Quiz Questions for w/e 21st November

Friday marks 34 days from Christmas Day - hope you are getting ready!

Q1. Which 1995 movie, directed by Terry Gilliam, is described by IMDB as “In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.”?

Q2. Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?

Q3. Which 1967 song had the following lines?

I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph.

He blew his mind out in a car He didn’t notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They’d seen his face before Nobody was really sure If he was from the House of Lords.

Q4. What country has this flag?

Q5. How do we collectively know; Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University?

Q6. Muscat is the capital of which country?

Q7. Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK, who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald?

Q8. The atmosphere of the planet Mars is predominantly which gas?

Q9. What sport do the Detroit Pistons play?

Q10. 21st November 1877, who announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound?

Answers

Question 1

Twelve Monkeys

Question 2

John Steinbeck

Question 3

A Day In the Life, The Beatles

Question 4

Philippines

Question 5

The Ivy League

Question 6

Oman

Question 7

Jack Ruby

Question 8

Carbon Dioxide

Question 9

Basketball

Question 10

Thomas Edison