PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES: Which 1997 John Cusack film also featured his siblings Joan, Ann and Bill Cusack?

2 MUSIC: Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee and Tommy were the adopted first names of the members of which punk rock band?

3 TV & RADIO: What name is shared by characters played on TV by Dylan Moran, Ed Helms, Derek Fowlds, and Patsy Byrne?

4 SPORT: Which two tennis players, who later married, won the men’s and women’s singles titles at Wimbledon in 1992 and the French Open in 1999?

5 ART: Which Spanish artist, court painter to Philip IV of Spain, painted Las Meninas and the Rokeby Venus?

6 SCIENCE: The surname of which 18th Century French chemist can be made from the symbols for lanthanum, vanadium, oxygen, iodine, silicon and erbium?

7 LEISURE: Which board game takes its name from a medieval fortified town in South France? 8 GEOGRAPHY: The historical region of Mesopotamia is located between which two rivers?

9 WORDS: What is the meaning of the word chatoyant? a) Turreted, b) Prophetic, c) Twinkling.

10 IRELAND: tower is the tallest Which storeyed building in the Republic of Ireland and the third tallest on the island of Ireland?

11 THIS YEAR: Which two actors hosted the 76th Golden Globes Awards, which took place on January 6?

12 POT LUCK: In Greek mythology, Daphne, Baucis and Philemon were all transformed into what?