Quiz Questions 11th august 2017

10 more quiz questions to enliven your brain.

I hope no-one noticed that the quiz questions were missing last week. Phew I think I got away with it!

Q1. Which 1990 movie and winner of 7 Oscars is this screenshot from?

Q2. What is the term for a creature that sleeps at night?

Q3. Which 1987 song has the following lyrics?

Out where the river broke The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come To say fair’s fair To pay the rent To pay our share

Q4. What does the phrase to cut the Gordian knot mean?

Q5. In which country is the volcano Popocatapetl?

Q6. What Italian musical phrase means getting louder?

Q7. What would you expect to receive if you ordered Crêpes Suzette?

Q8. Usain Bolt ran his last World Championship 100m last week - who won the race?

Q9. What comet visits earth every 76 years?

Q10. On 11th August 1965 the Watts Race Riots began, where exactly is Watts?

Answers

Question 1

Dances with Wolves

Question 2

Diurnal

Question 3

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

Question 4

To overcome a seemingly insurmuntable problem

Question 5

Mexico

Question 6

Crescendo

Question 7

A French pancake with a sauce of caramelised sugar, butter, orange juice, zest and Grande Marnieror orange Curacao

Question 8

Justin Gatlin

Question 9

Halley's Comet

Question 10

Los Angeles