Monday 27 August 2012

Quiz Questions


I hope everyone is having a nice bank holiday, here are some questions to get stuck into .....(Not quite sure what has happened to numbering and format here by the way)


Which actor, who played Superman on TV and also starred in Gone With the Wind, committed suicide due to a feeling he was not progressing in his career due to being typecast as the superhero?

2.       Paul Scholes became the third most yellow carded player in Premier League History at the start of this season in the match against Everton. Who are the two players who have been shown the yellow card more times than he has?

3.       Which famous artists gained the nickname “Little Dyer” due to his father’s occupation?

4.       Christopher Sly appears in which Shakespeare play?

5.       In terms of Gold, the Assay Office Mark for Edinburgh is a castle but for which city is the Assay Mark an Anchor?

6.       Anna Travis the lead character and the series is based on novels by Lynda La Plante. What is the name of this popular ITV show?

7.       What is the nationality of the 2004 Women’s Olympic Gold Medallist for the 100m, Yuliana Nesterenko?

8.       What was the only number 1 for the Bee Gee’s, sung by themselves, in the 1980’s?

9.       Dick James had a hit single in 1956 with the theme tune to which show?

10.   Who was the famous Woodcarver who worked on Hampton Court and Windsor Palace?

11.   What was the popular nickname of the Jazz Saxophonist Edwin Adderly who died in 1970?

12.   Brunel’s Saltash Bridge runs over which river?





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1.       George Reeves
2.       Kevin Davies and Lee Bowyer
3.       Tintoretto
4.       The Taming of the Shrew
5.       Birmingham
6.       Above Suspicion
7.       Belarussian
8.       You Win Again
9.       Robin Hood
10.   Grindling Gibbons
11.   Cannonball
12.   Tamar

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