Tes Quiz: 6 December 2019

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6th December 2019, 12:05am
Tes Quiz 6 December 2019

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Tes Quiz: 6 December 2019

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  1. Also the name of a 2016 film, Hands of Stone (or Manos de Piedra) was the nickname of which Panamanian boxer?
  2. Who wrote and sang the sports fans’ favourite Sweet Caroline, released in 1969?
  3. In December 1877, Thomas Edison recited which nursery rhyme on his first phonograph recording?
  4. The name of which burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa is an anagram of the surname of the prime minister of the Republic of Ireland?
  5. What is the most populous city in South America?
  6. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what relation is the title character to the king, Claudius?
  7. Ambar, Estrella and Mahou are all beers from which country?
  8. Which chemical element has the same name as a London theatre?
  9. Which US sitcom revolves around characters working at Sacred Heart Hospital?
  10. Where in the human body would you find the tympanic membrane?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

  1. Roberto Duran
  2. Neil Diamond
  3. Mary Had a Little Lamb
  4. Aardvark (Leo Varadkar)
  5. São Paulo
  6. Nephew
  7. Spain
  8. Palladium
  9. Scrubs
  10. Ear

Questions set by John Cunnane

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