GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ANSWERS

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They are all lyrics from

We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel

  1. Which American President was in power when the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

    HARRY TRUMAN

  2. Which American Actress starred in Calamity Jane, Romance On The High Seas and The Man Who Knew Too Much?.

  3. DORIS DAY

  4. Which American Baseball player was married to Marilyn Monroe?

JOE DIMAGGIO

5. Which former actor’s administration was implicated in the Watergate scandal?

RICHARD NIXON

6. Which band released the album Marquee Moon in 1977?

TELEVISION

7. Which two countries can you see marked in green on the map?

NORTH KOREA & SOUTH KOREA

8. Which American Band sang the song with the lyrics:

“Every morning there's a halo hangin' from the corner
Of my girlfriend's four-post bed
I know it's not mine but I'll see if I can use it
For the weekend or a one-night stand”
?

SUGAR RAY


9. Which actor is famous for both A Streetcar Named Desire and The Godfather?

MARLON BRANDO

10. Which musical’s story takes place in Siam?

THE KING AND I

11. Which 1951 J.D. Salinger Novel about teenage angst became the most banned book of all time in America?

CATCHER IN THE RYE

12. Artist Jamie Reid is most famous for his punk depictions of whom?

THE QUEEN

13. Which flamboyant singer and performer was played by Michael Douglas in the 2013 film “Behind The Candelabra?”

LIBERACE

14. Ja Rule helped set up which 2017 festival which had a Netflix documentary of the same name after a series of serious failings and mishaps?

FYRE

15. Armando Ianucci wrote and directed a film starring Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambour focusing on the aftermath of the death of who?

STALIN

16. Which New York building is known for an ice rink, a viewing platform and a famous divorce?

THE ROCKEFELLA CENTRE

17. Which Bill Haley and The Comets song became of the best selling Rock n Roll songs of all time in the 1940’s?

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK

18. Which Physicist is famous for his theory of relativity?

ALBERT EINSTEIN

19. Which film star lived fast, died young and left a beautiful corpse?

JAMES DEAN

20. Who is famous for wearing a furry hat with a raccoon tail, lending their name to the hat?

DAVY CROCKETT

21. Which famous magical children’s character is the title of a book by James Matthew Barrie?

PETER PAN

22. A sandwich of peanut butter, banana and bacon is named after which famous singer?

ELVIS PRESLEY

23. What is the capital city of Hungary?

BUDAPEST

24. “Hold On” is a 2012 track from the album Boys & Girls . Who was it buy?

ALABAMA (SHAKES)

25. Which film star famous for roles in Hitchcock movies became a princess after marrying into the royal family of Monaco in 1956?

PRINCESS GRACE (KELLY)

26. Which route was blocked in 2021, causing a cost of roughly ten billion dollars a day for it’s six day blockage?

THE SUEZ (CANAL)

27.Which writer published “On The Road” in 1957?

JACK KEROUAC

28. What was the name of the two syllable satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 that started the Space Race?

SPUTNIK

29. Which “That’ll Be The Day” singer sadly died in a plane crash?

BUDDY HOLLY

30. What film sees Charlton Heston starring as a Jewish Prince who encounters Jesus Christ?

BEN HUR

31. One of the best selling toys of all time is also named after a dance, name it?

HULA HOOP

32. Paul David Hewson and David Howell Evans famously play under pseudonyms alongside Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton in which rock band?

U2

33. Who is said to be the creator of “The Twist?”

CHUBBY CHECKER

34, Which Hitchcock scene is famous for a close up of an eye and a plughole?

PSYCHO

35. What did Rage Against The Machine say we should sleep now in?

THE FIRE

36. THE LINK: They are all lyrics from “We Didn’t Start The Fire by Billy Joel.”