10 Quick Questions

1. The TV sitcom The Jeffersons began as a spin-off from which other show?

❑ The Brady Bunch

❑ Happy Days

❑ The Mary Tyler Moore Show ❑ All in the Family

2. Which of these best describes the beignet, a New Orleans delicacy?

❑ Sausage

❑ Fried dough

❑ Sandwich

❑ Tart

3. Which poem begins: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”?

❑ The Waste Land

❑ The Raven

❑ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

❑ Fire and Ice

4. Which of these is associated with psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?

❑ Psychoanalytic theory

❑ The hierarchy of needs ❑ Emotional intelligence

❑ Five stages of grief

5. Supporters of Parliament during the English Civil War were called what? ❑ Roundheads

❑ Cavaliers

6. Which medical advance came first?

❑ Penicillin discovered

❑ First cancer chemotherapy ❑ TB vaccine introduced

❑ First organ transplant

7. Which movie includes the line “The stuff that dreams are made of”?

❑ The Maltese Falcon ❑ Casablanca

❑ Lawrence of Arabia

❑ Citizen Kane

8. Which cyclone caused extensive damage to parts of the North Island in 1988? ❑ Debbie

❑ Bola

❑ Winston

❑ Nancy

9. Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan were the members of which pop duo?

❑ Milli Vanilli

❑ Tears for Fears

❑ Soft Cell

❑ Savage Garden

10. In which country might you see a 20m tall steel sculpture called the Angel of the North?

❑ Scotland

❑ Canada

❑ England

❑ Russia

1. All in the Family. 2. Fried dough. 3. The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe. 4. Five stages of grief. 5. Roundheads. 6. The tuberculosis vaccine, which was first used medically in 1921. 7. The Maltese Falcon. 8. Cyclone Bola. 9. Milli Vanilli. 10. The Angel of the North is located in Gateshead, northern England.