A quiz for 12th October

I got an email asking where the quiz was, so I thought I’d do one.

Q1. Opening this week is the movie First Man, who plays the title role?

Q2. Who is the current Secretary of State in the United States?

Q3. Which 1984 song opens with these lines:

Sometimes you’re better off dead
There’s a gun in your hand it’s pointing at your head
You think you’re mad too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West end town
Call the police there’s a mad man around
Running down underground
To a dive bar in a West end town

Q4. Tallahassee is the state capital of which U.S state?

Q5. Before taking part in the Cuban Revolution who wrote “The Motorcycle Diaries” about his travels in South America?

Q6. Who is this?

Q7. Ray Bradbury wrote a book, the title coming from the temperature paper burns - what is the book called?

Q8. What cocktail has this recipe: one sugar cube wetted with three dashes of Angostura bitters and a little soda, crushed, stirred with a large ice cube and two ounces of rye?

Q9. What type of potato dish is this?

Q10. On 12th October 2000 what happened to the USS Cole?

Answers

Question 1

Ryan Gosling

Question 2

Mike Pompeo

Question 3

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Question 4

Florida

Question 5

Che Guevara

Question 6

Ariana Grande

Question 7

Fahrenheit 451

Question 8

Old Fashioned

Question 9

Hasselback

Question 10

It was attacked by suicide bombers in Aden