QuizEire010919 Flashcards
1 Which American actor (born September 1 1981) starred as DEA Agent Steve Murphy in the Netflix series ‘Narcos’? He was also the narrator of seasons 1 and 2.
1 Boyd Holbrook
2 What are the names of the official mascots of the 2019 Rugby World Cup?
2 Ren-G
3 Which American photographer photojournalist and filmmaker (September 3 1921 – January 16 1985) is best known for her photograph ‘An American Girl in Italy’ (1951)? She photographed many celebrities and personalities including Lauren Bacall Doris Day Ava Gardner Tennessee Williams Marlon Brando and Alfred Hitchcock.
3 Ruth Orkin
4 Often described as the ‘last Western Roman emperor’ which Roman emperor ruled the Western Roman Empire from 31 October 475 until 4 September 476?
4 Romulus Augustulus
5 Which Indian (born 3 September 1971) author’s second novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ won the 2006 Man Booker Prize?
5 Kiran Desai
6 Which American R&B and soul singer-songwriter musician record producer and actress was born Natalie Renée McIntyre on September 6 1967? She launched her international career in 1999 with the hit single ‘I Try’ and a multi-platinum debut album ‘On How Life Is’.
6 Macy Gray
7 Before marrying a much more famous man who was previously married to Sir Edward Burgh and John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer? She died on September 7 1548?
7 Catherine Parr
8 The novels ‘The Broom of the System (1987) ‘Infinite Jest’ (1996) and ‘The Pale King’ (2011) are among the notable works of which American writer who committed suicide on September 12 2008?
8 David Foster Wallace
9 Which English musician (born 10 September 1946) has been the drummer for glam rock and later hard rock group Slade for over fifty years?
9 Don Powell
10 In 1964 which Swiss-born Canadian Catholic philosopher theologian and humanitarian (born September 10 1928) founded L’Arche an international federation of communities spread over 37 countries for people with developmental disabilities and those who assist them?
10 Jean Vanier
11 Which American singer and actress (born September 12 1981) won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut role as Effie White in ‘Dreamgirls’ (2006)?
11 Jennifer Hudson
12 Which German film score composer and record producer (born 12 September 1957) has composed music for over 150 films including The Lion King for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1995 the Pirates of the Caribbean series Interstellar Gladiator Inception Dunkirk and The Dark Knight Trilogy?
12 Hans Zimmer
13 The collage ‘Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes so Different so Appealing?’ and the cover for ‘The White Album’ by The Beatles are among the best-known works of which English artist who died on September 13 2011?
13 Richard Hamilton
14 Morten Harket (born 14 September 1959) is best known as the lead singer of which pop/rock band?
14 A-ha
15 His films ‘La Grande Illusion’ (1937) and ‘The Rules of the Game’ (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. Who is this French film director screenwriter actor producer and author (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979)? As a film director and actor he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s.
15 Jean Renoir
16 Which American illusionist was born David Seth Kotkin on September 16 1956?
16 David Copperfield
17 Which Polish labour union was founded on 17 September 1980 in Gdańsk at the Lenin Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa?
17 Solidarity (Solidarność)
18 ‘The Adventures of Roderick Random’ (1748) and ‘The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle’ (1751) and ‘The Expedition of Humphry Clinker’ (1771) are among the best-known works of which Scottish poet and author who died on 17 September 1771?
18 Tobias Smollet
19 Nicknamed the Russian Bear Russian King Kong Alexander the Great and The Experiment he is considered the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time. Who (born 19 September 1967) won gold medals at the 1988 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games under a different flag each time (Soviet Union Unified Team and Russia respectively) and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games?
19 Aleksandr Karelin
20 ‘Big Eyes’ is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton starring Amy Adams as which American artist (born September 15 1927) and Christoph Waltz as her husband? The film is about the life of this artist famous for drawing portraits and paintings with big eyes and her husband Walter who took credit for her phenomenally successful and popular paintings in the 1950s and 1960s.
20 Margaret Keane
21 Which German philosopher (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) 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 Which American physicist and neurobiologist (September 21 1926 – February 28 2013) was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics?
22 Donald A Glaser
23 ‘Whose Body?’ first published in 1923 introduced which fictional detective?
23 Lord Peter Wimsey
24 Which French composer and conductor (13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) is best known for his film scores particularly for his collaborations with film director David Lean? He won Academy Awards for Best Original Score for the films ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) ‘Doctor Zhivago’ (1965) and ‘A Passage to India’ (1984).
24 Maurice Jarre
25 Which Spanish artist sculptor architect and activist had a major influence on the planning regulations in his native Lanzarote when he recognized its tourist potential and lobbied successfully to encourage sympathetic development of tourism? One aspect of this is the lack of high rise hotels on the island. Those that are there are in keeping with the use of traditional colours in their exterior decoration. He died aged 73 in a car accident at Tahíche Teguise very near the Fundación his Lanzarote home on 25 September 1992.
25 César Manrique
26 Which Pope was born Giovanni Montini in Concesio Italy on September 26 1897?
26 Pope Paul VI
27 Which American actor (April 14 1930 – September 27 2013) specializing in character roles achieved his greatest fame playing Emperor Caligula in the film ‘The Robe’ (1953) and its sequel ‘Demetrius and the Gladiators’ (1954)?
27 Jay Robinson
28 Which Italian writer (28 September 1871 – 15 August 1936) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general? She was the second woman to receive the prize.
28 Grazia Deledda
29 Les Rougon-Macquart subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire) is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by which French writer (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902)?
29 Émile Zola
30 Who is the current British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland?
30 Julian Smith
31 What was the stage name of Lecil Travis Martin (September 1 1931 – April 12 1999) an American country music singer-songwriter and former Air Force personnel sergeant who sang in the old-time hobo music style complete with dirty face overalls and a floppy hat?
31 Boxcar Willie
32 Which player was shown a straight red card and sent off during the 2019 All-Ireland senior hurling final?
32 Richie Hogan
33 What is the surname of Amy Conor Cian Dearbhail and Rory quintuplets from Bridgetown Co Wexford born in the Rotunda Hospital Dublin on August 16 2001?
33 Cassidy
34 Born 28 September 1934 which actress’s breakthrough role was as Juliette Hardy in the 1956 film ‘And God Created Woman’?
34 Brigitte Bardot
35 Which French actress born Émilie Chauchoin (September 13 1903 – July 30 1996) became the first French person to win an Academy Award for her role in ‘It Happened One Night’ in 1934? Other notable films include Cleopatra (1934) and The Palm Beach Story (1942).
35 Claudette Colbert
36 What was first published in 1936 and is sometimes credited to the British painter and writer Phyllis Pearsall (25 September 1906 – 28 August 1996)?
36 London A-Z Street Map and Index
