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Quiz About Saturday

Quiz Questions

  1. Saturday is named after the Roman god Saturn, can you name the Greek god equivalent?
  2. In the song Saturday Night at the Movies by the Drifters, what lines comes after: 'Ah Saturday night at the movies'?
  3. Who hosted the 90-minute BBC cookery programme, Saturday Kitchen, from 2006 to 2016?
  4. Who is quoted as saying: 'On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned'?
  5. What is the German word for Saturday?




  6. According to the folk rhyme Monday's Child, what does Saturday's child do?
  7. In the 1977 American musical drama film, Saturday Night Fever, what was the first name of the character played by John Travolta?
  8. In July 2008, which girl group released their debut single, 'If This Is Love'?
  9. 'Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting' was the first single on which 1973 Elton John album?
  10. In which European country is it tradition to only eat sweets or candy on a Saturday?
  11. What name is given to the saturday before Palm Sunday?
  12. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British drama film set in which city?
  13. 'Saturday in the Park' is a song recorded by which group for their 1972 album?
  14. What was the name of the children's TV series, broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 until 1987, similar to its predecessor Multi-Coloured Swap Shop?
  15. The Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 were Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters; in which Australian state did they occur?
  16. Who is famous for portraying Donald Trump on the long-running sketch series Saturday Night Live?
  17. In the English nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy, what happened to Solomon Grundy on a Saturday?
  18. In the Billy Joel song Piano Man, what time on a Saturday do the regular crowd shuffle in?
  19. Which British television sports presenter hosted World of Sport from 1968 until 1985?
  20. Who presented the BBC cookery series Saturday Kitchen from 2006 until 2016?
  21. Saturday is a 2005 novel by Ian McEwan. It is set in central London, on Saturday, 15 February 2003, as a large demonstration is taking place against what?
  22. "George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two." is a line from which book published in 1889 which was initially intended to be a serious travel guide but became a comic novel?


Answers

  1. Cronus
  2. 'Who cares what picture you see'
  3. James Martin
  4. Christiaan Barnard (South African surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967)
  5. Samstag
  6. Works hard for a living
  7. Tony (Manero)
  8. The Saturdays
  9. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  10. Sweden
  11. Lazarus Saturday
  12. Nottingham (note: character Arthur Seaton (played by Albert Finney) is a young machinist at the Raleigh bicycle factory, Nottingham)
  13. Chicago
  14. Saturday Superstore
  15. Victoria
  16. Alec Baldwin
  17. He died
  18. Nine o'clock
  19. Dickie Davies
  20. James Martin
  21. Invasion of Iraq, or Iraq War
  22. Three Men in a Boat (by Jerome K. Jerome)