General Knowledge Quiz No. 135

[Carl]

• 1. Who played Poison Ivy in the 1997 film 'Batman and Robin' ?

• 2. What is a male rabbit called ?

• 3. Which singer was the biggest selling female artist in America in the 1990s ?

• 4. Which country, other than England, has a city called London on a river called the Thames ?

• 5. Which Bond film was chosen as the follow up to 'Dr No' after John F Kennedy listed it as one of his favourite books ?

• 6. The Tynwald is the parliament on which island ?

• 7. What number on the Beaufort scale indicates a light breeze ?

• 8. Which cartoon character had wings which were like 'a shield of steel' ?

• 9. In what year did the first successful Mars landings take place ? 1970, 1973 or 1976 ?

• 10. Which internet company's name originates from a race mentioned in Jonathon Swift's 'Gulliver's travels' ?

• 11. In football, from which two kicks must the ball go forward ?

• 12. What is the chemical symbol for the element Tin ?

• 13. What are the first three words in the Bible ?

• 14. Which female singer sang 'Better The Devil You Know' in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest ?

• 15. Who was the pilot of Thunderbird 2 ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

2 Buck
4 USA

[LucindaC]

8 batfink
10 yahoo

[elcarretero]

6 Isle of Man

[gail]

13. In the beginning

[elcarretero]

15 Virgil Tracy

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Who played Poison Ivy in the 1997 film 'Batman and Robin' ? Uma Thurman

• 2. What is a male rabbit called ? A buck

• 3. Which singer was the biggest selling female artist in America in the 1990s ? Mariah Carey

• 4. Which country, other than England, has a city called London on a river called the Thames ? Canada

• 5. Which Bond film was chosen as the follow up to 'Dr No' after John F Kennedy listed it as one of his favourite books ? 'From Russia With Love'

• 6. The Tynwald is the parliament on which island ? Isle of Man

• 7. What number on the Beaufort scale indicates a light breeze ? 2

• 8. Which cartoon character had wings which were like 'a shield of steel' ? Batfink

• 9. In what year did the first successful Mars landings take place ? 1970, 1973 or 1976 ? 1976

• 10. Which internet company's name originates from a race mentioned in Jonathon Swift's 'Gulliver's travels' ? Yahoo

• 11. In football, from which two kicks must the ball go forward ? Kick-offs and penalties

• 12. What is the chemical symbol for the element Tin ? Sn

• 13. What are the first three words in the Bible ? 'In the beginning'

• 14. Which female singer sang 'Better The Devil You Know' in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest ? Sonia

• 15. Who was the pilot of Thunderbird 2 ? Virgil