Steve's Quintessential Quaker Quiz -- the letter R
By Ray Simpson
Steve's latest quiz
All the answers begin with the same letter - in the case of someone’s name, the surname begins with the key letter. This week’s letter is ……… R
FIRST HALF (General Knowledge)
- In which city were the Summer Olympics held in 1960?
- Which girl’s name was a chart hit for Toto in 1981?
- In which northern town was the Cooperative Society (Co-Op) founded?
- What is different about the dish ‘steak tartare’?
- Which magazine is the most widely read in the world?
- The human body has twelve pairs of what….? But none spare!
- Who wrote the lyrics for the Disney film ‘The Lion King’?
- Who introduced the potato and tobacco to England?
- Which politician was shot, but not killed, by John Hinkley in 1981?
- Which BBC presenter has hosted ‘Call My Bluff’, ‘Ask the Family’ & ‘Points of View’?
- What is the capital city of Latvia?
SECOND HALF (Football)
- Who was the Austrian full-back who joined us in 1997 along with Mario Dörner?
- Which UK club was defeated in the first-ever European Cup Winners’ Cup Final in 1961?
- Who was Arsenal manager for one season only in the 1990s?
- Which English Football League club used to be nicknamed ‘The Biscuitmen’?
- Which prolific goalscorer’s career lasted from 1954 to 1993, before being ended by a
helicopter crash in which he lost his left foot?
- Middlesbrough: Which foreign import to the Premier League was known as the ‘White
Feather’?
- Which Scottish Championship club play their home matches in Kirkcaldy, Fife?
- Where did Gateshead play home games before moving to the International Stadium?
- Who scored Everton’s winner in their 1995 FA Cup Final win over Man Utd?
- What is the nickname of Bristol City FC?
- Which innovation to a football game was first recorded in 1842?