Tes Quiz: 16 April 2021

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16th April 2021, 12:05am
Tes Quiz: 16 April 2021

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Tes Quiz: 16 April 2021

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1. Which one of these actors was born in Australia: Mel Gibson; Nicole Kidman; Hugh Jackman?

2. Born 16 April 1940, Queen Margrethe II is the monarch of which European country?

3. Which Irish author wrote Finnegans Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners?

4. Sebastian Vettel currently drives for which Formula 1 team?

5. You Take Me Up is a 1984 single by which band, named after characters from the Tintin novels?

6. Amontillado is a variety of which alcohol drink?

7. The Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia can both be found in which city?

8. With the atomic number 46, which element shares its name with a London theatre venue?

9. What relation was Genghis Khan to Kublai Khan?

10. The Guylian chocolate brand originates from which country?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Hugh Jackman - the other two were born in the US

2. Denmark

3. James Joyce

4. Aston Martin

5. Thompson Twins

6. Sherry

7. Istanbul

8. Palladium

9. Grandfather

10. Belgium

Questions set by John Cunnane

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