1.
This country is the world’s largest producer of
Uranium. In 1991, it was the last of the Soviet Republics to declare
independence following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the current
President of the nation has been in power since. Which nation, the largest
landlocked country in the world by area, is also associated with the Sacha
Baron Cohen character Borat?
Kazakhstan
2.
On this day in 1835 the first assassination
attempt against a serving US President was carried out by Englishman Richard
Lawrence. Legend has it that when Lawrence’s pistols misfired, the President
attacked him with his cane. Which President, nicknamed “Old Hickory” was the
target of this attack?
Andrew Jackson
3.
Launched in October 2010, this free mobile app
had 400 million users by December 2015. The service was acquired by Facebook in
2012 for $1 billion dollars. Created by Kevin Systrom and with a camera as its
logo, which mobile photo sharing service is the 8th most downloaded
app of all time?
Instagram
4.
What number
links – the number of studio albums
released by the Beatles, the number of strikes needed for a perfect game in ten
pin bowling, the number of people who have walked on the moon, the number of
stars on the flag of Europe, the atomic number of Magnesium and the number of
Angry Men in the title of a 1957 film?
12
5.
Released in January 2016, his latest novel
is “The Noise of Time”. He has written crime novels under the name
Dan Kavanagah. He has been nominated for 4 Booker Prizes for works including Arthur and George and
England England. Which British author won the 2011 Booker Prize for the “Sense
of an Ending”?
Julian Barnes
6.
In 1967 this comedy duo won the TV talent show
Opportunity Knocks, followed by success on New Faces in 1974. In 2009 they
celebrated the 20th anniversary of their most famous TV series and
in 2010 they won the Channel 4 series “Celebrity Coach Trip”. Born with the
surname Elliot, which Comedy Duo hosted the Children’s game show “To Me to You”
based on their most famous catchphrase?
The Chuckle Brothers
7.
Winning the 1985 Bafta Award for Best Picture,
which Woody Allen film follows the story of Tom Baxter, a character within a
movie who pops out of the Cinema screen into the real world and begins a
romance with Mia Farrow?
Purple Rose of Cairo
8.
This classical composer won the 2003 Pulitzer
Prize for “On the Transmigration of Souls” which was a choral piece
commemorating the victims of the September 11th attack. He is perhaps most known for his operatic
works including Doctor Atomic in 2005 and Nixon in China in 1987. Name this
American composer born in 1947 who shares a name with an American President?
John Adams
9.
In
November 2013, this painters work entitled “Three Studies of Lucian
Freud” sold for a then record $142 million dollars at auction. His 1944
triptych “Three Studies for Figures at the base of a crucifixtion” sealed his
reputation as a bleak chronicler of the human condition. Born in Ireland in
1909, name this painter described by William Kooning as the “most important painter of the disquieting human
figure in the 20th century”?
Francis Bacon
10.
In which decade did the following events occur –
the last Emperor of Germany began his reign, Coca Cola was invented, Robert
Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island, President Garfield was assassinated
and Robert Ford assassinated Jesse James?
1880s
11.
Which romantic drama series, first aired on BBC
One in 2012, follows the story of two childhood sweethearts, who reunite over
Facebook following 60 years apart? The programme stars Anne Reid and Derek
Jacobi, and the title contains the name of a Dance as well as the town we are
currently all sitting in!
Last Tango in Halifax
12.
Hitting number 1 in May 1988 as part of a double
a side, a cover of which Beatles song gave Billy Bragg his first and to date
only UK Number 1 single?
Shes Leaving Home
13.
Currently
the assistant coach at Derby County, who is the only Englishman to win the European
Golden Shoe, a feat achieved in the 1999-200 season when he netted 30 goals for Sunderland?
Kevin Phillips
14.
One of the few people to have won an Osacr, an
Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, who is the only female singer to have had No.1
albums in the USA in six different decades, her first being “People” in 1964
and her latest being “Partners” in 2014 with her first Oscar win coming in 1969
for the film “Funny Girl”?
Barbara Streisand
15. Name this island. On average 1.5
million tourists visit this island every year which is a greater amount than
the actual population. The flag of this island country is the only one in
the world to contain an outline of the country on it and in 1974 Nikos Sampson
led a famous coup here. Popular destinations on the island include Larnaca and
Limassol and its capital is Nicosia.
Cyprus
