Friday Quiz - 26/04/19 - Quiz & Trivia

1. Can you match the following descriptions of very British iconic music videos to their artist and title?

Five girls gatecrash a party at a posh London hotel and cause havoc dancing on the tables before running off onto a London bus.

Two women fight a group of men for a briefcase in a London skyscraper before one betrays the other and pushes her out of a window. She then regains her health and trains with her squad to take revenge in a showdown battle.

A pale-faced man with bright orange hair and blue eyeshadow stands in front of a white background singing a song.

A group of men dressed as women perform household chores in a parody of Coronation Street.

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2. Bradford City were relegated to League Two this week, but who were the first team in the top four tiers of English football to be relegated, setting a record for the earliest date of 30th March? (Here's me last time Newcastle were relegated)

Bolton Wanderers

Fulham

Huddersfield Town

Ipswich Town

Huddersfield Town now have that dubious honour, in what is a pretty poor year for Yorkshire teams - assuming Leeds do a Leeds and fail to get promoted.

Explanation

Huddersfield Town now have that dubious honour, in what is a pretty poor year for Yorkshire teams - assuming Leeds do a Leeds and fail to get promoted.

3. English colonist John Rolfe married a real-life Disney princess in April 1614. But which one?

Ariel

Jasmine

Narla

Pocahontas

4. Anchor Hanover's new business plan was rolled out to colleagues this week in the form of interactive workshops. How many new homes are we aiming to build in the next 8 years?

1,000

3,200

8,000

200,000

The Government is trying to building 200,000 new homes a year (good luck with that Theresa...)
Anchor Hanover have the more realistic but still ambitious target of 3,200.

Explanation

The Government is trying to building 200,000 new homes a year (good luck with that Theresa...)
Anchor Hanover have the more realistic but still ambitious target of 3,200.

5. We celebrated St. George's day this week with some lovely hymns played on the bells at City Hall. Where was St. George born?

America

Ireland

Turkey

Yorkshire!

The history is a bit confusing, but he definitely wasn't English, and never even visited Yorkshire!
Consensus seems to be that George was a Roman solider of Greek descent, born in Cappodocia (modern-day Turkey), and moved to his maternal homeland of Syria.

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