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Questions

1) The oldest pub in Britain, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, is situated in which English city?

 

2) What is the largest totally freshwater lake in the world?

 

3) Kevin Rowlands was the lead singer and founding member of which group?

 

4) What is the name for the tough fibrous flexible connective tissue that links bones together?

 

5) Which composer’s principal works were the opera ‘Porgy and Bess’ and Rhapsody in Blue for piano?

 

6) In German this musical instrument is called a Dudelsack, but what is it called in English?

 

7) Which film was ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’ written for?

 

8) In mythology who was the principal god of the greeks?

 

9) Which soldier and statesman had a horse named Copenhagen?

 

10) What type of animal is a Mandrill?

 

 

Answers

1) The oldest pub in Britain, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, is situated in which English city?

Nottingham

 

2) What is the largest totally freshwater lake in the world?

Lake Superior

 

3) Kevin Rowlands was the lead singer and founding member of which group?

Dexy’s Midnight Runners

 

4) What is the name for the tough fibrous flexible connective tissue that links bones together?

Ligament

 

5) Which composer’s principal works were the opera ‘Porgy and Bess’ and Rhapsody in Blue for piano?

George Gershwin

 

6) In German this musical instrument is called a Dudelsack, but what is it called in English?

Bagpipes

 

7) Which film was ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’ written for?

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

 

8) In mythology who was the principal god of the greeks?

Zeus

 

9) Which soldier and statesman had a horse named Copenhagen?

Duke of Wellington

 

10) What type of animal is a Mandrill?

Baboon