But PM was a whizz on Classics – and The Beano!
BORIS’S HITS
Question: Which Dublinborn artist painted without recognition until 1945 when his Three Studies
For Figures At The Base Of A Crucifixion, completed the year before, won him instant notoriety?
Answer: Francis Bacon
Q: Name the cartoon characters shown [tiny human-like technicians which live inside the skulls of Beano characters]. A: The Numskulls
Q: ‘Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children – clean, indoors and no heavy lifting.’ Which politician said this? A: Diane Abbott
Q: What term is used for the direct change of state from a solid to a gas? A: Sublimation
Q: Which Hebrew term meaning ‘gathering’ is used for the modern Israeli parliament? A: Knesset
Q: Which name, used in 19th Century London as a slang term for a night watchman, was used by US forces in Vietnam to describe the Viet Cong, and has become a slang term for cocaine? A: Charlie
Q: In Greek mythology, what was the name of the king of Elis, whose ox-stores housed 3,000 animals and had not been cleaned for 30 years – until Hercules was assigned the job, cleaning them out by diverting two rivers to run through the stables? A: Augeas
Q: Established by the Council of Europe in 1950, the European Court of Human Rights has its headquarters in which city? A: Strasbourg
. . . AND A MISS
Q: Which questionable distinction did Switzerland achieve for the third time in 1998, and Norway for the fourth time in 1997, when Tor Endresen finished
227 points behind the United Kingdom?
Boris answer: The Eurovision Song Contest. They, er, didn’t do terribly well. Correct answer: They received ‘nul points’ in the Eurovision Song Contest