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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        (K)    In what year was the first ever radio advertisement broadcast?

1922

Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1909.

Ticket holder was awarded £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.

Ticket holder was awarded £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.

Ticket holder was awarded £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.

Ticket holder was awarded £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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        (Y)    In what year was former US President Ronald Regan born?

         1911

Question was answered incorrectly - answer given 1914.

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