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Questions

1) The album ‘Rubber Soul’ was by which group?

 

2) Known as Venus to the Romans and Freya to Norsemen, what was the goddess known as to the Greeks?

 

3) What type of animal is an Oryx?

 

4) The term GCHQ refers to what?

 

5) What Cabinet post was held by Denis Healey, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and John Major?

 

6) ‘And so to bed’ is a quotation from which famous diarist?

 

7) What was mountaineer Geoge Mallory quoted as saying when asked why he was attempting to climb Mt Everest

 

8) What sport would you be taking part in if you performed a ‘pile-driver’

 

9) In which TV programme did Gordon Kaye play the character Rene Artois?

 

10) Who was the first American president to be assassinated?

 

 

 

Answers

1) The album ‘Rubber Soul’ was by which group?

Beatles

 

2) Known as Venus to the Romans and Freya to Norsemen, what was the goddess known as to the Greeks?

Aphrodite

 

3) What type of animal is an Oryx?

Antelope

 

4) The term GCHQ refers to what?

Government Communications Headquarters

 

5) What Cabinet post was held by Denis Healey, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and John Major?

Chancellor of the Exchequer

 

6) ‘And so to bed’ is a quotation from which famous diarist?

Samuel Pepys

 

7) What was mountaineer Geoge Mallory quoted as saying when asked why he was attempting to climb Mt Everest

‘Because it’s there’

 

8) What sport would you be taking part in if you performed a ‘pile-driver’

Wrestling

 

9) In which TV programme did Gordon Kaye play the character Rene Artois?

‘Allo ‘Allo

 

10) Who was the first American president to be assassinated?

Abraham Lincoln