Challenging Quiz Questions (aka Impossible Quiz Page 3)
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Challenging Quiz Questions I
- Who won the 'Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor' for his cameo appearance as themselves in the 1990 movie Ghosts Can't Do It?
- In Ireland, a national postcode system was not introduced until April 2014; what is it called?
- Name the only American president to be elected for two 'nonconsecutive' terms?
- What do Ethel Caine, Pat Simmons, Brian Cobby and Sara Mendes da Costa all have in common?
- Which actor in 1985 married Nancy Simon, daughter of playwright Neil Simon?
- Who was first put onto paper in The Elephant House?
- What was the nationality of former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan?
- What is a stable dispersion of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium?
- It was claimed that George III shook hands with an oak tree in the mistaken belief that it was the king of which country?
- Who was the youngest brother of Wyatt Earp?
- Who played the Ethiopian gladiator Draba in the 1960 film Spartacus?
- Cagliari is a large town in which part of Europe?
- Desire the Right is the motto of which part of the world?
- What is sciophobia the fear of?
- Who played Ken Barlow's girlfriend Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street?
Answers:
- Donald Trump
- Eircode
- Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) - he was the 22nd and 24th president
- Supplied the voices for the speaking clock (from 1936 to present(2016))
- Woody Harrelson
- Harry Potter (The Elephant House is the name of the cafe in Edinburgh in which Rowling wrote.)
- Ghanaian
- Latex
- King of Prussia
- Baxter Warren Earp (called Warren Earp)
- Woody Strode
- Sardinia
- Falkland Islands
- Shadows
- Joanna Lumley
Quiz II
- What derives its name from the Aztec word which means 'plump thing with a navel'?
- Who competed for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, finishing eighth in the 1m springboard, 11th in the 3m springboard, and 10th in the 10m platform?
- Which county has the latin motto Auxilio Divino which means 'by Divine Aid' and hosts the traditional 'Wassail in Whimple' ceremony every January?
- Who in 2004, split up with her boyfriend (after 43 years together) and on Valentine's Day, 2011, broke the news on her Facebook Page that they were back together again?
- Which country, with the monetary unit the Ariary, gained independence from French colonial rule 1960?
- Who played Margaret Thatcher in the 2009 BBC television film Margaret?
- Who is married to former Dancing on Ice star Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson?
- Which former Ealing College of Art student had a long-term relationship with a woman in the early 70s named Mary Austin and has a three metres high statue that overlooks Lake Geneva?
- Which country, that won 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the Rio Summer Olympics, hosted the 1920 Olympic Games?
- Who introduced their own clothing line, Bitten, in 2007; the name came from the phrase 'bitten by the acting bug'?
- In which city was Concorde designed and built and J. S. Fry produced the world’s first chocolate bar (in 1847)?
- Which famous writer taught French to George Orwell at Eton College?
- Where was the UK’s first National Park established in 1951?
- What was created in 1903 to boost the sales of a newspaper and is also the name of a 1984 song by Kraftwerk?
- Which author has used the pen names Richard Bachman and John Swithen?
Answers:
- The tomato
- (Actor) Jason Statham
- Devon
- Barbie
- Madagascar
- Lindsay Duncan
- Gordon Ramsey
- Freddie Mercury
- Belgium
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Bristol
- Aldous Huxley
- The Peak District
- The Tour de France
- Stephen King
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