Keyword quiz #2

1 Just as he was saying: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at that distance...”, Union major general John Sedgwick was killed by a sharpshooter at which May 1864 battle in Virginia?  

2 The tune that Big Ben plays contains four notes: G sharp, F sharp, E and what? 

3 A teenage Davy Jones, later of the Monkees, played Ena Sharples’s grandson Colin on which TV soap? 

4 Which “Warhol of Japan” created his first signature character, the sharp-toothed Mr DOB, in 1993? 

5 In her 1974 memoir Conundrum, Jan Morris described which revolutionary as “sharp as a cat in Cuba”?

6 The novel Vanity Fair opens with Becky Sharp throwing which Samuel Johnson work out of a carriage window? 

7 Marie Sharp’s habanero pepper sauces are made in which Central American country?  

8 In 2010, Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp founded which pinboard-style, photo-sharing website?  

9 What is the first name of the titular soldier played by Sean Bean in the ITV series Sharpe?  

10 Which Edinburgh craft brewer was founded in 2003 by master brewer Dougal Sharp? 

11 Karl Barry Sharpless is a two-time recipient of which Nobel prize?  

12 In 1976, GQ journalist Roger Sharpe helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on which game? 

13 Human Rights Day is held in South Africa on March 21, the anniversary of which 1960 massacre? 

14 Morton’s neuroma can cause a sharp, burning pain in the ball of which part of the body?  

15 The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal allows boats to bypass a treacherous stretch of which river?  

16 Caribbean reef and Atlantic sharpnose are species of which predatory fish?  

17 Which sharpshooter (1860-1926) often worked with her husband Frank Butler?  

18 Grantchester Grind is a sequel to which 1974 novel by Tom Sharpe? 

19 Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was a leading British figure in which movement?  

20 Who played the cardsharp Bret Maverick in the Western TV series Maverick (1957-62)?  

21 Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history?  

22 The US consul Sharpless, the maid Suzuki and Prince Yamadori are roles in which Puccini opera? 

23 Starring Amy Adams, the 2018 TV drama Sharp Objects is based on a novel by which US writer? 

24 Known in Italian as bemolle (“soft B”), which musical term means “lower in pitch” and is the opposite of sharp?  

25 Manufactured by Newell Brands, which brand’s name is a generic term for a permanent marker in the US?  

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Answers 

1 Battle of Spotsylvania Court House or Spotsylvania 2 B 3 Coronation Street 4 Takashi Murakami 5 Che Guevara 6 A Dictionary of the English Language or [Samuel] Johnson’s Dictionary 7 Belize 8 Pinterest 9 Richard 10 Innis & Gunn 11 Nobel prize in chemistry, he was awarded shares of the prize in 2001 and 2022 12 Pinball 13 Sharpeville massacre 14 Foot 15 River Severn 16 Shark 17 Annie Oakley 18 Porterhouse Blue 19 Abolition of the slave trade 20 James Garner 21 Antietam or Sharpsburg - on September 17, 1862 22 Madama Butterfly 23 Gillian Flynn 24 Flat 25 Sharpie