Quiz 191106
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
