Weekend Break: MasterMinds

1. How many people are estimated to have attended the Tall Ships festival last weekend?

2. What is the most common gas in the air we breathe?

3. Sekt and Perelada are examples of what type of wine?

4. Who appeared in both the London and Philadelphia parts of the Live Aid Concerts?

5. Which piece of film memorabilia from the film The Wizard Of Ozmade EUR666,000when auctioned in 2000?

6. Who discovered gravitation and invented calculus?

7. John Weissmuller and Rowdy Gaines are associated with which Olympic sport?

8. Why was Scottish footballer Willie Johnstone sent home from the 1978 World Cup?

9. Which 1980 film features BillMurray battling against a gopher?

10. What two coloursmake up the Polish flag?

11. Which film theme song did Ray Parker Junior sing in 1984?

12. Which Beatles albumwas the best-selling albumin the 1960s in the UK?

13. What does the Latin phrase quo vadis mean?

14. Green Park, Oxford Circus and Warren Street are onwhich London Underground line?

15. Who wrote If Only They Could Talk and Let Sleeping Vets Lie?

16. Inwhich year did London’s first airport open?

17. Whowas the first US President to meet with a reigning British monarch?

18. Whatwas the original name for the breathalyser?

19. Marvin Lee Aday is better known by a high school nick- name.What is it?

20. What river forms a large part of the boundary betweenMexico and the USA?

21. Inwhich Ocean are the Seychelles?

22. What is the name of the upcoming James Bond film starringWirral’s Daniel Craig?

23. Whowas the 1998 Formula One World Champion?

24. Born in 1979, bywhat name is AleciaMoore better known in the musicworld?

25. Whomanaged Arsenal to the league title in 1989 and 1991?

26. From which country do the band A-Ha come?

27. Which 1976 film features the characters of Fat Samand Dandy Dan?

28. Which cricketer wrote a novel called Deep Cover?

29. In the phonetic alphabet, what word represents the letter Z?

30. The RHS Flower Show takes place at which Cheshire stately home this week?

Answers

1. 1 million; 2.Nitrogen; 3. Sparkling; 4. Phil Collins; 5. The ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland; 6. Isaac Newton; 7. Swimming; 8. For taking drugs; 9. Caddyshack; 10. Red and white; 11. Ghostbusters; 12. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; 13. Where are you going; 14. Victoria; 15. James Herriott; 16. 1919; 17.Woodrow Wilson; 18. Drunkometer; 19.Meatloaf; 20. The Rio Grande; 21. Indian; 22. Quantum of Solace; 23.Mika Hakkinen; 24. Pink; 25. George Graham; 26.Norway; 27. Bugsy Malone; 28. Ian Botham; 29. Zulu; 30. Tatton Park.

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