Tes Quiz: 18 January 2019

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18th January 2019, 12:00am
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Tes Quiz: 18 January 2019

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1. What is the name of the only horse to have won the English, Welsh and Scottish Grand Nationals (1998, 1997 and 1994 respectively)?

2. Named the Sandwich Islands by James Cook when he visited them on 18 January 1778, by what name are these Pacific islands now known?

3. Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem is the house band in which TV troupe?

4. Which poet and author, who died on 18 January 1936, wrote Gunga Din?

5. Sultanas, raisins and currants are all dried varieties of which fruit?

6. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ is an Oscar winning song from which 1969 film?

7. In Roman mythology, who was the King of the Gods, who later had one of the planets in our solar system named after him?

8. The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during which 19th-century conflict?

9. From the Panthera genus, what are the ‘big four’ cats living in the wild?

10. How many dice are used in a game of craps?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Earth Summit

2. Hawaiian Islands

3. The Muppets

4. Rudyard Kipling

5. Grape

6. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

7. Jupiter

8. Crimean War (Battle of Balaclava)

9. Tigers, Lions, Jaguars and Leopards

10. Two

Questions set by John Cunnane

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