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Challenging Quiz Questions I

  1. Who won the 'Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor' for his cameo appearance as themselves in the 1990 movie Ghosts Can't Do It?



  2. In Ireland, a national postcode system was not introduced until April 2014; what is it called?
  3. Name the only American president to be elected for two 'nonconsecutive' terms?
  4. What do Ethel Caine, Pat Simmons, Brian Cobby and Sara Mendes da Costa all have in common?
  5. Which actor in 1985 married Nancy Simon, daughter of playwright Neil Simon?
  6. Who was first put onto paper in The Elephant House?
  7. What was the nationality of former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan?
  8. What is a stable dispersion of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium?
  9. It was claimed that George III shook hands with an oak tree in the mistaken belief that it was the king of which country?
  10. Who was the youngest brother of Wyatt Earp?
  11. Who played the Ethiopian gladiator Draba in the 1960 film Spartacus?
  12. Cagliari is a large town in which part of Europe?
  13. Desire the Right is the motto of which part of the world?
  14. What is sciophobia the fear of?
  15. Who played Ken Barlow's girlfriend Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street?



Answers:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Eircode
  3. Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) - he was the 22nd and 24th president
  4. Supplied the voices for the speaking clock (from 1936 to present(2016))
  5. Woody Harrelson
  6. Harry Potter (The Elephant House is the name of the cafe in Edinburgh in which Rowling wrote.)
  7. Ghanaian
  8. Latex
  9. King of Prussia
  10. Baxter Warren Earp (called Warren Earp)
  11. Woody Strode
  12. Sardinia
  13. Falkland Islands
  14. Shadows
  15. Joanna Lumley



Quiz II

  1. What derives its name from the Aztec word which means 'plump thing with a navel'?
  2. 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?
  3. Which county has the latin motto Auxilio Divino which means 'by Divine Aid' and hosts the traditional 'Wassail in Whimple' ceremony every January?
  4. 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?
  5. Which country, with the monetary unit the Ariary, gained independence from French colonial rule 1960?
  6. Who played Margaret Thatcher in the 2009 BBC television film Margaret?
  7. Who is married to former Dancing on Ice star Cayetana Elizabeth Hutcheson?
  8. 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?
  9. Which country, that won 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the Rio Summer Olympics, hosted the 1920 Olympic Games?
  10. Who introduced their own clothing line, Bitten, in 2007; the name came from the phrase 'bitten by the acting bug'?
  11. In which city was Concorde designed and built and J. S. Fry produced the world’s first chocolate bar (in 1847)?
  12. Which famous writer taught French to George Orwell at Eton College?
  13. Where was the UK’s first National Park established in 1951?
  14. What was created in 1903 to boost the sales of a newspaper and is also the name of a 1984 song by Kraftwerk?
  15. Which author has used the pen names Richard Bachman and John Swithen?

Answers:

  1. The tomato
  2. (Actor) Jason Statham
  3. Devon
  4. Barbie
  5. Madagascar
  6. Lindsay Duncan
  7. Gordon Ramsey
  8. Freddie Mercury
  9. Belgium
  10. Sarah Jessica Parker
  11. Bristol
  12. Aldous Huxley
  13. The Peak District
  14. The Tour de France
  15. Stephen King



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