1. Since the year 2000 there have been 11 Oscar winners for Best Picture with only one word in the film title. Can you name them? One point for each correct answer.

2. The word hippopotamus stems from two Greek words. Hippo means horse, what does "potamus" mean?

3. What colour hair does the woman standing in the shell have in Botticelli's painting "The Birth Of Venus"?

4. What was the most populated city in the world in 1500 AD?

5. The movie poster tag line to which 1998 film was "On the air. Unaware."?

6. What is a flock of starlings called?

7. A famous 1958 film starring Kim Novak, a medical ailment, and a 2004 UK number one hit single (top 10 in the US). One word.

8. The American Civil War excluded, in which country was the largest surrender of American troops in US military history?

9. In which year was the first Superbowl held?

10. The following lyrics are all from songs with the name "John" somewhere in the song title. Can you name the song? One point for each correct answer.
a. My grandfather and me, around Nassau town we did roam
b. Made a lightning trip to Vienna
c. Somebody said he came from New Orleans where he got into a fight over a Cajun queen
d. You paint me a blue sky and go back and turn it to rain

11. What was the name of the archaeologist who in 1922, along with Lord Carnarvon, were the first persons to enter the tomb of 'King Tut' in over 3,000 years?

12. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is a famous painting from Vermeer. Which actress played the girl in the film of the same name?

13. Which two Italian cities were more populated than London in 1500 AD? One point for each correct answer.

14. Nicknamed the 'Galveston Giant', who was the first African American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion in 1908?

15. Moloko is a popular drink in which dystopian novel?

16. Plus or minus 5, how many cm can an American cockroach cover in one second?

17. Name the companies that manufactured each of the following WW II aeroplanes. One point for each correct answer.
a. Mosquito
b. Stuka dive bomber
c. Zero
d. Dakota (or C-47 Skytrain)

18. Which man won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as a villain with just a little more than 16 minutes on screen, the shortest award winning lead performance in Oscar history?

19. Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh were better known as what?

20. What is the name of the bird Twitter used for its logo?

ANSWERS

1. Eleven answers. Gladiator, Chicago, Crash, Argo, Spotlight, Moonlight, Parasite, Nomadland, CODA, Oppenheimer, Anora.

2. River (or stream)

3. Red

4. Peking (Beijing)

5. The Truman Show

6. Murmuration

7. Vertigo

8. Phillippines

9. 1967

10. Four answers.
a. Sloop John B (Beach Boys)
b. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Beatles)
c. Big Bad John (Jimmy Dean)
d. Dear John (Taylor Swift)

11. Howard Carter

12. Scarlett Johansson

13. Two answers. Venice and Naples

14. Jack Johnson

15. A Clockwork Orange

16. 75

17. Four answers.
a. de Havilland
b. Junkers
c. Mitsubishi
d. Douglas

18. Anthony Hopkins (in The Silence of the Lambs)

19. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

20. Larry

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