Another selection of twenty random questions to stimulate the mind and memory.
As usual the answers are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: What was the first commercial jet airliner?
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Q. 2: In which American town or city was the TV series Cannon set?
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Q. 3: ‘John ‘the cat’ Robie’ was the debonair central character in which popular movie?
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Q. 4: In 1894, which French officer was convicted of treason and sent to Devil’s island?
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Q. 5: The name of which edible product stems from the Portugese word for the quince fruit?
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Q. 6: Spats Columbo is the bad guy in which popular black and white movie that starred Marilyn Monroe?
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Q. 7: What ship conveyed 120 anti-Catholic Puritans across the Atlantic in 1620?
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Q. 8: Pluto orbits our sun once every how many years?
a) 8 years
b) 16 years
c) 86 years
d) 248 years
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Q. 9: In the 1968 movie when was ‘The Space Odyssey’?
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Q. 10: In what country did the Long March of 1934 take place?
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Q. 11: The common cold is what kind of virus? Five letters
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Q. 12: The Bridge of Sighs in Venice connected the Doge’s palace to what?
a) a state prison and place of execution
b) a tax office
c) a cemetary
d) a Turkish bath house
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Q. 13: What type of Cowboy was Jon Voight in the 1969 movie?
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Q. 14: Which European country did not grant women the right to vote until 1971?
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Q. 15: Which best selling and often banned book apparently inspired Mark David Chapman to murder John Lennon?
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Q. 16: What did Winston Churchill describe as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”?
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Q. 17: Who were the three famous personalities who starred in the popular ‘Road To’ movie series made during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 18: On 18th March 1965 what was Alexi Leonov the first man to achieve?
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Q. 19: What is Donald Duck’s middle (i.e. second) name?
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Q. 20: Which of the following is a theory in physics?
a) Schrödinger’s dog
b) Schrödinger’s cat
c) Schrödinger’s butterfly
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ANSWERS
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Q. 1: What was the first commercial jet airliner?
A. 1: The Comet.
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Q. 2: In which American town or city was the TV series Cannon set?
A. 2: Los Angeles.
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Q. 3: ‘John ‘the cat’ Robie’ was the debonair central character in which popular movie?
A. 3: To Catch A Thief (Cary Grant played John Robie)
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Q. 4: In 1894, which French officer was convicted of treason and sent to Devil’s island?
A. 4: Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
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Q. 5: The name of which edible product stems from the Portugese word for the quince fruit?
A. 5: Marmalade (from marmelo).
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Q. 6: Spats Columbo is the bad guy in which popular black and white movie that starred Marilyn Monroe?
A. 6: Some Like It Hot.
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Q. 7: What ship conveyed 120 anti-Catholic Puritans across the Atlantic in 1620?
A. 7: The Mayflower.
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Q. 8: Pluto orbits our sun once every how many years?
a) 8 years
b) 16 years
c) 86 years
d) 248 years
A. 8: d) 248 years
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Q. 9: In the 1968 movie when was ‘The Space Odyssey’?
A. 9: 2001.
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Q. 10: In what country did the Long March of 1934 take place?
A. 10: China.
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Q. 11: The common cold is what kind of virus? Five letters
A. 11: Rhino.
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Q. 12: The Bridge of Sighs in Venice connected the Doge’s palace to what?
a) a state prison and place of execution
b) a tax office
c) a cemetary
d) a Turkish bath house
A. 12: d) A state prison and place of execution
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Q. 13: What type of Cowboy was Jon Voight in the 1969 movie?
A. 13: Midnight.
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Q. 14: Which European country did not grant women the right to vote until 1971?
A. 14: Switzerland.
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Q. 15: Which best selling and often banned book apparently inspired Mark David Chapman to murder John Lennon?
A. 15: The Catcher in the Rye, a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger, whose protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion.
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Q. 16: What did Winston Churchill describe as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”?
A. 16: Russia.
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Q. 17: Who were the three famous personalities who starred in the popular ‘Road To’ movie series made during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 17: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby.
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Q. 18: On 18th March 1965 what was Alexi Leonov the first man to achieve?
A. 18: Walk in Space.
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Q. 19: What is Donald Duck’s middle (i.e. second) name?
A. 19: Fauntleroy.
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Q. 20: Which of the following is a theory in physics?
a) Schrödinger’s dog
b) Schrödinger’s cat
c) Schrödinger’s butterfly
A. 20: b) Schrödinger’s cat which is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox in quantum mechanics. In the course of developing this experiment, Schrödinger coined the term Verschränkung (entanglement).
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