10 quiz questions to kick off your week – Scroll to the bottom for the answers
  1. Which member of the British royal family was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1971?
  2. What number is represented by ‘C’ in Roman numerals?
  3. What sauce is used in a traditional Eggs Benedict dish?
  4. Who wrote the music for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?
  5. Which leader succeeded Mikhail Gorbachev, becoming the first president of Russia?
  6. What actor played Norman Bates in the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho?
  7. What is the name of the off-road race that crosses the Sahara Desert annually?
  8. The Brownlow Medal is awarded to the ‘best and fairest player’ in what Australian sport?
  9. What TV show about a warrior princess was filmed in NZ from 1995 to 2001?
  10. Which Shakespeare play is it considered bad luck to mention it’s name while inside a theatre?

Answers:

  1. Princess Anne/Anne, Princess Royal
  2. 100
  3. Hollandaise
  4. Andrew Lloyd Webber
  5. Boris Yeltsin
  6. Anthony Perkins
  7. Dakar Rally/Paris-Dakar Rally
  8. AFL/Australian Football League/Aussie Rules
  9. Xena: Warrior Princess
  10. Macbeth