Tes Quiz: 24 July 2020

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24th July 2020, 12:01am
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Tes Quiz: 24 July 2020

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  1. The US presidential retreat Camp David is located in Catoctin Mountain Park in which American state?
  2. Which alcoholic drink claimed it “refreshes the parts other beers can’t reach”?
  3. Who was the mother of King James I of England and King James VI of Scotland?
  4. Which author created the character Tracy Beaker?
  5. Which female gymnast won four gold medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games?
  6. Who had a 1999 hit with a cover version of Mambo No 5?
  7. Dry ice is the solid form of which gas?
  8. What name connects a great-grandson of Noah, a Hawker Siddeley aircraft and a piece of music from Elgar’s Enigma Variations?
  9. In which 2007 film did Spanish actor Javier Bardem play the assassin Anton Chigurh, for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar?
  10. Rediscovered by Hiram Bingham on 24 July 1911, by what name is the “lost” city of the Incas better known?

QUIZ ANSWERS
1. Maryland 2. Heineken 3. Mary Queen of Scots 4. Jacqueline Wilson 5. Simone Biles 6. Lou Bega 7. Carbon dioxide 8. Nimrod 9. No Country For Old Men 10. Machu Picchu

Questions set by John Cunnane

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