True or false; Marco Polo featured as a character in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure?

False

 

Who directed both 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' and 'The Color Purple'?

Steven Spielberg

 

Which pop stars plays the main protagonist in the 1985 film 'Desperately Seeking Susan'?

Madonna

 

Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis starred in which bizarre classic directed by Tim Burton?

Beetlejuice

 

Which novel by Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in May 1937?

Gone With the Wind

 

Whom did António Guterres replace as United Nations Secretary-General in 2017?

Ban Ki-moon.

 

The world’s first jet airliner made its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg in 1952. What model was it?

de Havilland Comet

 

Which city in South America was founded by the Portugese in March 1565?

Rio de Janeiro

 

Which US President won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?

Barack Obama

 

Which US President lived at Mount Vernon?

a) Abraham Lincoln b) George Washington c) Thomas Jefferson

b) George Washington

 

Which US President who served between 1974 and 1977 was a former male model?

Gerald Ford

 

Who resigned as US President in 1974?

Richard Nixon

 

Which US President used the slogan 'The buck stops here'?

The Victoria Cross was established in which year?

a) 1856 b) 1866 c) 1876

a) 1856

 

A baguette is a long thin loaf of French bread, but what does the word Baguette mean in English?

Baton or wand

 

Ford were the first motor company to introduce which radical innovation in 1913?

The moving assembly line

 

Symphony No.9 in E minor, or From the New World is a symphony by which composer?

Dvorak

 

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