QuizEire010219 Flashcards
1 Ray “Eye Patch” Sawyer (born February 1 1937 Chickasaw Alabama United States) is a singer best known as a vocalist with which 1970s’ rock band? He died on December 28 2018.
1 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
2 Magia (1991) Peligro (1993) Pies Descalzos (1995) Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998) Laundry Service (2001) Fijación Oral Vol. 1 (2005) Oral Fixation Vol. 2 (2005) She Wolf (2009) Sale el Sol (2010) and El Dorado (2017) are all studio albums released by which singer born February 2 1977?
2 Shakira
3 Who was the pilot of the Beechcraft Bonanza light aircraft that crashed near Clear Lake Iowa on February 3 1959 killing all on board including American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly Ritchie Valens and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson?
3 Roger Peterson
4 Which Roman emperor died aged 65 at Eboracum (today York England) on 4 February 211?
4 Septimus Severus
5 Beginning on February 5 2019 is the Chinese year of which creature?
5 (Earth) Pig
6 Who won the 2019 Australian Open Women’s Tennis Tournament beating Petra Kvitova in the final?
6 Naomi Osaka
7 And who won the 2019 Australian Open Men’s Tennis Tournament beating Rafa Nadal in the final?
7 Novak Djokovic
8 Who wrote the 1995 novel ‘Jackson’s Dilemma’? It was a final book and its limited vocabulary is said to have revealed early signs of the Alzheimer’s disease that caused her death four years later on February 8 1999?
8 Iris Murdoch
9 Who (b. February 9 1909 – d. December 20 1994) served as United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson?
9 Dean Rusk
10 Believed to be Algerian but actually French what was the mononym stage name of the actress born Miriam Charrière in Toulouse on February 10 1925? As an actress she is best known for her role in ‘Outcast of the Islands’ and was from 1964 to 2016 the wife of James Bond director Guy Hamilton?
10 Kerima
11 Who born February 11 1962 performed the theme song to the James Bond movie ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’?
11 Cheryl Crow
12 Which American politician (February 11 1812 – March 4 1883) who served as the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883 also served as the only Vice President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865?
12 Alexander H. Stephens
13 Born on 12 February 1809 who is the author of ‘The Descent of Man’ first published in 1871?
13 Charles Darwin
14 Better known as an actor born 14 February 1970 which cast member with Doug Jung co-wrote the screenplay for the 2016 movie ‘Star Trek Beyond?
14 Simon Pegg
15 Which acclaimed American war correspondent married Ernest Hemingway in 1940 and committed suicide in London on 15 February 1998 by swallowing a cyanide tablet?
15 Martha Gellhorn
16 First identified from a February 2006 photo which hibernating animals in North America are affected by White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans?
16 Bats
17 From the French via Latin and Greek word for missile what name is given to an extremely bright meteor especially one that explodes in the atmosphere? A recent example was the Chelyabinsk meteor on 15 February 2013.
17 Bolide
18 Born January 19 1980 who was Formula One World Champion in 2009?
18 Jenson Button
19 During her career which former professional tennis player from Czechoslovakia (born 19 February 1962) won four Grand Slam singles titles: the 1980 Australian Open 1981 French Open 1985 US Open and the 1987 Australian Open?
19 Hana Mandlíková
20 On February 20 1962 which astronaut became the first American to orbit Earth?
20 John Glenn
21 Which German philosopher born in Danzig on February 22 1788 is best known for his 1818 work ‘The World as Will and Representation’ (expanded in 1844) wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will?
21 Arthur Schopenhauer
22 Called the last invasion of Britain a force of 1400 French soldiers landed near which Welsh coastal town on February 22 1797?
22 Fishguard
23 On the Outside A Whistle in the Dark The Sanctuary Lamp Famine The Gigli Concert and Conversations on a Homecoming are among the notable works by which prolific Tuam born playwright (23 February 1935 – 15 May 2018)?
23 Tom Murphy
24 Whose gravestone in the Protestant Cemetery Rome bears the following inscription: ‘This Grave / contains all that was Mortal / of a / Young English Poet / Who / on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart / at the Malicious Power of his Enemies / Desired / these Words to be / engraven on his Tomb Stone: / Here lies One / Whose Name was writ in Water. 24 February 1821’?
24 John Keats
