Monday 15 November 2010

Cell By Date

Following the release this weekend of both Ang San Sou Kyi from house arrest in Burma and Paul & Rachel Chandler, the British sailors held captive by Somali pirates in primitive conditions for thirteen long months, today's quiz takes the theme of prisons and prisoners. 

1 Which two items combine to form the logo of Amnesty International, the world wide organisation that campaigns on behalf of prisoners of conscience?

2 Prior to becoming president of his country, who was detained as prisoner 19476/62?

3 Which actor played the central character in the UK cult TV series ''The Prisoner'?

4 On which two island was Napoleon held prisoner?

5  Who wrote 'The Gulag Archipelagoo' & 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich', two books which drew attention to the brutal gulag forced labour camps in Soviet Russia?

Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz.

The answer to the previous Highly Questionable quiz were:-
1 The UK.
2 80%.
3 1991.
4 Naypyidaw.
5 Any 3 of Bangladesh, China, India, Laos, Thailand and Tibet.



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