Quiz 151006
1. "Be Happy, I said, Be Happy" were which characters final words after 12 years on Coronation Street?
Fred Elliott
2. What soft toy range devised by H Ty Warner included characters such as Flash The Dolphin, Splash The Whale and Patti The Platypus?
Beanie Babies
3. What is the name of the studio band on the Jonathan Ross Show?
Four Puffs and A Piano
4. If a rugby union team scores 3 tries, 2 of which are converted, 2 penalties and a drop goal, what is their total score?
Twenty Eight (28)
5. What is the name of the US Presidential retreat, the equivalent of the Prime Minister’s Chequers?
Camp David
6. Whose voice was the first to be heard on Virgin Radio?
Richard Branson
7. Which country is home to the newly crowned Miss World?
Czech Republic
8. Today in 1971 the music of Khatchaturian’s ‘Spartacus’ introduced the first episode of which TV drama?
`The Onedin Line’
9. One point each, which two teams share the honour of being the oldest clubs in the Premiership after Reading?
Bolton & Aston Villa
10. On which Greek island was Shirley Valentine largely set?
Mykonos
11. Cancara, the black horse that featured in which TV ads, died last week at the grand old age of 31?
Lloyds TSB
12. How many players in a Canadian Football team?
Twelve
13. Which sportsman has been raising funds for charity by walking through 17 cities in 9 days?
Ian Botham
14. True or False - Married men change their underwear twice as often as single men?
True
15. Which TV personality presented the first National Lottery draw?
Noel Edmunds
16. Jafar is the name of the villain in which 1992 Disney movie?
Aladdin
17. What is the profession of OTTO in "The Simpson’s"?
School Bus Driver
18. What is the more common name for the north american ground squirrel which has alternate light and dark stripes running down the body?
Chipmunk
19. In the 1999 World Cup in Holland, why did three players take more than 18 stokes on one hole?
Playing Crazy Golf
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Name a famous animal threesome?
Little Pigs / Bears / Wise Monkeys / Billy Goats Gruff / Blind Mice
21. Which Year - Film composer Henry Mancini received a gold disc for the soundtrack to the movie "The Pink Panther", Britain’s new tallest building, the Post Office Tower in London, opened, The evil Red Baron made his first appearance in the "Peanuts" comic strip, The song "Yesterday" by the Beatles went gold in the U.S. but was never released as a single in Britain and British and French forces started to land in Egypt during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal?
1965 - Capital punishment was abolished in Britain
22. Which piece of sporting equipment is three inches in diameter, one inch high, black, cold and made of rubber?
Puck
23. What did Frenchman Andre Turcat famously do on 2nd March 1969?
Flew Concorde on its maiden flight
24. What word is formed by expressing 1009 in Roman numerals?
MIX
25. In Robin Hood, what is Maid Marion’s surname - Fitzroy, Fitzwilliam or Fitzwalter?
Fitzwalter
26. How many records do you have to sell to get a Gold disc?
500,000
27. In Norfolk they call the male of this creature a Jack, the female they call a Broadster, found along the seashore, which creature is it?
Crab
28. The name of which premiership club is defined in the dictionary as ‘a rash or impetuous person’?
Hotspur (Tottenham)
29. Which restaurateur was buried in a white suit and bow tie in Louisville in 1980?
‘Colonel’ Sanders
30. Johansson is the most common surname in which Scandinavian country?
Sweden
31. Most Eskimo households have fridges. What are they used for?
To keep food from freezing
32. Which seaside Football team is nicknamed the "Cherries"?
Bournemouth
33. The Queen employs a ‘fendersmith’ at Windsor Castle, what is his job?
To light the fires
34. In which year did Michael Schumacher first win the Formula I drivers world championship?
1994
35. What was Rene’s codename when he spoke to London in the TV series Allo Allo?
Nighthawk
36. The sea between Hastings and Newhaven on the South Coast and off the Needles, Isle of Wight are the only two official sites around the English coast for what ceremony?
Burial at sea
37. What are Ram in Derby, Red Dragon in Cardiff, Fox in Oxford and the Eagle in Guildford?
Commercial Radio Stations
38. What is the largest Bra size?
F
39. What is the name of the sister of Pingu in the children’s animated series of that name?
Pinga
40. What are the French Police called?
Police - The Gendarmes are soldiers acting as policemen
Tiebreaker - What is the Guinness World record for the amount of pints of beer drunk in three hours by one person? Ninety (90)
- How many times per second does a mosquito flap its wings?
587
- In a New York crying contest, what volume of tears did the winner produce in three hours?
1/3 Pint
Survey Extra - Name a method of escaping from prison?
Tunnel, Over Wall, Sheets from window, Helicopter, At Gunpoint
