1. What type of creature is a pipistrelle?
2. Claret is a wine from which region in France?
3. Which American chess player was stripped of his world championship in April 1975 for refusing to play Anatoly Karpov?
4. Which female singer holds the record for the most Billboard 100 number one hits by an American artist?
5. Zaphod Beeblebrox is a character in which 1979 Douglas Adams novel?
6. What word can mean well dressed, a sharp stinging pain, and clever?
7. Laura Dern won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Nora Fanshaw in which film?
8. Which three South American countries does the equator run through?
9. In Tex-Mex cuisine what name is given to a deep-fried burrito?
10. In which part of the human body would you find the orbit?
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QUIZ ANSWERS 1. A bat 2. Bordeaux 3. Bobby Fischer 4. Mariah Carey (18 - two behind the all-time record of The Beatles) 5. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 6. Smart 7. Marriage Story 8. Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil 9. Chimichanga 10. The eye Questions set by John Cunnane
