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
In which Star Wars movie did film director/producer George Lucas play Baron Papanoida?
2. Which football club did Thierry Henry leave to join Arsenal in 1999?
3. In Monopoly, how much would it cost to buy Mayfair, Leicester Square and Oxford Street?
4. What highly poisonous chemical element has the atomic number 33?
5. Which river, wholly in Wales, is approx 75 miles long and empties into Carmarthen Bay?
6. Around 300 swear words appeared in which play about an English-US television presenter?
7. A 10st (63.5kg) person would weigh approx 53lb (24kg) on which planet?
8. In 1910, which magician was the first pilot to fly a plane solo in Australia?
9. What are the two main metals that make up the Earth’s core?
10. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman starred in which 1992 western film?
11. Which Dagenham born footballer, later a manager, was the first to represent England at all levels?
12. Where do troglodytes live?
13. What licence cost 37p before it was abolished in 1988?
14. What is a barrel of beer that holds 72 pints called?
15. What great structure designed by Joseph Paxton was built in London in 1851?
16. The rivers Oder and Vistula flow into the Baltic Sea from which country?
17. In 1972, which US female tennis player was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year?
18. The name of which foodstuff means “twice cooked”?
19. In which US state is the Pentagon?
20. Which lonely Daniel Defoe character was believed to be from York?
21. What horse was the winner of the 2020 Virtual Grand National?
22. Which long-running TV comedy programme was set in Oil Drum Lane?
23. Which row on a QWERTY keyboard has nine letters?
24. What name is given to beef fillet cooked in pastry?
25. Which comedian’s grave inscription reads “I told you I was ill”?
26. What does spumante mean on a bottle of wine?
27. What is the last word in the Bible?
28. What nationality is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange?
29. What does the name Singh mean in the Sanskrit language?
30. Which actor is the son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham?