Quiz 121106
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
