PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

Who portrayed the novelist Virginia Woolf in the 2003 film The Hours?

2 MUSIC:

Which girl’s name is the title of the only UK No 1 single for the Four Pennies, released in 1964?

3 TV & RADIO:

First broadcast in 1988, which improv comedy TV series was presented by Clive Anderson?

4 SPORT:

Who won the 1996 Wimbledon men’s singles championship, and is to date the only Dutch tennis player to do so?

5 SCIENCE:

In physics, what term refers to the change in direction of a wave when it passes from one medium to another?

6 LITERATURE:

Which American novelist’s works include The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads?

7 HISTORY:

Which Communist statesman was born Josip Broz in 1892 in what is now Croatia?

8 NATURE:

What is the common name for plants in the genus Gypsophila, which produce small white or pink flowers?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word virid? a) Toxic, b) Green, c) Energetic.

10 BRITAIN:

Which place in South Yorkshire was made a city as part of the Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours?

11 THIS YEAR:

Which star of the Carry On series of films died on November 7, aged 98?

12 POT LUCK:

Which gem, a variety of the mineral corundum, is the traditional birthstone for July?