10 Quick Questions

1. Where would you find the landmark Flatiron Building? Canberra

Hong Kong

Singapore

New York

2. True or false? Daddy longlegs have the most potent venom of all spiders.

True

False

3. Which of these words best defines a factotum? Handyman

Official

Soldier

Priest

4. True or false? A person’s ability to roll their tongue is determined solely by genetics. True

False

5. The song Hungry Eyes was written for the soundtrack to which film?

Dirty Dancing

The Big Chill

Footloose

The Graduate

6. In 2010, who won both the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actress and the Oscar for Best Actress?

Anne Hathaway

Sandra Bullock

Meryl Streep

Jennifer Lawrence

7. For which disease did Jonas Salk famously develop a vaccine in the 1950s?

Polio

Rabies

Typhoid

Malaria

8. Which American president is credited with inventing the swivel chair?

Thomas Jefferson

Harry S Truman

John F Kennedy

George Washington

9. Which car manufacturer produced a small saloon model that was called the Dolomite?

Morris

Rover

Triumph

Austin

10. Which fashion model said, “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day”?

Linda Evangelista

Twiggy

Iman

Fabio Lanzoni

1. New York.

2. False, tests have proven this to be a myth.

3. Handyman.

4. False. Studies show environmental factors

also influence tongue-rolling.

5. Dirty Dancing.

6. Sandra Bullock won a Razzie for All About Steve and an Oscar for The Blind Side.

7. Polio.

8. Thomas Jefferson, who is thought to have drafted the Declaration of Independence on his invention.

9. Triumph.

10. Linda Evangelista.