QUIZTIME QUIZZES

1. Which modern day country was known in ancient times as Mesopotamia?
Iraq
2. How many players are there to begin with at the start of the TV quiz show "The Weakest Link"?
Nine
3. Close to the coast of which Australian state would you find the Great Barrier Reef?
Queensland
4. Mossad is the name given to the secret service of which country?
Israel
5. How many players are there in a rugby union team?
Fifteen
6. In Australian slang what is a "wowser", is it: a drunkard or a teetotaller?
Teetotaller
7. One point each, which two chemical elements were first discovered by Polish scientist Marie Curie?
Radium & Polonium
8. The TV commercial for which popular confectionery product ended with the phrase "Wotalot-I-got"?
Smarties
9. Where might you wear a pampootie, is it: on your feet, on your head, on your hands or around your neck?
On your feet, it’s a type of slipper
10. Which of these cities is furthest west: Chester, Bath, Cardiff or Liverpool?
Chester
11. Who has had hit albums entitled "Songs In The Key of Life", "Music of My Mind" and "Talking Book"?
Stevie Wonder
12. When John Logie Baird invented the television in 1926, what was his profession at the time, was he: a doctor, an electrical engineer, a university lecturer or a pharmacist?
An electrical engineer
13. True or False - Kenneth Bradley, an Australian Test cricketer scored over 2000 runs in his international career in the 1950’s and early 1960’s despite having a wooden leg?
False
14. Which American outlaw was killed by gang member Robert Ford for a £10,000 reward?
Jesse James
15. Which popular TV puppet was sad because he couldn’t fly, right up to the sky?
Orville the Duck
16. Between which two planets in our solar system would you find the asteroid belt?
Mars & Jupiter
17. From the milk of which animal do we get Edam Cheese?
Cow
18. The word "honcho" meaning boss, is derived from which language?
Japanese
19. Which 1970’s Chuck Berry UK number one hit was banned by the BBC?
My Ding-a-ling
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Name something that is pulled?
Leg / A Pint / Caravan or Trailer / Cracker /Curtain

21. Bob Geldolf is awarded an honoury knighthood, Spain and Portugal join the EEC, Mike Tyson wins the WBC heavyweight title and "Lady in Red" by Chris De Burgh was a UK number one hit?
1986
22. Which day of the week is called Domingo in Spanish and Dimanche in French?
Sunday
23. Which car manufacturer has produced all of the following models: Crown, Paseo, Picnic and Previa?
Toyota
24. The name of which martial art means "Beautiful springtime" in its own language?
Kung Fu
25. For which famous French fashion house was Stella McCartney, daughter of ex-Beatle Paul, appointed head designer in 1997?
Chloe
26. "Dubris" was the former Roman name for which English town, was it: Darlington, Doncaster, Dover or Durham?
Dover
27. Which 1970’s sci-fi TV series centred on the activities of the anti-alien organisation SHADO?
UFO
28. Which song title has been a UK top 20 hit for many artistes including Love Affair in 1968, Robert Knight in 1974, Gloria Estefan in 1996 and the cast from " Casaulty" in 1998?
Everlasting Love
29. What name is given to the fruit that is a cross between a plum and a peach?
Nectarine
30. In the children’s comic "The Beano", the character Dennis the Menace has a famous pet dog called Gnasher but what kind of animal is his pet called Rasher?
Pig
31. How many English counties are there that begin with the letter "N"?
Five - Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire and North Yorkshire
32. Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing the telephone, but what was his original profession, was it: a teacher, an architect, a marine engineer or a journalist?
A teacher - of deaf and dumb children
33. True or False - in 1995, Wilma Mankiller became the first female leader of New Zealand’s Maori people?
False
34. What country’s flag has a garden hoe and a Kalashnikov rifle inside a star, is it: Mozambique, Angola or Somalia?
Mozambique
35. Which group recorded all of the following albums: "Exile on Main Street", "Let It Bleed" and "Beggars Banquet"?
Rolling Stones
36. Which former Wimbledon tennis champion was born in Weisbaden, Germany in 1959?
John McEnroe
37. Officers of which US organization are known as G-men?
FBI
38. What type of creature is a marabou, is it: a bird, a lizard, a monkey or a deer?
Bird - South African
39. In the famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, what colour eyes does the Mona Lisa have?
Brown
40. Hooker, Bummerville and Clapper Gap are all towns in which state of the USA, is it: California, Texas or Arizona?
California

