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25 Questions and Answers About the Word Start
Questions
- START was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union - what does the acronym START stand for?
- Who started the Laugh-O-Gram Film Studio which ran from 1921 to 1923?
- Which newspaper began life in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register?
- In a game of chess which colour starts first?
- Which song is discussed by eight men eating breakfast at the start of the film Reservoir Dogs?
- Name the only two countries in the world to start with an 'A' but not end in an 'A'?
- Which monarch started the tradition of the first royal Christmas broadcast?
- Two servants called Sampson and Gregory deliberately started a fight with two servants named Abram and Balthasar in which William Shakespeare play?
- In what sort of shop did the Great Fire of London start?
- What tradition was started in 1829 by Charles Merivale?
- Which poem starts with the line 'the curfew tolls the knell of parting day'?
- What is said to have been started by Satoshi Nakamoto and created on January 2009?
- The year 2021 started on what day of the week?
- Which UK television channel started broadcasting in 1964?
- What did Gavrilo Princip start?
- Who once said; "If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline"?
- How many tiles does each player have at the start of a game of scrabble?
- What word is the only one to starts and ends with 'und'?
- Which book starts with the words 'Call me Ishmael'?
- What started in Britain on 14 September 1752?
- The Glorious what, is the start of the shooting season for red grouse?
- How many American states start with the word 'New'?
- True or false, the 21st century started on 1 January 2000?
- Which motorway starts at the M1 near Catthorpe, Leicestershire and terminates just south of Scottish town of Gretna?
- "It Started with a Kiss" is a 1982 song by which group?
Answers:
- Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
- Walt Disney
- The Times
- White
- Like a Virgin (by Madonna)
- Afghanistan and Azerbaijan
- King George V (Christmas Day 1932)
- Romeo and Juliet
- A baker's shop (on Pudding Lane)
- The Boat Race (between Cambridge University and Oxford University)
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (by Thomas Gray)
- Bitcoin
- Friday
- BBC 2
- World War I (by shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand)
- Richard Branson
- Seven
- Underground
- Moby Dick
- Gregorian calendar (changed from the Julian calendar)
- Twelfth (the Glorious Twelfth)
- Four (New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and new York)
- False (it started on 1 January 2001)
- M6 motorway
- Hot Chocolate