1
Which patriotic society,
organised in the USA in 1890, stipulates that members must be
directly descended from soldiers or patriots of the Revolutionary
period?
2
Which Italian painter,
son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini, settled in Mantua in 1460, where his
major works included nine tempera pictures representing the “Triumph
of Caesar” (1482-92)?
3
1816 – the so-called “Year
Without a Summer” - saw severe climate abnormalities resulting from
the huge eruption of which Indonesian stratovolcano, active to this
day, a year earlier?
4
Freaks,
His 'n' Hers,
and Separations
are three albums by which English band, formed in Sheffield in 1978?
5
Which
large, slender-winged seabird, with a wingspan up to 3m, gave
Fleetwood Mac a 1968 UK number-one single?
6
Which
actor links the following roles: Henry Gondorff, Fast Eddie Felson,
and Sidney J. Mussburger?
7
The
Bang Na Expressway, one of the longest bridges in the world, can be
crossed in which Asian country?
8
Killed
in 1967 during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission, who was
the second American to fly in space and the first member of the NASA
Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice?
9
First
published in 1964, whose children's picture book, The
Giving Tree,
has been described as “one of the most divisive books in children's
literature”, yet has become one of its author's most well-known
books and has been translated in several languages?
10
Including
the incumbent, how many UN Secretaries-General have been Asian?
11
The
first Central African Games were held in which national capital in
1976?
12 Their
story made into a 1970 film starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris,
which group of Irish miners in 1870s Philadelphia became involved in
industrial disputes, leading to the hangings and imprisonments of
their major members?
13 Friedrich
Ernst Dorn discovered which chemical element – atomic number 86 -
in 1898?
14 Which
Townsend Thoresen capsized off the port of Zeebrugge in March 1987
when the main car deck doors were inadvertently left open?
15 Codenamed
Operation Iceberg, in what year was the Battle of Okinawa fought?
16 Which
Roman emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, was the son of
Drusus and Antonia Minor?
17 What
was the first Grand Slam tennis tournament won by Ivan Lendl – year
and event?
18 An
arts event devoted mainly to classical music, who founded the
Aldeburgh Festival in 1948?
19 Recorded
in San Francisco in 1971, whose fifth studio album was entitled
Tupelo Honey?
20 Taking
the First Folio as the basis for the question, what is the shortest
of Shakespeare's plays?
Answers:
Answers:
1 Daughters
of the American Revolution
2 Andrea
Mantegna
3 Mount
Tambora
4 Pulp
5 Albatross
6 Paul
Newman
7 Thailand
8 Gus
Grissom
9 Shel
Silverstein
10
Two
11
Libreville
12
The Molly Maguires
13
Radon
14
Herald of Free Enterprise
15
1945
16
Claudius
17
1984 French Open
18
Benjamin Britten
19
Van Morrison
20
The Comedy of Errors
