THE GREAT SPECTATOR £1,000 WINE COMPETITION
One last chance to enter our Wine Competition! Once you have answered all twenty questions, send your answers to The Spectator Wine Competition, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL. Please ensure that you have filled in your name and address on this week's answer form. The competition closes on April 30th 1990. The winner, and the 25 runners-up, will be announced in The Spectator dated May 19th. The winner and the twenty five runners-up will be notified by post. The runners-up will receive two tickets for "Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell" for the date of their choice.
Question (1) Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel 'Hotel du Lac'?
Question (2) Who was the second man on the moon? Question (3) Which world leader used his shoe as an oratorical aid in a meeting with President Kennedy? Question (4) To which American state was London Bridge moved to in the late sixties?
Question (5) Which French novelist is known for beginning a letter `J'accuse'?
Question (6) Is there any point in waving a 'red rag to a bull'? If not, why not?
Question (7) What is Beethoven's only opera called? Question (8) What do French people call Lake Geneva?
Question (9) Which has been published the longest, The Spectator, Punch or The Economist?
Question (10) Which Novelist played in the position of goalkeeper in the Algerian national football team? Question (11) Which Prime Minister had a passion for cutting down trees?
Question (12) What is the name of the most famous male solo from the third act of Puccini's Turandot? Question (13) Which Warwickshire town gave its name to a cooperative of motorcycle manufacture? Question (14) In which British town is a consortium of businessmen planning to build the tallest structure in the world?
Question (15) In which year did the British Airways' Concorde start its fare-paying service, and to where? Question (16) Which London borough can claim to be 'where East meets West'?
Question (17) How many brothers and sisters did William Shakespeare have in total?
Question (18) What do the initials GKN stand for? Question (19) Which European city was known as Danzig?
Question (20) In which city is the world's tallest building? Answer (1) Answer (2) Answer (3) Answer (4) Answer (5) Answer (6) Answer (7) Answer (8) Answer (9) Answer (10) Answer (11) Answer (12) Answer (13) Answer (14) Answer (15) Answer (16) Answer (17) Answer (18) Answer (19) Answer (20)
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