QuizEire010719 Flashcards
1 Named after a Flemish Baroque artist which horse trained by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Seamie Heffernan won the 2019 Epsom Derby?
1 Anthony Van Dyck
2 Which actress born 2 July 1990 played Donna Freedman in ‘Neighbours’ from 2008 to 2011?
2 Margot Robbie
3 The British musician and singer-songwriter Marianne Joan Elliott-Said (3 July 1957 – 25 April 2011) is better known by what stage name as the frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex?
3 Poly Styrene
4 Which Irish film director and screenwriter (born July 4 1972) directed the movies ‘George’ ‘Spaceman Three’ ‘The Stag’ ‘Handsome Devil’ and ‘Papi Chulo’?
4 John Butler
5 Which French poet writer designer playwright artist and filmmaker (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) is best known for his novel ‘Les Enfants Terribles’ (1929) and the films ‘The Blood of a Poet’ (1930) ‘Les Parents Terribles’ (1948) ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1946) and ‘Orpheus’ (1949)? He was described as “one of [the] avant-garde’s most successful and influential filmmakers” by AllMovie
5 Jean Cocteau
6 What was the name of the oil rig in the North Sea on which an explosion killed 167 people on 6 July 1988?
6 Piper Alpha
7 Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ‘Sciuscià’ and ‘Bicycle Thieves’ were awarded honorary Oscars while ‘Ieri oggi domani’ and ‘Il giardino dei Finzi Contini’ won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Name the Italian film director and actor (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) a leading figure in the neorealist movement?
7 Vittorio De Sica
8 What is the name of the 23-year-old science graduate from Dublin who was a contestant in the 2019 series of ‘Love Island’?
8 Yewande Biala
9 In July 1909 who won a £1000 prize from the Daily Mail newspaper for piloting the first aircraft across the English Channel?
9 Louis Bleriot
10 Which American heavy metal singer-songwriter and composer born Ronald James Padavona (July 10 1942 - May 16 2010) fronted or founded numerous groups throughout his career including Elf Rainbow Black Sabbath Dio and Heaven & Hell?
10 Ronnie James Dio or simply Dio
11 ‘The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages’ is a 1994 book by which American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University on Western literature in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon?
11 Harold Bloom
12 Which American architect (July 12 1895 – July 1 1983) was the second World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983?
12 Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller
13 Winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘The Conservationist’ ‘Burger’s Daughter’ and ‘July’s People’ are among the notable works by which South African writer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014)?
13 Nadine Gordimer
14 Born with the surname Tennenbaum (July 14 1903 San Francisco California – August 26 1989 Los Angeles) which American writer was chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists politicians and intellectuals; among the best known are ‘Lust for Life’ (1934) about the life of Vincent van Gogh and ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy’ (1961) about Michelangelo?
14 Irving Stone
15 Which Scottish chemist (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Chemistry “[for his] discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air and his determination of their place in the periodic system”?
15 William Ramsay
16 Jack Pepper (m. 1929; div. 1931) Lew Ayres (m. 1934; div. 1940) Jack Briggs (m. 1943; div. 1949) Jacques Bergerac (m. 1953; div. 1957) and William Marshall (m. 1961; div. 1969) were the five husbands of which Hollywood star (July 16 1911 – April 25 1995)?
16 Ginger Rogers
17 Which American singer-songwriter humanitarian and producer (December 7 1942 – July 16 1981) best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs who achieved worldwide success in the 1970s and became one of the most popular artists and highest paid performers was killed in a car crash on the Long Island Expressway aged 38?
17 Harry Chapin
18 Which English actress and writer (born 14 July 1985) is best known for creating writing and starring in the comedy-drama series ‘Crashing’ (2016) and ‘Fleabag’ (2016–19) for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and for developing and writing the BBC America drama ‘Killing Eve’ (2018–present) based on novels by Luke Jennings?
18 Phoebe Waller-Bridge
19 Which 2014 film stars Benedict Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) as real-life British cryptanalyst Alan Turing who decrypted German intelligence codes for the British government during the Second World War?
19 The Imitation Game
20 Which singer (July 20 1964 – May 18 2017) performed the the title song ‘You Know My Name’ to the 2006 Bond film ‘Casino Royale’?
20 Chris Cornell
21 In which town did Scottish poet Robert Burns die aged 37 on July 21 1796?
21 Dumfries
22 Liam Neeson played former CIA operative Brian Mills in the ‘Taken’ movies but which actor also born in Northern Ireland on July 22 1981 played Brian Mills in the NBC ‘Taken’ TV series? He also played Rollo in the TV series ‘Vikings’ filmed in Ireland.
22 Clive Standen
23 Which Egyptian king was overthrown by the revolution of July 23 1952?
23 Farouk
24 ‘Monster’ (2003) and ‘Wonder Woman’ (2017) are notable films directed by what female film director born in Victorville California on July 24 1971?
24 Patty Jenkins
25 Which English actress (25 July 1954 – 27 April 1994) who played Catherine Howard opposite Keith Michell in the 1972 film ‘Henry VIII and His Six Wives’ was married to both Peter Sellers (m. 1977; d. 1980) and David Frost (m. 1981; div. 1982)?
25 Lynne Frederick
26 The 2019 British Open will be held at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim. Which English professional golfer (29 July 1916 – 26 February 2005) won the British Open Championship when it was last held at the Royal Portrush in 1951?
26 Max Faulkner
27 ‘The Brady Bunch Movie’ (1995) Private Parts (1997) Dr. Dolittle (1998) 28 Days (2000) John Tucker Must Die (2006) and 2009’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel which became the first female-directed picture to gross more than $200 million and made her the most successful woman director to that time at the box office were all directed by which actress (born Betty Lucille Nienhauser July 27 1947) who played Sgt. Lucy Bates in ‘Hill Street Blues’?
27 Betty Thomas
28 Which weekly British magazine on politics culture and current affairs was first published for the “week ending Saturday July 5 1828”?
28 The Spectator
29 Which German composer died of mercury poisoning which was medication for his syphilis in a psychiatric hospital on 29 July 1856?
29 Robert Schumann
30 Who was the 123rd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession reigning from 30 July 1912 until his death in 1926?
30 Emperor Taishō / Yoshihito
31 Which long-running BBC comedy series was first broadcast on 31 July 1968?
31 Dad’s Army
32 Which country took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Romania for the second half of 2019?
32 Finland
33 He has been called the ‘John Grisham of Ireland’; under what pen-name does the Belfast-born solicitor Stephen Mearns write thrillers including ‘The Defence’ ‘Th1rt3en’ and ‘Twisted’? He is the critically acclaimed award-winning author of the Eddie Flynn series. His third novel ‘The Liar’ won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the year 2018
33 Steve Cavanagh
34 Which Nigerian playwright poet and essayist (born 13 July 1934) “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence” was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature the first African to be honoured in that category?
34 Wole Soyinka
35 US Vice-President Mike Pence was previously the 50th governor of which state from 2013 to 2017?
35 Indiana
36 Under what stage name did the six-time Grammy Award winning American singer songwriter Malcolm John Rebennack (November 20 1941 – June 6 2019) become best known for his songs ‘Such a Night’ and ‘Right Place Wrong Time’?
36 Dr. John
