A quick quiz
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:53 am
1. Which American actress played Carrie in Four Weddings And A Funeral?
2. Who starred as Mary Poppins in the 1964 film of the same name?
3. What did Russia sell to America in 1867?
4. Which country was the first to win the soccer World Cup three times?
5. Which author first coined the phrase ‘heavy metal‘?
6. What number on the Beaufort scale represents a moderate wind?
7. Which musical style has a name which means ‘in the style of the chapel‘ in Italian?
8. What does the Mohs scale measure?
9. Which band provided the main theme song for the film Mission Impossible 2?
10. What name is given to the lightest weight category in Olympic boxing?
11. What was the name of the fort in Texas where a group of Americans fought a large Mexican force in 1836?
12. According to the Bible, what would have come first, the chicken or the egg?
13. Which two metals are the most commonly used to conduct electricity in homes?
14. Which member of the Royal Family was born on February 19 1960?
15. In what 1971 film did Roy Kinnear play Mr Salt?
16. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes Of Wrath?
17. Which is the only country to have played in every World Cup since it started in 1930?
18. Which of the following colours does not appear on the flag of Afghanistan? Green, red or yellow?
19. What colour is the top stripe on the flag of Hungary?
20. How is the medical condition dyspepsia better known?
21. What defines the measurement of a light year?
22. What is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
23 What colour is the bottom stripe on the flag of Germany?
24. In which 1993 film is the main character called Phil Connors?
25. Who did Muhammad Ali fight in ‘the thriller In Manila’?
26. Which is the southernmost of the North American Great Lakes?
27. David Cornwell is the real name of which author?
2. Who starred as Mary Poppins in the 1964 film of the same name?
3. What did Russia sell to America in 1867?
4. Which country was the first to win the soccer World Cup three times?
5. Which author first coined the phrase ‘heavy metal‘?
6. What number on the Beaufort scale represents a moderate wind?
7. Which musical style has a name which means ‘in the style of the chapel‘ in Italian?
8. What does the Mohs scale measure?
9. Which band provided the main theme song for the film Mission Impossible 2?
10. What name is given to the lightest weight category in Olympic boxing?
11. What was the name of the fort in Texas where a group of Americans fought a large Mexican force in 1836?
12. According to the Bible, what would have come first, the chicken or the egg?
13. Which two metals are the most commonly used to conduct electricity in homes?
14. Which member of the Royal Family was born on February 19 1960?
15. In what 1971 film did Roy Kinnear play Mr Salt?
16. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes Of Wrath?
17. Which is the only country to have played in every World Cup since it started in 1930?
18. Which of the following colours does not appear on the flag of Afghanistan? Green, red or yellow?
19. What colour is the top stripe on the flag of Hungary?
20. How is the medical condition dyspepsia better known?
21. What defines the measurement of a light year?
22. What is the second largest planet in the Solar System?
23 What colour is the bottom stripe on the flag of Germany?
24. In which 1993 film is the main character called Phil Connors?
25. Who did Muhammad Ali fight in ‘the thriller In Manila’?
26. Which is the southernmost of the North American Great Lakes?
27. David Cornwell is the real name of which author?
Spoiler
1. Andie MacDowell; 2. Julie Andrews; 3. Alaska; 4. Brazil; 5. William Burroughs; 6. 4; 7. A Cappella; 8. The hardness of solids; 9. Limp Bizkit; 10. Light Flyweight; 11. Alamo; 12. The chicken; 13. Copper and aluminium; 14. Prince Andrew; 15. Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory; 16. John Steinbeck; 17. Brazil; 18. Red; 19. Red; 20. Indigestion; 21. The distance that light travels in a year; 22. Saturn; 23 Yellow; 24. Groundhog Day; 25. Joe Frazier; 26 Lake Erie; 27. John Le Carre
