As it’s the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, there are questions from each of the 8 decades of her reign, plus a couple of “platinum” questions to make up our usual 10!
- Q. Who was the US President when Elizabeth became Queen in 1952?
- Q. 1967 saw the “Summer of Love”. San Francisco was the original epicentre and 2 songs featured the name of the city in the song titles. Who had a hit with:
- “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair”) – a UK no. 1?
- “If you’re going to San Francisco” (reached no. 4 in UK)
- Q. Which 2 Middle-Eastern leaders signed a famous peace treaty in Washington in 1979?
- Q. Live Aid took place on 13 July 1985. 2 questions about what was probably the greatest musical event of all time (in your quiz writer’s opinion!):
- Which song opened the event at 12 noon in London?
- Which artist performed in London and then flew by Concorde to perform at the American part of the concert in Philadelphia later that day?
- Q. Judi Dench famously won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1998 even though she was only on screen for about 8 minutes. What was the name of the film (which also won Best Picture)?
- Q. 11 September 2001 (“9/11”) saw the horrific terrorist attacks in the US. How many planes were hijacked and crashed?
- Q. Which national newspaper ceased production in 2011 and which band had a hit album with the same title, albeit much earlier in 1977? Coincidentally that band also performed at Live Aid!
- Q. Which British married couple won multiple gold and silver medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (in 2021)?
- Q. Can you place the first episodes of the following soaps in date order of their first episode – EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale (Farm), Hollyoaks? All started during the Queen’s reign and are still running today (others may have come and gone)
- Q. And finally……….what is “hryvnia”. It has nothing to do with the Queen but has been in use since 1996 in a country that has made headlines for unfortunately the wrong reasons recently.