PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

In which 1990 film did Rick Moranis play a scientist named Wayne Szalinski?

2 MUSIC:

Which singer, known for yodelling, had four UK No 1 hits in the 1960s, beginning with I Remember You?

3 TV & RADIO:

Which drama series starred Michael C. Hall as the title character, a serial killer and forensics expert?

4 SPORT:

Who was the first British person to win the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship?

5 SCIENCE:

Which Italian-American physicist is said to have remarked ‘But where is everybody?’ when discussing the absence of evidence for alien life?

6 NATURE:

Coccinella septempunctata is the Latin name of which beetle, common in the UK?

7 LITERATURE:

Which Poet Laureate wrote the poem Sea Fever, which opens with the line ‘I must down to the seas again’?

8 HISTORY:

Since the Acts of Union in 1707, who is the only British monarch to have had no legitimate children?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word pusillanimous? a) Aggressive, b) Infected, c) Cowardly.

10 BRITAIN:

The town of Middlesbrough lies on the south bank of which river?

11 THIS YEAR:

On January 4, the novel Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud won which literary award?

12 POT LUCK:

‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ is the motto of which American newspaper?