Pub Quiz

1 What is the first song in the opera Porgy &

Bess by George Gershwin

(pictured)?

2 What is the opening line of the Shelley poem

To a Skylark?

3 What was Chuck Yeager the first man to break, in 1947?

4 Who was the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State?

5 How is the railway bridge that crosses a river close to Kanchanburi in Thailand best known?

6 The National Trust property of Clouds Hill in Dorset was the home of which First World War hero?

7 What expression for a supposedly free choice which is effectively no real choice is derived from a Cambridge horse carrier’s business practice at the turn of the seventeenth century?

8 Philip Pirrip is the protagonist of which Charles Dickens novel?

9 For which two films did Robert Bolt win the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in successive years in the 1960s?

10 In which country can you find the Coromandel Coast and Malabar Coast?

11 a) In law, what term refers to the papers given to a barrister representing somebody in court?

b) What is the name of Simon McBurney’s play inspired by National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre’s experiences in the Amazon rainforest? PUZZLES: Fourpage pull-out inside Living