Coffee Time Quiz (5)…

Quiz No’5

This week’s quiz. 1 point for each correct answer and answers below:

1. What was the legal minimum voting age in the UK in 1928?  21, 25, 28

2. How long is the River Seine?  777 kilometres, 888 kilometres or 999 kilometres

3. Who (other than the Beatles) had a UK hit with Hard Days Night?

4.. Who wished you could read his mind in 1970?

5. Big Mountain had their only hit with Baby I Love Your Way in which year 1983, 1994, 1998?

6. Who had a hit with Sweat (A La La Long)?

7. The Main Ingredient had a worldwide hit with I’m Doin’ Fine Now in 1973. Which British group covered the record in 1992 and also had a hit?

8. James Osterberg Jr. is better known by what name?

9. Which is the biggest football stadium in the UK?

10. Mt Fuji is the highest peak in which country?

Answers to Quiz number 5

1. Q. What was the legal minimum voting age in the UK in 1928?  21, 25, 28

A. 21 The 1928 Equal Franchise Act gave equal voting rights to men and women

2. How long is the River Seine?  777 kilometres, 888 kilometres or 999 kilometres

A. 777 kilometres

3. Who (other than the Beatles) had a UK hit with Hard Days Night?

A. Peter Sellers it reached No’ 14 in 1965 recorded in the style of Lawrence Olivier’s Richard III

He also recorded She Loves You in 4 accents including German which some people found amusing.

4. Who wished you could read his mind in 1970 ?

A. Gordon Lightfoot. He wrote the song following his divorce. He lost the use of fingers in his right hand following a stroke in 2006 but continued to play the guitar. A heavy smoker he now has emphysema. 

5. Big Mountain had their only hit with Baby I Love Your Way in which year 1983, 1994, 1998

A. 1994 the song was written by Peter Frampton in 1975

6. Who had a hit with Sweat (A La La Long)?

A. Inner Circle 1992

7. The Main Ingredient had a worldwide hit with I’m Doin’ Fine Now in 1973. Which British group covered the record in 1992 and also had a hit?

A. The Pasadenas

8. James Osterberg Jr. is better known by what name?

A. Iggy Pop known as the godfather of punk he has a net with of $20 million

9. Which is the biggest football stadium in the UK?

A. Wembley (the national stadium 90,000 capacity) Old Trafford is second biggest 74,310 capacity

10. Mt Fuji is the highest peak in which country?

A. Japan  (born over 100,000 years ago, the country’s tallest peak at 3.776 metres

Play Inner Circle > Sweat

📖 Where The Crawdads Sing…

What Are You Reading?

I’ve just finished reading Where The Crawdads Sing and what a treat. It lived up to the reviews and I couldn’t put it down. Looking forward to Harlen Coben’s Caught this week.

Crawdads came from a recommendation in the book club. Please get in touch if you have a good read to share. CLICK HERE

Top 3 – All Time Favourites in BOOK CLUB

  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
  • Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption – Stephen King

New on Netflix is Where The Crawdads Sing.

Did you know?

The 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption is based on the novella by Stephen King – Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption .

Stephen King

📖 The Man With The Golden Typewriter…

Did you know?

Ian Fleming bought this typewriter after finishing the first Bond novel. He wrote a letter to his wife saying he hoped it would ‘write golden words, as it was made of gold’. As we all know, that came to pass and Fleming made pots of gold with the James Bond adventure stories.

The Golden typewriter was sold in London in 1990 for £55,750 ($86,750). Today that would be equivalent to around £100,00 ($137,000).

He went on to write Goldfinger, The Man With The Golden Gun and lived in a house in Jamaica called Goldeneye.

Can you name the first Bond novel?

Answer HERE or at the bottom of this page.

For more information about Fleming, this book by his son is a good read, or listen on Audible.

The first Bond novel was Casino Royale published in 1953.