QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“I cry every day. I am a terrible crier. I don’t cry at the key moments of my life, but put me in front of Call The Midwife and I am hysterical”
1. Who wrote the Game of Thrones books? 2. And who are the TV show’s creators? 3. What is the name of the storm which hit Texas this week?
4. Who resigned as the leader of Scottish Labour this week?
5. A hard drive containing unfinished works by which writer has been crushed by a steamroller?
6. Paul Hollywood was joined by Prue Leith, with Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig on which TV show this week?
7. Who was the last monarch of the house of Tudor?
8. ‘The Burnley Lara’ is a nickname of which cricketer?
9. Located in East Anglia, what is the UK’s largest man-made lowland forest?
10. Which star sign comes immediately before Gemini?
11. Which 2017 film is about two brothers and their attempt to thwart the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co?
12. Who created the first effective vaccine for smallpox?
13. In which country would you be if you were touring the wine regions, Stellenbosch and Paarl?
14. What is the Roman numeral for 1000?
15. In climatology, what is another name for a low pressure system?
16. In mythology, the Gryphon has partly the physical appearance of a lion and what other creature? 17. Poets Robert Bridges, John Masefield, Cecil Day-Lewis and John Betjeman all held which title? 18. “The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry,” is the first line of which Thomas Hardy novel? 19. Who did Harold Wilson succeed as prime minister in 1964? 20. The pound sign appears above which number on a keyboard? 21. Which national cricket team are known as ‘The Black Caps’? 22. Who stars alongside Patrick Stewart and Daphne Keen in the title role of Logan? 23. Alice in Wonderland was written under the pen name of Lewis Carroll, but was was the writer’s real name? 24. What is the common name for the animal of the genus Vulpes? 25. Which company invented the chocolate bar in 1847? 26. Which city has always had a team in the highest division of English football?
27. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, was born in which country?
28. Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport services which city?
29. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere starred in which musical crime film which won multiple awards in 2002, named after an American city?
30. Which 1984 period drama won eight Academy Awards for its fictional biography of the Austrian composer Mozart?