Quiz Questions for w/e 19th July

I’m trying to watch the Ashes and set a quiz - this could be a disaster!!

1. Which movie is described by IMDB as “The true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia.”? 2. What is the chemical symbol for the element - Bromine? 3. Which huge 80’s song has the following first verse :

I’m saying all the things that I know you’ll like

Making good conversation

I gotta handle you just right

You know what I mean

I took you to an intimate restaurant

Then to a suggestive movie

There’s nothing left to talk about

Unless it’s horizontally

4. The cricket is on at Lords - what is the famous club based at Lords? 5. From which famous poem (and by whom) are these famous lines;

Day after day, day after day,

We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

6. Christine Lagarde has been the MD/head of which organisation since 2011? 7. Which children’s TV show has characters Bob, Wendy, Farmer Pickles, Scoop, Muck and Dizzy? 8. What game has terms Ruy Lopez, gambit, castling? 9. What does the term MRI stand for? 10. On the 19th July 1952 the summer Olympic games of the XV Olympiad were opened…. where?

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Question 1

Hotel Rwanda

Question 2

Question 3

Physical - Olivia Newton-John

Question 4

MCC - Marylebone Cricket Club

Question 5

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 6

IMF - International Monetary Fund

Question 7

Bob The Builder

Question 8

Chess

Question 9

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Question 10

Helsinki, Finland