linda’s friday night quiz the answers

LINDA’S FRIDAY NIGHT QUIZ

AND NOW, THE ANSWERS...

ROUND 1FILM

NAME THE FILM OR FILM SERIES AND THE

CHARACTER

ROUND 1 / FILM / PICTURE ROUND 1/5 / QUESTION 1

TOP GUNMAVERICK

NAME THE FILM OR FILM SERIES AND THE

CHARACTER2001 – A SPACE ODYSSEY

HAL

ROUND 1 / FILM / PICTURE ROUND 2/5 / QUESTION 2

NAME THE FILM OR FILM SERIES AND THE

CHARACTERBEVERLEY HILLS COP

AXEL FOLEY

ROUND 1 / FILM / PICTURE ROUND 3/5 / QUESTION 3

NAME THE FILM OR FILM SERIES AND THE

CHARACTERDIE HARD

JOHN MCCLANE

ROUND 1 / FILM / PICTURE ROUND 4/5 / QUESTION 4

NAME THE FILM OR FILM SERIES AND THE

CHARACTERTHE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE

UGLYTHE MAN WITH NO NAME

ROUND 1 / FILM / PICTURE ROUND 5/5 / QUESTION 5

FILM

Who’s films include LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects and American Beauty?Kevin Spacey

ROUND 1 / FILM / QUICKFIRE 1/5 / QUESTION 6

FILM

The number one and number two highest grossing films of all time were directed and written by the same man – who?James Cameron

ROUND 1 / FILM / QUICKFIRE 2/5 / QUESTION 7

FILM

The news photographer, Paparazzo, who gave his name to the modern-day ‘paparazzi’, was a character from which 1960’s film?La Dolce Vita

ROUND 1 / FILM / QUICKFIRE 3/5 / QUESTION 8

FILM

How many Bond films did Roger Moore star in?7

ROUND 1 / FILM / QUICKFIRE 4/5 / QUESTION 9

FILM

In which decade was Ben Hur released?50s (1959)

ROUND 1 / FILM / QUICKFIRE 5/5 / QUESTION 10

ROUND 2HISTORY

NAME THE HISTORICAL CHARACTERCHE GUEVARA

ROUND 2 / HISTORY/ PICTURE ROUND 1/5 / QUESTION 11

NAME THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER

AL CAPONE

ROUND 2 / HISTORY/ PICTURE ROUND 2/5 / QUESTION 12

NAME THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER

BEETHOVEN

ROUND 2 / HISTORY/ PICTURE ROUND 3/5 / QUESTION 13

NAME THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER

MARK TWAIN

ROUND 2 / HISTORY/ PICTURE ROUND 4/5 / QUESTION 14

NAME THE HISTORICAL CHARACTER

SIGMUND FREUD

ROUND 2 / HISTORY/ PICTURE ROUND 5/5 / QUESTION 15

HISTORY

To which political party did Abraham Lincoln belong?Republican

ROUND 2 / HISTORY / QUICKFIRE 1/5 / QUESTION 16

HISTORY

Which volcano erupted in the first century AD, burying the Italian city of Pompeii?Mount Vesuvius

ROUND 2 / HISTORY / QUICKFIRE 2/5 / QUESTION 17

HISTORY

Who was President when Apollo 11 put the first men on the moon?Richard Nixon

ROUND 2 / HISTORY / QUICKFIRE 3/5 / QUESTION 18

HISTORY

Who was head of the German Luftwaffe during World War II?Hermann Göring

ROUND 2 / HISTORY / QUICKFIRE 4/5 / QUESTION 19

HISTORY

In which country was Leon Trotsky assassinated in 1940?Mexico

ROUND 2 / HISTORY / QUICKFIRE 5/5 / QUESTION 20

ROUND 3ART & LITERATURE

NAME THE ART PERIOD IMPRESSIONISMROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / PICTURE ROUND 1/5 / QUESTION 21

NAME THE ART PERIOD ART NOUVEAU

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / PICTURE ROUND 2/5 / QUESTION 22

NAME THE ART PERIOD CUBISM

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / PICTURE ROUND 3/5 / QUESTION 23

