You’ve had a good night’s sleep, you say? Well done, but that’s not enough to beat this quiz.
1. What UK television programme travels the country and provides the opportunity for people to bring along items and have them valued?
2. Dishes prepared with spinach can be referred to as what?
3. In which country is Ho Chi Minh City?
4. In the books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry, how many wheels does Thomas the Tank Engine have?
5. What is another name for the alligator pear?
6. Where in the Solar System is Husband Hill?
7. Twenty20 is a format of which sport?
8. What is the meaning of the German word “ausgang”?
9. In 2006, Stephen Harper became the Prime Minister of which country?
10. Who is Grizabella?
11. Who was the only person, until Bob Dylan in 2016, to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize for Literature?
12. What phrase appeared on screen at the end of Warner Brothers cartoons?
13. Who was Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996, named after?
14. What sporting event is 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yards)?
15. What is the name for a small single-headed drum, in the rim of which are fitted pairs of small circular metal plates, called “jingles”?
16. With what country is the sombrero associated?
17. Where did Stradivari, the famous violin maker, live and work?
18. In 1906 there was a major earthquake in which US city?
19. What was the title of a 1996 American disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as “storm chasers”?
20. Where is air hockey played?
Bonus question: Who won the 1991 Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship? Answer in Quiz #29.
Answers: 1.Antiques Roadshow 2.Ã la Florentine 3.Vietnam 4.Six wheels 5.Avocado 6.On Mars 7.Cricket 8.Exit 9.Canada 10.A character in the musical Cats 11.George Bernard Shaw 12.That’s All, Folks 13.Dolly Parton 14.The marathon 15.Tambourine 16.Mexico 17.Italy 18.San Francisco 19.Twister 20.On a table
Bonus question answer (from Quiz #27): The playing card that is known as ‘Grace’s Card’ is the six of hearts.
