QUIZ 006

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1. Who is the current First Minister of Scotland?

2. Sarah, Duchess of York said ‘I am the only woman who has not been BLANK for leaving the Royal Family’. What word replaces the blank?

3. What did the Queen start doing on April 6th 1993?

4. Michael Jackson did it in 1992, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake did it in 2004 and Bruce Springsteen did it this year. What?

5. Which Pet Shop Boys hit has the same name as a Marx Brothers movie and an eighties pop band?

6. Which piece of roadside technology was invented by Carl McGee in 1935?

7. Which planet in the solar system has the longest day?

8. Mao Tse Tung, Arthur Ashe, Che Guevera and Dr Monica Turner are all tattoos sported by which former boxing champion?

9. Which American city has the nickname ‘Beantown’?

10. Which German term literally translates as Joy in Damage?

11. Which children’s author’s real name is Theodor Geisel?

12. Where on your mobile phone would you find the Octothorpe?

13. In 1808, Judaki Kuparento became the first person to have his life saved by what, when his balloon caught fire?

14. In a 2008 survey, which world leader’s autobiography was voted the number one book to own if you want to impress a woman?