QuizEire010319 Flashcards
1 Which singer-songwriter (born March 1 1958) had hits in the 1980s with Wouldn’t It Be Good The Riddle and Don Quixote?
1 Nik Kershaw
2 Which Pope was born Eugenio Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome Italy?
2 Pope Pius XII
3 Which American actress (born March 3 1982) is married to singer Justin Timberlake?
3 Jessica Biel
4 Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was a noted player of which musical instrument?
4 Xylophone
5 Who was killed aged 30 along with her fellow country stars Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas in a plane crash near Camden Tennessee on March 5 1963?
5 Patsy Cline
6 Which president of Venezuela died in office on March 5 2013?
6 Hugo Chávez
7 For which 2005 film did Rachel Weisz (born 7 March 1970) win a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award?
7 The Constant Gardener
8 Which Czech professional tennis player (born 8 March 1990) has won 26 career singles titles two of which are Grand Slam titles the Wimbledon Championships in 2011 and in 2014?
8 Petra Kvitová
9 Which toy that first appeared on March 9 1959 is credited to Ruth Handler?
9 Barbie
10 Which Pope was born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci on 2 March 1810 in Carpineto Romano near Rome?
10 Pope Leo XIII
11 ‘Wasteland Baby!’ released on March 1 2019 is the second studio album from which internationally acclaimed musician?
11 Hozier (Andrew Hozier-Byrne)
12 Which Tsar of Russia was assassinated in a bomb by the revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya on 13 March 1881?
12 Tsar Alexander II
13 Whom did Ingvar Carlsson succeed in tragic circumstances on March 13 1986?
13 Olof Palme
14 Which Canadian actor and narrator (born March 13 1928) primarily known as a stage actor provided the voice of the HAL 9000 computer for the film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968) and its sequel ‘2010’ (1984)?
14 Douglas Rain
15 What character was played in the Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights by German actor Walter Gotell (15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997)?
15 General Gogol
16 Apollo XIII was not the first NASA spacecraft to experience a systems failure. The Gemini VIII space mission was launched on March 16 1966 to conduct docking trials of two spacecraft but suffered the first critical in-space system failure of a U.S. spacecraft which threatened the lives of the astronauts and required immediate abort of the mission. The crew was returned to Earth safely. The two astronauts involved were David Scott and who was the command pilot?
16 Neil Armstrong
17 Which military decoration was instituted on March 17 1813 by Frederick William III of Prussia?
17 Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz)
18 Claire Elise Boucher born in Vancouver Canada on March 17 1988 is the real name of which contemporary recording artist?
18 Grimes
19 Which religion has an obligatory Nineteen-Day Fast from sunrise to sunset which usually ends on the March vernal equinox?
19 Bahá’í Faith
20 The English painter Jeanette Pickersgill (died March 20 1885) was the first person to legally undergo what process in Britain?
20 Cremation
21 Who was UK Poet Laureate from 12 August 1813 until his death on 21 March 1843?
21 Robert Southey
22 Martín Vizcarra (born 22 March 1963) became the 67th President of which South American country in March 2018?
22 Peru
23 Who was the English dressmaker nurse and housekeeper who was hanged on 24 March 1873 for the murder of up to 20 people by arsenic poisoning including three of her husbands?
23 Mary Ann Cotton
24 Which NASA astronaut (born March 25 1928) was the first person to fly in space four times and the only one to have flown to the Moon twice without making a landing?
24 Jim Lovell
25 ‘Wise Blood’ ‘The Violent Bear It Away’ and ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ are among the notable works of which American writer and essayist (March 25 1925 – August 3 1964) who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and supposedly grotesque characters often in violent situations?
25 Mary Flannery O’Connor
26 In which US state was American playwright Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III born on March 26 1911?
26 Mississippi
27 Which Native American civil rights activist gave a speech at the 45th Academy Awards ceremony on March 27 1973 for actor Marlon Brando to decline the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Godfather?
27 Sacheen Littlefeather
28 What pen name was adopted by the writer born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936)?
28 Maxim Gorky
29 What was the name of the character played by Eunice Gayson (17 March 1928 – 8 June 2018) James Bond’s love interest in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love) and is therefore considered to have been the first-ever “Bond girl”?
29 Sylvia Trench
30 Foaled on March 30 1970 and nicknamed Big Red which American Thoroughbred racehorse in 1973 became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years? His record-breaking victory in the Belmont Stakes which he won by 31 lengths is widely regarded as one of the greatest races of all time.
30 Secretariat
31 Which English playwright and author (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981) of ‘The Chalk Garden’ and ‘National Velvet’ was the great-grandmother of Samantha Cameron wife of David Cameron?
31 Enid Bagnold
32 Which American memory grandmaster (born March 3 1992) won the World Memory Championships for three consecutive years 2015 2016 and 2017 and is currently the world No. 1 ranked memory competitor?
32 Alex Mullen
33 Probably best-known for playing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television mini-series ‘Rich Man Poor Man’ which American actor (born March 24 1933) has appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions including like ‘Any Which Way You Can’ (1980) ‘Conan The Barbarian’ (1982) ‘Rumble Fish’ (1983) and ‘Red Dawn’ (1984)?
33 William Smith
34 Played by Scott Paulin in ‘The Right Stuff’ Chris Ellis in ‘Apollo 13’ and Kyle Chandler in ‘First Man’ which former American World War II pilot (March 1 1924 – June 13 1993) aeronautical engineer and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts became NASA’s first Chief of the Astronaut Office?
34 Deke Slayton
35 Which horse trained by Henrietta Knight won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2002 2003 and 2004?
35 Best Mate
36 In February 2019 which team defeated the LA Rams 13 - 3 to win Super Bowl LIII?
36 New England Patriots
