Quiz 280107
1. What is the most popular sport to feature in films?
Boxing
2. Who became the UK’s first travel agent after taking fare-paying passengers on an excursion from Leicester to Loughborough and back?
Thomas Cook
3. Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire?
The Archers
4. Who is Secretary of State for Defence?
Des Browne
5. Ali Carter and Stuart Bingham are names in which sport?
Snooker
6. Which country is the world’s largest producer and largest consumer of whisky?
USA
7. Which journalist and former “Smash Hits” editor hosts the X-Factor on TV?
Kate Thornton
8. Which F1 team recently unveiled their new car the TF107?
Toyota
9. In which city is the hotel Burj al-Arab, which markets itself as "the world’s first seven-star hotel"?
Dubai
10. Ban Ki-moon is the eighth UN Secretary General, in which country was he born?
South Korea
11. Which vegetable popular in Chinese dishes is obtained from the stems of the bulrush?
Water Chestnuts
12. Which city was the destination of the "Orient Express" which completed its first run from Paris in 1883?
Constantinople / Istanbul - the journey took almost 78 hours
13. True or false, penguins can jump?
True
14. HE’S A RICH TV PERSON (11,5) is an anagram of which presenters full name?
Christopher Evans
15. Which country are currently President of the EU?
Austria
16. In which unlikely sport was Salford born Frank Evans involved?
He was a bullfighter was known as El Ingles and the Lancashire Toreador
17. If you are driving a Ford Crown Victoria in the USA, of which profession are you likely to be?
Policeman - over 50% of all marked police cruisers in the US
18. Which husband and wife team wrote the theme music to TV’s Neighbours?
Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent
19. Which West Midlands comedian was born Chris Collins in 1957 and sang on a number one hit single in 1996?
Frank Skinner
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Something a man does more than a woman?
Shaves / Goes to the Pub / Moans / Swears / Watches Sport
21. One point each - name the judges on TV’s “Strictly Come Dancing”?
Len Goodman, Arlene Phillips, Bruno Tonioli or Craig Revel Horwood
22. What links: Rigsby, Sabrina the teenage witch, Postman Pat and Mrs Slocum?
Cat Owners
23. What is the real first name of Prince Harry?
Henry
24. Which endangered species can be Black, White or Indian?
Rhinoceros
25. Which record label was based at a building called Hitsville USA?
Motown
26. One point each - which three Beatles number ones had the word ‘Love’ in the title?
She Loves You, Can’t Buy Me Love, All You Need Is Love
27. Which actress once wrote an article called "The Alien In Me?"
Sigourney Weaver
28. The summit ridge of Mount Everest marks the border between which two Asian countries?
China and Nepal
29. The larvae of the fly is a maggot, what is the larvae of a beetle called?
Grub
30. What was the mission of the ship, which sailed from England in November 1790 under Captain Edward Edwards, reaching its destination of Tahiti four months later?
To find the Bounty & its mutineers
31. Which US State has the most miles of road?
Texas
32. What is Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s middle name, Keith, Kevin or Kermit?
Keith
33. Extensors, constrictors, and flexors are all types of what?
Muscles
34. Which sport, do you associate Pitsburg Penguins, Toronto Mapleleafs, and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim?
Ice Hockey
35. How many gold stars are there on the EU flag?
Twelve
36. Designed by Wernher von Braun what was the name of the rocket that launched Apollo 11?
Saturn V
37. How long is a French Presidential term?
Five years (used to be 7 prior to the 2002 election)
38. Who plays the cat stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the Bond film ‘You Only Live Twice?
Donald Pleasance
39. Doodling is an old term for playing which musical instrument once called ‘doodle-sacks’?
Bagpipes
40. What are the names of George Foreman’s five sons?
George
- On a clear day, from the top of Ben Nevis, what is the furthest thing you can see?
The sun
Tiebreaker - How many times in the past year were RAF fighter jets scrambled to intercept passenger planes in UK airspace?
Six
- The first floodlit rugby match took place, Broughton v Swinton, at Broughton, Lancs in which year?
1878
- How many UK number one hits has Elvis Presley had?
Twenty One
