SATURDAY QUIZ

Chris Maume presents his weekly general knowledge quiz

1. Who are the above and what’s the link?

2. Last month around 100 academics signed a call to action about the ecological crisis. Which movement was thus founded?

3. Which country record, released in 1992, was named in a 2005 academic study entitled “‘The pain, the pain’: modelling music information behaviour and the songs we hate”, as the song that received the most nominations in their survey as “worst song ever”?

4. Point Nemo, in the south Pacific Ocean, is the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, the place on Earth that is most remote from land. Where are the nearest humans situated?

5. Only three films have won the Oscars “Big Five” – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor,

Best Screenplay: a 1934 film starring Clark Gable as a reporter and Claudette Colbert as a spoiled heiress; a 1975 film based on a novel by a countercultural hero of the Sixties; and a 1991 film whose anti-hero was later named by the American Film Institute as number one on its list of all-time villains. Which films, which novelist, which anti-hero?

6. The galaxy W2246-0526, 12.5 billion light years away in the Aquarius constellation, holds what distinction?

7. Silverstone and Brands Hatch are two of the four motor racing circuits to have hosted the British Grand Prix. What are the other two? One was the host in 1926 and 1927, the other, a venue usually associated with a different sport, from 1955-62.

8. The words “Beijing”, “Seoul” and “Tokyo” are all variants of the same word in their country’s languages. Which word?

9. One was a Warwickshire housewife born in 1556, the other is an actress born in New York in 1982. Which two namesakes?

10. What was Van Diemen’s Land renamed in 1856?

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