QUIZ TIME EXTRA
Last week’s questions were missed out of the Gazette due to a production error. We would like to apologise for the omission and have printed the questions this week.
Why not pit your wits against our quiz? Bridgend Quiz League general secretary Steve Kingscott has put together these posers for fun – can you get them all right? For more information about the league, which is suspended during the current coronavirus outbreak, visit bridgendquiz.com
■ 1. Which one word card game is also known as Patience?
■ 2. ‘La Isla Bonita’ was a UK No. 1 hit in 1987 for which US singer?
■ 3. Gerry Lester Watson Jr. is the full name of which US golfer?
■ 4. Which British actor played Superman in the 2013 film ‘Man Of Steel’?
■ 5. Who played Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond film ‘Dr.No’?
■ 6. Babs Lord was a member of which Top Of
The Pops dance troupe?
■ 7. Who was the first UK female to reach No.1 in the charts with her own composition?
■ 8. Which TV presenter has a Cotswold home known as ‘Diddly Squat Farm’?
■ 9. What is the most westerly city in mainland Africa?
■ 10. On which southern UK island is the Benedictine Quarr Abbey?
■ 11. Which Formula 1 team did Lewis Hamilton drive for in his first championship season?
■ 12. 12-year-old Bamboo Harvester played which unusual horse in an American sitcom on TV between 1961 and 1966?
■ 13. Originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010, which Yorkshire based comedy series was written by Roy Clarke?
■ 14. In 1953, Jackie Cochran was the first woman to do what on a flight over California?
■ 15. Heather Mills was once married to which famous singer/songwriter?
■ 16. Which British football captain was the first to have a blue plaque at his childhood home?
■ 17. In which S.American country is Lake Maracaibo?
■ 18. With which Welsh tourist attraction is William Clough-Ellis associated?
■ 19. On which island are the mysterious monolithic human figure sculptures known as moai?
■ 20. In which Asian country is Penang?
■ 21. Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning formed which band in 2001?
■ 22. Which radio soap first aired nationwide in 1951?
■ 23. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in S. Africa in 1931?
■ 24. The mathematician Ada Lovelace was the daughter of which poet?
■ 25. In 1971, MPs voted by a majority of 112 to join what?
■ 26. Which Poet Laureate died in 1998 aged 68?
■ 27. Which two numbers are either side of 20 on a dart board?
■ 28. What does the first letter in the acronym FIFA stand for?
■ 29. As of 2020, who is the only snooker player to have won BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
■ 30. What type of large US and Asian animal is a wapiti?