Tes Quiz: 11 September 2020

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11th September 2020, 12:01am
Tes Quiz: 11 September 2020

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Tes Quiz: 11 September 2020

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  1. Whose picture appeared in an article in The New Yorker entitled “Frankie Goes To Hollywood” that inspired the band of the same name?
  2. Vilnius is the capital of which country?
  3. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident took place during which conflict?
  4. Who won his sixth snooker world championship in 2020?
  5. Who wrote the novel The Handmaid’s Tale?
  6. Which organ in the human body produces bile?
  7. What type of creature is a guillemot?
  8. In cooking, a beurre manié is made up of equal parts of which two ingredients?
  9. What economic term can be defined as the extra amount earned by a resource (eg, land, capital or labour) by virtue of its present use?
  10. Who plays Luke Hobbs in the 2019 film Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw?

QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Frank Sinatra 2. Lithuania 3. Vietnam War 4. Ronnie O’Sullivan 5. Margaret Atwood 6. Liver 7. Bird 8. Butter and flour 9. Economic rent 10. Dwayne Johnson

Questions set by John Cunnane

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