TEA TIME TRIVIA
Ten questions to test your trivia knowledge.
QUESTIONS
1. Paris Hilton has two brothers, Conrad and which other?
2. Which fashion designer, who died in December 2022, was largely responsible for bringing punk and new wave fashion into the mainstream?
3. ‘Here’s looking at you kid’ is a phrase most associated with the film, ‘Casablanca’, but what is the name of the actor and the character who says it in the film? (One point for each name)
4. What star sign is someone born on Valentines Day?
5. Which former model and actress was the ‘face’ of the Gurkha Justice Campaign which successfully saw in 2009 the UK government allow former Gurkha soldiers to settle in the UK?
6. What is the second line of the Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem which begins, ‘How do I love thee?’?
7. Which actress earned $12.5 million in 2022 to become the highest paid Hollywood actress for her starring role in ‘Barbie’?
8. In 2017, Myleene Klass replaced which WAG as the fashion face of Littlewoods? Hint – she was involved in the Wagatha Christie case in 2022
9. In Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, which young noblewoman of Denmark falls out of a willow tree and drowns in a brook?
10.Which gas, recognised in 1810 by chemist, Humphrey Davy, was named after the Ancient Greek word for ‘greenish-yellow’?
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ANSWERS
1. Paris Hilton has two brothers, Conrad and which other?
BARRON
2. Which fashion designer, who died in December 2022, was largely responsible for bringing punk and new wave fashion into the mainstream?
VIVENNE WESTWOOD
3. ‘Here’s looking at you kid’ is a phrase most associated with the film, ‘Casablanca’, but what is the name of the actor and the character who says it in the film? (One point for each name)
HUMPHREY BOGART as RICK BLAINE (Will accept simply ‘Rick’ for one point)
4. What star sign is someone born on Valentines Day?
AQUARIUS
5. Which former model and actress was the ‘face’ of the Gurkha Justice Campaign which successfully saw in 2009 the UK government allow former Gurkha soldiers to settle in the UK?
JOANNA LUMLEY
6. What is the second line of the Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem which begins, ‘How do I love thee?’?
LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
7. Which actress earned $12.5 million in 2022 to become the highest paid Hollywood actress for her starring role in ‘Barbie’?
MARGOT ROBBIE
8. In 2017, Myleene Klass replaced which WAG as the fashion face of Littlewoods? Hint – she was involved in the Wagatha Christie case in 2022
COLEEN ROONEY
9. In Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’, which young noblewoman of Denmark falls out of a willow tree and drowns in a brook?
OPHELIA
10.Which gas, recognised in 1810 by chemist, Humphrey Davy, was named after the Ancient Greek word for ‘greenish-yellow’?
CHLORINE (Chloros is the Greek word)