AsiaLIFE

Love at First Death ....

Firsts
1) In which city was the first skyscraper erected?
2) Who was the first American president to resign from office?
3) The first aerial photograph was taken over the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 1858 from which type of 'aircraft'?
4) What's the first word in the Bible?
5) “I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two/ Lying awake intent at tuning in on you,” were the first words sung on MTV. Name the song and artist.
6) What was the first ever feature length cartoon with sound and colour?
7) Who was killed in the world’s first televised murder in 1963?
8) In which Olympic event did women first compete against men?
9) A Study in Scarlet is the first novel featuring which famous character?
10) Who was the first Bond girl?

Death
11) Who wrote the novel Death on the Nile?
12) Who directed Death Wish?
13) Who had a Number one hit with “Way Down” – less than two weeks after his death?
14) Who said, "It's not that I’m afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens"?
15) What figure, from Irish mythology, wails signalling imminent death?
16) What, meaning “well or good death” is legal in the Benelux countries, Switzerland, Thailand and the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington?
17) What is the medical term used when the body stiffens after death?
18) In 1952, Queen Elizabeth succeeded to the British throne on her father's death. Where was she when she heard the news?
19) Which author’s character, Death, rides on a horse called Binky?
20) Which insects, to attract mates, create a tapping or ticking sound that according to Wikipedia “can be heard in old building rafters during quiet summer nights”?

Love
21) What was the name of the lovesick young hero in the movie Titanic?
22) What illness kills Jenny in Love Story?
23) Which controversial novel became a best-seller across the English speaking world in the late 1950s and early 60s despite being banned?
24) If Romeo is Leonardo DiCaprio, who is Juliet?
25) Who was the Roman goddess of love?
26) Which city is known as “The city of brotherly love”?
27) Which flower shares its name with a mythological character who fell in love with his own reflection?
28) Which 1998 film earned Gwyneth Paltrow a Best Actress Oscar?
29) Who are you in love with if you have an Electra complex?
30) The heroine of which opera had a bullfighter lover called Escamillo?