Tes Quiz: 28 May 2021

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28th May 2021, 12:05am
Tes Quiz: 28 May 2021

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Tes Quiz: 28 May 2021

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1. Who won the 2021 World Snooker Championship?

2. “Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York” is a quote from which Shakespeare play?

3. Brothers Édouard and André founded which tyre company on 28 May 1889?

4. How many hundredweights are there in a ton?

5. Who has a 100 per cent record of wins to nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress, having won her third in 2021 for her role in Nomadland?

6. Which gemstone signifies a 40th wedding anniversary?

7. A tarte au citron is flavoured with which fruit?

8. Where in the body would you find your hyoid bone?

9. What is the only US state to border two oceans?

10. Which song from the musical Paint Your Wagon was a 1970 hit for Lee Marvin?

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QUIZ ANSWERS

1. Mark Selby

2. Richard III

3. Michelin

4. Twenty

5. Frances McDormand

6. Ruby

7. Lemon

8. In the neck

9. Alaska (Pacific and Atlantic)

10. Wand’rin’ Star

Questions set by John Cunnane

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