Quiz Questions for w/e 13th June

Ooops - bit slow on the quiz this week. Apologies.

Going to try something a bit different this week - a running theme - let me know what you think (it’s very loose on Q2).

Q1. Which 1951 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, is described by IMDB as “In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.”?

Q2. What is the chemical element with the symbol Au?

Q3. Which 1975 classic song has the following opening lines?

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality.

Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I’m easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Anyway the wind blows doesn’t really matter to me, to me.

Q4. What is the capital of Jamaica?

Q5. Which American adult animated situation comedy of manners created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that ran from 1997 to 2010 followed a middle-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas?

Q6. This week we, in Australia, celebrated Elizabeth Windsors’ official birthday in which month is her real birthday?

Q7. How many physical pieces does each player have at the start of a game of chess?

Q8. Which waterfall, located at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, while neither the widest, nor the tallest, it does have the world’s largest sheet of falling water?

Q9. With the nickname of the “king of clay” who recently won his 5th consecutive French Open?

Q10. On 13th June 2005 a jury in Santa Maria, California acquits which singer of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo?

Answers

Question 1

African Queen

Question 2

Gold

Question 3

Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

Question 4

Kingston

Question 5

King of the Hill

Question 6

April (21 April)

Question 7

Question 8

Victoria Falls

Question 9

Rafa Nadal

Question 10

Michael Jackson