Tiebreaker - According to the Office of National Statistics, Jack was the most common name given to boys born last year with 7961 being given this name in England and Wales - how many registered newborn baby boys were called Mohammed last year?
2527

1. Who is to become the new host of Countdown in the new year?
Des O’Connor
2. Colourful Tory MP Boris Johnson is the former Editor of which Publication?
The Spectator (He is now Shadow Education Minister!)
3. Outside TV, what type of transport business does Noel Edmonds run?
Helicopters
4. In 1984 more than one person won the BBC TV Sports Personality of the Year Trophy, name them?
Torville & Dean
5. Who is the oldest contestant to go into the jungle on the first night of the current series of ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’?
Jan Leaming (64 followed by Faith 62, David 53,)
6. What name was applied by the Christians to their Muslim enemies during the Middle Ages?
Saracens
7. Which member of the Royal Family is set to be the first Royal to travel in space after agreeing to become a passenger on Richard Branson’s first
flight of his commercial spaceship, Virgin Galactic?
Princess Beatrice
8. Who Was The Original Presenter Of "Family Fortunes"?
Bob Monkhouse
9. ‘Changing Rooms’ star, Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen is to design a section of which coastal-town’s, 6-mile attraction?
Blackpool Illuminations
10. In which country was the singer Avril Lavigne born?
Canada - Ontario province
11. How many English Premiership football club’s home grounds end in Park?
Six (Everton, Newcastle, Portsmouth, A. Villa, Blackburn, West Ham)
12. How long is a ‘period’ in an NBA basketball match?
Twelve minutes
13. True or false - Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, but only in tropical fish stores?
True
14. What is the more common name given to Silver Darlings, which live in British waters?
Herring
15. Which island is 262 miles from London, 300 miles from Norwich and 147 miles from Birmingham?
Anglesey
16. Which professional sport does the WPBSA preside over?
Snooker and Billiards
17. What term is used to describe the breeding ground of the penguin?
Rookery
18. Who was the first ever Bowler to take 300 Test Match Wickets?
Fred Trueman
19. Which music mogul owns the TV production company Syco?
Simon Cowell
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Name a place you wouldn’t expect to see a Nun?
Disco or Nightclub / Pub / Betting Shop / Topless Beach / Monastry

21. Which Year - Batman’s faithful sidekick Robin was dynamited to death by the Joker in edition No.428 of DC Comics’ / Koo Stark was awarded £300,000 libel damages following the publication of articles in the Sunday People which implied she had had an adulterous affair with Prince Andrew / Ringo Starr and wife Barbara Bach entered an alcohol rehabilitation clinic / In Las Vegas, ‘Sugar’ Ray Lewis knocked out Canadian Donny Londe, completing his collection of world titles at five different weights / Republican candidate George Bush won the US presidential elections comfortably and Anatoly Karpov lost his title of World Champion chess player to Gary Kasparov in Moscow?
1988
22. What connects Newcastle United, Swindon Town and Norwich City?
Birds - Magpies, Robins and Canaries
23. What type of fruit is a ‘Howgate Wonder’?
Apple
24. Formed in 1879, which is London’s oldest football club?
Fulham
25. What name given to very high-pitched sounds above 20,000 Khz?
Ultrasound
26. What instrument are you playing when you perform a Rim Shot?
Drum
27. What sort of animal is a Sealyham?
Dog
28. What do the initials of the news agency AP stand for?
Associated Press
29. What are the pointed arms on an anchor called?
Flukes
30. By Birth What Nationality Is Osama Bin Laden?
Saudi Arabian
31. K1, K2, C1 and C2 are all categories in which sport?
Canoeing
32. In which decade of the 20th century did the last execution take place in Australia?
1960’s
33. Macadamia nuts are native to what country?
Australia
34. What can you board by using the shuttle Gallileo?
USS Enterprise
35. The mazurka is the national dance of which country?
Poland
36. In 1980, who beat Muhammed Ali in Ali’s final world title bout?
Larry Holmes
37. What can be a five card game, a smooth, woolly surface or a sleep?
A Nap
38. Which entertainer had an airport named in his honour in New Orleans?
Louis Armstrong
39. Which Austrian city was the setting for The Sound of Music?
Salzburg
40. Which Timepiece Has The Most Moving Parts?
Egg Timer

