T213 WEATHER QUIZ
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:38 pm1. Which 'measured' US writer said "Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it"?
MARK TWAIN
2. 'Divine winds' or Kamikazes prevented which man and his horde from invading Japan between 1274 and 1281?
KUBLAI KHAN
3. Who sang the following songs? (original recording)
a. Crying in the rain
EVERLEY BROTHERS
b. Blue eyes crying in the rain
WILLIE NELSON
c. Who'll stop the rain
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
d. Rain
THE BEATLES
e. Riders on the storm
THE DOORS
f. Weather with you
CROWDED HOUSE
g. Sunny Afternoon
THE KINKS
h. Like a hurricane
NEIL YOUNG
i. Heatwave
MARTHA REEVES AND THE VANDELLAS
4. What was the name of the doomed ship in the book and film 'The Perfect Storm'?
ANDREA GAIL
5. Which band did Ringo Starr belong to before joining the Beatles?
RORY STORM AND THE HURRICANES
6. Jim and Hilda Bloggs are the doomed couple in which tragic film?
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
7. Captain Robert Fitzroy, the man who was influential in introducing meteorology into GB in the 19th century was the captain of which famous ship?
HMS BEAGLE
8. Sir Richard Burton and Albert Finney have both played the same historical figure in different versions of which film? clue if necessary (based on the book by the historical figure)
THE GATHERING STORM - BOTH PLAYED WINSTON CHURCHILL
9. According to a law "made a distant moon ago here, July and August cannot be too hot, and there is a legal limit to the snow", "the winter is forbidden till December" and "the rain may never fall till after sundown". Where is this magical place?
CAMELOT THE MUSICAL
10. Which poem begins with the words "The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"?
THE HIGHWAYMAN
MARK TWAIN
2. 'Divine winds' or Kamikazes prevented which man and his horde from invading Japan between 1274 and 1281?
KUBLAI KHAN
3. Who sang the following songs? (original recording)
a. Crying in the rain
EVERLEY BROTHERS
b. Blue eyes crying in the rain
WILLIE NELSON
c. Who'll stop the rain
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
d. Rain
THE BEATLES
e. Riders on the storm
THE DOORS
f. Weather with you
CROWDED HOUSE
g. Sunny Afternoon
THE KINKS
h. Like a hurricane
NEIL YOUNG
i. Heatwave
MARTHA REEVES AND THE VANDELLAS
4. What was the name of the doomed ship in the book and film 'The Perfect Storm'?
ANDREA GAIL
5. Which band did Ringo Starr belong to before joining the Beatles?
RORY STORM AND THE HURRICANES
6. Jim and Hilda Bloggs are the doomed couple in which tragic film?
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
7. Captain Robert Fitzroy, the man who was influential in introducing meteorology into GB in the 19th century was the captain of which famous ship?
HMS BEAGLE
8. Sir Richard Burton and Albert Finney have both played the same historical figure in different versions of which film? clue if necessary (based on the book by the historical figure)
THE GATHERING STORM - BOTH PLAYED WINSTON CHURCHILL
9. According to a law "made a distant moon ago here, July and August cannot be too hot, and there is a legal limit to the snow", "the winter is forbidden till December" and "the rain may never fall till after sundown". Where is this magical place?
CAMELOT THE MUSICAL
10. Which poem begins with the words "The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"?
THE HIGHWAYMAN
