Yorkshire Post

DAILY TRIVIA

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1 Who won an Emmy as best television actor for his part in Brideshead Revisited in 1981?

2 What did Christophe­r Nolan win in 1988 – despite not being able to move or speak because of an accident at birth – and in the process picking up £18,750 prize money?

3 In which year did the Shah of Iran, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, flee into exile after protests against his regime by followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini …?

4 … And in the same year it was revealed that which art advisor to the Queen had been a spy for the USSR?

5 Anemometry is the name given to the measuremen­t of what?

6 How would you be affected if suffering from ankylosis?

7 Formula One driver Jim Clark is killed at the Hockenheim circuit in West Germany, a 22-storey Newham tower block Ronan Point collapses killing three and Martin Luther King is assassinat­ed. Give the year.

8 Which English port city is home to the SeaCity Museum?

9 Who played Deborah, the love interest of Tony in BBC sitcom Men Behaving Badly?

10 Which comic actor played the lead role in the 1960s sitcom Citizen James?

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