MAY 2024 QUIZ QUESTIONS

1.What Is the name of the music entrepreneur who discovered & managed The Beatles?
2. Muscat is the Capital City of which sultanate on the Arabian Sea?
3. What name is given to crayons made of ground pigment used for drawing & colouring?
4. Which comic strip character was created by Mary Tourtel in 1920, & lives with his friends in the village of Nutwood?
5. What is the name of the chief port of Nigeria which is also the most populous city in that country?
6. What name is given to the study of birds?
7. Which US Soul Singers biggest UK hit was ‘(Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay’?
8. In the human body what name is given to the inflammation of the membrane lining of the nasal cavities?
9. What name is given to the joining of two ropes by intertwining the strands?
10. What is the name of a style of Country Music that originated in the US State of Kentucky?
11. What is the surname of the children’s character ‘Postman Pat’?
12 What was the name of the B29 Bomber used by the US to drop an atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945?
13. Which Scottish Heroine smuggled Bonnie Prince Charlie, in a small boat, to the Isle of Skye?
14. What was the name of the companion & faithful squire of Don Quixote in the novel by Cervantes?
15. Which two letters in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet are represented by ballroom dances?
16. Which Author created the character ‘Bridget Jones’?
17. Westminster Abbey, Notre Dame Cathedral & Cologne Cathedral are all built in which architectural style?
18. Which English singer was born Terence Edward Parsons in 1930 & was known as ‘The Man with the Golden Voice’?
19. Sungold, Moneymaker & Piccolo are all varieties of which salad ingredient?
20. What is the name of the fictional superhero created in 1962, whose real name is Peter Parker?

ANSWERS WILL BE GIVEN ON THE NEXT NEWSLETTER. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE

JULIE CLARKE

Thought for the day:

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