SUNDAY CHALLENGE
1 What is the name given to the greenish-yellow alkaline fluid secreted from the liver of most vertebrates (hint; it’s also known as gall)?
2 In what year was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?
3 He is to date the only member of the Socialist Party to be elected as the President of France. What is his name?
4 If you were being pursued by the Garda Síochána na héireann (or Gardai), in which country would you be on the run?
5 It is a system of monetary management that established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world’s major industrial states in the mid 20th century. What is this no doubt horribly complex system called?
6 He was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the “Spaghetti Western” genre. His best remembered movies are the “Man with No Name” trilogy (which includes The Good, The Bad and The Ugly). What is his name?
7 Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of...?
8 Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace
Prize, some say without due merit. Who, in 2007 shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
9 Sticking with prizes, in 2009 Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to receive the prestigious Nobel Memorial Prize in...?
10 Who was the German-austrian racing driver who is the only driver to posthumously win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship (in 1970), after being killed in practice for the Italian Grand Prix after he already had enough points to win the season?
11 Who wrote the Sinead O`connor’s hit Nothing Compares 2 U (hint; he died in 201, was very short and was once known only by an unpronounceable symbol)?
12 It is a bone found medial and anterior to the fibula and is the second largest bone in the human body, the largest being the femur. What bone is it?
13 Who wrote Moby Dick?
14 Known as the Rio Grande in the USA, what is this river called in Mexico?
15 Eugen Weidmann was the last person to be publicly executed in ________ although executions by guillotine continued in private until 1977?
16 Which country did Bruce Grobbellar represent at football?
17 It is a landlocked country in Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. What is it?
18 Racewalking is an Olympic athletics event with distances of 20 kilometres for both men and women and _ _ kilometres for men only?
19 100-proof whiskey contains what percentage of alcohol by volume?
20 Which South African was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a picture first published in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding centre while a vulture waited nearby?