Each month we’re posing five pub quiz style questions, with a different subject each month. As before, they’re not difficult, but it is unlikely everyone will know all the answers – so hopefully you’ll learn something new, as well as having a bit of fun.
Art
What year did Vincent Van Gogh die?
What Renaissance artist is buried in Rome’s Pantheon?
Who painted the famous artwork Guernica?
Who painted the famous artwork The Birth of Venus?
Which US artist died in a car crash in August 1956, aged 44?
Our look at some of the significant happenings 100 years ago this month.
3. Died. Franz Kafka, Austrian author (b. 1883)
5. Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden
8. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen “going strong for the top” of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12:50pm; the two mountaineers are never seen alive again
12. Born. George HW Bush, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018)
Eccentric looks at life through the thoughts of a retired working thinker
