Quiz 101206
1. Which group have recently topped the UK’s singles and albums charts simultaneously for the first time in their career?
Take That
2. The Lord’s Taverners are a fundraising organisation that raises money by competing in which sport?
Cricket
3. Which former Busted star was recently crowned ‘King Of The Jungle’ after winning ITV1’s ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’?
Matt Willis
4. Who recently became the first member of the Royal Family to be pictured fox hunting since the ban on the sport was forced through Parliament?
Princess Anne
5. In 1970 who won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for the second time, the first person to win twice?
Henry Cooper
6. Which Hollywood star is mourning the death of his beloved pot-bellied pig, Max, that shared the actors home for the past 18 years?
George Clooney
7. According to a new police report, which vehicles are often associated with organised crime in the UK?
Limousines
8. A poll of adults across the UK has revealed that who is the most well renowned Scot - The Loch Ness monster, Gordon Brown or Lorraine Kelly?
The Loch Ness monster
9. A museum dedicated to the pop group Abba will open where in 2008?
Stockholm
10. What are police distributing around Oxford Street in London to act as a deterrent against bag snatchings and muggings over Christmas - Personal alarms, Bells or Clumps of holly?
Bells
11. If the sky was full of nimbostratus clouds, what type of weather would you expect?
Rain. They are rainclouds
12. How many states is Australia divided into?
Six - Northern territory, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales & Victoria
13. This Week - A Buckinghamshire couple received an anonymous letter threatening legal action and an Asbo if they didn’t stop doing what - Feeding squirrels in their garden, Letting off Fireworks late at night or Playing Cliff Richard records at full volume?
Feeding squirrels in their garden!!!
14. What does the "F.W." stand for in FW Woolworth?
Frank Winfield
15. What was built as the centrepeice of the British empire exhibition of 1924?
Wembley stadium
16. Forty-eight orangutans have finally been returned to their native Indonesia after years being made to perform what in a Bangkok zoo - Boxing matches, Tea parties or Ballet?
Boxing matches
17. Is an icicle a stalagmite or stalagtite?
Stalagtite
18. How will the year 2007 be represented in Roman Numerals?
MMVII
19. What does a Union Jack flying upside down signify?
Distress
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answers Required - Name something you can do with bread?
Toast / Feed the ducks / Fry / Sandwich / Bread pudding
21. Which Year - The space shuttle Atlantis launched the world’s first nuclear war fighting satellite, singer and songwriter Roy Orbison died of a heart attack, President Gorbachev announced that Soviet military strength would be cut by ten percent within the next two years, Leslie Nielson and Priscilla Presley starred in the movie "The Naked Gun" and rock star Elton John was awarded damages of £1 million against the Sun newspaper?
1988
22. With 6, which sport has the most winners of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
Motor Racing, F1
23. How many lines to a picture were there in the first television sets used in the UK?
405
24. Who is the Australian tennis player known as the Scud?
Mark Philippoussis
25. Which group of islands does Fair Isle belong to?
Shetlands
26. Who wrote"The Hunt For Red October"?
Tom Clancy
27. Which Yorkshire racecourse never stages flat racing?
Wetherby
28. Which English city is known as the "City of Spires"?
Oxford
29. Who won the Oscar for best actor in 1957 for his part in "Bridge on the river Kwai"?
Alec Guinness
30. What is the only active volcano on mainland Europe?
Vesuvius
31. Still popular as presents, how many "Power Rangers" are there?
Six (Billy, Jason, Tommy, Zak, Kimberley & Trini)
32. In fiction, which animal faded away until nothing remained but his grin?
The Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland
33. Wilnelia Merced, Miss World in 1975 became which British television personality’s third wife in 1983?
Bruce Forsythe’s
34. What is the name for a baby eagle?
An Eaglet
35. What is the name of the jewel thief Inspector Clouseau chases in "The pink panther"?
The phantom
36. Which measurement did Henry III define by laying down three barleycorns in a continuous line?
Inch
37. Which is Britain’s oldest cathedral?
Canterbury
38. Which TV commentator won the PGA championships in 1957, 1962 & 1965?
Peter Allis
39. Which fruit is grown by viticulturists?
Grapes
40. Where can a plane fly further below sea level, than some submarines can dive?
Over the Dead sea, which is 1300ft below sea level
Tiebreaker - What was the price tag of the first JVC VHS video recorder sold at Dixons?
£798.75
- A man has bought 10 pieces of toast with portraits of celebrities made from Marmite on them from eBay, as a Christmas present for his wife - how much did they cost?
£920
- How many miles is it from London to Sydney Australia.
10,558
- Why is Nicholas Parsons in the Guiness book of records?
He shares the record for the longest after dinner speech (11 hours)
- In Disney’s "Aladdin", what were the 3 things the genie warned he couldn’t do?
Kill someone, make two people fall in love and bring back someone from the dead