Tiebreaker - How many lines are there on the Glasgow Underground?
Just two - clockwise and anti-clockwise
- EasyJet fly to how many cities from Liverpool’s John Lennon airport?
Thirteen

1. Which animals joined the rare club of being able to recognise themselves in a mirror according to scientists?
Elephants
2. Which celebrity magazine is said to be cursed as exclusive marriage pictures often seem to lead to a quick divorce?
Hello!
3. Which boxer claims that he will never be voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year because he is a winner?
Joe Calzaghe
4. If humans are top of the brain size vs body size scale, which animal ranks second?
Dolphins
5. What is the name of footballer Ashley Cole’s pop star wife?
Cheryl Tweedy
6. What is the name of the Swindon-based hamper company that has recently gone out of business?
Farepak
7. According to legend, what is the name of the estate that Robin Hood is Earl of?
Locksley
8. According to Home Office figures which football club’s fans were banned the most from matches?
Leeds United
9. Which veteran singer has recently been in the charts with ‘Jump In My Car’?
David Hasselhoff
10. One point each - Name the five boroughs of New York?
Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Bronx and Manhattan
11. A report this week said that how many of us each share a security camera - was it 10, 12 or 14 per camera?
Fourteen
12. In which town are the headquarters of the political party UKIP?
Newton Abbott (UKIP leader is Nigel Farage)
13. Which game and possibly sport begins with a squidge off?
Tiddlywinks
14. The flag of which US state features a Union Jack?
Hawaii
15. Which sport is played by the Worcester Wolves and London United?
Basketball
16. Which nursery rhyme character was famously arachnophobic?
Little Miss Muffet
17. At which ground will the first ashes match take place on 23rd – 27th November 2006?
Brisbane Cricket Ground (accept Gabba)
18. How old do you have to be to get a free television license?
Seventy-Five
19. What connects 6th. June 1944 and 15th. February 1971?
Both D-Day’s
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answers Required - Name a Popular Bond Theme that Charted?
Live & Let Die / A View to a Kill / Goldeneye / Goldfinger / Nobody Does It Better

21. Which Year - The Anglo-French Concorde, the world’s first supersonic airliner, finally entered service on the New York run / The "Miss UK" contestant in the "Miss World" contest wore a platinum bikini, Probably the world’s most expensive bikini ever / Elton John announced at a concert in London that he was quitting live performances only to start again two years later / President Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian leader to visit Israel / The Sex Pistols released their first single "Anarchy in the UK"?
1977
22. Which is the only form of tobacco allowed inside the chamber of the House of Commons?
Snuff
23. Which long disused famous racing circuit is located in Weybridge, Surrey?
Brooklands
24. The heavy cruiser, formally known as the USS Phoenix is the only warship ever to be sunk in action by a nuclear submarine. By what name was it known when sunk?
General Belgrano
25. Who has scored the most runs ever in the Ashes tests?
Don Bradman
26. In the USA the Amish people mainly live in which state?
Pennsylvania
27. Which group of Blackpool workers last year won a 48 hour week, lunch breaks and Fridays off?
Donkeys on the beach
28. The nickname of the Australian Rugby League side is the Wallabies, but which side are known as the Rhinos?
South Africa
29. In which film did Sigourney Weaver portray the American environmentalist Dianne Fosse?
Gorillas In The Mist
30. What would you get if you added cream, grenadine and strawberry liquor to one part white rum and two parts Malibu? Would it be a Pink Panther a Pink Python or a Pink Pussy?
Pink Pussy
31. By what name is the former colony of German South West Africa now known?
Namibia
32. One point each - name the only three words in standard English that begin with the letters DW?
Dwarf, Dwell & Dwindle
33. True or false? In the name of political correctness an Oxfordshire Local Education Authority have, in their nursery schools, replaced the song ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep’ with ‘Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep’?
True
34. Which actor starred in the ITV series ‘Doc Martin’?
Martin Clunes
35. What word can be, an offensive name for a gay person, a water proof embankment or a structure used to mark a boundary?
Dyke
36. How old does a car have to be to be classed as a Classic?
25 Years
37. According to informed sources, which member of the Cabinet is codenamed ‘The Grand Sporran’ by UK security services?
Gordon Brown
38. Which two film characters live at 62, West Wallaby Street, Wigan?
Wallace and Gromit
39. What was the nationality at birth of Winston Churchill’s mother?
American
40. Which British university has the most students?
The Open University
Tiebreaker - In which year was Saddam Husein born?
1937

