Quiz 150707
1. Today is the feast of St Swithin. According to legend, if it rains today, what will happen?
It will rain for 40 days
2. Speeding is the most common motoring offence in the UK, what is the second most common?
Driving Without Insurance
3. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Spongebob Squarepants
4. Patented today in 1869, what food was invented "for the navy and less prosperous classes" and gets its name from the Greek for pearls?
Margarine
5. Which comic book heroes were led by Professor Charles Xavier?
X-Men
6. How many red boxes are there in TV’s Deal or No Deal?
Twenty Two / 25 if you include the three phone in contestants boxes
7. What in computing terms were Melissa, Chernobyl and Anna Kournikova?
Viruses
8. Which American film actor is probably best known in the UK as Stringfellow in ‘Airwolf’ on TV. His films include ‘The Mechanic’, ‘Hooper’ and ‘Born in East L.A.’?
Jan-Michael Vincent, 63 (born 15 July 1944)
9. Which character in The Muppets once warned ‘Never eat more than you can lift’?
Miss Piggy (I got a pig into the quiz again!)
10. Put the following inventions in order..the earliest first……Compact Disc; Gramaphone; Tape Recorder; Television?
Gramaphone (1878); Tape Recorder (1899); Television (1926); Compact Disc (1978)
11. What does the Spanish phrase ‘vino de casa’ mean?
House Wine
12. Envy, Rush and Kanon are all fragrances made by which perfume company?
Gucci
13. True or False - In Florida, Unmarried women who parachute on sundays may be jailed?
True
14. What was the name of the spin off series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer that starred David Boreanaz as the title character?
Angel
15. Which Italian motorcycle racer is nicknamed "The Doctor"?
Valentino Rossi
16. Which London building has four miles of corridors, four thousand windows, and one man working full time just cleaning clocks?
Buckingham Palace
17. Which song contains the lyric: “You can almost taste the hot dogs and french fries they sell”?
Under The Boardwalk
18. In which year was the first email sent?
1971
19. According to Scottish custom which traditional breakfast dish should be eaten standing up?
Porridge
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answer Required - Something that is not easy to open?
Bleach Bottles / Ring-Pull Cans / Corned Beef Tins / Milk & Juice Cartons / Soap Powder Boxes / Biscuits
21. Which Year - Laura Ashley opened her first US shop in San Francisco, Don Revie became the new manager of the England football team, The national police computer began operating, Mama Cass of The Mamas and the Papas died at the age of 32 after choking on a sandwich, Richard Nixon became the first US president to resign from office and Forty thousand British holidaymakers woke up to find themselves stranded after the owners of Clarksons and Horizon Holidays went bust?
1974
22. In which sport might you perform a Baby Fliffus, a Cody, a Kaboom or a Randy?
Trampolining
23. In New York, which of these are you allowed to do, smoke in public, drink alcohol in public, swear in public, feed the pigeons or ride a bike with your feet off the pedals?
Swear in public!
24. To which group of islands do ferry services run from Penzance?
Scilly Isles
25. Derived from the Latin for ‘licking’, what word describes a syrupy medicinal preparation taken to relieve coughs and sore throats?
Linctus
26. Which European countries phone books contain people’s occupations as well as their names because so many people have the same names?
Iceland
27. What is the name given to the small bear-like Australian marsupials, which live in burrows in the ground?
Wombats
28. Which TV spy series featured a spymaster named Mother?
The Avengers
29. What would you be suffering from if you had Herpes Simplex One?
Cold Sores
30. If a Coca-Cola Championship team finishes the season without playoff aspirations or relegation worries, how many of the teams that it played in that season will it play again in the next season?
Seventeen
31. In which year did Major Charles Ingram, his wife and their peculiar accomplice famously cheat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
2001
32. The MOBO awards are held annually in London. But what does MOBO stand for?
Music Of Black Origin
33. Who played Henno in the ITV drama series Ultimate Force’?
Ross Kemp
34. Which car manufacturer shares its name with an end of the Oval cricket ground?
Vauxhall
35. Mark King was the singer with which 80s group?
Level 42
36. What is the most mobile joint in the human body?
The Shoulder
37. One of the greatest art collections in the world is in the National Museum of Paintings and Sculpture (known as the Prado) which city is it located in?
Madrid
38. Which actress played a Bond girl, married and divorced singer Jack Jones and later married Robert Wagner in 1990?
Jill St. John
39. Which city is located where the Mississippi meets the Missouri river?
St. Louis
40. After cars, what are the next most commonly used four wheeled devices used by the public?
Supermarket Trolleys
- Jack works in a butchers shop, he is 6 ft tall very fit exersises regualy is married with two children, what does he weigh?
Meat
- In Peter Pan what is the trade of the fairy Tinkerbell?
Tinker (she mends pots and pans)
Tiebreaker - David Morgan of Oxfordshire has Britain’s biggest private collection of road traffic cones.
How many does he have?
137
- In square miles, what is the area of the Welsh county of Powys?
1,961
