Which Australian actor won an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1996 for Shine and Best Supporting Actor for Shakespeare in Love?
Geoffrey Rush

Who became Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics?
Cathy Freeman

Actor who starred in Neighbours from 1994 to 2000 and went on to star as Dr Robert Chase in the series House?
Jesse Spencer

The questions are based on events that happened in a January

The 'Yorkshire Ripper' was arrested in January 1981 following one of the largest police investigations ever. What was his real name?
Peter Sutcliffe

Why did the USA president Richard Nixon sign a bill in 1974 restricting the speed limit for cars to 55mph?
To conserve fuel during an OPEC embargo

In which year did Yazz and the Plastic Population top the UK single chart with The Only Way Is Up?

a) 1986 b) 1987 c) 1988

c) 1988

In 1993, The Bluebells reformed to reissue a previously released 1984 single following its appearance in a Volkswagen advert. What was it called?

Young at Heart

Keith Moon joined which British music group as drummer in April 1964?

The Who

The Nutshell pub in Bury St. Edmunds holds which distinction?

Smallest pub in Britain

Born in 1839, which ‘PC’ was a French Post-Impressionist artist who married Hortense Fiquet in 1886? His works include ‘The Bather’ and ‘The Lake at Annecy’.

Paul Cezanne

Who played boxer Muhammed Ali in the 2001 biopic ‘Ali’?

Will Smith

On the road, ANPR might automatically detect and read your what?

Number plate

Which former Newcastle United and Manchester United striker appeared fifteen times for England, scoring once against Albania?