Yorkers and Oasis

Question 1

The Ashes is contested between England and which other national cricket team?

Accepted Answer

Australia

Answer

New Zealand

Answer

India

Answer

South Africa

Question 2

Which desert stretches across North Africa, from the Atlantic towards the Red Sea?

Accepted Answer

Sahara

Answer

Kalahari

Answer

Namib

Answer

Arabian

Question 3

Which optical process makes hot roads appear to have pools of water?

Accepted Answer

Refraction

Answer

Dispersion

Answer

Interference

Answer

Diffraction

Question 4

Who played the title role in the 1962 film “Lawrence of Arabia”?

Accepted Answer

Peter O’Toole

Answer

Richard Burton

Answer

Alec Guinness

Answer

Omar Sharif

Question 5

Which English city has major railway stations named Piccadilly and Victoria?

Accepted Answer

Manchester

Answer

Birmingham

Answer

Liverpool

Answer

Leeds

Question 6

Which cricketer finished his Test career with a batting average of 99.94?

Accepted Answer

Don Bradman

Answer

Sachin Tendulkar

Answer

Garfield Sobers

Answer

Viv Richards

Question 7

Who wrote the play “Look Back in Anger”, first performed in 1956?

Accepted Answer

John Osborne

Answer

Tom Stoppard

Answer

Harold Pinter

Answer

Samuel Beckett

Question 8

Which ancient leader visited the oracle at Siwa in 331 BCE?

Accepted Answer

Alexander the Great

Answer

Julius Caesar

Answer

Darius I

Answer

Hannibal

Question 9

Which American painter bought a home at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Georgia O’Keeffe

Answer

Grant Wood

Answer

Edward Hopper

Answer

Jackson Pollock

Question 10

Which Beatle narrated the first two series of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”?

Accepted Answer

Ringo Starr

Answer

George Harrison

Answer

John Lennon

Answer

Paul McCartney