5 Which British rower wrote the 2004 book Four Men in a Boat about the 2000 Olympics?
6 How many Olympic medals did swimmer Michael Phelps win in total?
7 What was the title of the official sound track to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Summer Games…?
8 …and who directed the ceremony?
9 Which boxer won a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics in the featherweight division?
10 Which was the first South American country to host the Summer Games?
11 Which country won the most medals at the 2018 Winter Games?
12 The 1981 film Chariots of Fire features the Summer Games of which year?
13 At the 2008 Summer Games, in which administrative region of China were the equestrian events held?
14 What was the last year in which the Summer and Winter games were held in the same year?
15 Which gold-medal winning Paralympian took part in the 2017 series of Strictly Come Dancing?
16 Athletes from which country won the women’s 100m gold medal in 2008, 2012 and 2016?
17 Which Japanese city hosted the 1998 Winter Games?
18 In which year were the first Summer Games held, following the formation of the International Olympic Committee?
19 Which country always leads the parade of participants at the Summer Games?
20 Who was the first British athlete to win Olympic gold in a throwing event?
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QUIZ 211 – Pot Luck (#ulink_e69d1ea3-2f1b-5a51-83d6-8f4c3c5b6d36)
1 Who was David Walliams’ co-star in the 2015 Agatha Christie series Partners in Crime?
2 Which Irish county lies north of Roscommon and east of Mayo?
3 Who was the oldest of the Marx Brothers?
4 For which 2015 film did Leonardo di Caprio win the Best Actor Oscar?
5 In which year did the Crimean War start?
6 Barbados is in which Caribbean island group?
7 Who writes the Jack Reacher series of books?
8 Which bay on the Isle of Wight is famous for its coloured sand?
9 Which Greek god of the arts lends his name to many theatres?
10 What type of rock is granite?
11Sonnets from the Portuguese is a collection by which Victorian poetess?
12 Who shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with the organisation that he led at the time?
13 Who designed the Crystal Palace for the 19th-century Great Exhibition?
14 In which sitcom did Christopher Biggins play a character nicknamed Lukewarm?
15 In which year was North Sea oil discovered?
16 Which river runs through Newton Abbot, Devon?
17 What type of construction is the Humber Bridge?
18 In which Danish port was Hans Christian Andersen born?
19 Which Greek mathematician wrote The Elements?
20 Singer Tom Jones had which original surname?
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QUIZ 212 – Sea Creatures (#ulink_07a4fa47-07e3-509a-8983-8b37f1dfe297)
1 What word describes marine life that lives in the upper waters of the open sea?
2 The adult of which large sea creature was caught on camera for the first time in 2004?
3 How many legs does a lobster have?
4 What is a female dolphin called?
5 What type of fish has a variety known as “sockeye”?
6 How is a member of the Hippocampus genus commonly known?
7 The name “krill” comes from the word for “young fish” in which language?
8 A loggerhead is a species of which sea creature?