10 Quick Questions

1. Which band, formerly known as the Hawks, found early success as Bob Dylan’s backing group? The Band

The Kinks

The Yardbirds

The Animals

Which bestselling novel begins: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”

Lady Chatterley’s Lover Mrs Dalloway

The Great Gatsby Rebecca

Paul Simon’s 1986 song

concerns the failure of his marriage to whom?

Michelle Pfeiffer

Carrie Fisher

Cybill Shepherd

Susan Sarandon 4. Who delivered the “Rivers of Blood” speech? Enoch Powell

Martin Luther King Jr Nikita Khrushchev Richard Nixon

True or false? Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day. True

False

6. What would a Skinner box be used to study? Animal behaviour Quantum physics

Child psychology Infectious diseases

7. True or false? The International Space Station can be seen from Earth with the naked eye.

True

False 8. In 2017, which of these set a record price for a book or manuscript sold at auction?

The Book of Mormon The Canterbury Tales Codex Leicester

The Birds of America

Which of these cities is served by Dulles International Airport? Chicago

Las Vegas Washington, DC

San Francisco

10. Frances McDormand won an Oscar for playing the character Marge Gunderson in which film? Raising Arizona

Blood Simple

Fargo

Mississippi Burning