Weekly Quiz

1. Misbehaving students in the first British universities had their names written in black books providing inspiration for which modern day popular phrase?

2. ‘It was love at first sight’ is the first line from which Joseph Heller novel?

3. Blathers, Charlotte and Fagin are characters from which Charles Dickens tale?

4. Death in Leamington, Highland Low and A Nip in the Air are poems from which English poet who died in 1984?

a) John Betjeman b) Philip Larkin c) W.H. Auden a) Wood Green b) Walthamstow c) Woolwich

5. The London postal area E17 refers to which area?

6. Which politician served as Mayor of London between 2008 and 2016?

7. Named after the German neurologist who discovered the disease, which disorder of the brain causes premature senility?

8. The Battle of Killiecrankie of 1689 during the Jacobite Rising took place in which country?

9. Blue Moon, Hopelessly Devoted to You and Summer Nights are songs from which film musical?

10. David Bowie had a UK number one single with Ashes to Ashes in which year?

Born this week

1/2/1968 Lisa Marie Presley

2/2/1940 David Jason

3/2/1969 Retief Goosen

4/2/1905 Hylda Baker

5/2/1951 Russell Grant

6/2/1966 Rick Astley

7/2/1946 Pete Postlethwaite