Daily Cuppa and Quiz: April 22, 2023

#OnThisDay in 1970 the first Earth Day we celebrated in USA, founded by American politician and conservationist Gaylord Anton Nelson, it is today an international event.

1. Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans?
2. A famous mammal from television called Flipper was what kind of animal?
3. Who's band was The Quarrymen?
4. Which was the most successful Grand National horse?
5. Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man?
6. What is Dick Grayson's superhero alias?
7. What does a funambulist do?
8. Who was the first man to fly across the channel?
9. Who invented the television?
10. What was the name of inn in Treasure Island?

Answers for April 21:
Questions: Name the American astronaut who, in 1984, became the first man to make an 'untethered' spacewalk. 2. Which inlet of the Firth of Clyde was the site of a US Polaris nuclear submarine base from 1961 until 1992? 3. The son of a celebrated archeologist, he was the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra from 1922 until his death in 1954. Can you name him? 4. What type of Australian eucalyptus tree is mentioned in the song Waltzing Matilda? 5. Who, in May 1996, was made an honorary citizen of Warsaw? 6. The Kuiper Crater is on which planet? 7. Walker Smith was the real name of which famous world welter and middleweight boxing champion of the 1940s and 1950s? 8. And which world heavyweight boxing champion, he won the title at the age of 37, was born Arnold Cream? 9. Situated on both banks of the Karun river, Ahvaz is a city in which country? 10. Name the feminist, a constant companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, who wrote The Second Sex?

Answers: 1. Bruce McCandless. 2. Holy Loch. 3. Wilhelm Furtwangler. 4. Coolibah 5. Pope John Paul II. 6. Mercury. 7. Sugar Ray Robinson. 8. Jersey Joe Walcott. 9. Iran. 10. Simone De Beauvoir.

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