Quiz 120206
1. Of which country is Nicosia the capital?
Cyprus
2. In which Bond movie did Grace Jones play a baddie called May Day?
A View To A Kill
3. The Philippines were named in honor of Prince Philip of which country?
Spain
4. What was launched on TV in 1978 by a long distance lorry driver called Martin Fisk?
Yorkie Bars
5. King Edward I of England set what unit of land measurement as 40 rods by 4 rods?
Acre
6. Who replaced Bruce Forsyth on TV’s The Generation Game?
Larry Grayson
7. What is the term for a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept?
Sacristy
8. On which show did Ian Woodley become the first TV quiz show millionaire?
TFI Friday
9. The larvae of the fly is a maggot, what is the larvae of a beetle called?
Grub
10. In which programme were Leslie Grantham and Don Henderson brothers?
Paradise club
11. The smallest muscle in the human body is located where?
Ear
12. What was the location of the real-life shop at which the Open All Hours episodes were filmed?
Doncaster
13. What letter do you always find on a snooker table?
D
14. In which German city was the first series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet located?
Dusseldorf
15. Which country was created for the Muslim minority in India?
Pakistan
16. Which of the four Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles would come first alphabetically?
Donatello
17. What word can go before bath, shower and delight?
Turkish
18. How many players on a Netball Team are allowed to score?
Two
19. What would you be paid if you held an honorary post?
Nothing
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Name Something in fact or fiction connected with an apple?
William Tell / Sir Isaac Newton / Adam & Eve / Snow White / The Beatles
21. Which Year - The World Trade Center in New York is completed, Pink Floyd releases the album The Dark Side of the Moon, The British government introduces a child-benefit scheme and Full-scale war erupts in the Middle East, as Egypt and Syria attack Israel?
1973
22. Which fictional character has been played on screen by Julie Newmar, Ertha Kitt and Michelle Pfeiffer? Catwoman
23. With which sport is Gentleman Jim Corbett associated?
Boxing
24. Two Britons successfully defended their Olympic titles in Los Angeles in 1984, Sebastian Coe was one, who was the other?
Daley Thompson
25. Which is the lowest pitched of the violin family?
Double Bass
26. Which German football team did Kevin keegan join after leaving Liverpool in 1977?
FC Hamburg
27. Which Swiss resort holds an annual Golden Rose festival?
Montreux
28. Which car manufacturer designed cyclist Chris Boardman’s Gold Medal winning bike?
Lotus
29. Which crime novelist also writes under the name Barbara Vine?
Ruth Rendell
30. Which film had four sequels with these prefixes to the original title - Beneath, Escape from, Conquest of, and Battle for?
Planet of the apes
31. Which bone lies between the femur and the tibia?
The patella
32. Christopher Chittell plays which character in ‘Emmerdale’?
Eric Pollard
33. Which Turkish empire was founded by Osman?
Ottoman Empire
34. What sort of creature is a klipspringer?
An antelope
35. Dry ice is the solid form of which gas?
Carbon dioxide
36. Who are the ceremonial royal bodyguards?
The Yeomen of the Guard
37. In which sport was Giacomo Agostini a superstar?
Motorcycle racing
38. On which island did mutineers from the Bounty settle?
Pitcairn
39. On which side of the road do they drive in Cyprus?
Left
40. How many puppies featured in the film 101 Dalmatians?
99 – the other 2 were parents!
Tiebreaker - How many MP’s sit in the Scottish Parliament?
129
