Quiz 080707
1. What is the tennis term for missing on first and second service?
Double fault
2. Who is to become Doctor Who’s new assistant in the next series on TV?
Catherine Tate
3. What is the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh?
Lettuce
4. Which current TV soap character has had four marriages, at least two affairs and 27 girlfriends?
Ken Barlow - William Roache, 75-year-old actor, was in the first episode in 1960 and has played Ken Barlow for 46 years
5. What age followed the Bronze Age?
The Iron Age
6. A statue of which cartoon character was recently unveiled in Hartlepool?
Andy Capp
7. How many times did Pete Sampras win the Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championships?
Seven
8. Which bird was the emblem of the Roman Empire?
The Eagle
9. What two word term is given to a shot in Basketball whereby a basket is scored by a downward thrust?
Slam Dunk
10. Which music icon can be found in the album charts with ‘Get The Party Started’?
Shirley Bassey
11. Who has been appointed as the new Home Secretary?
Jacqui Smith
12. Promoter Dennis Hobson has offered which boxer £5m to fight Ricky Hatton in Britain?
Floyd Mayweather
13. For centuries the wives of Burma walked behind their husbands in public. But after World War II, why did the men suddenly insist that their wives walk ahead of them?
To protect them from Landmines!
14. In which year was Sven-Göran Eriksson born?
1948
15. Which singer has topped the UK charts for seven weeks with “Umbrella”?
Rihanna
16. What type of dance takes its name from the German for “Revolve”?
Waltz
17. Tim Henman was knocked out of Wimbledon by which Spaniard?
Feliciano Lopez
18. Which canal was opened to great acclaim in November 1869?
The Suez Canal
19. If you times the number of Dwarfs to the number of Wonders of the World then minus the number of blind mice, what do you get?
Forty Six
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answers Required - Name A Brand Of Cigarettes?
Marlboro, Embassy Regal, Lambert & Butler, Benson & Hedges, Berkely
21. Which Year - The original Tomb Raider adventure game sold over 3 million copies, Trainspotting, Toy Story and William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet were box office hits, mobile phones took off but for schoolkids (who wouldn’t be able to afford a mobile phone for another year or so) a new range of flashy transparent pagers was all the rage, there was a new outbreak of BSE, dancing legend Gene Kelly died and Dolly the sheep was born?
1996
22. In which sport might you perform a Turntable, a Rob-Roy, a Cat Twist or a Barani?
Trampolining
23. In 1914, Mary Phelps Jacobs gave women everywhere a boost by inventing what?
The Bra
24. Graphology is a study that interprets personality and character from what?
Handwriting
25. Which of Henry VIII’s wives was his former sister-in-law?
Catherine of Aragon
26. Which character in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories eats thistles?
Eeyore the donkey
27. The Tago River is crossed by the Vasco de Gama bridge in which European city is it situated?
Lisbon, Portugal
28. The Worthington Method, named after Jim Worthington, is a system for doing what - Feeding Chickens, Brewing Beer or Glass Blowing?
Feeding Chickens
29. In the film “The Lord of the Rings” who plays the part of Saruman?
Christopher Lee
30. With which metal was dentist Robert Arthur the first to fill a cavity, in 1855?
Gold
31. What game is played with sticks, having at their top end a network of leather thongs enclosed in a triangular frame?
Lacrosse
32. Which Beatle appeared in denim on the Abbey Road album cover?
Geogre Harrison
33. According to the nursery rhyme, what did Tom Tom, the Piper’s son steal?
A Pig
34. Which US state has a series of licence plates with the slogan “Birthplace of Aviation”?
Ohio
35. In ten pin bowling, what is the name of the area before the foul line, on which the bowler stands and walks towards the pins?
Approach
36. The local handyman, Ted Glen, can be found in which children’s TV series?
Postman Pat
37. If all these ingredients are blended together what dish would I create - stale white bread, smoked cods roe, olive oil, lemon and a slice of onion?
Taramosalata
38. Which Disney movie was based on a book titled, ‘A Life in the Woods’?
Bambi
39. Which famous London Police Station closed in 1992, when it was 230 years old?
Bow Street
40. What is Canada’s national anthem called?
O Canada
- Amnesiphobia is the fear of what?
Fear of amnesia
- What is in; “The beginning of eternity. The end of time and space. The beginning of every end, and the end of every place.”
The letter E
Tiebreaker - Andy Roddick still holds the record for the fastest ever tennis serve, how fast?
155 mph (248 kph)
- Farthest thrown object-an “Aerobie” flying ring, 383 m (1,257′)
