Many, many years ago I used to set/compete in quizzes. I thought I would set a quick quiz by way of a warm-up to
@Quickfeet's excellent Sunday quiz.
Please-no looking things up on the web, or (at least) don't do so and post the answers. Here goes:-
1. Which person appeared in just these 3 films (and no other cinema films):-
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Italian Job?
2. Joe Biden is the 46th US President-how many men have preceded him?
3. What do Boris Johnson and Jim Callaghan (the 1970s PM) have in common?
4. Who was the 1958 Hong Kong Cha Cha Cha champion?
5. Who was the first team to beat England at football at Wembley?
6. What is the closest country to mainland Australia?
7. What do these 1960s/70s England cricket captains all have in common? Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter, Tony Lewis, Mike Denness and Tony Greig
8. What do these authors have in common:-Emily Bronte, Anna Sewell and Margaret Mitchell?
9. Which famous character has the first name "Scoobert"?
10. Grover Cleveland is famous for doing which
two jobs twice?
Comments
6. Papua New Guinea
& thats me done......
1. Noel Coward? I think he was in Italian Job.
2. 44. Someone had non consecutive terms so was given two different numbers.
Probably Grover Cleveland, having read question 10.
3. Neither of them is fit for the job in 2021.
4. Bruce Lee? Complete guess.
5.Wales? I can hope.
6. Vanuatu or Solomon Islands?
7.They were all born abroad?
8. They only wrote one novel?
9. Scooby Do?
10. US President and ?
5 HAS to be the great Puskas & his Hungarian Term who gave us, managed by Walter Winterbottom, a proper 6-3 spanking.
3. both idiots
4. King Kong
5. under 5 year old's
6. taz mania.
7. their not Boycott.
8. their all women.
9. Scoobie Do Do Do.
10. No 1 & No 2
11. My Head Hurds
2/2.
Bruce Lee combined martial arts and dancing skills to revolutionise martial arts films
PNG is less than 100 miles from Australia-New Zealand is about 2,500 miles away.
You have 2, 4, 7, 8 and 9 correct.
Benny Hill being my all-time favourite quiz answer
How embarrassing.
So-3 & 10.
3 is a proper quiz answer-the 2nd job answer to 10 is stunning.
That's an A* in some subjects.
p.s.
Good quiz.
Thank you.