Extra points for answering any question at all while doing your sit-ups. (You may have to enlist the aid of a friend to call them out.)
1. In the USA it is called a bathrobe. What do the British call it?
2. Leonardo di Caprio played multi-millionaire Howard Hughes in which film?
3. Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong were the first two Prime Ministers of which country?
4. In water skiing as a competitive sport who, apart from the skier and the driver, is needed?
5. George Harrison was deported from which city where the early Beatles had long term engagements, because of his youth?
6. In the 2020 Summer Olympics what country took all three podium spots for the women’s 100 m?
7. Everybody comes to Rick’s is the basis for which film’s screenplay?
8. In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
9. ‘Cars’ is the first solo single by which new-wave musician?
10. Which Beatles album cover shows the fab four with their arms positioned spelling out four letters in flag semaphore?
11. Which is the nearest country to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon?
12. Who “rocked in the treetops all the day long” to a chorus of “Tweet, tweet, tweedley deet”?
13. Who watched his daughter win her first professional boxing bout in October 1999?
14. Who wrote the children’s book “The Fairy Caravan”, about Tuppeny, a young guinea pig who joins a travelling circus?
15. In Victorian London, what was thick smog called?
16. A bloat or thunder are collective nouns for a group of what animal?
17. Which three letter word can go before ‘dial’, ‘hat and ‘flower’ to make three other words?
18. Spelter is an alloy of zinc with which other metal?
19. What does a bibliophile love?
20. Brown, recluse and orb are types of what?
Bonus question: Which Olympic Games were the last to offer gold medals made of solid gold? Answer in Quiz 6.
Answers: 1.Dressing gown 2.The Aviator 3.Singapore 4.Spotter 5.Hamburg 6.Jamaica 7.Casablanca 8.1962 9.Gary Numan 10.Help! 11.Canada 12.Rockin’ Robin 13.Muhammad Ali 14.Beatrix Potter 15.Pea souper 16.Hippopotamus 17.Sun 18.Lead 19.Books 20.Spiders
Bonus question answer (from Quiz 4) : The Order of the Knights Templar were founded in 1119.
