Q 01/05

Which team's World Series, its last for 71 years, saw a tavern owner's goat ejected from its ballpark?

A) Detroit Tigers

B) Boston Red Sox

C) Chicago Cubs

D) Chicago White Sox

Answer · why

C) Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs lost that series to the Detroit Tigers and did not win a pennant again until 2016, when the 'Curse of the Billy Goat' supposedly laid...

Q 02/05

Which New York skyscraper was hit by a B-25 bomber lost in thick fog on 28 July, killing fourteen people?

A) Empire State Building

B) Chrysler Building

C) Bank of Manhattan Building

D) Woolworth Building

Answer · why

A) Empire State Building

The Empire State Building was hit after the pilot, advised not to try landing in the fog, flew on over midtown Manhattan; eleven of the fourteen kille...

Q 03/05

Which two royals joined the VE night crowds outside Buckingham Palace incognito?

A) The King and Queen

B) Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

C) The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester

D) Queen Mary and Princess Alice

Answer · why

B) Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret wandered among the crowds unrecognised, an escapade the 2015 film A Royal Night Out stretched into a whole evening o...

Q 04/05

Which David Lean film, shot at Carnforth station with Celia Johnson as a suburban wife, reached cinemas in November?

A) Blithe Spirit

B) Great Expectations

C) The Way to the Stars

D) Brief Encounter

Answer · why

D) Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter was shot at Carnforth in February 1945, as wartime planners judged the Lancashire junction far enough from the big cities to film ther...

Q 05/05

Which guitarist, born in Ripley, Surrey, on 30 March, grew up believing his mother was his older sister?

A) Eric Clapton

B) Ritchie Blackmore

C) Jimmy Page

D) Peter Green

Answer · why

A) Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton was nine when his mother came back, married to a Canadian soldier, and it left him withdrawn and neglecting school.