Unutterably Silly Quiz

[pdurrant]

No to both.

[Bookpossum]

1. John Landy.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

1. John Landy.

Yes! Just six weeks after Bannister's first sub-4 minute mile, John Landy became the second person to run a sub-4minute mile.

A point to Bookpossum

[pdurrant]

Perhaps this quiz is too hard. I'll let it run over the weekend, and I'll give the answers on Monday.

[poohbear_nc]

3. Well, I know that Gene Cernan was the last astronaut to set foot on the moon ....

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

3. Well, I know that Gene Cernan was the last astronaut to set foot on the moon ....

I'll give you half a point for that.

[Bookpossum]

I think we have run out of puff on this one, Your Mousiness.

(Does that mean I managed to win with one point? It's getting to be like QI!)

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

OK, a new quiz.

1. Who was the second person to break the 4 minute mile after Roger Bannister
2. Who reached the top of Everest after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
3. Who was the third person on the moon, after Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin? (Bonus point for the 4th)
4. Who was the second pilot to fly a heavier than air aeroplane non-stop across the Atlantic
5. Who was the second man to break the 10-second barrier at 100m, by electronic timing (bonus point for the first)

That'll do. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

I think we have run out of puff on this one, Your Mousiness.

(Does that mean I managed to win with one point? It's getting to be like QI!)

Yes! Bookpossum wins with 1 point.

1. John Landy (Bookpossum)
2. Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger (in 1956, three years after Hilary and Norgay)
3. Charles "Pete" Conrad, Alan L. Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar D. Mitchell, David Randolph Scott, James B. Irwin, John Watts Young, Charles M. Duke Jr., Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, Eugene A. Cernan
4. Charles Lindburgh. The first non-stop flight (but not solo) was by two British airmen, Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown in 1919.
5. The first two were
1. 14 October 1968 Jim Hines, 9.95
2. 11 August 1977 Leonard Silvio, 9.98

Over to you, Bookpossum!

[Bookpossum]

Okay, these should be a bit easier! (I only knew about Landy because he's an Aussie and I saw a programme once talking about the psychological barrier of things like breaking the four minute mile and that once one person did it, others followed soon after.)

1 In which fictional county did Anthony Trollope set a series of novels?

2 Commemorated by a statue outside its headquarters in Burlington House, which painter was the first President of the Royal Academy?

3 According to W H Auden, what was “bringing the cheque and the postal order”?

4 Who created the famous sculptures The Thinker and The Kiss?

5 A Woman of Substance, published in 1979, was a best-selling debut novel for which well-known writer?

6 For which Henrik Ibsen play, first performed in 1876, did Edvard Grieg compose the instrumental music?

7 Who wrote the Flashman series of novels?

8 George Stubbs is best-known for his paintings of which animals?

9 In which country is the castle of Zenda to be found?

10 In which book does an alien invasion commence in Woking?

11 In which famous novel is Grimpen Mire to be found?

12 Which British prime minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

[Kumabjorn]

12 Winston Churchill.

[poohbear_nc]

1. Barsetshire

[poohbear_nc]

8. horses

[doubleshuffle]

4 Auguste Rodin

10 The War of the Worlds (bonus question, if I may: Which alien invasion starts in Worthing?)

[poohbear_nc]

11. The Hound of the Baskervilles

[pdurrant]

3 The Night Mail (Train).

7 George Macdonald Frasier

9 Ruritania