How much can you remember about Team GB's gold medal winning athletes?

 

Questions:

 

1) What was the name of Team GB's first gold medal winner at the games, who won the Cycling Men's cross-country event?

 

2) Later that day, which British diver teamed up with Matty Lee to take gold in the Men's synchronized 10 metre platform Diving event?

 

3) The first Team GB female athlete to collect gold was Bethany Shriever. In which event did she collect her medal?

 

Questions:

1) 'Lordi' won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 representing which country?

a) Denmark b) Norway c) Finland

 

2) Actor Nicholas Lyndhurst is best known for playing 'Rodney' in which English sitcom?

 

3) Which Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter had a 2007 UK number one with the song 'Grace Kelly'?

 

4) Which British monarch was known by the nickname 'Old Coppernose'?

a) Henry VIII b) George III c) Charles I

 

 

Questions

1) Which city hosted the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896?

 

2) Which TV series had the characters of Edina, Patsy and Bubble?

 

3) What comes next in the sequence 1,1,2,3,5?

 

4) What is the first animal to be found in a dictionary?

 

5) How many players are in a netball team?

 

6) If a group of bees is known as a swarm, what is the collective noun for Worshippers?

 

7) Which ministerial office did George Osborne hold between 2010 and 2016?

Published 6th August 2021

 

Below are a series of statements and all you have to do is decide whether they are true or false, good luck!

 

1) Admiralty Arch at the end of the Mall in London was built in the 19th century.

 

2) There are a total of 202 bones in the human body.

 

3) Nitrous oxide was discovered by Joseph Priestly in 1776.

 

4) Astraphobia is the fear of lightning.

 

5) The German invasion of Poland was codenamed Operation Barbarossa.

 

Published 1st August 2021

 

Welcome to our monthly quiz about events that have taken place during this month of past years. Hope you enjoy.

 

Questions

1)Which mountain on the French Italian border was climbed for the first time in August 1786?

 

2) In 1969, photographer Iain Macmillan took an iconic photo which was the cover of which Beatles album?

 

3) Born Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod in August 1876, she was tried and convicted of being a German spy. Under what name was she better known?