Garry Gillard > quizzes > Magus 1
9 March 2019
1. Which musician released an album called The Prodigal Son in 2018 - possibly his last, as he was born in 1947? He wrote three of the eleven songs.
2. Which prominent French intellectual was born a Sephardic Jew in Algeria in 1930?
3. Who has his own personal entrance to Fremantle Cemetery?
4. Tim Winton has published a dozen novels. What is the title of the first (1982)?
5. What Australian film begins with Noni Hazlehurst emerging from a swim to reveal that she is not only naked but also apparently in the last stages of pregnancy? And she really was.
6. Which street in Perth WA was named for the man who wrote a novel the first sentence of which begins with , 'It was a dark and stormy night ...'?
7. The title of Paul Greengrass's 2018 film, 22 July, doesn't give much away about its subject. Who is it?
8. BWV 1079 is J.S. Bach's 'Musical Offering'. To whom was it offered?
9. Where is the original headquarters of the Open University, one of the UK's biggest? It was established in 1969.
10. What is the name of the country that has a total land area of only 261 square kilometres and a capital called Alofi?
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