Quiz 021207
1. A broad breasted bronze is a breed of which bird?
Turkey
2. Which sweets were originally given the charming name of Energy Balls?
Maltesers
3. Who wrote the original book of The Golden Compass on which the latest film is based?
Philip Pullman
4. Which business developed from a snack drive-in near Pasadena selling hotdogs and milk-shakes?
McDonalds
5. In the News - The Orthodox Church of Cyprus has ordered priests to pray for what?
Rain - to end one of the island’s worst droughts
Fact - The Orthodox Church is among Cyprus’ biggest landowners, with sizeable investments in banking, construction, hotels and wine-making
6. Which of the Spice Girls has been taking part in the US TV show Dancing with the Stars?
Mel B - finished second
7. What did Marcus the Mole become the official mascot of in 1993?
The Channel Tunnel
8. Which is the only English Football League Club with five letter “R’s” in its name?
Kidderminster Harriers
9. Who presents ITV-1’s The X-Factor?
Dermot O’Leary - announced he is quitting as presenter of Big Brother’s Little Brother
10. Who was the first artiste to actually receive a gold record for selling a million copies of one title?
Glenn Miller - and he’s still missing!
11. In the News - A book called ‘A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet, a Jesuit and his Confederates’, which was published in 1606 is bound in what material?
Human Skin - thought to be from Father Henry Garnet
12. What is added to coffee to make Caribbean coffee?
Rum
13. Would most men love an ODALISQUE - Yes or No?
Yes - a female slave!
14. According to the Johnny Cash song, who finally caught up with his father in the town of Gatlingburg?
A Boy Named Sue
15. What is the full name of the new Australian PM?
Kevin Rudd
16. What is GROG-BLOSSOM - is it down on the chin of a boy who hasn’t started shaving, the red nose of a habitual drunk or a fungal disease of fish?
The red nose of a habitual drunk
17. Rats are enjoying a popularity boom with a 30% rise in sales at the Pets at Home chain since the release of which Disney film about a cartoon rat working in a Parisian restaurant?
Ratatouille
18. Who is the main star of the TV show Diagnosis Murder?
Dick Van Dyke
19. What is the only olympic sport that has a finish line that no competitor will ever cross?
Swimming
20. Quiztime Survey Question - Top Answer Required - Name an occupation you’d hate to have?
Undertaker / Sewage Worker / Taxman / Traffic Warden / Dustbin Collector
21. Which Year - An epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is reported in beef cattle in Britain, The musical Les Misérables is first performed in English, at the Palace Theatre in London, The US Bell Laboratories develops an optical fibre capable of simultaneously sending 300,000 telephone conversations or 200 high-resolution television channels and The British pop group Dire Straits releases the album Brothers in Arms. It becomes the first CD to sell 1 million copies?
1985
22. Which eight-word letter describes marshy, boggy ground?
Quagmire
23. To protect it from imitation which Swiss chocolate bar was granted a patent in 1909?
Toblerone
24. One point each - Which are the four tallest inhabitable buildings in the UK that have a name ending with the word Tower?
Canary Wharf Tower, Nat West Tower, British Telecom Tower, Blackpool Tower
25. What is the only form of tobacco allowed inside the Commons Chamber of the House of Commons?
Snuff
26. What is the main ingredient of a chasseur sauce?
Mushrooms
27. Who has given Labour more than £650,000 under other people’s names over four years?
Property developer David Abrahams
28. Which British city was known to the Romans as ‘Magnus Portus’?
Portsmouth
29. Who are the two stars of the recent movie 3-10 To Yuma?
Russell Crowe and Christian Bale
30. True or False - Beer has fewer calories than a similar measure of wine, milk or fruit juice?
True - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7103268.stm
31. ‘Six of One’ is an appreciation society for which cult TV show?
The Prisoner
32. At the start of a game of Scrabble, what is the minimum number of letters that the first player must use to form a word?
Two
33. What is Frigophobia the fear of?
The Cold
34. Which team have been relegated in all four seasons in which they have played in the Premiership?
Crystal Palace - (1992-3, 1994-5, 1997-8, 2004-5)
Three times for - Lecester City (1994-5, 2001-2, 2003-4) & Nottingham Forest (1992-3, 1996-7, 1998-9)
35. Collectively, Coffee, Gold, Lipstick, Octopus and Sausage are all names of Paint colours, Card games or Trees?
Trees
36. There’s only one mobile national monument in the USA, What is it?
The cable cars in San Fransisco
37. Which TV presenter wrote the book “Cricket mad and football daft”?
Michael Parkinson
38. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lived in the sewers of which North American city?
New York
39. Which of these is a type of horse - Irish Wrought, Irish Draught, Irish Aisling or Irish Spirit?
Irish Draught
40. In which famous buiding is the phone picked up if you dial 001-202-456-1414?
The White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW / Washington, DC 20500
Tiebreaker - How many names were in the first British telephone directory in 1880?
248
- The Bridgewater canal is one of the oldest in the country. When was it completed?
1763
