Minute By Minute Trivia Quiz

Answer: The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth

Robert Allen has published a number of personal finance books and a series of wealth building tools over the years. 'The One Minute Millionaire' was his first writing venture in partnership with noted motivational speaker Mark Victor Hansen. They have since combined to release further books on the subject; 'Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth' (2005) and 'Cash in a Flash: Fast Money in Slow Times' (2009).

Answer: 1984

Written by George Orwell and published in 1949, the book introduced the concepts of 'Big Brother', 'Room 101', 'Thought Police' and the 'Unperson'. In the story, Oceania Party members were required to spend two minutes of each day watching a film of their enemies and, in the process, had to express their feelings of hate about them and their doctrines.

Answer: The running time of a typical pop song

The origin of the three minute record may lie in the construction of the old style 78 rpm records, which had a capacity to record between three and five minutes on each side. Billy Joel made an allusion to it being a marketing requirement in his 1975 song 'The Entertainer'.
"It was a beautiful song, but it ran too long
If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit
So they cut it down to 3:05".

Answer: John Landy

Landy and Bannister were great rivals and the world watched keenly to see who would be the first to break through the magical four minute barrier. History now records Bannister being the first to the mark in 3:59.4. Landy set a new world record 46 days later at 3:57.9.

The pair clashed famously two months later at the 1954 Empire Games in Vancouver, where Landy, at the last turn looked over his left shoulder to see where his opponent was at the same point that Bannister ran past him on his right to a memorable victory. John Landy took the Olympic oath on behalf of the athletes at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and would go on to become the 26th Governor of Victoria (Australia).

Answer: Children's

The programme was developed by the Jim Henson Company and premiered on ABC in August of 2006. The characters, that also include Georgie the Penguin, Florie the Dog, Sam the Monkey and Louisa the Polar Bear, tell stories that contain a moral.

Answer: 1987

The treaty was signed by US President, Ronald Reagan, and the Soviet Union's General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev on 8 December, 1987. By the deadline (1 June, 1991) the US had destroyed 846 weapons and the Soviets had wiped out 1,846 items.
The Doomsday Clock is, essentially, a piece of symbolism created by the University of Chicago's 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' in 1947 and is used to provide an indication as to how close the world is to nuclear/global disaster. The premise is that the closer to midnight, the closer we are to doom.

Answer: Kissing

This was/is a 'making out' game that revolved around two people being selected to enter a dark enclosed space. The mode of selection could be something as simple as spinning a bottle. Once in the confined space they had seven minutes to do as they chose (consensually of course).

Answer: Avatar

James Cameron developed new motion capture technologies to provide the necessary level of quality to the 3-D effects he sought to deliver this story. The plot revolves around human beings exercising Imperialism to obtain a precious mineral from the planet Pandora regardless of the cost to the local population and their ecology.
Among the inclusions in the additional footage, there are more views of the Pandora with extra creatures, a glimpse of Dr Augustine's deserted school house and neural bonding between Jake and Neytiri.

Answer: Engineers adopted the system of nine minute intervals from the settings on dial clocks

It is generally accepted that the designers of early snooze mechanisms for dial clocks were content with a range that lay between nine and ten minutes. These early set-ups were not precise so the idea was to aim for nine minutes with 'some' change. When chip designers examined these clocks they calculated that nine minutes must have been the norm, discarded the 'small change' and, voila, we have a nine minute snooze. Please note that this is not a definitive answer to the question but the one most likely. Rest assured, the other three above have been made and, hopefully, have inserted some humour into the proceedings.

Answer: British

This is also known as 'Standing Order #23' and it provides an opportunity to allow bills to receive a first reading. Due to the difficulty in getting bills through to a reading this is an option that is usually favoured by back-benchers, though it is available to all MPs.

The Government will usually oppose Private Members' Bills and very few will get beyond the point of being added to the register of parliamentary business. Consequently it becomes a platform for the Member to stir up some publicity for whatever cause they may be pushing.