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

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