Quiz Questions for w/e 7th February

Having to work a full week - eugh!

Q1. Which actor had roles in all of the following films; L.A. Confidential (1997), Memento (2000), The Time Machine (2002) and The Hurt Locker (2008)?

Q2. What is the chemical symbol for the element silver?

Q3. Which 1989 hit song has the following opening lines?

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenberg’s H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Q4. What country has the capital Honiara?

Q5. Satya Nadella got a new job this week - what is his new job?

Q6. Which tv show, which ran from 1998 to 2004, follows the lives of a group of four women living in New York —three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties—who, throughout their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other.?

Q7. Much in the news , who is the parent company of the company SPC Ardmona?

Q8. Which South African born English cricketer was spectacularly dropped from the England team to tour the West Indies?

Q9. Which author wrote the following books; “Crime and Punishment”, “The Idiot” and “The Brothers Karamazov”?

Q10. 7th February marks the 5th anniversary of what event in Victoria which killed 173 people?

## Answers ##

Question 1

Guy Pearce

Question 2

Ag

Question 3

"We didn't start the fire" Billy Joel

Question 4

Solomon Islands

Question 5

New CEO of Microsoft

Question 6

Sex and the City

Question 7

Coco Cola Amatil

Question 8

Kevin Pietersen

Question 9

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Question 10

Black Saturday