
- What is the only geographical feature to have a country named after it?
- Where is the highest volcano in the Solar system?
- After the current queen, Elizabeth II, who was the longest serving British monarch?
- What band is named after an Austrian Arch Duke? Extra point – why was his assassination a turning point in history?
- Movie quotes: Who said? I’m sexy, I’m cute, / I’m popular to boot. What was the reply? (my girls knew this by heart)
- What movie – Who said? “Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick.” Who replied and said what?
- What movie? Who said? “To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on.” What was he wearing at the time?
- Which famous film star danced (and flew) in the video to Fatboy Slim’s 2001 track, Weapon of choice?
- How long does it take for the sun’s light to reach the earth?
- Who is the current poet laureate – clue he’s a Yorkshire man,pictured above.
Where are the answers Lisa. I need to know just how badly I have done 😅
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Yikes – I scheduled this as we were travelling today – and added answers as a comment as usual. Obviously this doesn’t work. So here they are again.
1. Equator
2. Olympus Mons on Mars
3. Queen Victoria – 63 years and 7 months. QEII – 68 years in March this year
4. Franz Ferdinand – The Archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo in June 1914. Shot that rang round the world – by Gavrillo Pincip. Widely agreed to have started the process that culminated in WWI.
5. Movie – Bring it on. speaker – Big Red. Reply by Torrance Shipman I’m bitchin’, great hair, / The boys all love to stare, / I’m wanted, I’m hot, / I’m everything you’re not, / I’m pretty, I’m cool, / I dominate this school.
6. A Knight’s Tale. Jocelyn, Wat replies – ” It’s called a lance. Hello?”
7. Chaucer in a Knight’s Tale. He was naked.
8. Christopher Walken.
9. 8 minutes.
10. Simon Armitage.
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My girls were word perfect for question 5! 🤷♀️
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