10 Quick Questions

1. Which Soviet or Russian leader was found drunkenly wandering the streets of Washington in his underwear and searching for a pizza while on a state visit?

❑ Nikita Khrushchev

❑ Boris Yeltsin

❑ Vladimir Lenin

❑ Mikhail Gorbachev

2. Which Britpop band’s hit song begins: “Street’s like a jungle/So call the police/ Following the herd/Down to Greece.”?

❑ Oasis

❑ Suede

❑ Blur

❑ Pulp

3. Harold T Stone was a lead character in which longrunning TV sitcom?

❑ Perfect Strangers

❑ Night Court

❑ Cheers

❑ Frasier 4. True or false – only female bees and wasps can sting? ❑ True

❑ False

5. Which comic-strip character has alter egos called Tracer Bullet, Stupendous Man and Spaceman Spiff?

❑ Dick Tracy

❑ Snoopy

❑ Flash Gordon

❑ Calvin

6. Which of these words can refer to a type of horse-drawn carriage?

❑ Cabriolet

❑ Saloon

❑ Hatchback

❑ Sedan

7. Which of these words means “strictly attentive to detail”? ❑ Obsequious

❑ Numinous

❑ Punctilious

❑ Sagacious

8. Who composed the scores for the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies?

❑ Hans Zimmer

❑ John Williams

❑ Howard Shore

❑ James Horner

9. Which planet or moon has the hottest average surface temperatures in the solar system?

❑ Venus

❑ Europa

❑ Io

❑ Mercury

10. The tribulations of a man named Alexander Selkirk provided the inspiration for which novel?

❑ The Last of the Mohicans ❑ The Call of the Wild

❑ The Count of Monte Cristo ❑ Robinson Crusoe