QUIZ

Non-Corona Virus?

ROUND 1: Music (artist and song)

1- Current UK number 1
2- Number 1 25 years ago today
3- Recording on this day in 1966 [start at 6 secs – to 12 secs]
4- Name this song released in February
5- Name this James Bond song and artist

FFF ROUND 1: Joseph

1- Name 5 of Joseph’s brothers

ROUND 2: On this day

1- Which US president died in office on this day in 1945?

2- Euro Disney was opened on this day. But which year?
3- Jacob Zuma was born on this day in 1942. Which country was he the president of
between 2009 and 2018?
4- Which actress, who starred in Little Women, Ladybird and The Grand Budapest Hotel,
was born on this day in 1994?
5- Which event is celebrated annually in Russia on April 12?

FFF Round 2: Only Connect

1- Which 1980s film saw Mr Myagi mentor an American teenager in martial arts?
a. [KARATE]
2- What word is also used to describe browsing the web?
a. [SURFING]
3- Ivy, wisteria and honeysuckle commonly grow as what “kind” of plant?
a. [CLIMBING]
4- What sport would you be playing if you scored a home run?
a. [BASEBALL]

CONNECTION: All sports that will make their first appearance at the Tokyo Olympics

R3: TV and Film

1- Which film won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards in February 2020?
2- What number series of Doctor Who began broadcasting in January 2020?
3- Who left the One Show in April 2020 after 9 years on the programme?
4- Who won the first UK series of the Masked Singer in February 2020?
5- On Celebrity Mastermind, what name did a contestant give when asked to name the
famous teenage Swedish climate-change activist?
FFFR3: Countries

1- Order these 5 countries by the order in which they celebrated the start of 2020, from
first to last:
a. Australia
b. Russia
c. Kiribati
d. Singapore
e. New Zealand

R4: General Knowledge

1- Who did Keir Starmer appoint as his Shadow Foreign Secretary after winning the
Labour leadership?
2- Who is currently the top scorer in the Premier League for the 2019-20 season?
3- Which country was named in March 2020 by CEOWorld magazine, as the most
expensive to live in?
4- The National Portrait Gallery opened a David Hockney exhibition in February 2020.
Which water feature features in several of his most well-known paintings?
5- Carrie Symonds will shortly give birth to Boris Johnson’s baby. Who was the last
Prime Minister to father a chid whilst in office?
6- By the end of the 2019-20 bushfire season in Australia, around 72,000m2 had been
burned across the country. Which of the following countries is that area closest in
size to? England (50k), Iceland (40k), Syria (72k) or Belarus (80k)?
7- What did an employment tribunal rule to be a “philosophical belief” in January
2020?
8- On what date this year did Britain formally leave the European Union?
9- Which two storms, which hit the UK in February 2020, followed storm Ciara?
10- Which vegan product did Greggs release in January 2020, to add to its mega-
successful vegan sausage roll?