PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

Directed by Tim Burton, which 1997 comic sci-fi film starred

Jack Nicholson as the US president?

2 MUSIC:

Who had a UK No.1 hit in 1974 with the single Kung Fu Fighting?

3 TV & RADIO:

First broadcast in 1965, which BBC radio comedy was the successor to Beyond Our Ken?

4 SPORT:

Apart from Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, who are the only two drivers to win the F1 World Championship since 2008?

5 LITERATURE:

Who, at age 29, became the youngest person to win the Booker Prize with her novel, The Discomfort Of Evening?

6 GEOGRAPHY:

Which major North American river connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean?

7 ART:

Satirist William Hogarth depicted the relative effects of two different types of alcohol in which 1751 pair of prints?

8 FOOD & DRINK:

Which Valencian seafood dish is similar to paella but uses thin strands of pasta instead of rice?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word didactic? a) Committed, b) False, c) Instructive.

10 IRELAND:

Which Dublin actor plays the villain, Druig, in Marvel film The Eternals (2021)?

11 THIS YEAR:

What was the name of the ship that ran aground while passing through the Suez Canal on March 23?

12 POT LUCK:

The Ring of the Fisherman is an official part of the regalia of which person?