Quiz 220707
1. How many legs does an ant have?
Six
2. What is the shape of the US President’s office in the White House?
Oval
3. True or False - In the second world war, every Italian soldier in North Africa carried his own personal espresso machine?
True
4. Which country has the biggest army in the world at 2.3 million and has not fought a war since 1979?
China
5. Which city in England is furthest from the coast?
Leicester
6. What is Britain’s busiest telephone number?
National Rail Enquiries - Of the 50 million calls it receives a year, 25 million are now handled by call centers in Mumbai and Bangalore
7. Where is the Ceremony Of The Keys held each evening?
Tower Of London
8. Who presented Radio One’s breakfast show between May 1988 & October 1993 and can now be found on Radio Five Live?
Simon Mayo
9. Which Olympic sport has world records broken most often?
Weight Lifting
10. Who are the only father and son to have had separate, solo, chart-topping singles in the UK?
Julio (Begin The Beguine, 1981) and Enrique Iglesias (Hero, 2002)
11. Which American national park sits on top of a supervolcano?
Yellowstone
12. Which company’s logo comprises of a black letter M in a white circle?
Motorola
13. Neil Kinnock, Margaret Thatcher, Lester Piggott, Paul Daniels, Ronald Reagan and many other notables appeared in the video for which 1986 Number One hit?
The Chicken Song - Spitting Image
14. Syrian, Campbells and Chinese are all species of which pet animal?
Hamster
15. Which publication uses the so-called "walking fingers" logo?
Yellow Pages
16. What name is given to the printed circuit that contains the main components of a personal computer?
Mother Board
17. In which European country is Johansson the most common surname?
Sweden
18. Which Member of Parliament founded a church in 1951 and his current political party in 1971?
Ian Paisley
19. In which English city is the Diana Princess of Wales Children’s Hospital?
Birmingham
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Name an animal which appears in the name of a public house?
Lion / Bull / Dog / Horse / Fox
21. Which Year - Horse-racing stalls were first introduced in Britain in the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket, US Mariner transmitted the first close-up pictures of Mars, The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France with Italy, was opened, Sir Alec Douglas-Home resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and Cigarette advertising on British television was banned?
1965
22. Which alcoholic drink is advertised with the slogan "Born 1820 - still going strong"?
Johnnie Walker
23. Which was the first company to market waterproof watches?
Rolex
24. Which ex - Coronation Street actor appeared in the hit film The Full Monty as a would be stripper who hadn’t got the bottle?
Bruce Jones (Les Battersby)
25. Which pop group takes its name from a lesbian love position?
Scissor Sisters
26. Which London borough was created from the amalgamation of Wembley and Willesden and has the country’s highest percentage of people born outside of the United Kingdom?
Brent
27. Which chocolate bar was renamed after a horse belonging to the Mars family?
Snickers
28. The Eden Course and the Jubilee Course can both be found at which sporting venue?
St Andrews
29. Davy Crockett’s hat was made from the hide of which animal?
Racoon
30. Which famous London square was once known as ‘porridge island’ because the surrounding squalid courtyards were filled with cheap eating houses?
Trafalgar Square
31. Which Goodies song featured the character of The Queen of Northern Soul?
Black Pudding Bertha
32. Which African country became landlocked in 1993 following the granting of independence to a formerly annexed province?
Ethiopia
33. In The Beatles song When I’m 64 where can a cottage be rented every summer?
Isle Of Wight
34. Mr Roy, Mr Derek and Mr. Rodney were three sidekicks of which puppet?
Basil Brush
35. Which rock star took his stage name from an anagram of oral sex?
Axl Rose
36. Which of the Baltic states includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea?
Estonia
37. Who played a spoon salesman called Mr Hutchinson in an episode of Fawlty Towers?
Bernard Cribbins
38. Which country is Europe’s largest exporter of oil?
Norway
39. What was advertised on television with the slogan "all bubble no squeak"?
Aero Chocolate Bars
40. Which plasterer represented Great Britain in the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards
Tiebreaker - How many countries were involved in WWII?
57
If you add up the value of all the scoring segments on a dartboard what is the total?
1545
