Daily Cuppa and Quiz: April 25, 2023

#OnThisDay - in 1792, The first guillotine was erected, on the Place de Grève in Paris, to execute a highwayman.

1. What type of song is a doxology?
2. All Souls College is part of which university?
3. Who was the wife of William the Conqueror who is said to have designed the Bayeux Tapestry?
4. What does the letter B stand for in author J. B. Priestley's name?
5. Who was the legendary son of British king Luther Pendragon?
6. The Cordillera Isabella is the highest mountain range of which Central American Republic?
7. Which sitcom star released a solo album called What Is Going to Become of Us All in 1976?
8. Zanzibar is an island of which country?
9. A 'nuncio' is an ambassador of which person?
10. What word refers to the 'restructuring' of the Soviet System?

Answers for April 24:
Questions: 1.Often seen in the 17th and 18th centuries, what was peruke? 2. In the Jewish religion, what name is given to scrolls which contain the text of the Pentateuch? 3.What nationality was the first pilot to be saved by an ejector seat? 4.Born in Scotland, who was Canada's first Prime Minister? 5.In the story of Peter Pan, Peter has to return to the Darling's house because on his first visit he left without what? 6.Which two bodies of water are connected by the Straits of Florida? 7.What name is given to the first six books of the Bible? 8.What nationality is motor racer Mario Andretti? 9.Who famously sailed in HMS Beagle? 10.Which star of a popular sitcom made a fitness video called Let's Dance?
Answers: 1.A wig 2.Torah 3.Swedish 4.John Alexander MacDonald 5.His shadow 6.Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico 7.Hexateuch 8.American 9.Charles Darwin 10.Richard Wilson

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