February fun quiz

For our FEBRUARY FUN QUIZ, compiled and presented by Stotfold’s very own Brain of Britain, David Stedman, our theme is

GREEK MYTHOLOGY, with clues contained in each question or in each answer. (ANSWERS on page 21)

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Name the English actress, pictured right, whose most famous film role is playing a character named

Hermione Jean Granger?

2.

Name the Greek singer with the pop group Aphrodite’s Child who, as a solo artist, became famous for high-pitched

singing, wearing kaftans and who was cruelly nicknamed ‘the singing tent’?

3.

What was the overall name of the American NASA space travel project which, from 1968 to 1972, successfully landed

astronauts on the Moon?

4. Hector was a 19th century French romantic composer best known for his “Symphonie fantastique” and his opera “The

Trojans” . What was

his surname? 5. The capital of the US state of Arizona shares its name with what mythological creature?

6. What is the name of the device pictured right, a small open wooden cabinet which can display two or three

decanters? 7. What is the name of the ocean liner which, in the 1972 disaster film featuring Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine,

is capsized by a tsunami

while on its last voyage? 8. What

is the four-letter common name of the ratite bird of South America which is distantly related to the emu and

ostrich and which has two distinct species, the greater (or American) and the lesser (or Darwin’s)?

9. What was the name of the British pop group who released the 1967 single “King Midas in Reverse” ,

written by group member Graham

Nash?

10.

What is the name, which means ‘sea-horse’ in English, of the structure of the human brain which lies deep inside the

temporal lobe and has a vital purpose in learning and memory?

11. Name the 20th century Anglo-Irish Dame and novelist whose most famous works are “The Sea, The Sea” and “A

Severed Head” and who has been played on film by Dame Judi Dench?

12. In “Only Fools and Horses” , what is the first name of the character who is the girlfriend, later the wife, of Rodney

Trotter?

13.

The 12,448 feet high Mount Erebus is the most southerly active volcano in the world. It is situated on what continent?

14.

What is the name of the Paris based company, logo (right,) famous for their expensive luxury silk scarves

and other similar accessories?

15.

What is the name of the top level football team which plays home games at Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam?

16. Name the Nobel Prize-winning American dramatist who wrote the 1931 play “Mourning Becomes Electra” and the 1941

play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”?

17. What is the name of the UK based catalogue retail chain founded by Richard Tompkins during the 1970s and which

sprang from his Green Shield stamps venture?

18. Give the first name and surname of this “Wacky Races” character.

19. The only known immortal creature is a Medusa with the scientific name Turritopsis dohrnii (sic). What

general type of creature is this?

20. What is the name of the UK retail company which once sold art prints and posters from their chain of stores, including

the famous 1976 tennis girl poster, but which now trades as

an online retailer?

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