PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES: Who played architecture graduate student Ariadne in the 2010 science fiction film Inception?

2 MUSIC: Which Dublin rock group had a hit with The Boys Are Back In Town in 1976?

3 TV & RADIO: In Doctor Who, what is the name of the character who created the The Doctor’s deadliest enemies, the Daleks?

4 SPORT: Who was the last man to represent England in both cricket and football?

5 GEOGRAPHY: The Moorish citadel and palace the Alhambra, is located in which Spanish city?

6 ART: Carl Andre’s work Equivalent VIII, which became the centre of a public debate about contemporary art in 1976, was an arrangement of what building materials?

7 FOOD & DRINK: Piri piri, naga and Scotch bonnet are all varieties of what foodstuff?

8 LITERATURE: Anthony Minghella’s Oscar-winning 1996 film The English Patient was adapted from a novel by which author?

9 WORDS: What is a factotum? a) a body of evidence, b) a servant, c) an imperfect copy.

10 IRELAND: In which Dublin park would you find the Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture?

11 THIS MONTH: Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivian announced her retirement after how many years in An Garda Síochána?

12 POT LUCK: The first accurate example of what time-keeping device was built by Louis Essen at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory in 1955?