NAME THE ART PERIOD RENAISSANCE

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / PICTURE ROUND 4/5 / QUESTION 24

NAME THE ART PERIOD SURREALISM

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / PICTURE ROUND 5/5 / QUESTION 25

ART & LITERATURE

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Magician’s Nephew and The Silver Chair are three of the books from which seven-part children’s collection?The Chronicles of Narnia

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / QUICKFIRE 1/5 / QUESTION 26

ART & LITERATURE

Which French author declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964?Jean-Paul Satre

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / QUICKFIRE 2/5 / QUESTION 27

ART & LITERATURE

Who wrote the Twilight series of novels?Stephanie Meyer

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / QUICKFIRE 3/5 / QUESTION 28

ART & LITERATUREWho wrote A Farewell to Arms (Farväl till vapnen), based on his experiences in World War I, and For Whom the Bell Tolls (Klockan klämtar för dig), based on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War?Ernest Hemingway

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / QUICKFIRE 4/5 / QUESTION 29

ART & LITERATURE

Which is the third book in the Harry Potter series?Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

ROUND 3 / ART & LITERATURE / QUICKFIRE 5/5 / QUESTION 30

ROUND 4GEOGRAPHY

NAME THE COUNTRY

VIETNAMNAME THE COUNTRY

PANAMANAME THE COUNTRY

LEBANON

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / PICTURE ROUND 1-3/5 / QUESTIONS 31-3

NAME THE COUNTRY

GHANANAME THE COUNTRY

SLOVAKIA

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / PICTURE ROUND 4-5/5 / QUESTIONS 34-5

GEOGRAPHY

Which is South America’s northernmost capital city?Caracas (Venezuela)

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / QUICKFIRE 1/5 / QUESTION 36

GEOGRAPHY

Which capital city is the only in the world to border two other countries?Bratislava (Slovakia, with Austria and Hungary)

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / QUICKFIRE 2/5 / QUESTION 37

GEOGRAPHY

Monrovia, named after American President, James Munroe, is the capital of which African country?Liberia

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / QUICKFIRE 3/5 / QUESTION 38

GEOGRAPHY

The majority of the River Nile flows through which country?Sudan

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / QUICKFIRE 4/5 / QUESTION 39

GEOGRAPHY

Which is the most populous city in Brazil?Sao Paulo

ROUND 4 / GEOGRAPHY / QUICKFIRE 5/5 / QUESTION 40

ROUND 5POT LUCK

BRANDS

After splitting with his business partner and brother, Adi Dassler, in 1947, which sportswear brand did Rudolf Dassler go on to found one year later?PUMA

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 1/10 / QUESTION 41

OPERA

Papageno is the baritone in which 18th century opera?The Magic Flute

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 2/10 / QUESTION 42

MAKE THE CONNECTION

BOTH BASED ON ROMEO AND JULIET

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 3/10 / QUESTION 43

POP MUSIC

Who had hits in the 80s with Never Gonna Give You Up and Whenever You Need Somebody?Rick Astley

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 4/10 / QUESTION 44

NAME THE FOOTBALL CLUB

BORUSSIA DORTMUND

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 5/10 / QUESTION 45

TV

What are the first names of the four main characters in Sex and the City?Samantha, Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 6/10 / QUESTION 46

NAME THE BUILDINGBURJ KHALIFA

(IN DUBAI, THE WORLD’S TALLEST BUILDING)

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 7/10 / QUESTION 47

SCIENCEWhich of the following towns does not have an element named after it: Ytterby, Darmstadt, Copenhagen, Poznan?Erbium, Terbium, Ytterbium and Yttrium – YtterbyDarmstadtium – Darmstadt, GermanyHafnium – Hafnia, Latin for Copenhagen

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 8/10 / QUESTION 48

LANGUAGES

Which fruit is called a ‘pamplemousse’ in French?Grapefruit

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 9/10 / QUESTION 49

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

Who delivered Sweden’s worst finish of 26th place in the ESC?Anna Bergendahl (This Is My Life, 2010)

ROUND 5 / POT LUCK / QUICKFIRE 10/10 / QUESTION 50

AND THE WINNERS ARE...!