Bear With Me 150908

Bear With Me 150908 is a selection of 10 questions. Bear With Me 150908 is the filename to differentiate it from other Themed Questions. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.

1   In front of which oil company’s London office did protesters chain themselves to a 5-metre-tall polar bear?
A   Royal Dutch Shell (in protest of Shell’s Arctic oil drilling – Oscar winner Emma Thompson is one of the protestors)

2   Which professional American NFL football team from Illinois has ‘bear’ in its name?
A   Chicago Bears

3   Which fictional bear had a comic strip in the Beano?
A   Biffo the Bear

4   Americans call it the Big Dipper: what do we call this star grouping of the Great Bear constellation?
A   The Plough (Great Bear = Ursa Major)

5   In which century did overhunting finally eradicate Britain’s wild brown bear population?
A   1000 CE

6   Which lager brand was advertised on TV in the 1980s by a bear wearing a shiny yellow jacket and a pork pie hat?
A   Hofmeister (name George – slogan: “For great lager, follow the bear”)

7   Which stock market trend does a Bear Market describe?
A   Period of decline in stock prices (opposite is a Bull Market – most recent example is a result of the global financial crisis of 2007–08)

8   Which amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms?
A   Second amendment

9   A bear named Aloysius (al-ə-wish-əs) belonging to Sebastian Flyte, appears in which Evelyn Waugh novel?
A   Brideshead Revisited

10   Which greeting card company introduced Forever Friends cards in 1987, a very popular card design that features bears?
A   Hallmark (founded in 1910 by Joyce Hall, a bloke from Kansas, Missouri)