Q 01/05

Which 12-year-old won a record third Grand National at Aintree under jockey Tommy Stack, by 25 lengths?

A) L'Escargot

B) Rag Trade

C) Aldaniti

D) Red Rum

Answer · why

D) Red Rum

Red Rum had already won in 1973 and 1974 and finished second in 1975 and 1976, and his third win was voted the 24th greatest sporting moment of all ti...

Q 02/05

Which Briton won the Wimbledon women's singles in the championships' centenary year, as Elizabeth II watched on?

A) Sue Barker

B) Virginia Wade

C) Ann Jones

D) Angela Mortimer

Answer · why

B) Virginia Wade

Virginia Wade beat Betty Stöve in three sets nine days before her 32nd birthday, and it was the first Wimbledon final the monarch had attended since 1...

Q 03/05

Which Wings single, backed by the Campbeltown Pipe Band, was the first to sell two million copies in Britain?

A) Band on the Run

B) With a Little Luck

C) Listen to What the Man Said

D) Mull of Kintyre

Answer · why

D) Mull of Kintyre

Mull of Kintyre spent nine weeks at number one as the Christmas chart-topper and was the UK's best-selling single ever until Band Aid overtook it in 1...

Q 04/05

Which Sex Pistols single was performed from a Thames boat on 7 June, a stunt that ended with 11 arrests?

A) God Save the Queen

B) Anarchy in the U.K.

C) Pretty Vacant

D) Holidays in the Sun

Answer · why

A) God Save the Queen

God Save the Queen was banned outright by the BBC yet stalled at number two behind Rod Stewart that week, and its label was convinced it had really ou...

Q 05/05

Which Florida city saw snow flurries on 19 January for the only time in its recorded history?

A) Tallahassee

B) Tampa

C) Jacksonville

D) Miami

Answer · why

D) Miami

Miami saw the flakes melt on landing, and the Washington Post called it the farthest south snow had been reported in the United States since records b...