Quiz Questions for w/e 7th November

Happy birthday to my beautiful wife.

Q1. Which 2005 movie, starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman is described by IMDB as “In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.”?

Q2. Who wrote the novel Catcher in the Rye?

Q3. Which 1982 song had the following opening lines?

I saw him dancing there by the record machine I knew he must have been about seventeen The beat was going strong Playing my favorite song And I could tell it wouldn’t be long till he was with me, yeah me And I could tell it wouldn’t be long till he was with me, yeah me

Q4. What country has this flag?

Q5. Which hormone is primarily responsible for lowering of sugar levels in the blood?

Q6. Managua is the capital of which country?

Q7. Who became President on the death of President Franklin D Roosevelt in 1945?

Q8. The unit of length the mile is based on the Roman mile of how many paces?

Q9. The Melbourne Cup was run this week - who won last year’s race (2013)?

Q10. On 7th November 1990, who became the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland?

Answers

Question 1

V For Vendetta

Question 2

J.D.Salinger

Question 3

I Love Rock'n' Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Question 4

Jamaica

Question 5

Insulin

Question 6

Nicaragua

Question 7

Harry S Truman

Question 8

1,000

Question 9

Fiorente

Question 10

Mary Robinson