Quiz 120306
1. How is H5N1 better known?
Bird Flu - a strain of…
2. Actor Jack Wild has died at the age of 53. What in 1968 was his most famous film role?
The Artful Dodger in Oliver!
3. Which book opens "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing the gilded frame he tore it from the wall and collapsed backwards in a heap beneath the canvass"?
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
4. Chelsea and Southampton legend Peter Osgood has died at the age of 59. How many times did he play for England?
Four
5. The Admiral of the Fleet, the highest rank in the Royal Navy, wears how many gold rings on the sleeve of his uniform?
Five
6. In which month of the year is the Chelsea Flower Show held?
May
7. How old will the new leader of the Lib-Dems Menzies Campbell be this year?
65
8. Which Knight of the Round Table found the Holy Grail?
Sir Galahad
9. In a sporting sense what is WADA?
The World Anti-Doping Agency
10. The first pair of which brand of boot were made from tyres?
Doc Martens
11. Who has been chosen as the UK’s entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest after winning a live public vote on BBC One?
Daz Sampson
12. Which palace on the Thames, built for Cardinal Wolsey, was later home and a ‘prison’ to Charles I?
Hampton Court
13. In addition to his prison sentence, Gary Glitter has been ordered to pay 5m Vietnamese dong to his victims’ families. How much is this in £’s - £180, £1,800 or £18,000?
£180
14. Boobook, Horned and Screech are all kinds of which creature?
Owl
15. A giant crater made by a meteorite impact millions of years ago has been discovered in which country?
Egypt
16. What is the national cheese of Greece?
Feta
17. What is the only animal with retractable horns?
Snail
18. Trinidad lies off the coast of which South American country?
Venezuela
19. Who endeavoured to solve the crime in the story The Dead of Jericho?
Inspector Morse
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Something You Toss!
Ball / Salad / Coin / Pancake / Frisbee
Bird Flu - a strain of…
2. Actor Jack Wild has died at the age of 53. What in 1968 was his most famous film role?
The Artful Dodger in Oliver!
3. Which book opens "Renowned curator Jacques Sauniere staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing the gilded frame he tore it from the wall and collapsed backwards in a heap beneath the canvass"?
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
4. Chelsea and Southampton legend Peter Osgood has died at the age of 59. How many times did he play for England?
Four
5. The Admiral of the Fleet, the highest rank in the Royal Navy, wears how many gold rings on the sleeve of his uniform?
Five
6. In which month of the year is the Chelsea Flower Show held?
May
7. How old will the new leader of the Lib-Dems Menzies Campbell be this year?
65
8. Which Knight of the Round Table found the Holy Grail?
Sir Galahad
9. In a sporting sense what is WADA?
The World Anti-Doping Agency
10. The first pair of which brand of boot were made from tyres?
Doc Martens
11. Who has been chosen as the UK’s entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest after winning a live public vote on BBC One?
Daz Sampson
12. Which palace on the Thames, built for Cardinal Wolsey, was later home and a ‘prison’ to Charles I?
Hampton Court
13. In addition to his prison sentence, Gary Glitter has been ordered to pay 5m Vietnamese dong to his victims’ families. How much is this in £’s - £180, £1,800 or £18,000?
£180
14. Boobook, Horned and Screech are all kinds of which creature?
Owl
15. A giant crater made by a meteorite impact millions of years ago has been discovered in which country?
Egypt
16. What is the national cheese of Greece?
Feta
17. What is the only animal with retractable horns?
Snail
18. Trinidad lies off the coast of which South American country?
Venezuela
19. Who endeavoured to solve the crime in the story The Dead of Jericho?
Inspector Morse
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Something You Toss!
Ball / Salad / Coin / Pancake / Frisbee
21. Who won the 4 main acting Oscars at the 2006 ceremony?
Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney and Rachel Weisz
22. What ancient roman buildings name means ‘place for a giant’?
Coliseum
23. True or false - in Alabama it is illegal for a woman to drive if her husband is not in the car with her? False!!!
24. In 1993, having described his own goods as "crap", to what did Gerald Ratner change the name of his jewellery business?
Signet
25. Which islands discovered by John Davis in 1592 made world news headlines 390 years later?
Falklands
26. Formed in 1944, the German ‘Volkssturm’ was the equivalent of which British organisation?
Home Guard
27. Which Roman emperor was assassinated on the Ides of March?
Julius Caesar
28. Which cake is said to have been named by an exiled Polish king after his favourite character in The Thousand and One Nights?
Rum Baba
29. What legend are scientists trying to dismiss by claiming it was probably a circus elephant having a bath?
The Loch Ness Monster
30. What game of chance is physically the most demanding for the loser?
Russian Roulette
31. On 4th August, 1954, Britain’s first supersonic fighter plane, made its maiden flight, What was its name?
The English Electric Lightning P-1
32. Which amphibian lived next door to Hector in Hector’s House?
Miss Kiki Frog
33. On 13th March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead 17 people, where?
Dunblane Primary School
34. Which pop star was ordained as Mother Bernadette Maria?
Sinead O’Connor
35. In which sport are you not allowed to wear white?
Table tennis
36. Which spin-off from Dallas saw the action move from Dallas to California?
Knot’s Landing
37. Which Vegetable requires one million gallons of running water daily, to cultivate just two and a half acres?
Watercress - which is probably why it is 98p a bag in Asda
38. Cape Farewell lies at the southern tip of which country?
Greenland
39. Name the profession most often late for doctors appointments?
Doctors
40. At the recent Razzie Awards Tom Cruise won "most tiresome tabloid target" but who did he beat in to 2nd place?
Tom Cruise (yes he we 1st and 2nd)
Tiebreaker - On 16th March 1990, Roger Hickey of California recorded the highest speed recorded on a skateboard, what was it?
78.37 mph / 126.12 kph
- The Sport of Cockfighting was banned in England in which year?
1849
Recently Ronnie Barker received a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, he is the third comic to receive such an honour. Name the other 2 who received the same honour in 1980 and 1994.
Joyce Grenfell and Les Dawson
