Quiz 251107
1. Between which two cities did the train, the Golden Arrow run?
London and Paris
2. What was Prince Phillip’s surname before his marriage?
Mountbatten
3. What film introduced the song ‘The First Time ever I saw your Face’?
Play Misty for me
4. Which city boasts the world’s oldest casino?
Monte Carlo
5. The Big Brother format was first successful in which country, France, Holland or Italy?
Holland
6. Bonnie Prince Charlie is said to have provided the recipe for which liqueur?
Drambuie
7. What computer term evolved when an early computer had a moth get inside it causing it to crash?
Bug
8. Heinz, as in Mr 57 varieties, what was his first name, Harry, Hubert or Henry?
Henry
9. Which car manufacturer has a badge featuring a St George’s Cross and a serpent?
Alpha Romeo
10. Five Points available - Which five venues have staged Formula 1 British Grand Prix races?
Brands Hatch, Silverstone, Brooklands, Aintree & Donnington
11. A river in South Africa, a town in France and an area of Southern California all share which name?
Orange
12. Which film producer, whose biggest success was ‘FX - Murder by illusion’ in 1985, died in a car crash in 1997?
Dodi Fayed
13. True or False - Enorma was a huge bearded lady who, at the turn of the century had a circus act which involved pulling a gun carriage with her teeth whilst juggling 4 china plates?
False - Enorma = type of runner bean!
14. What is the country of origin of Aldi supermarkets?
Germany
15. Which two main weapons were carried by the starship Enterprise?
Phasers & Photon Torpedoes
16. What is the minimum number of people in a police identity parade?
Nine
17. What did John Hawkins of England start selling to the Americans in 1562?
Slaves
18. From which country does the beer Duvel come?
Belgium
19. In a long running TV series, first broadcast in 1963, who originally lived with his grand-daughter at a junkyard with the address 76 Totters Lane?
Dr Who
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answers Required - Name something you would keep secret?
Affair / Weight / Age / Lottery Win / Number of Shoes!
21. Which Year - A Japanese soldier was found in hiding on Lubang Island in the Philippines. He believed World War II was still being fought, The Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was opened, Princess Anne escaped unhurt after an armed man tried to kidnap her in London, US spacecraft Mariner 10 took close-up photographs of the planet Mercury, Golda Meir resigned as Prime Minister of Israel and Glenda Jackson won the Oscar for best actress for her role in ‘A Touch Of Class’?
1974
22. Which three Scottish league football teams have a part of the body mentioned in their name?
Hearts, Peterhead and Brechin
23. Who did the Simpson’s replace as the longest running cartoon family in 1997?
The Flintstones
24. What is the name of the grossly obese Little Britain character portrayed by Matt Lucas, who spends all her time being pampered at a heath spa?
Bubbles
25. Nimrod was the great grand son of which famous Biblical person?
Noah
26. The spirit ‘Absolut Vodka’ is a product of which country?
Sweden
27. Which Latin American revolutionary was born in Argentina, came to prominence in Cuba then fought in the Congo and died in Bolivia?
che gueverra
28. Prostitutes from which ancient civilization invented lipstick, Greek, Roman or Egyptian?
Egyptian
29. Who or what is the biggest employer for the people of Hounslow in Middlesex?
Heathrow Airport
30. If you used the word QUIZ in Scrabble, how many points do you score?
22 - 10 each for Q & Z, 1 each for U & I - Assuming no double / treble letter / word squares and no blanks
31. What was the name of the first Wallace and Gromit film?
A grand day out
32. In a second hand car advert what do the initials FFSR stand for?
Factory fitted sunroof
33. What would you do with a nan prick in Thailand, Eat it, Put a plaster on it or Smoke it?
Eat it - It’s a hot sauce
34. Which movie featured the line “please put down you weapon, you have 20 seconds to comply”
Robocop
35. True or False - Burger King introduced a new a “left-handed Whopper” in the US in 1998 designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. The new burger had the same ingredients as the original but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees?
False
36. Which liqueur is added to coffee to make a “Kentucky Coffee”?
Southern Comfort
37. If you had a Cyberphobic secretary what would be her problem?
Fear of Computers
38. Which organisation has its headquarters at Langley, Virginia in the USA?
CIA
39. In 1983, breakfast television came to Britain. Who was the regular weatherman on BBC’s’ Breakfast Time’, now to be found on Sky News?
Francis Wilson
40. According to the Highway Code, Some of your friends have just committed an armed robbery and you have agreed to be the getaway driver. What should you do before making the first right turn as you flee the bank?
Check your blind spot over your right hand shoulder
Tiebreaker - The weight in pounds of an average male aardvark?
150
