Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) Quiz 3 Questions

Hello everyone! PET staff have done quizzes over the past week and we thought you may want to join us? We hope you’ll have fun and it would be great to hear from you what you thought of them! You can always contact us on FREEPOST Prisoners’ Education Trust. Good luck with the quiz.

Round 1: PET’s top courses (12 points) 1. What's the population of the U.K? (to the nearest 1 million) 2. The Bank of England will issue a new £50 note in 2021. Which mathematician will it feature? 3. Who is the world’s richest person? (Bonus point for their net worth last year to the nearest $5 billion) 4. Which long-standing, chain-smoking character was the second wife of Jim Branning in the UK soap Eastenders? 5. Which Irish playwright wrote The Importance of Being Earnest, first performed in 1895? 6. In which country is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam in terms of power capacity? (Bonus point for its name) 7. Which band sang ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’? 8. Which infamous diet dictates that followers should eat fewer carbohydrates and more fatty food and has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease? 9. According to a 2017 estimate by the BBC, what percentage of the UK is built on? (to the nearest percentage point) 10. Which UK political leader was injured in a plane crash in the run-up to the 2010 election? Round 2: 1989 - PET’s foundation year (11 points) 1. On entering office in January of this year, who succeeded Ronald Reagan as US President? 2. 1989 is the title of whose 2014 studio album? 3. Of what fabric was the Czech Revolution made? 4. Which footballer, born in this year, featured in England’s 2006 World Cup squad at just 17 years old, despite having made only 13 appearances in senior football? 5. Which charity Christmas song reached No 1 in the charts with a new-look line up? 6. A film from which action-adventure film series starring Harrison Ford was the year’s highest grossing film globally? (Bonus point if you name the film) 7. February saw the launch of which Australian soap in the UK? 8. Which war was declared over on 3 December? 9. In which Chinese square did a man stand in front of a line of tanks in June of this year? 10. Which handheld game console was launched in Japan on 21 April? Round 3: The PET team: the name game (12 points) 1. Andrew - To which restaurant did Prince Andrew claim to have taken his daughter on 10 March 2001? (Bonus point for where the restaurant was located) 2. Anton - Anton du Beke is best known for starring in which BBC show which drew a peak audience of 12.5m viewers last year? 3. Calum - Calum comes from the Latin for dove. Another bird in the columbidae family is the humble street pigeon. But where in London is it illegal to feed them? 4. Claire - Claire is of French origin. How many countries list French as their official language? (within 1) 5. David - David means ‘beloved’ in Biblical Hebrew. According to the latest ONS figures, what percentage of the population aged 16 years and over in England and Wales are married? (to the nearest percentage point) 6. Hannah - Hannah Spearritt was one of seven members of S Club 7: name another (will accept first names). 7. Helena - The British exiled Napoleon to the remote tropical island Saint Helena after defeating him in which battle of 1815? 8. Jay - name two of the three countries beginning with J (bonus point if you name all three). 9. John - John was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Name one more. 10. Rebecca - Last week Rebecca Long Bailey lost out to whom in the Labour leadership contest? (Bonus point if you can name the other candidate in the last three)

Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) Quiz 3 Answers

Round 1: answers

1. 66.65 million (to the nearest 1 million) 2. Alan Turing (instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code) 3. Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO Jeff Bezos - $113 billion (to the nearest $5 billion) 4. Dot Cotton (June Brown) 5. Oscar Wilde 6. China (The Three Gorges Dam) 7. The Verve 8. The Atkins Diet 9. 5.9% (to the nearest percentage point) 10. Former Ukip and current Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage

Round 2: answers

1. George H. W. Bush (accept Senior) 2. Taylor Swift 3. Velvet 4. Theo Walcott 5. Do They Know It's Christmas? 6. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 7. Home and Away 8. The Cold War 9. Tiananmen 10. Game Boy

Round 3: answers

1. Pizza Express (bonus point: Woking) 2. Strictly Come Dancing 3. Trafalgar Square (since 2003) 4. 29 5. 50.5% (to the nearest percentage point) 6. Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee, Bradley McIntosh, Jo O'Meara, Rachel Stevens 7. Battle of Waterloo 8. Jamaica, Japan, Jordan 9. Thomas, Simon the Zealot, Philip, Simon Peter, Matthias, Matthew, Jude (Thaddaeus), Judas Iscariot, James, Son of Alpheus, James, Son of Zebedee, Bartholomew, and Andrew. 10. Keir Starmer (bonus point: Lisa Nandy)