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Questions

1) Is a colour described as “sanguine” red, yellow or blue?

 

2) ‘Getting to Know You’ is one of the best known songs from which musical?

 

3) Which historical drama set in Yorkshire was created and co-written by Julian Fellowes?

 

4) A Niblick is an old fashioned name for what type of golf club a) driver b) putter c) wedge

 

5) According to the proverb ‘Promises and pie crusts are meant to be’ what?

 

6) ‘Guernica’ is one of which artist's most famous paintings, and currently is exhibited in a museum in Madrid.

 

7) What term is used when someone you are thinking about or speaking about turns up at that moment?

 

8) During World War II the 617 squadron became better known as what?

 

9) What is the 1st day of Lent known as?

 

10) In 1963 who won an oscar for best actor for his role in To Kill a Mockingbird?

 

 

 

Answers

1) Is a colour described as “sanguine” red, yellow or blue?

Red

 

2) ‘Getting to Know You’ is one of the best known songs from which musical?

The King and I

 

3) Which historical drama set in Yorkshire was created and co-written by Julian Fellowes?

Downton Abbey

 

4) A Niblick is an old fashioned name for what type of golf club a) driver b) putter c) wedge

c) wedge

 

5) According to the proverb ‘Promises and pie crusts are meant to be’ what?

Broken

 

6) ‘Guernica’ is one of which artist's most famous paintings, and currently is exhibited in a museum in Madrid.

Pablo Picasso

 

7) What term is used when someone you are thinking about or speaking about turns up at that moment?

Speak of the Devil

 

8) During World War II the 617 squadron became better known as what?

Dambusters

 

9) What is the 1st day of Lent known as?

Ash Wednesday

 

10) In 1963 who won an oscar for best actor for his role in To Kill a Mockingbird?

Gregory Peck