PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

To date, who is the only woman to have received two Academy Award nominations for Best Director, winning for The Power Of The Dog?

2 MUSIC:

Which Italian dance group released the 1989 UK No 1 single Ride On Time?

3 TV & RADIO:

Set in Hastings, which ITV crime drama starred Michael Kitchen as the title character, and took place between 1940 and 1947?

4 SPORT:

British swimmer Adam Peaty holds two world records in which stroke?

5 POLITICS:

Which Tory politician served as British prime minister for 119 days, from April to August 1827?

6 LITERATURE:

Who wrote the poem She Walks In Beauty?

7 HISTORY:

The United States Army officer and cavalry commander George Custer was killed during which battle in 1876?

8 NATURE:

What is the common name for semiaquatic animals in the genus Castor, which are the world’s second-largest living rodents?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word coruscate? a) Shatter, b) Surprise, c) Sparkle.

10 BRITAIN:

Which English city on the River Lune is located a few miles inland from Morecambe Bay?

11 THIS YEAR:

Which billionaire completed his purchase of the social media website Twitter on October 28?

12 POT LUCK:

With a name derived from the Greek for ‘little king’, which legendary reptile was reputed to cause death with a single glance?