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31/03/2014

The March Little Women

15 General Knowledge questions indexed by subject matter.  Each answer contains the word Jo, Meg, Beth or Amy Make your choice.

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1.

Film quotes

Which line from a British film has been named in a number of recent polls as the funniest ever spoken in a British film?

“Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!”

(from Carry on Cleo spoken by Kenneth Williams)

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2.

Steel

Which Pennsylvania city gave its name to, what was for many years, the second largest steel producer and the largest shipbuilder in the US?

Bethlehem

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3.

Football

Which much travelled Mancunian has managed, in order, Norwich City, Blackpool, Stockport County, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers and Sheffield Wednesday?

Garry Megson

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4.

Native Americans

Which is the largest federally recognised tribe of Native Americans with over 300,000 tribe members based largely in New Mexico and Arizona?

Navajo

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5.

Singing groups

Four of those in the picture share a name.  What is it?

The Jordanaires

(the fifth being Elvis Presley)

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6.

1990s pop music

Which group can you hear?  (click to play)

Megadeth

(No More Mr Nice Guy)

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7.

Fictional locations

Fictionally which family own 165 Eaton Place?

The Bellamy family

(in TV drama Upstairs Downstairs)

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8.

Chocolate bars

Which Mars company confectionery product was a twin bar similar to a Drifter but with a chopped peanut layer and the whole covered in milk chocolate?

Banjo

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9.

Literary quotes

From which work is the following quote taken:

“Nothing in his life
became him like the leaving it”?

Macbeth

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10.

Clothing brands

In the past year the supermarket chain, Morrison’s, have launched into the children’s clothing market.  What brand have they given this range?

Nutmeg

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11.

1937 musicals

What is the name of this tune, taken from the 1937 musical Me and My Girl(click to play)

The Lambeth Walk

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12.

Hymns

What is the first line of the William Cowper hymn written in 1773 that continues:

“…his wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm”?

“God moves in a mysterious way...”

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13.

Welsh politicians

Daughter of a famous politician, who was the first female MP for a Welsh constituency representing Anglesey for the Liberals and later Carmarthen for Labour?

Lady Megan Lloyd George

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14.

Shakespeare first lines

With what famous line does Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night start?  It is spoken by the highly eligible Duke of Orsino as he addresses a group of musicians?

“If music be the food of love play on”

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15.

Biblical characters

This William Blake painting shows which Old Testament character with his 3 daughters?

Job

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