Tuesday Quiz

To keep with my weekly theme this week here are a few quiz questions. I probably won't be doing any until Friday as I am away in Edinburgh for a quiz event Ill be mentioning once I get back so due to missing two days Ill do a bumper set on Friday! Answers in comment box as usual!

1. Which actress played Wednesday in the 1991 film version of the 'Addams Family'?

2. What is the official name for the '&' symbol? 

3. In the March 1973 s Pele played a friendly for Santos in England against which football league club, an occasion which is still talked about in the area to this day?

4. He has an assistant called Lynn, a Geordie Petrol-Attendant friend called Michael and, has hosted a TV Chat show and is not well liked by the controller of the BBC Tony Hayers. Who is he?

5. Who is the only member of both the Magnificent Seven and the Dirty Dozen?

6. What is the name of the shield carried by Jupiter made primarily from goat skin?

7. Who wrote "The Selfish Gene" giving his views of a gene centred view of the earth?

8. What element is the main component of the Sun?

9. To the nearest Trillon, how many miles is One Light Year?

10. Who was the manager of Sunderland AFC when they caused a shock by beating Leeds in the 1973 FA Cup Final?

11. Which Artist constructed the etching "The Sleep of Reasoning Brings Forth Monsters" which was said the capture the spirit of the enlightenment? 

12. Steven Spielberg's 'The Colour Purple' is based on a novel by which author?

13. Which British Monacrh was responsible for moving the Indian Capital from Calcutta to Delhi?

14. Who played British Sprinter Harold Abrahams in the Oscar winning film 'Chariots of Fire'?

15. What was the name  given to the TV Show (in essence part of a wider afternoon of entertainment) that featured such pub sports as cheese skittles, darts and arm wrestling?

1. Christina Ricci

2. Ampersand 

3. Plymouth Argyle 

4. Alan Partirdige

5. Charles Bronson 

6. Aegis

7. Richard Dawkins

8. Hydrogen 

9. 6 Trillion

10. Bob Stokoe 

11. Goya

12. Alice Walker

13. Geroge V

14. Ian Charleston 

15. Indoor League