Quiz Questions 21st July 2017

Quiz time - after a week off.

Can’t really explain why there were no quiz questions last week - I simply forgot.

Q1. From which 1980 movie is this a classic scene and who wrote the original novel on which the movie was based?

Q2. Lord Louis Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of which country?

Q3. Which 2013 song has the following lyrics?

I’ve never seen a diamond in the flesh I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies And I’m not proud of my address, in the torn up town No post code envy

But every song’s like gold teeth, Grey Goose, trippin’ in the bathroom Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin’ the hotel room We don’t care, we’re driving Cadillacs in our dreams But everybody’s like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece. Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash We don’t care, we ain’t caught up in your love affair

Q4. What is the dark brown pigment normally found in skin?

Q5. In Paris what does the Arc de Triomphe commemorate?

Q6. What type of drink is amontillado?

Q7. Which is larger the red or grey kangaroo?

Q8. Which historic queen killed herself with an asp?

Q9. Which famous poem contains these lines?

Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.

Q10. On 21st July 2005 four attempted bomb attacks occured where - luckily with no fatalities?

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The Shining - Stephen King

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India

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Royals - Lorde

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Melanin

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Napoleon’s victories

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Sherry

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Red

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Cleopatra

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The Rime of The Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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London