Quiz 060806
1. One point for title / artist - On August 1st 1988 MTV broadcast its first video, what was it?
Video Killed the Radio Star / Buggles
2. What is special about the glue on Israeli postage stamp?
A- it’s non-fattening, B- it tastes of oranges, or C- it’s guaranteed kosher
C- it’s guaranteed kosher
3. What Summer Olympic sport would come first on an alphabetical list?
Archery
4. The British military refers to them as "blue on Blue" incidents - what does the US military call them?
Friendly Fire
5. Which famous movie was known in Mexico as the Rebel Novice Nun?
Sound Of Music
6. Formula I racing, In which country is the A1-Ring?
Austria
7. What swimming stroke uses the dolphin leg kick?
Butterfly
8. What Looney Tunes cartoon character has the middle name Ethelbert?
Wile E. Cotyote
9. In the five Rugby Union World Cups to-date which is the only country to be in the top four every time?
New Zealand
10. What was the first number one song on the Pop charts sung entirely in Spanish?
La Bamba - Los Lobos
11. The Austin A 7 was the initial name of which model of car?
Mini
12. What might you find in a SHIPPON?
A- ships, B- Japanese cars, or C- cows
C- cows. (another name for a byre)
13. True or False - an american couple are claiming a miracle has occurred on their daughters face. John & Regina Salter, who are both blind, claim the acne spots on their 15 year old daughters forehead spell ‘virgin mary’ in braille?
False
14. "Little hope around" is an anagram of which football team?
Hartlepool United
15. What is the title of Kate Bush’s only number one hit in the UK charts?
Wuthering Heights
16. Which was the first TV soap to bore us with Sunday repeats?
Eastenders
17. Whose whisky distillery in Lynchberg, Tennessee has been declared a US national historic place?
Jack Daniels
18. Who once described a wine on TV as like "sweaty gym shoes on hot tarmac"?
Jilly Goolden
19. Marlborough, Guiseland and Hawkeshead are wine producing districts in which country?
New Zealand
20. One point each - Name the seven clubs that have been ever-present in the English Premiership since it began in 1992?
Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester Utd, Spurs
21. Which Year - A British Rail announcer bungled by telling three hundred people that their mystery trip from Hull would end at Knaresborough, Buckingham Palace opened its doors for the first time to tourists, Flight Lt, Nicky Smith became the armed forces’ first female pilot, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, James Bulger is killed in Liverpool, All the members of the Zambia national football team lost their lives in a planecrash and Lorena Bobbitt cuts off the penis of her husband John Wayne Bobbitt?
1993
22. According to folklore, what does the sandman help children to do?
Sleep
23. Who was the American president when the Berlin wall was constructed?
John F Kennedy
24. What does the Koran name as the forbidden fruit?
A- banana, B- apple, or C-peach
A- banana
25. In darts, what is the lowest score from three different trebles?
Eighteen
26. Which country introduced the world’s first ambulance service - France, England or Switzerland?
France
27. Where will you find a Unique Resource Locator?
Internet or Worldwide Web - URL is a website address
28. The bay leaf is obtained from the leaves of which tree?
Laurel
29. If you sail due east from Scarborough, in which country will you arrive?
Germany
30. On a cruise ship, what are held by davits?
Lifeboats
31. Where in England was the British Grand Prix held in 1955,1957,1959,1961,and 1962?
Aintree
32. According to the lyrics in a song from My Fair Lady, in which three places do hurricanes hardly ever happen?
Hertford, Hereford & Hampshire
33. Cats are feline, dogs are canine, what animals are caprine?
Goats
34. What is chyme?
A– a stuffed pork joint, B– partially digested food in your stomach, or C– a type of bell rope
B– partially digested food in your stomach
35. One point each - Name Britain’s three high security hospitals for the criminally insane?
Broadmoor, Rampton, Ashworth
36. In which sport might you have a "hog", "kiggle kaggle" and "pot lid"?
Curling
37. What film features the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad?
Kill Bill - Volumes 1 & 2
38. A rooster named Cornelius is on the packaging of what product?
Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
39. What was written on the cake that makes Alice in Wonderland grow big?
Eat Me
40. What is the next number in the following sequence 1, 2, 5, 10, 20?
50 - coins in circulation
Tiebreaker - What year was whipping children made illegal in Britain?
1932 - so that’s when it all started going wrong!
- The largest ever teddy bears picnic was held in Dublin in 1995. How many bears were there?
33,573
Bonus - What TV show, each week, featured the crash of an M2-F2?
The Six Million Dollar Man
