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Questions

1) What was the name of the Bronze Age civilization which grew up on and around the island of Crete in the Mediterranean?

 

2) Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Helsinki and Riga are all cities situated on which sea?

 

3) Which film has the following as its last line - "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye."
 

4) Shirley Crabtree Jr was a huge presence on the UK wrestling scene under what name?

 

5) What was the Manhattan Project?

 

6) In which city is the famous Edvard Eriksen statute, The Little Mermaid?

 

7) Which book by Ray Bradbury starts with the words  - 'It was a pleasure to burn.'

 

8) What is the capital city of Canada?

 

9) Which actress, writer and producer wrote the first series of Killing Eve and was the creator and writer of Fleabag?

 

10) In 1953 Edmund Hillary was the first man to reach the summit of Everest along with which other person?

 

 

 

Answers

1) What was the name of the Bronze Age civilization which grew up on and around the island of Crete in the Mediterranean?

Minoan

 

2) Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Helsinki and Riga are all cities situated on which sea?

Baltic Sea

 

3) Which film has the following as its last line - "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye."
Silence of the Lambs

 

4) Shirley Crabtree Jr was a huge presence on the UK wrestling scene under what name?

Big Daddy

 

5) What was the Manhattan Project?

The development of the Atomic Bomb

 

6) In which city is the famous Edvard Eriksen statute, The Little Mermaid?

Copenhagen

 

7) Which book by Ray Bradbury starts with the words  - 'It was a pleasure to burn.'

FAHRENHEIT 451 

 

8) What is the capital city of Canada?

Ottawa

 

9) Which actress, writer and producer wrote the first series of Killing Eve and was the creator and writer of Fleabag?

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

 

10) In 1953 Edmund Hillary was the first man to reach the summit of Everest along with which other person?

Tenzing Norgay (Sherpa Tenzing)