While we’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
Which famous actor’s last words were reputedly: “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”?
2. Which English darts player achieved the first televised nine-dart finish at the MFI Championship in Reading in 1986?
3. In China, what colour is traditionally used for wedding dresses?
4. The killing of a ladybird is unlucky because it is said to represent which biblical figure?
5. What was the first video by a black artist to appear on MTV?
6. The Ferrari Testarossa is a supercar, but what does testarossa mean in English?
7. If you were a ‘ myrmecologist’, what would you study?
8. Which UK TV chef from the mid 1950s to 1975, was born Phyllis Nan Sortain Primrose- Pechey?
9. What was the 1st RWC match played at the Millennium Stadium on 1 October 1999?
10. What piece of sporting equipment contains 16 feathers?
11. Which cartoon character has the middle name of Fauntleroy?
12. Tia Maria, vodka and coke are the three main ingredients of which cocktail?
13. Which continent can be credited with the invention of hot chocolate?
14. In the year 2000 what could you get with a Barbie doll for the first time?
15. In 1925, which landmark did Austro/Hungarian con artist Victor Lustig, twice sell for scrap?
16. At 6.86 miles, name the deepest part of the world’s oceans?
17. Which knighted Olympian won the first of his five gold medals in Los Angeles 1984?
18. Which Welsh actress broke into showbiz as a Shirley Bassey impersonator?
19. Who was voted Time Magazine’s man of the year in 1938?
20. What controversial tax was discontinued in England in 1851?
21. On which album cover would you see Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud and John Conteh?
22. Borg is the most popular surname in which Mediterranean island country?
23. Who played ‘Sir’ in the 1967 film ‘To Sir with Love’?
24. The written words of which Pacific island language all end in vowels?
25. What type of creature are Roundnose Grenadier, Orange Roughy and Greater Forkbeard?
26. Which TV presenter’s mother designed Paddington Bear?
27. Ernesto and Vittorio Brambilla, of Italy, were once competitors in which championship?
28. Longman, Lechman, Littleman and Thuma are the old names for what?
29. During WWII, what became known as Moaning Minnie?
30. Monique Delacroix, the mother of which fictitious character, died along with her husband Andrew, in a climbing accident?