Post by ladylinda on Dec 24, 2010 21:46:17 GMT
This is my creatively Christmas quiz.
Be warned - some of these are catch questions!
Creatively Christmas Quiz
a) Firsts:
1 What was the first 'talkie?'
2 What was the first long single?
3 Which was the first country to give women the vote?
4 Which was the first US state to give women the vote?
5 Who was the first known woman doctor in Britain?
6 Who was the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
7 Who was the first woman to win an Oscar as best director?
8 Who was the first man to take 300 wickets in Test cricket?
9 Who was the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world?
b) What's in a name?
1 Which song was originally called 'Ham and Eggs?'
2 Which song was originally called 'Randy Scouse Git?'
3 Which book was originally called 'Twenty-five Years of Struggle Against Lies, Cowardice
and Stupidity?'
c) Pseudonymns and Real Names:
(Sometimes the pseudonymn is better known than the real name, sometimes the other way
around. I've chosen the less well known form in each case.)
1 Phis
2 Boz
3 Ellis Bell
4 Samuel Langhorne Clemens
5 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
6 Diana Fluck
7 Mary O'Brien
8 Reginald Smith
9 Terence Nelhams
10 Maurice Micklewhite
11 Declan McManus
d) Saints:
1 Who is the patron saint of lost causes?
2 Who is the patron saint of television?
e) Sporting trivia
1 How many African-American tennis players have won Wimbledon?
2 How many world heavyweight boxing champions have retired undefeated? (Watch out - this
catches out a lot of people.)
3 Who is the current world No 1 in golf?
f) Connections:
1 What do Kentucky and Epsom have in common?
2 What links an American poet, an American actress and a male American former pop star?
3 What links the former Mrs Guy Ritchie, a band from Liverpool and a song by John Hiatt?
4 What links a sporting club, a hotel, a band and a US President?
g) Who said that?
1 I don't know what effect these troops will have on the enemy but by God they terrify me]
2 A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on
3 Bugger Bognor
4 I did not have sex with that woman
5 Girls - all right, ladies, then. Well, what DO you want to be called?
6 All men are rapists and that's all they are
7 Imperialism and all reactionaries are paper tigers
8 We as a people will get to the Promised Land
9 I'd like that translated, please
h) Where would you find?
1 The Prado
2 The Spanish Steps
3 The Nevski Prospect
4 Teotihuacan
5 Tiahuanaco
6 The Iron Christ
7 The longest rope in the world
Be warned - some of these are catch questions!
Creatively Christmas Quiz
a) Firsts:
1 What was the first 'talkie?'
2 What was the first long single?
3 Which was the first country to give women the vote?
4 Which was the first US state to give women the vote?
5 Who was the first known woman doctor in Britain?
6 Who was the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
7 Who was the first woman to win an Oscar as best director?
8 Who was the first man to take 300 wickets in Test cricket?
9 Who was the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world?
b) What's in a name?
1 Which song was originally called 'Ham and Eggs?'
2 Which song was originally called 'Randy Scouse Git?'
3 Which book was originally called 'Twenty-five Years of Struggle Against Lies, Cowardice
and Stupidity?'
c) Pseudonymns and Real Names:
(Sometimes the pseudonymn is better known than the real name, sometimes the other way
around. I've chosen the less well known form in each case.)
1 Phis
2 Boz
3 Ellis Bell
4 Samuel Langhorne Clemens
5 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
6 Diana Fluck
7 Mary O'Brien
8 Reginald Smith
9 Terence Nelhams
10 Maurice Micklewhite
11 Declan McManus
d) Saints:
1 Who is the patron saint of lost causes?
2 Who is the patron saint of television?
e) Sporting trivia
1 How many African-American tennis players have won Wimbledon?
2 How many world heavyweight boxing champions have retired undefeated? (Watch out - this
catches out a lot of people.)
3 Who is the current world No 1 in golf?
f) Connections:
1 What do Kentucky and Epsom have in common?
2 What links an American poet, an American actress and a male American former pop star?
3 What links the former Mrs Guy Ritchie, a band from Liverpool and a song by John Hiatt?
4 What links a sporting club, a hotel, a band and a US President?
g) Who said that?
1 I don't know what effect these troops will have on the enemy but by God they terrify me]
2 A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on
3 Bugger Bognor
4 I did not have sex with that woman
5 Girls - all right, ladies, then. Well, what DO you want to be called?
6 All men are rapists and that's all they are
7 Imperialism and all reactionaries are paper tigers
8 We as a people will get to the Promised Land
9 I'd like that translated, please
h) Where would you find?
1 The Prado
2 The Spanish Steps
3 The Nevski Prospect
4 Teotihuacan
5 Tiahuanaco
6 The Iron Christ
7 The longest rope in the world