Quiz 240607
1. What sign did God give Noah that the earth would not be flooded again?
A rainbow
2. In ‘Mission Impossible’, how long was it before the Tape self-destructed?
Five Seconds
3. Which entertainer was married to his manager Cheryl St Clair?
Michael Barrymore
4. Which animal is used in the logo for the World-wide Fund for Nature?
Panda
5. Which celebrity launched a range of clothing in June 2007 in the fashion retailer Topshop?
Kate Moss
6. NO ALIENS DARLING is an anagram of which american actress?
Gillian Anderson
7. Who was the last male tennis player to achieve the feat of having won during his career all four of the Grand Slam titles: Wimbledon, US Open, French Open and Australian Open?
Andre Agassi
8. Which building, first occupied in 1800, now has 132 rooms and 35 bathrooms, three lifts, five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a (single-lane) bowling alley, a film theatre, a jogging track, a swimming pool, and a putting green?
The White House
9. Whose current album release is entitled Memory Almost Full?
Paul McCartney
10. What is the maximum number of points that can be scored from a single shot in billiards?
Ten
11. On TV, who is the host of The People’s Quiz?
Jamie Theakston
12. Which two F1 drivers currently drive for Ferrari?
Filipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen
13. Which high-kicking Hong Kong action star made his Hollywood breakthrough in the film Romeo Must Die?
Jet Li
14. The theft of a painting by Monet forms part of the plot for which film of 1999 starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. The film is based on one of 1968 with the same title starring Steve McQueen?
The Thomas Crown Affair
15. Gok Wan can currently be seen on Ch 4 telling people how to …. what?
Look Good Naked
16. Scenes from which battle were the first to appear on a British commemorative postage stamp?
Battle of Britain
17. What can be metric royal, metric demy and metric crown?
Sizes of Paper
18. On which continent would you find the Pensacola Mountains and the Rockefeller Plateau?
Antarctica
19. How long will it take to cut a wooden log into ten equal pieces if it takes one minute to make each cut?
Nine minutes - nine cuts are needed to make ten pieces, not ten cuts!
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answers Required - Name a method of foreseeing the future?
Crystal Ball / Tarot Cards / Horoscope / Tea Leaves / Palm Reading
21. Which Year - BBC 6 Music, the first new BBC music radio station in decades, is launched - Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes of the R&B group TLC dies in a car crash - Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones is released - Wrestler Davey Boy Smith suffers a fatal heart attack while on holiday - US Airways declares bankruptcy - Microsoft launches the online gaming service Xbox Live?
2002
22. Which city is 88 miles from Birmingham, 71 miles from York and 43 miles from Leeds?
Manchester
23. Which is the only month of the year when Greenland’s average temperature is above freezing?
July
24. What colour is the side of a bullfighting cape, that isn’t red?
Yellow
25. Which 1989 blockbuster movie found journalists Alex Knox and Vicki Vale tracking down the hero’s identity?
Batman
26. Nick Kamen advertised what, by famously removing them in a laundrette?
Levis Jeans
27. What is a Spaniard adding to his paella if the label on the carton reads ‘azafran’?
Saffron
28. After Shakespeare, who is the second most published author of all time?
Charles Dickens
29. What event pulled the world’s biggest TV audience on July 13th 1985?
The Live Aid Concert
30. Which is the only animal to feature in the title of a Shakespeare play?
Shrew
31. What have you checked if your condition is described as either diastolic or systolic?
Your blood pressure
32. Which motorway connects London to Winchester?
M3
33. What was Elvis Presley’s sport in the film ‘Kid Galahad’?
Boxing
34. Which complaint was the Jacuzzi originally developed to help?
Arthritis
35. Which film features a computer called HAL who gets very upset when Dave tries to turn him off?
2001 - A Space Odyssey
36. True or false - the game of Conkers was orginally played with Snail Shells?
True - takes its name from the latin for Shell - Concha
37. What nursery rhyme character was based on the rather round Richard III?
Humpty Dumpty
38. In which TV Series would you find Captain Benjamin Sisko?
Star Trek - Deep Space 9
39. Which law enforcers made their first appearance in London in 1960?
Traffic Wardens
40. What must competitors land on, after the tenth movement in a trampoline competition?
Their feet
Tiebreaker - How much was a 2nd class rail ticket from London to Manchester in 1971?
£3:20
- How deep was the first oil well?
70ft
