Think Bond, think sexism, think again.
The central character in the long running film franchise featuring the licensed to kill womanising British secret service agent 007, a.k.a. James Bond, has made a striking stand for gender equality, or at least Daniel Craig, the actor who is the current incumbent in the role, has. Craig teamed up with Judi Dench, who's played spymaster M in the last six Bond films, in a short video released on International Women's Day yesterday, which highlights just how unequal things are for females. In the short two minute campaigning film, after M questions Bond 'for someone with such a fondness for women, I wonder if you have ever considered what it might be like to be one?', Craig leaves the shot to reappear on camera wearing a dress, high heels and a blond wig. M then delivers a range of damning statistics including the startling fact that across the world 'every year 70 million girls are deprived of even a basic education and a staggering 60 million are sexually assaulted on the way to school.' As late night radio talk show hosts churn out their lazy provocations about how redundant International Woman's Day is, and how gender inequality is a thing of the past, anyone who has lived or actually thought about the issues knows differently. To salute Craig and Dench's efforts we have taken that most unlikely of feminists, James Bond, as our theme for today's Highly Questionable quiz.
The central character in the long running film franchise featuring the licensed to kill womanising British secret service agent 007, a.k.a. James Bond, has made a striking stand for gender equality, or at least Daniel Craig, the actor who is the current incumbent in the role, has. Craig teamed up with Judi Dench, who's played spymaster M in the last six Bond films, in a short video released on International Women's Day yesterday, which highlights just how unequal things are for females. In the short two minute campaigning film, after M questions Bond 'for someone with such a fondness for women, I wonder if you have ever considered what it might be like to be one?', Craig leaves the shot to reappear on camera wearing a dress, high heels and a blond wig. M then delivers a range of damning statistics including the startling fact that across the world 'every year 70 million girls are deprived of even a basic education and a staggering 60 million are sexually assaulted on the way to school.' As late night radio talk show hosts churn out their lazy provocations about how redundant International Woman's Day is, and how gender inequality is a thing of the past, anyone who has lived or actually thought about the issues knows differently. To salute Craig and Dench's efforts we have taken that most unlikely of feminists, James Bond, as our theme for today's Highly Questionable quiz.
James Bond Quiz
1 Which author created James Bond?
2 In the Bond films, which actor has played 007 more often than any other?
3 Which three words famously sum up how James Bond likes his drinks?
4 Who wrote and performed the theme tune for the 'Live And Let Die' Bond movie?
5 In the Bond books and films, what is the forename of the ubiquitous Miss Moneypenny?
Pancakes Quiz Answers
The answers to yesterday's Highly Questionable quiz, which took pancakes as its theme, are:-
1 Brittany is the region of France where the French style of pancakes called crepes originated.
2 Griddle is the name of the pan in which pancakes are traditionally cooked.
3 Blinis are the name by which Russian pancakes are known.
4 Forty-six days separate Easter from the day variously known as Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day or Mardis Gras ('Fat Tuesday').
5 'As You Like It' is the Shakespeare play in which the fool Touchstone delivers the pancake related lines, 'of a certain knight that swore by his honour they were good pancakes and swore by his honour the mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forsworn'.
Remarkable Women Quiz Answers
The answers to yesterday's Highly Questionable picture quiz, which asked for the identity of the five featured women, are:-
1 Annie Lennox, the truly gifted singer.
2 Maya Angelou, one of America's most astounding writers.
3 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of post civil war Liberia and Africa's first, and so far only, elected female leader.
4 Maggie Smith, one of the most accomplished actresses in the world.
5 Tanni Grey-Thompson, the brilliant multi-medal winning paralympic athlete.
Remarkable Women Quiz Answers
The answers to yesterday's Highly Questionable picture quiz, which asked for the identity of the five featured women, are:-
1 Annie Lennox, the truly gifted singer.
2 Maya Angelou, one of America's most astounding writers.
3 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of post civil war Liberia and Africa's first, and so far only, elected female leader.
4 Maggie Smith, one of the most accomplished actresses in the world.
5 Tanni Grey-Thompson, the brilliant multi-medal winning paralympic athlete.
The author of the Highly Questionable? quiz and trivia blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. He can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com.
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