Snowball Question from Sunday 23rd December 2012
Ten tickets were drawn, with all winning tickets having a chance of a share in the £200 top prize if question answered correctly!
(A) In what year did the author Agatha Christie die?
1976
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1975.
Ticket holder was awarded
£200.00 or £10.00
(E) In what year did the American athlete Jesse Owens die?
1980
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1968.
Ticket holder was awarded
£200.00 or £10.00
(G) In what year did Harold Macmillian give his famous ‘wind of change’ speech in South Africa?
1960
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1967.
Ticket holder was awarded
£200.00 or £10.00
(J) In what year did the BBC first broadcast daily television news bulletins?
1954
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1936.
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£200.00 or £10.00
(K) In what year was the first ever radio advertisement broadcast?
1922
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1909.
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£200.00 or £10.00
(P) In what year was the first Cubist exhibition held in Paris?
1907
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1890.
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£200.00 or £10.00
(R) In what year was the first 24-hour flight by a solar powered plane?
2010
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 2005.
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£200.00 or £10.00
(S) In what year was the first life peerage created in Britain?
1958
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1965.
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£200.00 or £10.00
(X) In what year did Princess Margaret marry the photographer Anthony Armstrong Jones?
1960
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1974.
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£200.00 or £10.00
(Y) In what year was former US President Ronald Regan born?
1911
Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1914.
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£200.00 or £10.00