Quiz Questions for w/e 7th March

Crikey - March already???.

Q1. Which actor has had roles in all of the following movies; Schindler’s List (1993), Quiz Show (1994), The English Patient (1996), Harry Potter 4,5,6,7p1 & p2 (2005-2011)?

Q2. What is the name of the scale that measures the acidity or basicity/alkalinity of a substance?

Q3. Which 1979 classic song has the following opening lines?

Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time

I feel alive and the world it’s turning inside out Yeah!

I’m floating around in ecstasy

Q4. What country has the capital Port Moresby?

Q5. Starting on Ash Wednesday (this year 5th March) is what Christian observance and for how long does it last?

Q6. Which US TV comedy show, running from 1976 to 1983, starred Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as single roommates who worked as bottlecappers at the fictitious Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee?

Q7. Much in the news this week was which autonomous peninsula - with the capital Simferopol?

Q8. Which sport, played at international level, has equipment such as mallets, hoops, balls and a centre peg?

Q9. What is the name of the punctuation mark that combines an exclamation mark and a question mark (to signify a question asked excitedly/disbelief)?

Q10. On 7th March 1999 the director of Full Metal Jacket & A clockwork Orange died - who was he?

## Answers ##

Question 1

Ralph Fiennes

Question 2

pH scale

Question 3

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

Question 4

Papua New Guinea

Question 5

Lent - 40 days

Question 6

Laverne & Shirley

Question 7

Crimea

Question 8

Croquet

Question 9

Interrobang

Question 10

Stanley Kubrick