Quiz 211007
1. What is the most prevalent infectious disease in the UK?
The Common Cold
2. What was the name of the first British nuclear power station, which closed in March 2003?
Calder Hall
3. Which word can be both the process of shaping iron and the making of counterfeit money?
Forging
4. In the royal family, what relation in the Duke of York to the Earl of Wessex?
Brother
5. On BBC-2’s Top Gear, what is the test driver, who likes really sad music, known as?
The Stig
6. Which is the oldest club in the Football League, founded in 1862?
Notts County
7. In which 1980 film do Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton & Lily Tomlin try to bring down their boss?
Nine to Five
8. Into which estuary do the Rivers Trent and Ouse flow?
Humber
9. What name is given to a fruit thit is a cross between an orange and a tangerine?
Clementine
10. Which four-letter word describes a type of sherry which is pale, light and generally very dry?
Fino
11. Which countrys flag is green, white and red with an eagle holding a snake in its mouth in the centre?
Mexico
12. Which car model was first produced in 1999 by Toyota, as a replacement for their small car, the Starlet?
Yaris
13. What was photographed for the first time in 1959 and became the title of a top-selling album in 1973?
Dark Side Of The Moon
14. What name is given to pottery decorated with layers of coloured liquid clay?
Slipware
15. Who replaced Murray Walker as ITV’s Formula 1 commentator?
James Allen
16. In which TV sitcom did Alexei Sayle play Mr Balowski?
The Young Ones
17. In which country would you find the wine producing region known as Casablanca Valley?
Chile
18. Who owns a car with the registration number MOVE 1T?
Cliff Richard
19. The scoring system for which highly popular game/sport was devised by Brian Gamin of Bury in 1896?
Darts
20. Quiztime Survey - Top Answers Required - Name an occupation that takes courage?
Fireman / Police Officer / Stuntman / Pilot / Bomb Disposal expert
21. Which Year - Mark Thatcher disappears in the Sahara during the Paris-Dakar rally / The DeLorean Car factory in Belfast is put into receivership / The German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Germany / Aston Villa win the European Cup beating Bayern Munich 1-0 / President Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the British Parliament and Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player?
1982
22. Who was the famous wife of Leofric of Mercia?
Lady Godiva
23. Which product was advertised on television as ‘a break from the norm’?
Twix
24. What is the largest ship in the British Royal Navy?
HMS Ocean
25. What type of bird is a Lammergeier?
Vulture
26. In clothing care symbols, what does a cross over a triangle signify?
Do Not Bleach
27. What name is given in ballet to a jump from one foot to the other?
Jete
28. Which Paris landmark has 282 steps, and was planned as a monument to the military success of Napoleon I?
Arc De Triomphe
29. Which group had a best-selling L.P. entitled ‘Slippery When Wet’?
Bon Jovi
30. In military terms, the initials RHA stand for what?
Royal Horse Artillery
31. Which European country’s flag is red with a black double headed eagle in the centre?
Albania
32. Where do ‘demersal’ creatures live?
On the sea bed
33. From 1979-1992, in which Central American country did the left-wing guerrillas, the FMLN, operate?
El Salvador
34. Under which London landmark are buried a razor, cigars and a portrait of Queen Victoria?
Cleopatra’s Needle
35. Mohammed ldris Al-Senussi was the first, and last, king of which country?
Lybia
36. Who had a hit in the UK in the 1980s with "The Reflex"?
Duran Duran
37. In which country would you find the wine growing region known as Robertson?
South Africa
38. Which motor manufacturing company was founded by the brothers Louis, Fernand and Marcel?
Renault
39. What foodstuff is something shaped like, if is described as allantoid?
Sausage - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/allantoid
40. What is the only substance that can be a gas, a liquid and a solid in the natural world?
Water
Tiebreaker - In what year were driving penalty points introduced in the UK?
1981
