Easy Quiz Questions - 7 - EASY George
EASY - ALL CALLED GEORGE
1 Who turned down a peerage and the Order of Merit but accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature - George Bernard Shaw
2 Zip me up before you go go was a 1998 Sun newspaper headline referring to the lewd behaviour of which pop star - George Michael
3 Which boxer, in 1994 at the age of 45 became then the oldest heavyweight champion in boxing history - George Foreman
4 Which actor refused an Oscar for his part in the film Patton - George C Scott
5 Who starred with Barbra Streisand in the film The Owl and The Pussycat - George Segal
6 Who was the first president of the USA - George Washington
7 Who wrote 1984 and Animal Farm - George Orwell
8 Which British fashion designer created the Per Una range for Marks and Spencer in 2001 to boost flagging sales - George Davies
9 In the sixties which footballer acquired the nickname El Beatle - George Best
10 Who, at the age of 80, became a box-office smash when he played God to John Denver in Oh, God! - George Burns
11 Who had a UK top ten hit in 2014 with Blame It on Me - George Ezra
12 The second volume of which musicians autobiography was called Rum Bum and Concertina - George Melly
13 Who replaced The Duke of Wellington on the reverse of the £5 note - George Stephenson
14 Which novelist wrote Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede - George Eliot
15 Who starred in the films The Perfect Storm and The Thin Red Line - George Clooney
16 Which rugby union player became the youngest to achieve fifty international caps in February 2015 - George North
17 Which English king was responsible for the institution of the George Cross and George Medal - George V1
18 Who produced the Beatles records - George Martin
19 Who was the youngest US Army officer ever to be promoted to general and was killed in 1876 - George Armstrong Custer
20 Who produced the Indiana Jones films - George Lucas
Here's a BONUS - Who was the nation's favourite ukulele player in the mid 20th century - George Formby