QUIZTIME QUIZZES

1. Who is the oldest, Ant or Dec?
Dec (by 54 days)
2. Which sport uses the most muscles in the body?
Swimming
3. Which TV series, originally scheduled for just three editions, was based on the German series “File XY Unsolved”?
Crimewatch
4. Urchin is an old English name for which British native mammal?
Hedgehog
5. What is the minimum age you need to be to go on a Saga Holiday?
Fifty
6. In which country was the world’s first full-scale, commercial nuclear power station built?
England
7. By the Gregorian calendar, Diwali can fall in which two months of the year?
October or November
8. What is the name of David Cameron’s wife?
Samantha
9. Which common farm animal was the Pagan symbol of wealth?
Pig (which is why children keep piggy banks!)
10. ELECTRIC YETIS is an anagram of which football team?
Leicester City
11. Which singer-songwriter died on December 18th 2000 when hit by a speeding powerboat whilst diving in Cozumel, Mexico?
Kirsty McColl
12. Which river flows through Sunderland?
Wear
13. How many states of America have borders with Canada?
Thirteen - Alaska Idaho Maine Michigan Minnesota Montana New Hampshire  New York North Dakota Ohio Pennsylvania Vermont Washington
14. What did the James Younger gang rob on the 21st July 1873, that had never been robbed before?
A Train
15. Susie Dent is a regular on which TV programme?
Countdown (Dictionary Corner)
16. The German-built "Gluckauf" was the first of what type of sea-going vessel?
Oil tanker
17. In football, which team has won the Scottish League Cup more than any other, Celtic or Rangers?
Celtic (33 times – Rangers have won it 31 times)
18. Which TV comedy series was set mainly at 34 Claremont Avenue, London, W11 4BS?
Absolutely Fabulous
19. Which DJ lost his job with Radio 2 in 1982 when he said “When England was a Kingdom, we had a King. When we were an Empire, we had an Emperor. Now we’re a country … and we have Margaret Thatcher”?
Kenny Everett (died in 1995)
20. Name the five shipping forecast areas around Britain that are named after rivers?
Shannon / Tyne / Thames / Humber / Forth

21.  The Times introduced the first one in the UK on 12th Nov 2004, The Daily Mail, 3 days later, The Daily Telegraph followed in January 2005 & by April & May, The Independent, The Gaurdian, The Sun & The Daily Mirror all had their versions – what was it?
Sodoku puzzles
22. According to their 1976 hit how long was Smokie living next door to Alice?
Twenty Four Years
23. In classical music, what was Tchaikovsky’s last Ballet: “Swan Lake”, “’The Nutcracker” or “Sleeping Beauty”?
The Nutcracker
24. How are the TV chefs Simon King and David Myers better known?
The Hairy Bikers
25. Learner drivers in Britain have to display the letter ‘L’ except in Wales when which other letter can be used?
D - (stands for Dysgwr which means Learner)
26. Name the silent film actor who famously hung from a clock face in the 1923 film “Safety Last”?
Harold Lloyd
27. Lulu Guinness is one of Britain’s leading designers of which Fashion accessory, is it Fashion Jewellery, Handbags, Shoes or Hats?
Handbags
28. The first Opium War was a conflict between China and which other country?
Great Britain
29. Who created the detective-superintendent ‘Le Commissaire Maigret’?
Georges Simeon
30. Which country hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956 and the Summer Olympics in 1960?
Italy (Cortina and Rome)
31. Should a space rocket travel at 7, 17 or 70 miles per second to leave Earth’s atmosphere?  
Seven
32. Name either of the British cathedrals with a copy of Magna Carta?
Lincoln or Salisbury
33. Which manufacturer markets the perfume “Contradiction”?
Calvin Klein
34. The Stewards Cup is run on which English racecourse?
Goodwood
35. Which ABBA song shares its name with a famous quote by Martin Luther King?
I Have A Dream
36. A statue of which king stands in Wantage in Oxfordshire, his birthplace?
Alfred the Great
37. Most Popes have been Italian, in fact 209 of them. Which country has the second highest number?  
France (16 popes)
38. What organisation publishes a journal called ‘Rucksack’?
The Ramblers Association
39. What English word is derived from Medieval Knights who gave their services for nothing?  
Freelance
40. In what year was the last case of a woman being tried and convicted of witchcraft in this country?
1944 - Helen Duncan received nine months in Holloway for revealing in a séance that HMS Barham had been sunk months before it
was officially announced

Tiebreaker - In what year did Cardiff officially become the capital of Wales?
1955