Week 3: Who am I?

1. (a) The youngest President of my country, I won the Nobel Peace Prize.

(b) From birth the vivid red mark on my forehead foretold the greatness i was to achieve

(c) "Glasnost" and "Perestroika" were just two of the concepts I introduced

Ans: Mikael Gorbachov

2. (a) Born in Wurttemberg, Germany in 1879, I started my career as a patent office clerk

(b) I left Germany in 1933 for the U.S.A. in protest against Nazi atrocities.

(c) I won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for the photoelectric effect, though that was not my most famous work.

Ans: Albert Einstein

3. (a) A great political and military leader, I was born in Prussia in 1815.

(b) They gave me credit for leading Germany to its greatest victories as its Chancellor from 1864 to1890.

(c) You might also know me as "The Man of Blood and Iron".

Ans: Otto von Bismarck

4. (a) I may be physically distinguished from other men as I do not have a navel.

(b)Another human being was made from one of my extra ribs.

(c) If i had not eaten the "forbidden fruit", mankind would not have been created.

Ans: Adam

5. (a) I was born in Sicily in B.C. 287 and was murdered by a Roman soldier in B.C. 212.

(b)I invented many marvellous machines to fight the Romans and was also considered the greatest mathematician of my time.

(c) You might have read about me running naked down the streets of Syracuse, shouting "Eureka, Eureka"!

Ans: Archimedes

6. (a) Born in Barbados in 1936, I was knighted for my contribution to sport.

(b) A brilliant allrounder, I share a record with Ravi Shastri.

(c) My test aggregate of 8032 runs and my innings of 365 runs is surpassed in Test Cricket

Ans: Sir Garfield Sobers

7. (a) Together with my friend, Harry East, I was more than a match for Flashman and other bullies.

(b) The name of my school is also the name of a popular sport.

(c) Thomas Hughes created me as an inspiration to schoolboys throughout the world.

Ans: Tom Brown

8. (a) A famous writer, I was born in 1835 and died in 1910, coming and going with Halley,s comet.

(b) My pseudonym originated from the calls of the riverboat pilots on the Mississippi.

(c) Today, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are household names for children throughout the world.

Ans: Mark Twain

9. (a) I was born in London in 1926. My four children are Charles, Andrew, Edward and Anne.

(b) I married a distant cousin named Philip, and took up my present duties on the death of my father George in 1952.

(c) I am the forty-second ruler of my country.

Ans: Queen Elizabeth II

10.(a) I am a menhir delivery man by proffesion.

(b) I do not need to drink the magic potion prepared by Getafix, as I fell into the cauldron as a baby.

(c) I often leave my work and join Asterix on his adventures.

Ans: Obelix

WEEK 2: General Knowledge

1. Which film-maker has received the most Academy Awards (as at 2006)?

Ans: Walt Disney

2. What is the name of the wood where Winnie the Pooh lives?

Ans: Hundred Acre Wood

3. Which writer created the fictional British MI6 spy George Smiley?

Ans: John le Carre

4. Bob Hoskins played crime boss Harold Shand in which 1979 film?

Ans: The long good Friday

5.What film featured the ukulele-playing singer 'Sugar' Kane?

Ans: Some Like It Hot

6.What is Jennifer Beale's day job in the 1983 film Flashdance?

Ans: Welder

7.Who sang the theme song to the original Alfie film starring Michael Caine?

Ans: Cilla Black

8.Which film was re-named Flight Pacific 121 and then changed back to its original title?

Ans: Snakes on a Plane

9.Which iconic rock music frontman sang backing vocals on Carly Simon's 1973 hit You're So
Vain?

Ans: Mick Jagger

10.Who played Jeff's (James Stewart's) girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont in the 1954 Hitchcock film Rear Window?

Ans: Grace Kelly