Quiz Questions for w/e 4th July

Welcome to the new Australian financial year - no bargains here - just quiz/trivia questions.

Q1. Who played the role of Viola De Lesseps in the 1998 movie “Shakespeare in Love”?

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

Q3. Which 1974 song has the following opening lines?

She keeps her Moet et Chandon In her pretty cabinet ‘Let them eat cake’ she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Kruschev and Kennedy At anytime an invitation You can’t decline

Caviar and cigarettes Well versed in etiquette Extraordinarily nice

Q4. What is the capital of the country Sierra Leone?

Q5. Where is the “father of English Literature” and author of “The Canterbury Tales”, Geoffrey Chaucer, buried?

Q6. How do we now know the place originally settled as New Amsterdam?

Q7. On a standard dart board what number is at the bottom, immediately opposite 20?

Q8. Nick Kyrgios sprang onto the Aussie tennis scene with his win over Rafa Nadal, but who beat him in the next round?

Q9. What does a proctologist specialise in?

Q10. On the 4th July 1946 after 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from which country?

Answers

Question 1

Gwyneth Paltrow

Question 2

Tin

Question 3

Killer Queen, Queen

Question 4

Freetown

Question 5

Poets Corner - Westminster Abbey

Question 6

New York

Question 7

3

Question 8

Eighth seed Milos Raonic (Canadian)

Question 9

Treats disease in the rectum, anus, and colon.

Question 10

United States of America