QuizEire010419 Flashcards
1 Which horse ridden by Paul Townend won the 2019 Cheltenham Gold Cup at 12-1 to give trainer Willie Mullins his first Cheltenham Gold Cup win?
1 Al Boum Photo
2 Which 16-year-old Swedish political activist seeking to stop global warming and climate change became a prominent figure for starting the first school strike for climate outside the Swedish parliament building?
2 Greta Thunberg
3 Which Irish television and radio presenter (born April 3 1980) won series 3 of ‘Dancing with the Stars’?
3 Mairead (Farrell) Ronan
4 Which French television producer (4 April 1922 – 19 April 1998) created ‘Des chiffres et des lettres’ (Numbers & Letters) in 1965? In 1982 Yorkshire Television was given permission to produce ‘Countdown’ a British version of ‘Des chiffres et des lettres’.
4 Armand Jammot
5 Which American poet novelist and literary critic born in Guthrie Kentucky on April 24 1905 received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel ‘All the King’s Men’ (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979? He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
5 Robert Penn Warren
6 Which general was the leader of Taiwan from its establishment in 1949 until his death on 5 April 1975?
6 Chiang Kai-shek
7 In 1945 under what pseudonym did the Chilean poet-diplomat educator and humanist Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957) became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature for her lyric poetry which inspired by powerful emotions has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world?
7 Gabriela Mistral
8 Chionophobia is the extreme dislike or fear of what?
8 Snow
9 Aoife Scott is an award winning folk singer and songwriter based in Dublin she was named Best Folk Act at the 2018 Irish Post Music Awards (IRE); who is her famous mother?
9 Frances Black
10 So we beat on boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past. is the last line of which classic novel first published on April 10 1925?
10 The Great Gatsby
11 Which manned mission in the Apollo space program was launched on April 11 1970 from the Kennedy Space Center Florida?
11 Apollo 13
12 RMS Titanic picked up passengers from which French port-city on April 10 1912?
12 Cherbourg
13 Wedged between the Pamir Mountains to the north and the Karakoram range to the south and about 350 km (220 mi) long and 13–65 kilometres (8–40 mi) wide which narrow strip of territory in northeastern Afghanistan extends to China and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan and Gilgit-Baltistan?
13 Wakhan Corridor
14 Which Dublin-born architect received the Pritzker Prize in 1982? Among his many designs is The Convention Centre in Dublin’s Docklands. He died aged 96 on March 1 2019.
14 Kevin Roche
15 Which boxer defeated Thomas Hearns on April 15 1985 in a fight billed as ‘The War’?
15 Marvin Hagler
16 Born 16 April 1972 who achieved her only grand slam singles title when she beat Martina Navratilova at Wimbledon in 1994?
16 Conchita Martinez
17 In music which major key has no sharps or flats?
17 C major
18 Completed in 2018 the largest statue in the world is the Statue of Unity and depicts which key figure in the independence of India? In 1947 he became the first Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
18 Sardar Patel
19 Who was prosecuted on morals charges in the US and on April 19 1927 sentenced to 10 days in jail for corrupting the morals of youth for writing and performing in a play called ‘Sex’?
19 Mae West
20 Sometimes referred to as the Charlie Chaplin of Mexico by what stage name was the Mexican comic film actor born Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993) known casually as Mario Moreno better-known professionally? He is best remembered for co-starring as the resourceful valet Passepartout with David Niven in the Academy Award winner for Best Picture film ‘Around the World in 80 Days’.
20 Cantinflas
21 Grounation Day (April 21) is a holy day in which religious movement?
21 Rastafari movement
22 Born 22 April 1952 which French actor appeared in the 2002 film ‘The Transporter’ as the French commissaire named Inspector Tarconi an active and honest police officer who is an acquaintance of Frank Martin (Jason Statham)? He reprised the role in the sequels ‘Transporter 2’ and ‘Transporter 3’ and the TV series.
22 François Berléand
23 Which Liberal Prime Minister the first to be recognised as such in the Order of Precedence died on 22 April 1908 19 days after resigning office?
23 Henry Campbell-Bannerman
24 Which Swiss poet (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring?
24 Carl Spitteler
