Welcome to our daily quiz, where we challenge your knowledge on a variety of topics, from history and science to pop culture and geography. Today's questions include a nod to the birth of a famous poet, a football milestone, and some musical mysteries. Test yourself, then scroll down for the answers to yesterday's quiz.
Today's Quiz Questions
1. On this day in 1809, English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian Age in poetry, was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire. But what does the acronym NASA stand for?
2. Which team in 1974 became the first German side to win football's European Cup?
3. Which songs containing the word "Under" were UK top ten hits for the following artists: [a] Smoke City (1997), [b] Jedward (2010), [c] Bruce Willis (1987), [d] Girls Aloud (2002), and [e] The Yardbirds (1966)?
4. Which was the first British Sunday newspaper to publish a colour supplement?
5. How many carbon atoms are present in a molecule of Benzene? (answer is between 1-10)
6. Which fruit is called "Ananas" in French?
7. What form of transport was invented by Christopher Cockerell?
8. Which Beatles single was the biggest selling record of the 1960s in the UK?
9. Which African country has the capital of Gaborone?
10. Who wrote "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
Yesterday's Quiz Answers
For those who took on yesterday's challenge, here are the answers:
- 1. Trismus is a medical condition commonly referred to as lockjaw or tetanus.
- 2. Peter Falk played the title character in the TV series "Columbo."
- 3. The four musicals that won the Oscar for Best Picture in the 1960s were West Side Story (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Oliver! (1968).
- 4. The US state named after the Spanish for "coloured red" is Colorado.
- 5. The opera "Death in Venice" was composed by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1973.
- 6. The codename given to the Yalta conference attended by Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in February 1945 was Argonaut.
- 7. The only two elements that start with the letter Z are Zinc and Zirconium.
- 8. Lynda Carter played the role of Wonder Woman in the 1970s TV series.
- 9. Composer Frederick Delius was born in Bradford in 1862.
- 10. The Greek Goddess of punishment and retribution was Nemesis.
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