Quiz 300706
1. What’s the maximum cash prize on Noel Edmonds’s game show Deal Or No Deal?
£250,000
2. Lisa Armstrong was the bride, Declan Donnelly was the best-man and guests included Robbie Williams and Cat Deeley, but who was the groom?
Ant McPartlin
3. Which popular fruit takes its name from the Arabic for finger?
Banana - the most popular fruit in the UK
4. What is the subtitle of the second Pirates of the Caribbean film?
Dead Man’s Chest (The first was - The Curse of the Black Pearl)
5. Who’s had most No.1 singles — Blur, Oasis or McFly?
Oasis with eight. Blur have had two and McFly four
6. Which country produces Leerdammer cheese?
Holland
7. Is the current series of Big Brother the fifth, sixth or seventh?
Seventh
8. If you end a mobile phone text message with CWYL what are you saying?
Chat with you later
9. What facial feature is missing from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa?
Eyebrows
10. What’s the minimum age at which a child can have a part time job in the UK?
14 years old, although local authority by-laws vary
11. One point each - Name the three stars of the new BBC2 celebrity programme “Excuse My French”?
Ron Atkinson, Marcus Brigstock, and Esther Rantzen
12. A club formed by World War II pilots who underwent pioneering plastic surgery is named after which animal?
Guinea Pig
13. Would you find baby’s breath in a health food shop, toy shop, a garden centre or public house?
In a garden centre. It’s a tall flowering plant also known as gypsophila
14. Who is the current Great Britain Rugby League captain?
Paul Sculthorpe
15. What word can be a light two-wheeled carriage or a pop concert?
Gig
16. Experts recently claimed that which word was the first spoken by around 71% of babies throughout the world over the last 50,000 years, as it means father in over 700 languages?
Papa
17. What gadget in our homes uses the Phase Alternating Line format?
Television. It’s a colour TV encoding system
18. The first match recently played at north London’s new Emirates Stadium was testimonial of which Arsenal legend?
Dennis Bergkamp
19. True or False - Halle Berry’s stunt double in the ‘Catwoman’ film was a man?
True
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answers Required - Name a well-known singer whose name contains a geographical feature?
Glen Campbell, Gracie Fields, Vince Hill, Billy Ocean, Garth Brooks, Greg Lake, Kym Marsh
21. Which Year - In Rome, Pope Paul VI died of a heart attack, England cricketer David Gower scored his first Test century, Kenya’s President Jomo Kenyatta died, Jack Nicklaus won the British Open golf title for the third time, The first test-tube baby in Britain was born - Louise Joy Brown, at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire and Martina Navratilova won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon for the first time?
1978
22. How many great-great grandparents can you have?
Sixteen
23. Which BT service recently celebrated it’s 70th birthday?
Speaking Clock
24. What kind of missile takes its name from Latin meaning “numbness”?
Torpedo
25. In Greek mythology, when Argus was killed, his 100 eyes were transplanted into the tail feathers of which bird?
Peacock
26. The skin infection tinea pedis is more commonly known as what?
Athlete’s foot
27. In the British Army, which is Scotland’s only cavalry regiment?
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
28. If someone gave you barm brack, what would you do with it - eat it, plant it or smoke it?
Eat it, it’s a kind of Irish bread
29. Which board game was rejected by Waddingtons when it was first designed, because they claimed it had 52 fundamental playing errors?
Monopoly
30. What type of Kryptonite takes away Superman’s powers temporarily?
Green
31. The name of which Japanese car and motorbike manufacturer means “bell tree” in Japanese?
Suzuki
32. Which literary monster was created when the author was inspired by a nightmare after eating crabs?
Dracula
33. Specifically, in which sport might you use nymphs?
Fly Fishing
34. What is Britain’s most visited tourist attraction?
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which draws over six million visitors each year
35. If a golfer returns a score for any hole lower than he really scored he’s disqualified. What happens if he returns a score higher than the proper score?
The higher score stands
36. In France what would you buy in a charcuterie?
Cooked Meats
37. What’s the total number of spots on the three lowest dominoes?
Three. One and blank, one and one and double blank
38. DAB radios are the latest thing. What do the initials stand for?
Digital Audio Broadcasting
39. What is the tallest variety of grass in the world?
Bamboo, which can reach 130 feet and more
40. Which girl always has her name displayed on a banner?
Anne - B’ANNE’R
Tiebreaker - If you put all the Skoda cars made in 2004 end to end, how many miles would they stretch?
1,750
