30 rocks Trivia Quiz

Answer: Alec Baldwin

'30 Rock' was first screened on American television in 2006 and was created by Tina Fey, who also played the role of Liz Lemon, the head writer of an often chaotic TV comedy sketch show. Alec Baldwin played Jack Donaghy, the head of the broadcasting company.

In 2007, Baldwin won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy. The name of the show comes from the address of the NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, NYC.

Answer: Zinc

The atomic numbers of the other three metals are: Iron, 23; Titanium, 22; Aluminium 13.

Answer: The Gherkin

At 180 metres (591 ft) it became the sixth-tallest building in London on completion, at 40 stories. The Gherkin was designed by the company led by Sir Norman Foster, and was three years in the construction (2001 to 2004). It is owned by Swiss Re, the world's largest re-insurer.

Answer: Vampires

Made in 2007, the film was a tale of what happened after the town of Barrow was plunged into darkness during a month in which the sun did not shine. As a gang of vampires attacked, only the sheriff (played by Josh Hartnett) and his estranged wife (Melissa George) could stop them.

Answer: The Trial

'The Trial' was published in 1925 and is the a story of Joseph K who was arrested and put on trial for a crime that was never revealed. Anthony Perkins starred in the 1962 Orson Welles produced movie of 'The Trial'. Kyle MacLachlan starred in a 1993 remake.

Answer: Stephen Biko

Stephen Biko was born on December 18 1946 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died in a Pretoria prison cell on September 12 1977. He was one of the founders of the Black Peoples Convention (BPC), which campaigned for the rights of black people in the Apartheid period. In August 1977, he was arrested by the South African authorities and sustained head injuries during interrogation. He slipped into a coma and died from brain damage in Pretoria prison.
Malcolm X was born on May 19 1925 in North Omaha, Nebraska, and was assassinated on February 21 1965 in New York City.
Medgar Evers was born on July 2 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi, and was shot dead on June 12 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi.
Martin Luther King Jr was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, and was shot dead on April 4 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Answer: Wisconsin

Wisconsin was admitted into the Union on 29th May 1848. As initially conceived, the state's southern boundary would have taken in the city of Chicago, but the politicians of the time would not have it and the border was drawn between Madison, the state capital, and The Windy City. Lake Michigan lies to the east of the state and Lake Superior to the North West. Montana became the 41st state on 8th November 1889: Illinois became the 21st on 3rd December 1818: and Nebraska the 37th on 1st March 1867.

Answer: USA

The LGM-30G Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was part of the USA's strategic deterrent forces. The earliest Minutemen rockets were developed in the 1950s. The Minuteman III had a range of over 6,000 miles. The USA had 500 of the rockets in 2007.

Answer: Bananas

"It was just after dark when the truck started down
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas."
Concert audiences loved this song about a young driver who lost control of his truck.
The song goes on..."And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,
clipped off thirteen telephone poles,
hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
and Blue-Crossed seven people.
it was then he lost his head,
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped...."

Answer: 11110

But for the binary system, you would not be playing this quiz, since it is crucial to the workings of a computer. The system breaks all numbers down to a series of ones and zeros.
Meanwhile, did I say in the introduction that there were 30 questions? Well, I lied. Maybe those 1960s hippies were right when they said "Don't trust anyone over 30".