Tes Quiz: 11 October 2019

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11th October 2019, 12:03am
Tes Quiz: 11 October 2019

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Tes Quiz: 11 October 2019

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1. What novel by Hermann Hesse is also the name of the band that released the song Born To Be Wild?

2. What word can mean to leave someone unable to move from where they are, a thin thread, or a beach?

3. Which country is hosting the 2019 men’s Rugby World Cup?

4. Eau Savage is a fragrance from which fashion house?

5. What is the final line of the wedding rhyme “Something old, something new...”?

6. Recently given city status and with a coordinate of 54° 56’S , the world’s most southerly city, Puerto Willliams, is located in which South American country?

7. Which actor played Roy Neary, the main character in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

8. Other than water, what is the main ingredient of the condiment Mirin?

9. The title of which of Charles Dickens’ novels has the highest single letter score value in Scrabble?

10. By what name is the rapper Belcalis Almanzer, born 11 October 1992, better known?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Steppenwolf

2. Strand

3. Japan

4. Dior

5. A silver sixpence for your shoe

6. Chile

7. Richard Dreyfuss

8. Rice

9. Martin Chuzzlewit (44)

10. Cardi B

Questions set by John Cunnane

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