Quiz 18

Question 1

Alexei Leonev was the first man, and Edward H White the first American, to do what?

Answer 1

Spacewalk

Question 2

Which two actors played the Likely Lads, Terry and Bob, in the BBC TV sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 2

Rodney Bewes, James Bolam

Question 3

Only one whole square number under 100 is the sum of the preceding two square numbers. Which?

Answer 3

25

Question 4

Which small tool, used for boring holes, shares its name with a cocktail containing lime juice and either gin or vodka?

Answer 4

Gimlet

Question 5

In Scandinavian mythology, Urd, Verdandi and Skuld were three giant goddesses who presided over the fates of both men and gods. How were they collectively known?

Answer 5

The Norns

Question 6

Although usually known fo her roles in musical extravaganzas, which actress won her only Best Actress Oscar for her dramatic role in the film Kitty Foyle in 1940?

Answer 6

Ginger Rogers

Question 7

The art movement exemplified by 20th century Dutch artistssuch as Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld and Theo van Doesberg is often known by what dutch name?

Answer 7

De Stijl

Question 8

Firzan, meaning counsellor, was the original Arabic name for which chess piece?

Answer 8

Queen

Question 9

In October 2008 the first UN sanctioned auction for nearly ten years took place in Southern Africa of which substance?

Answer 9

Ivory

Question 10

The serial killer Patrick Bateman is the narrator of which controversial and globally successful novel of 1991?

Answer 10

American Psycho

Question 11

Which soft felt hat with a low crown and wide brim, supposedly derives its name, in a punning way, from the fact that it doesn’t have a nap?

Answer 11

Wideawake

Question 12

Including the innermost, how many rings are there in a standard archery target?

Answer 12

10

Question 13

In the 1975 ITV dramatisation of The Naked Civil Servant, which actor played Quentin Crisp?

Answer 13

John Hurt

Question 14

the Big Three meeting at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, was the second conference between these three wartime leaders. Which Middle Eastern city hosted their first meeting in 1943?

Answer 14

Tehran

Question 15

The former John Stree, in Hampstead in London, was renamed to reflect the street’s association with which major poet who lived there between 1818 and 1820?

Answer 15

John Keats

Question 16

Blaisdon Red, Early Laxton and Rivers’ Early Prolific are varieties of which fruit?

Answer 16

plum

Question 17

What did the initials of the writer PG Wodehose stand for?

Answer 17

Pelham grenville

Question 18

Which Scottish border town gives its name to a regiment first mustered in 1650, which is the oldest corps by continuous existence in the British Army?

Answer 18

Coldstream guards

Question 19

To which great French cinema director did Steven Spielberg give a bit-part as a UFO expert in the 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

Answer 19

Francoise Truffaut

Question 20

Which English noun can mean both conscientious and industrious attention to a task, and a type of stagecoach?

Answer 20

Diligence

Question 21

In towns up and down the British Isles there are thoroughfares and squares with the street name The Butts. Traditionally, this indicates that which activity went on there?

Answer 21

Archery training

Question 22

In the opening chapters of which of Charles Dickens novels is the corpse of a man named John Harmon found floating in the Thames in an advanced state of decay and much injured?

Answer 22

Our Mutual Friend

Question 23

Can you name the method of music education developed in the early 20th century by Emile Jacques Dalcroze, which uses movement to help the appreciation of music and which gives its name to a pop group many decades later?

Answer 23

Eurhythmics

Question 24

In botany, what defines a leaf, flower or fruit described as sessile?

Answer 24

Grows from the stem

Question 25

The so-called Black Box, the unit containing an aeroplane’s flight and voice recorders is usually painted what colour?

Answer 25

Orange

Question 26

What’s the family relationship between the writer of the screenplay of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the writer of the recipe book Voluptuous Delights, published in 2008

Answer 26

Grandfather and Granddaughter

Question 27

The Great White Hope, a 1970 film which starred James Earl Jones as a black boxer hounded for his relationship with a white woman, was based on the life of which real heavyweight champion?

Answer 27

Jack Johnson

Question 28

What is the design on the jersey in the Tour de France which is given to the rider designated The King Of The Mountains?

Answer 28

Polkadots

Question 29

Which state of the USA is the setting for Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird?

Answer 29

Alabama

Question 30

What is the second letter of the Hebrew alphabet?

Answer 30

Bet

Question 31

Reclaimed by India by military force, fifty years ago in December 1961, the state of Goa was previously an enclave governed by which European country?

Answer 31

Portugal

Question 32

Which cocktail, made with white run, lime juice and sugar syrup takes its name from a beach resort near Santiago on the south coast of Cuba?

Answer 32

Dacquiri

Question 33

With a capacity of 150,000, the Rungrado May Day Stadium is reputedly the largest sporting venue in the world, and is situated in which East Asian country?

Answer 33

North Korea

Question 34

According to Daniel Defoe’s Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain, which town in County Durham contains nothing remakable but dirt?

Answer 34

Darlington

Question 35

According to How To Be An Alien by the hungarian born writer George Mikes, Continental people have sex lives, the English have - what?

Answer 35

Hot water bottles

Question 36

From 1821, Liberia was established by American interests as an African colony for freed slaves. Which African country was settled by the British for a similar purpose?

Answer 36

Sierra Leone

Question 37

The writer and socialite Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, born in 1766, became one of the most celbrated figures in Paris before the French revolution. Diplomats, writers, philosophers and even the Duke of Wellington fell under her spell. By what name does posterity remember her?

Answer 37

Madame de Stael

Question 38

Of which Lerner and Loewe musical did Noel Coward say It’s about as long as Parsifal and not as funny?

Answer 38

Camelot

Question 39

In a famous speech to the US congress in January 1941, FDR outlined four basic freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want - and which other?

Answer 39

Freedom from fear

Question 40

What form of food poisoning gets its name from the Latin for a sausage?

Answer 40

Botulism