Christmas quiz round four: Test your general knowledge
Flex your fact-retaining muscles with this quickfire round from Chris Maume
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1. Four sovereign nations have names beginning with “V”. Which flag belongs to which country?
2. Where would you study Greats, and what would you be studying?
3. Babbo Natale, La Befana, Deushka Moroz, Kris Kringle: what’s the link?
4. “Now I wanna dance. I wanna win. I want that trophy, so dance good!” Lines said by whom to whom in which 1994 film?
5. Name the British 400m and 800m runner who died on Boxing Day 50 years ago, two years after winning an Olympic silver medal and the year after becoming a double world champion.
6. What was the intention of Nazi Germany’s Operation Sealion?
7. Which opera had its first performance in Cairo on Christmas Eve 1871?
8. What did Reg Varney do at the Enfield Town branch of Barclays in June 1967?
9. She was born in July 1996 in Midlothian, where she spent her entire life. She died aged only six in 2003. Who was she?
10. The 1966 World Cup final is the most-watched television programme in the UK, with 32.3 million viewers, followed by the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the 1969 Royal Family documentary. In fourth place is the Apollo 13 splashdown; which football match a fortnight later is at No 5?
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