Thursday 2 February 2012

Ten for Thursday....

As we near the end of another week and seemingly brace ourselves for a cold snap, here are ten quick questions to get your teeth into.


1. On this day in 1920, the Treaty of Tartu ended the War of Independence in which European Nation?

Estonia

2. The Ognissanti Madonna, currently on display at the Ufizzi gallery is a work of which early artist?

Giotto

3. Which Belarusian tennis player rose to the World Number One Ranking this week after victory in the Australian Open?

Victoria Azarenka 

4. Which Premier League Footballer has made over 500 appearances in the Premiership as well as being capped for England whilst at 5 different clubs?

Emile Heskey


5. Which poet, who served as Poet Laureate during World War Two, has works including "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea Fever"?

John Masefield 


6. In Pop Music, which female singer who represented the United Kingdom as part of the group Precious at the 1999 Eurovision Song contest in Israel, later went on to join Atomic Kitten after the departure of Kerry Katona?

Jenny Frost


7. Which Woody Allen film involves the main character, played by Allen, waking up 200 years in the future after being cyrogenically frozen only to find himself in a totalitarian state?

Sleeper


8.  Which classic British Comedy, it has been announced this week, will be remade into a US version for American Audiences 8 years after the last episode was aired on UK Television?

Only Fools and Horses


9. In terms of official listening figures, what breakfast show attracts the highest audience each morning netting almost 8.8 million listeners?

Chris Evans Breakfast Show (Radio 2)


10. Which classic author was both a writer for and founder of the British Weekly Literary magazine "All Year Round"?

Charles Dickens







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