The Quiz (May)

Sunday, 03 May 2009 11:13
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Pit your wits against the Penh's Quizmaster on fame, going west and summer ...

Famous for 15 Minutes
1. On whose knee did six-year-old Stuart Lockwood become famous in August 1990?
2. How did John Allen Muhammad become notorious in October 2002?  
3. How did Erica Roe become famous in January 1982?  
4. Who coined the phrase famous for 15 minutes?
5. How did Robert Van Winkle become famous in the mid 90s under a chilled pseudonym?
6. What did Michael Collins become famous for not doing in July 1969?
7. How did John Hinckley Jr. become famous in 1981?  
8. How did plasterer Michael Edwards leap to fame in the late 1980s?
9. How did journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, win friends and fame around the world in December 2008?
10. How did baby Louise Brown become famous in 1978?

Go West

11. Which musical is based on the story of Romeo and Juliet?
12. Who said - To err is human - But it feels divine?
13. Who wrote the line “East is East and West is West”?
14. Where is the Red Stripe Cup played?
15. Who founded the Great Western Railway using a seven-foot wide track?
16. ‘Im Western Nichts Neues’ is the name of the book that has been used for the basis of two films in English – what are they called?  
17. What was once Portuguese West Africa?
18. What was unusual about Dr Daniel Westin, played by David McCallum?
19. Who was the fastest milkman in the west?  
20. Whose was the first name in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey?

Summer

21. Mendelssohn's Wedding March was written for which play?
22. Who first recorded Summertime Blues?
23. According to Sandy, how late did she stay up on “Summer Nights”?
24. Andy Summers is best known as the guitarist with which band?
25. What year did Mexico City host the Summer Olympics?
26. Which Australian soap is set in Summer Bay?
27. What European landmark grows six inches in the summer?
28. Who had a 1970 hit advises, “Have a drink, Have a Drive”?
29. According to the nursery rhyme what did the queen make on a summer’s day?
30. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is what type of poem?

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