Daily Cuppa and Quiz: April 27, 2023

#OnThisDay - in 1759, author and activist Mary Wollstonecraft—who, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), was the first to advocate for British women's suffrage—was born in London.

1. Which star of Barbara was mayoress of her home town Blackburn?
2. Who wrote the music for the Threepenny Opera?
3. By what name is the blowfly commonly known as?
4. Who tries to save the world from virtual reality in The Matrix?
5. Who played Soames Forsyte in the classic 1960s TV saga?
6. Who was the actress who had an affair with Britain's Heritage Secretary David Mellor in 1992?
7. Which one of Britain's notorious gangster Kray twins died first in 1995?
8. A zander is a type of which creature?
9. In which country is Sebastopol?
10. What is the name of the fluid portion of white blood in which blood cells are suspended?

Answers for April 26:
Questions: 1.Who was 'The Radio Doctor' in the 1940s and 50s? 2.What was the Golden Earring's first UK Top Ten hit? 3.Started in 1850, what were Children's Temperance Societies called? 4.Which motorcyclist appeared in the film Space Riders? 5.Gravure is a term connected with which industry? 6.Who played the leading role in the film The Stone Killer? 7.To the nearest hundred how many islands make up the Maldives? 8.Who was Prime Minister during the General Strike? 9.What does a mendicant do? 10.Mycology is the study of what?
Answers: 1.Charles Hill 2.Radar Love 3.Bands of Hope 4.Barry Sheene 5.Printing (platemaking) 6.Charles Bronson 7.1200 (1196) 8.Stanley Baldwin 9.Begs 10.Fungi

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