Test yourself with 5 quizzes
WHO… played Norman Bates in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho?
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WHO… in entertainment was called the Empress of the Blues? WHAT… is the North American name for what in Europe is called an elk? WHERE… would you find the Schwedagon and Sule pagodas? WHEN… did Vanwall become the first winners of the F1 Constructors’ Championship?
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WHO… wrote the opera Parsifal? WHAT… relation was Pliny the Younger to Pliny the Elder? WHERE… in Africa is the extinct volcano formerly known as Kirinyaga? WHEN… did the Tay Bridge rail disaster occur?
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WHO… played Norman Bates in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho? WHAT… is COBOL? WHERE… did Admiral Nelson lose his right arm? WHEN… was Malcolm III of Scotland killed at Alnwick?
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WHO… was the subject of a biography by physician Li Zhisui? WHAT… do we call the herb Petroselinum crispum? WHERE… was the centre of the 1995 Japanese earthquake? WHEN… did the Pilgrim Fathers establish Thanksgiving Day?
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WHO… in the entertainment world was born Frances Gumm? WHAT… do the letters LED stand for? WHERE… are the islands North and South Uist? WHEN… was Robespierre executed?
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WHO… wrote the book Perestroika in 1987? WHAT… was once called hydrophobia, and of which hydrophobia remains a symptom? WHERE… is Coober Pedy, famous for its opal mines? WHEN… did William III land at Torbay? 1
1. World racing champion Jim Clark was killed in a car smash 2. Actress/model Helena Christensen was born
3. Steve McQueen starred in Bullitt 4. The first decimal coins were introduced in the UK
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1. Liza Minnelli was born 2. Author HG Wells died 3. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman starred in Notorious 4. Project Diana in the USA bounced radar signals off the moon
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1. Paul Hardcastle had a UK No.1 single with ‘19’ 2. Michael J Fox starred in Back To The Future
3. The wreck of the Titanic was caught on film for the first time 4. Actor Sir Michael Redgrave died
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1. Alastair Sim starred in The Belles Of St. Trinian’s
2. Ernest Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for literature
3. Queen Elizabeth II was the first reigning monarch of Australia to visit it
4. Popstars Neil Tennant and Adam Ant were born
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1. Roger Moore starred in The Spy Who Loved Me 2. Wings had a UK No 1 single with Mull Of Kintyre
3. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was born
4. Roots made its television debut
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1. British newspapers weren’t published for nearly a month due to a strike in Fleet Street 2. Slim Whitman was at the top of the singles chart for 11 weeks with Rose Marie 3. JRR Tolkien’s Return Of The King was published
4. Actor Bruce Willis was born.