OT - The Pub Quiz Thread
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Who is the only actor or actress to have won an Oscar, both of whose parents have also won Oscars?
No one seems to be answering this one, and I hadn't a clue, so I googled it; is that allowed? 
Liza Minelli, parents Judy Garland and Vicente Minelli.
Liza Minelli, parents Judy Garland and Vicente Minelli.
No one seems to be answering this one, and I hadn't a clue, so I googled it; is that allowed?
Liza Minnelli, parents Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli.
Strangely enough you are correct!
Liza: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cabaret)
Judy: Academy Juvenile Award (The Wizard of Oz)
Vincente: Best Director (Gigi)
Which writer is reputed to have died from caffeine poisoning after drinking 50 cups of black coffee per day for most of his adult life?
OK. In which country (and when) was the last cavalry charge made by a section of the British Army ?
Providing we mean the last cavalry charge on horseback, on my historical son's advice (but not certainty) I am going for the First World war, possibly in 1917 in the country that is now known as Israel. At the time this was part of the Ottoman Empire.
I do mean the last cavalry charge on horseback, and no, not during the first World War.
Was it in India during partition? 1947 I think. I suspect it was not during a formal war, but was to disperse a mob of some kind.
The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma
I'll give you that Kiwi - this was the last by British Empire forces. The last by the British Army itself was by the Cheshire Yeomanry in Syria in June 1941 when taking Vichy French positions - there are a couple of the survivors of this at the military hospital in Chelsea. Over to you.
