18 questions are about 1946 itself; the other 2 are about the years just before and after it.

1. Two future presidents, one from each party, were first elected to the House of Representatives in the same midterm election in 1946. Who were they?

2. Died Christmas Day 1946. US movie-actor / comedian. Noted for his quotes such as, “Anyone who hates small dogs and children can’t be all bad”?

3. Which cartoon bird made its debut in Walky Talky Hawky in 1946? Woody Woodpecker or Foghorn Leghorn?

4. Which country appeared in a record 23 consecutive Davis Cup finals between 1946 and 1968?

5. In which four Alfred Hitchcock films did Cary Grant play the leading man?

6. Who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 films between 1939 and 1946?

7. Plus or minus 1, in which year did the fashion designer Louis Reard introduce the 'Bikini'?

8. In Which 1946 musical did Ethel merman sing, ?there?s no business, like show business??

9. True or False: Laika the Russian space dog was the first animal in space?

10. Who is the only French tennis player since 1946 to have won the French Open men's singles title?

11. What were the first animals to go into space?

12. Basil Rathbone played which character of book and film fourteen times between 1936 and 1946?

13. Which Japanese emperor disavowed his divinity in 1946?

14. Fuchsia is the name of the eponymous hero?s sister in which cult novel of 1946?

15. The 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life used a mixture of Foamite (a fire fighting chemical) and soap and water to simulate snow flakes falling. Before that, what kind of white painted flakes were used to simulate snow falling in Hollywood films?

16. Who kept wicket for England?s cricket team between the years of 1946 and 1959 and once took 95 minutes to score his first run in a test match against Australia?

17. Which city on the Yangtze Kiang River was capital of China between 1937 and 1946?

18. What announcement did Emperor Hirohito of Japan make on Jan 1st 1946?

19. "I never knew the old Vienna before the war ...." is the opening line to which classic 1949 film?

20. Which spa town was the seat of the French government from 1940 to 1944?

ANSWERS

1. John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

2. W. C. Fields

3. Foghorn Leghorn

4. Australia

5. Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959)

6. Basil Rathbone.

7. 1946

8. Annie get your gun.

9. False (first in orbit - first in space: fruit flies 1946

10. Yannich Noah (1983)

11. Fruit flies in 1946 (Laika was the first animal to orbit Earth, 1957).

12. Sherlock Holmes

13. Hirohito

14. Titus Groan

15. White painted Corn Flakes.

16. Godfrey Evans

17. Chungking

18. That he was not a god

19. The Third Man

20. Vichy.

Where these questions come from

Questions are chosen because they mention the year. Now and then one is only loosely about it: press New mix for another lot.