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Published 12th November 2020

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Questions:

1) Computer or TV screens are often referred to as LCD, but what does that mean?

 

2) Which is the oldest of the British universities founded in 1249?

 

3) The final words of which Queen Consort is said to be “ The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender”

 

4) What did the UK first do on the Monte Bello Islands off West Australia in 1952?

 

5) On a public transport vehicle in 1909, Kate Barton was the first what?

 

6) What is the middle name of CS Lewis? a) Stephen b) Staples c) St John

 

7) Which king of France was known as ‘The Sun King’?

 

8) What is the term for someone who collects books?

 

9) Singer Marvin Lee Aday is better known by which one word name?

 

10) Ruth Ellis, model and nightclub manager was the last woman to be what, in July 1955?

 

Answers:

1) Computer or TV screens are often referred to as LCD, but what does that mean?

Liquid Crystal Display

 

2) Which is the oldest of the British universities founded in 1249?

Oxford

 

3) The final words of which Queen Consort is said to be “ The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender”

Anne Boleyn

 

4) What did the UK first do on the Monte Bello Islands off West Australia in 1952?

Detonate their first Atomic Bomb

 

5) On a public transport vehicle in 1909, Kate Barton was the first what?

Bus conductress

 

6) What is the middle name of CS Lewis? a) Stephen b) Staples c) St John

b) Staples

 

7) Which king of France was known as ‘The Sun King’?

Louis XIV

 

8) What is the term for someone who collects books?

Bibliophile

 

9) Singer Marvin Lee Aday is better known by which one word name?

Meatloaf

 

10) Ruth Ellis, model and nightclub manager was the last woman to be what, in July 1955?

Hanged for murder