Pauls Quiz 472
1. The word "One" excluded, which two film titles that begin with a number have won an Academy Award for Best Film?
2. The Adidas Gazelle was first introduced in 1966 and then redesigned for use in which sport?
a. Indoor soccer, b. Volleyball, c. Handball, d. Badminton
3. Although he never received the award, which man was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, 38, 39, 47 and 48?
4. Which popular culinary dish, named after a Queen, also contains the three colours found on the national flag of the country in which it was invented?
5. What is the American television idiom, based on a Happy Days episode, used to describe a tv program that "was once good but has now peaked and taken a severe downturn in quality"? Three words.
6. Which football player holds the English Premier League record with 5 hat tricks in a single season?
7. The name for which butterfly stage stems from the Latin word for "ghost"?
a. pupa b. imago c. larva
8. "Don't let go!" was the movie poster tag line to which 2013 sci-fi film?
9. Plus or minus 1, in which year did the Concorde make its last commercial flight?
10. The following lyrics are all from songs with the word "Song" somewhere in the song title. Can you name the song? One point for each correct answer.
a. Hug him and squeeze him tight, find out what you want to know
b. I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud
c. I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
11. Rhinotillexomania is the medical term for which obsessive disorder?
12. Which circuit has hosted the most Formula One Grand Prix races?
a. Monza b. Hockenheim c. Siverstone d. Monaco
13. Which powerful empire was abolished in 1922 after more than 600 years of rule?
14. Which animated film begins with the words "Long ago the great Frith made the world."?
15. The impact crater from the asteroid that was apparently responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is found on which pennisula?
16. With 68 km, which country has the shortest land border with Germany?
17. The best selling album of 1976 was a double live album from which ex Humble Pie member?
18. Cox's Bazar is, with 120 km of unbroken sandy shore, the longest beach in the world. In which country is it located?
a. Brazil b. Australia c. South Africa d. Bangladesh
19. Which two songs with titles beginning with the word "Dancing" were top 10 hits in 1985?
20. Which 104 year old woman with the initials L. R., a two time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, was the oldest living Oscar winner?
ANSWERS
1. Million Dollar Baby and 12 Years A Slave
2. Answer c. Handball
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Pizza Margherita
5. Jumped the shark
6. Alan Shearer
7. Answer c. larva
8. Gravity
9. 2003
10. Three answers.
a. The Shoop Shoop Song (Cher)
b. Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack)
c. 59th Street Bridge Song (Simon and Garfunkel)
11. Compulsive nose picking
12. Answer a. Monza
13. Ottoman
14. Watership Down
15. Yucatan
16. Denmark
17. Peter Frampton (Frampton Comes Alive)
18. Answer d. Bangladesh
19. Dancing in the Street (Bowie and Jagger) and Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen)
20. Luise Rainer