born in Gibraltar, which designer was named British Designer of the Year in 1987, 1994 and 1995?
John Galliano
What is the name of Vivienne Westwood’s clothes shop at 430 King’s Road where she sells her Anglomania label?
World’s End
Which Canadian model dated french goalkeeper Fabien Barthez and has appeared in the music videos for George Michael’s songs Freedom ‘90 and Too Funky?
Linda Evangelista
Meryl Streep’s character, Miranda, in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada was based on the editor-in-chief of which fashion magazine?
Vogue
In which country was designer Oscar de la Renta born?
The Dominican Republic (Dominican American, died 2014)
How many sheets of paper are there in one ream?
500
By what name is Reginald Dwight better known?
Elton John
Which semi-precious stone was ground to make the pigment for ultramarine blue paint?
Lapis Lazuli
Prior to his death in 1976 what was John Wayne’s last film?
The Shootist
Which Indian tribe did Sitting Bull belong to?
Sioux
- In which territory, now US state, was the Battle of Little Bighorn fought?
Montana
Known as “The Singing Cowboy” who had his biggest hit record with the original recording of “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”?
Gene Autry
Who succeeded General Joseph Johnston as the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
Robert E Lee
In which month does midsummer’s day occur?
June
- A youngberry is a cross between a dewberry and what else?
A blackberry
In which European country did red onions originate?
Italy
In whch Robert Di Nero film would you hear the line “You Talking To Me”?
Taxi Driver
Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan attempted to clean up the streets of which US City?
San Francisco
Dr Egon Spengler appears in which film?
Ghostbusters
In which year was the film Casablanca premiered?
1942
Comedian Steve Coogan provided the voice for which animal in the 1996 film Wind In The Willows?
Mr toad’s wild ride….Mole
Who killed Jesse James?
Robert Ford
- Who killed Jean Paul Marat?
Charlotte Corday
The band T’Pau took their name from a character in which TV series?
Star Trek.
