Quiz 220106
1. What is the name of the 16-year old footballer who has chosen to sign for Arsenal rather than Chelsea in a £12.5m deal?
Theo Walcott
2. Who became the first World Snooker Champion in 1927?
Joe Davis
3. Which popstar has been accused of animal cruelty by American animal rights organisation, PETA?
Michael Jackson
4. One Point Each - Tony Blair is now facing his fifth Tory Leader across the dispatch box in the commons with David Cameron, name the other four?
Michael Howerd, Ian-Duncan Smith, William Hague and John Major
5. In the animal kingdom, which large rodent is also known as the ‘Quill Pig”?
The Porcupine
6. A current advert for which car shows angels looking after people (a la “Wings of Desire”) with the strap line “Built to protect”?
VW Polo
7. Which Japanese electronics firm is named after a word meaning sound?
Sony
8. Which former Baywatch star has filed for divorce from actress Pamela Bach, his wife of 16 years?
David Hasselhoff
9. Which ‘must have’ girl’s dolls have names such as Yasmin, Meygan, Jade and Sasha?
Bratz
10. Which film won Best motion picture - Drama at the recent Golden Globe awards?
Brokeback Mountain
11. With which city do you associate Royal Doulton, Spode, Wedgwood and Minton?
Stoke-On-Trent
12. Which presenter is the face of the recent advertisements to encourage people to get their tax returns in by the end of January?
Adam Hart-Davis
13. The model of car JFK was travelling in when he was assassinated bore the name of which former US president?
Lincoln
14. In which building is the Koh-i-noor Diamond kept?
The Tower of London
15. Sarah, Nicola, Nadine, Kimberley and Cheryl are the members of which pop group?
Girls Aloud
16. The name of which European country means “land of the eagle”?
Albania
17. NASA has launched its New Horizons mission, where is its destination?
Pluto
18. Who has been appointed as the new Republic of Ireland football manager?
Steve Staunton
19. In the TV quiz show family fortunes, how many members are in each team?
Five
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answers Required - What is the first thing a man does after he finishes making love?
Goes to sleep / Smokes a cigarette / Gets dressed and goes home / Goes to the bathroom / Kisses and cuddles his partner
21. As ‘Freddie’ Flintoff was made a freeman of the City of Preston last Friday, One Point Each - Which Eight counties that play first class cricket have names that don’t end in shire?
Kent, Surrey, Somerset, Durham, Glamorgan, Essex, Middlesex, Sussex
22. What is the name of the brown bear from cult kid’s TV show ‘Rainbow’?
Bungle
23. In which cult TV programme would you hear the catch-phrases “I love it when a plan comes together” and “You crazy fool”?
The A Team
24. Which member of the Royal Family is nicknamed Princess Pushy?
Princess Michael of Kent
25. Ronaldinho is only the third player to have been voted world player of the year more than once, name the other two?
Ronaldo (1996, 1997 and 2002) and Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2000 and 2003)
26. Which type of institution for young offenders derived its name from a town in Kent?
Borstal
27. Which cartoon character lives in Bikini Bottom?
Spongebob Squarepants
28. Which goalkeeper returned to the Premiership in the 1999-2000 season for Bradford City aged over 40?
Neville Southall
29. Which fish is the largest of the mackerel family?
Tuna
30. If you are mysophobic, what are you afraid of?
Dirt and germs
31. Which actress played the part of Clark Kent’s girlfriend Lois Lane in the films Superman and Superman III?
Margot Kidder
32. In which English county is Epping Forest?
Essex
33. Which 80’s pop song includes the lyrics “Hop in my Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale and it’s about to set sail!, I got me a car, it seats about 20, So come on and bring your jukebox money”?
Love Shack - The B52’s
34. Which 70s pop star, the son of an East End docker, was born David Cook in July 1947?
David Essex
35. In what year was the World Cup first transmitted in colour in the UK?
1970
36. The ‘Intelligent Whale’ was the nickname of an early type of what?
Submarine
37. Which country will host the next Rugby World Cup, in 2007?
France
38. In the film Jaws what are the surnames of the three characters that hunt down the great white shark aboard a boat called The Orca?
Brody, Quint & Hooper
39. Which was the first country in the world to impose a ban on smoking in the workplace?
Ireland
40. What is the first name of Miss Moneypenny of Bond fame?
Penny
Tiebreaker - How many places separated Manchester United and their FA Cup opponents Burton Albion?
104
- The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons announced a 34.6% rise in operations from 2004 to 2005. How many were performed?
22,041
- California has carried out the execution of its oldest Death Row inmate, Clarence Ray Allen. How old was he?
76
