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Questions

1) Which footballer won the first ever Football Writers Player of the Year in 1948?

 

2) In terms of health, what does CJD mean?

 

3) Arthur Wynne is credited as inventing which type of entertainment that has been a staple for newspapers and magazines for generations?

 

4) Barbara Bach, who played Anya Amasova in the Bond film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ married which musician in 1981?

 

5) Which singer was known as the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ during and after WWII?

 

6) What stage name did actor and dancer Frederick Austerlitz adopt to make himself sound less foreign even though he was born in the USA?

 

7) What is the term for women’s breeches that hang like a skirt but have separate legs?

 

8) Baku is the capital of which western asian country?

 

9) Based on the definition of a desert as being an area that gets less than 10 inches of precipitation a year, what is the world’s largest desert?

 

10) Which London building consists of three identical arches and is situated where the Mall leads to Trafalgar Square?

 

 

 

Answers

1) Which footballer won the first ever Football Writers Player of the Year in 1948?

Stanley Matthews

 

2) In terms of health, what does CJD mean?

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

 

3) Arthur Wynne is credited as inventing which type of entertainment that has been a staple for newspapers and magazines for generations?

Crossword puzzle

 

4) Barbara Bach, who played Anya Amasova in the Bond film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ married which musician in 1981?

Ringo Star

 

5) Which singer was known as the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ during and after WWII?

Vera Lynn

 

6) What stage name did actor and dancer Frederick Austerlitz adopt to make himself sound less foreign even though he was born in the USA?

Fred Astaire

 

7) What is the term for women’s breeches that hang like a skirt but have separate legs?

Culottes

 

8) Baku is the capital of which western asian country?

Azerbaijan

 

9) Based on the definition of a desert as being an area that gets less than 10 inches of precipitation a year, what is the world’s largest desert?

Antarctica

 

10) Which London building consists of three identical arches and is situated where the Mall leads to Trafalgar Square?

Admiralty Arch