Sunday Super Quiz July 21, 2024

England won the 1966 FIFA World Cup on home soil after defeating West Germany in the final. It was the first and, so far, the only time they had won the World Cup.

Pierre de Coubertin is known as the father of the modern Olympic Games. It was at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris that he came up with the idea of reviving the Olympic Games. Coubertin's advocacy for the games centered on a number of ideals about sport.

Released in 1975, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is one of Queen's most famous songs, known for its complex structures and opera parts.

David Bowie's big break came in 1972 when he released the album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," in which he played the androgynous alien (and rock star) Ziggy Stardust.

Bouillabaisse is a traditional French fish soup from Provence, often containing various types of fish, seafood, tomatoes, and saffron.

Olive Oyl is a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar in 1919 for his comic strip Thimble Theatre. The strip was later renamed Popeye after the popular sailor character. Olive Oyl was, however, the main character for a decade before Popeye's 1929 appearance.

The saint, always played by Roger Moore, drove a white Volvo P1800 coupe. The TV series originally aired from 1962 to 1969.

Jenever, also known as genever or genièvre, is a traditional juniper-flavoured liquor in the Netherlands, Belgium, and parts of France.

Tetris is a computer and TV game that arranges falling figures in whole rows. The Russian Alekséj Leonidovitch Pázhitnov created the game, initially published in 1984 by the state computer trading organization Elektronorgtechnika of the Soviet Union, better known as ELORG. The company eventually sold the rights to the arcade versions to Atari and the rights to the game console versions to Nintendo. In 1996, Pázhitnov created the Hawaii-based company The Tetris Company. The company now owns the Tetris brand and licenses the name to modern variants.

Sue Prideaux's 2005 book "Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream" is a comprehensive biography of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

Alice follows the white rabbit down the rabbit hole, which starts her adventure in Wonderland.

Steven Schussler is an American developer of theme restaurants, best known as the creator of the Rainforest Cafe. When he came up with the idea for Rainforest Cafe, he turned his house into a model jungle to attract investors before opening the first location in the Mall of America in 1994.

While the 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Melbourne, the equestrian events, which included dressage, eventing, and show jumping, were moved to Stockholm due to Australian quarantine regulations.

CPH stands for Copenhagen Airport in Denmark.

Henry VIII is known for having been married six times and for breaking with the Roman Catholic Church and establishing the independent Church of England in the 16th century.

With its 354 kilometers, the Severn is Great Britain's longest river. If you look at all the British Isles, the Irish River Shannon is longer.

The lungs (pulmo) are the central organs of the respiratory system in humans and some other animals.

Borobudur is a Buddhist monument near Yogyakarta on the island of Java in Indonesia.

"Dexter" stars Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter analyst who murders other criminals.

Inspector Morse (or just "Morse"), is a British detective series produced by ITV, which was originally broadcast in the UK from 1987 to 2000. Thirteen of the thirty-three episodes are based on Colin Dexter's books and short stories, but most were specially written for television.