Monday 29 June 2015

Quiz - H2O



Here's another monthly quiz.  I hope you enjoy it!  This time all the answers have some connection with H2O.

As before the answers are below each question – you just need to highlight them with your mouse to see them. 

1             Which famous poem includes the line: 'Water,water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink' ?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2             Which inventor said that genius was '99% perspiration and 1% inspiration?
Thomas Edison
3             In Scotland, what is known as 'ulsge beatha', or the water of life?
Whiskey

4             If H2O is water, what is H2O2?
Hydrogen Peroxide

5             Who had a 1970 hit with Bridge Over Troubled Water?
Simon and Garfunkel
6             And, 2 years later, who had his biggest hit with a song in which he was 'sailing, stormy waters, to be near to you'?
Rod Stewart

7             In which 1995 Kevin Costner film is the human race struggling to survive on floating cities?

Waterworld

8             What links H2O with people born on February 1?
The star sign for Aquarians – the water carrier

9             What name is given to a domesticated bovine of the species Bubalus?
Water Buffalo

10          Marlon Brando won an Oscar for his portrayal of a dockworker in which 1954 film?

The Waterfront

3 comments:

  1. Ha, I only knew 4 and 5. :-)

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  2. Hard one. Didn't know too many. And I should have got the Scotland one!!!

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