MEN IN BOOKS
Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" ?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Mark Twain
C) Alexander Pushkin
A) Ernest Hemingwa
Who played Jack Dawson in the film Titanic?
A) Brad Pitt
B) Leonardo DiCaprio
C) Matt Damon
B) Leonardo DiCaprio
What is the name of the cowboy doll in Toy Story?
A) Buzz Lightyear
B) Woody
C) Slinky Dog
B) Woody
Which Soviet leader initiated Perestroika?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
C) Yuri Andropov
B) Mikhail Gorbachev
Who is known as the "Russian Rocket" in ice hockey?
A) Pavel Bure
B) Alexander Ovechkin
C) Evgeni Malkin
A) Pavel Bure
Which famous detective lives at 221B Baker Street?
A) Hercule Poirot
B) Sherlock Holmes
C) Sam Spade
B) Sherlock Holmes
Which actor played the title role in "Forrest Gump"?
A) Tom Hanks
B) Robin Wright
C) Gary Sinise
A) Tom Hanks
What is the name of the giant green ogre from the DreamWorks films?
Shrek
Which Russian composer wrote The Nutcracker and Swan Lake?
A) Sergei Rachmaninoff
B) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
C) Igor Stravinsky
B) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Who holds the world record for the men's 100m sprint?
A) Usain Bolt
B) Tyson Gay
C) Justin Gatlin
Usain Bolt
Who created the character of Rodion Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment?
A) Ivan Turgenev
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who directed the films: Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
A) Martin Scorsese
B) Quentin Tarantino
C) David Fincher
B) Quentin Tarantino
What is the name of Mickey Mouse's faithful pet dog?
A) Pluto
B) Goofy
C) Max
A) Pluto
Who was the British Prime Minister during most of World War II?
A) Neville Chamberlain
B) Clement Attlee
C) Winston Churchill
C) Winston Churchill
Which NBA player is nicknamed "The King"?
A) Kobe Bryant
B) LeBron James
C) Stephen Curry
B) LeBron James
In The Lord of the Rings, who is the rightful King of Gondor?
A) Aragorn
B) Boromir
C) Faramir
A) Aragorn
Who played Wolverine in the X-Men film series?
A) Hugh Jackman
B) Patrick Stewart
C) Ian McKellen
A) Hugh Jackman
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob SquarePants
Which Roman emperor made his horse a senator?
A) Julius Caesar
B) Caligula
C) Nero
B) Caligula
Which boxer bit his opponent's ear off during a fight?
Mike Tyson
What is the name of the sea captain in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?
Captain Nemo
Which Russian actor starred in film "Brother" (Brat) and became a cultural icon of the 1990s?
A) Sergei Bodrov Jr.
In The Simpsons, what is Homer's favourite food?
Doughnuts
Which Greek philosopher walked around with a lantern looking for an "honest man"?
Diogenes
he never found — even with a lantern in daylight!
Which Olympic swimmer ate McDonald's every day during training for the Beijing Olympics?
Michael Phelps
(12,000 calories a day — 6 000 of them from Big Macs!)