1. Which English king was the target of The Gunpowder Plot?
James 1st
2. What colour is diamond dust?
Black
3. Who is the UK’s highest earning dead celebrity?
John Lennon - estate raked in £12.6m in last year
4. Which inventions earliest model utilised two tin cans and a vacuum cleaner?
Hovercraft
5. Noel Edmonds is reuniting with Keith Chegwin, Maggie Philbin and John Craven for a one-off Christmas Special of which show?
Swapshop
6. Which is the only African country with both French & English as official languages?
Cameroon
7. Which aircraft, that shot to fame in the film Top Gun, was retired by the US Navy last month?
F-14 Tomcat
8. How many women did Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, plead guilty to killing?
Thirteen
9. Who was the first member of Take That to have a number one hit single in Britain?
Gary Barlow
10. Who was the original ‘A Question Of Sport’ quizmaster?
David Vine
11. What type of food is served at the US fast-food chain ‘El Pollo Loco’?
Chicken
12. Who was the first child born to a reigning British sovereign in the 20th century?
Prince Andrew
13. What was Guy Fawkes occupation a) Mercenary b) Farmer c) Money Lender?
a) Mercenary - Guy Fawkes learned his gunpowder skills serving in the Spanish army
14. Which have better eyesight - Sheep, Pigs or Cows?
Sheep
15. In WWII, which country raised the largest volunteer army in history?
India
16. What religion was followed by Fry’s, Cadbury’s and Rowntrees who set up Britain’s chocolate industry?
Quaker
17. In which Country were fireworks invented?
China
18. What was Lawrence of Arabia riding at the time of his death?
Motorcycle
19. Oolong, Ping Suey And Gunpowder are varieties of what?
Tea
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Name a type of powder?
Talcum / Gun / Face / Custard / Baking

21. Which Year - Shooting began on the new James Bond movie "The Man With The Golden Gun" / An Italian newspaper received the right ear of John Paul Getty III through the post / Bobby Moore made his 108th (and final) international appearance for England, against Italy at Wembley and The Boston Strangler was murdered in his cell in Massachusetts?
1973
22. What colour shirts were worn by Star Trek science officers?
Blue
23. What is the name for an individual sweet corn?
Kernel
24. What name is given to the full moon that falls closest to the Autumn Equinox?
Harvest Moon
25. "The ships company will remember that I am your captain, your judge and your jury" is a line from which film?
Mutiny On The Bounty
26. Where did the funeral procession for Princess Diana start?
Kensington Palace
27. Which composer wrote music for the Royal Fireworks?
Handel
28. Which group had their first top 20 hit in 1963 with the Lennon & McCartney song ‘ I wanna be your man’?
Rolling Stones
29. Which foreign political leader was awarded a honary knighthood in 1989?
Ronald Reagan
30. Which country was invaded by Israel in 1982?
Lebanon
31. What is the minimum age at which you may legally purchase fireworks in Britain?
Sixteen
32. In which jail did prisoners stage a 24 day rebellion in 1990?
Strangeways
33. True or false - London Zoo’s Guy the Gorilla was named after Guy Fawkes?
True (He arrived in November)
34. Snooker player James Wattana was born in which country?
Thailand
35. What did National Airlines suffer the very first of on May 1st 1961?
A Hijacked plane
36. How is the soul - rock singer Henry Samuel better known?
Seal
37. Magnesium in fireworks gives what colour flame / flash?
Green - Strontium provides red colour
38. Which 1996 film was advertised with the slogan ‘ Earth, take a good look - it may be your last’?
Independence Day
39. How did Guy Fawkes die a) He was shot trying to escape b) He was hanged c) He died under torture?
b) He was hanged - Hung, Drawn & Quartered!
40. In terms of Games, what items have men played with for longer than anything else?
Dice

Tiebreaker - How many Littlewoods Pools collectors are there nationwide?
70,000