While you’re stuck indoors, why not pit your wits against our quiz? Bridgend Quiz League general secretary Steve Kingscott has put together these posers for fun – can you get them all right? For more information about the league, which is suspended during
1. Which annually celebrated Welshman’s last words translated into English were ‘do the little things’?
2. ‘Gala Performance’ was the theme to what long-running surprise guest based TV show?
3. What music legend was born in 1932 in Georgia USA, as Richard Wayne Penniman?
4. In which Irish county could you kiss the Blarney Stone?
5. How many sides does a hendecagon have?
6. In which book/film is there a deity called Lord Frith?
7. On which island country are the Southern Alps?
8. Who was the mother of Elizabeth I?
9. An excess of uric acid in the body can cause which painful condition?
10. During which war were concentration camps first introduced?
11. What was the animal nickname of the wild west showman William Cody?
12. What record label famously turned down The Beatles in the 1960s?
13. What type of food is the Polish ‘kielbasa’?
14. Which language was created in 1887 by L L Zamenhof?
15. Which Africa country was formerly called Nyasaland?
16. From what material is a ‘Sabot’ shoe made?
17. Eau de Vie is a type of which alcoholic spirit?
18. Which actress/ politician’s tomb is in the Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires?
19. A term still used today, what nickname did WWII US infantry give their SCR-300 radio?
20. Caerphilly Catapults take part in the league of which originally fictional sport?
21. In which city is the world famous La Scala opera house?
22. What was the first book in Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men series?
23. Violet Carson and Elizabeth of Glamis are types of what?
24. What country’s national anthem is “The Soldier’s Song”?
25. Gaston, LeFou and Maurice are characters in which Disney film?
26. Launched in 1966, what was the first British credit card?
27. Which dictator’s mistress was Claretta Petacci?
28. Which famous female novelist writes about the detective Cormoran Strike?
29. Latvian Nicolai Poliakov was better known as which circus performer?
30. In which 2005 film did Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall both appear?