Quiz 071007
1. DAB radios are the latest thing. What do the initials stand for?
Digital Audio Broadcasting
2. What is the name of the farm that used to be occupied by the Tates and is now occupied by the Kings in Emmerdale?
Home Farm
3. Three artists have had hits with the song ‘True Colours’. Phil Collins is one, name either of the other 2?
Cindy Lauper or Go West
4. Which children’s game is described by its manufacturers as ‘the saddle stacking game with the moody mule’?
Buckaroo
5. What is the name of the Lottery draw which replaced Lotto Extra Draw?
Dream Number
6. What was the first vegetable to be put into a can?
Peas
7. Which two seas are connected by the Keil canal?
North Sea and Baltic Sea
8. Which much loved children’s character could be described as an ursine Peruvian asylum seeker?
Paddington Bear
9. What is the stretch of Spanish coast from Alicante to Valencia called?
Costa Blanca
10. How many star signs are represented by four legged animals?
Four
11. What were Jason and the Argonauts looking for?
Golden Fleece
12. In Coronation Street what is the name of Deirdre’s mother?
Blanche Hunt
13. Traditionally, what would a bride not want to see on her way to the wedding - (A) A Spider (B) A Toad (C) A Pig
A Pig
14. Who was the first British monarch to circumnavigate the World?
Elizabeth II
15. True or False - In medieval Britain, a man proposed to a lady by placing a hawthorn branch at the lady’s door. If she left it there, she accepted. If she did not accept it, she replaced it with a cauliflower?
True
16. Which TV series did Peter Sallis once describe as being Just William with pension books’?
Last Of The Summer Wine
17. Lake Balaton, is the largest lake in central Europe, in which country is it?
Hungary
18. Who were the first company to produce paper handkerchiefs?
Kleenex
19. How many degrees does a clock’s hour hand pass through between 1am and 6am?
150 degrees
20. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Something that is thrown on a beach?
Ball / Frisbee / Seashell / Towel / Pebble
21. Which Year - Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly / Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module / The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force / Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping / Tommy, the first of two rock operas by The Who is released and Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs its first episode on the BBC?
1969
22. What does the medical abbreviation, DVT stand for?
Deep vein thrombosis
23. Who merited an entry in the Guinness book of records in 1983 for writing 26 novels in one year?
Barbara Cartland
24. What part of the Mona Lisa’s face did Leonardo da Vinci spend twelve years painting?
Lips or mouth
25. Which breakfast cereal characters were sacked for being too aggressive?
The Weetabix bovver boys
26. What common substance is added to blood to prevent it from clotting until it is ready to be transferred to a patient?
Salt
27. In which 1997 film did Jack Nicholson fall in love with Helen Hunt?
As Good As It Gets
28. What country did the Russians invade in 1968?
Czechoslovakia
29. How many points are scored for getting the Countdown Conundrum?
Ten
30. True or False - The first person to pass a driving test in Britain was a Mr Beane?
True
31. Which song was a hit for Andy Williams in 1968 and for the Boystown Gang in 1982?
I Can’t Take My Eyes off You
32. On what would you see Ogham writing?
Stone
33. Which TV presenter’s autobiography is entitled Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother?
Anne Robinson
34. Which day of the week is Dimanche in French?
Sunday
35. Which company provided James Bond’s cover?
Universal Import and Export
36. In which sport did a Scottish team win the World Cup held in Nepal in 2001?
Elephant Polo
37. What British public service ceased on June 12th, 1921?
Sunday Postal Service
38. What in inches is the diameter of a standard competition dartboard?
Eighteen
39. Apart from Australia, which country’s flag features the Southern Cross constellation and the Union Jack?
New Zealand
40. Which island lies halfway between Japan and San Francisco?
Midway Island
Tiebreaker - In what year was The Gunfight at the OK Corral?
1881
