Some good news in that a local pub has asked me to potentially run a pub quiz for them. However, the bad news is that the people I have so far tested this General Knowledge round on say it is 'too difficult' despite managing to get 7/10 of these correct. Are they right? Would appreciate some feedback on this from anyone.
Connections
1. Eric Blair was a leading left-wing author and journalist who later became highly critical of Communism in the Soviet Union. Under which name did he write Animal Farm in 1945?
2. Born Samantha Sheffield in 1971, which common nickname is given by the media to the wife of the Prime Minister David Cameron?
3. What material is famously made in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and is protected in legislation by an Act of 1993?
4. The lives of which famous gangsters, who died in an ambush in Louisiana in 1934, were later immortalised in a film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, with their death scene described at the time as ‘one of the bloodiest... in cinematic history’?
5. Located in West Bridgford, which international sports ground is the home of Nottingham County Cricket Club?
6. Elizabeth Hurley has reportedly claimed that which 60s interviewer and DJ who died in 2009 was one of the chief influences on the Mike Myers character Austin Powers?
7. A fruitful trip to Prague inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to write an opera about which famous fictional Italian womaniser in 1787?
8. What was the full name of the final series to feature the character Edmund Blackadder, in which he held the rank of an army captain and continually tried and failed to escape the trenches of World War I?
9. In which Biblical location would you have found both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?
10. What connects the answers to all these questions?
