Q 01/05

Richard Nixon's 1952 televised speech defending a campaign fund is named after which pet?

A) Checkers

B) King Timahoe

C) Liberty

D) Macaroni

Answer · why

A) Checkers

Checkers was a cocker spaniel sent to the Nixon children, and Nixon vowed to keep the gift whatever his critics said. About 60 million Americans watch...

Q 02/05

Dick Van Dyke played both Bert the chimney sweep and an elderly bank chairman in which musical film?

A) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

B) Mary Poppins

C) Bedknobs and Broomsticks

D) Doctor Dolittle

Answer · why

B) Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins credited its ancient banker, Mr. Dawes Senior, to Navckid Keyd, a scramble of the actor's own name. Heavy costuming made him look far old...

Q 03/05

Which Beatle was born Richard Starkey and spent two years of childhood in a tuberculosis sanatorium?

A) George Harrison

B) John Lennon

C) Ringo Starr

D) Paul McCartney

Answer · why

C) Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr took the stage name from the rings he wore, and because it sounded country-and-western. After his hospital stay he skipped school to drum ...

Q 04/05

Richard III, the last English king killed in battle, was found in 2012 buried under what?

A) A supermarket

B) A football pitch

C) A railway station

D) A car park

Answer · why

D) A car park

A car park in Leicester had covered the lost Greyfriars church where he was hastily buried in 1485. DNA from descendants of his sister Anne helped con...

Q 05/05

Which actor starred opposite Julia Roberts in both Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride?

A) Richard Gere

B) Richard Crenna

C) Richard Jenkins

D) Richard Grieco

Answer · why

A) Richard Gere

Richard Gere composed and performed the piano theme he plays in Pretty Woman. The role brought him his second Golden Globe nomination.