QUIZTIME QUIZZES

1. What was introduced in Britain in 1973?
VAT
2. Which is the only South American country with both Pacific & Carribean coastlines?
Columbia
3. Roman Gladiators took their name from the ‘gladius’, what type of weapon was a gladius?
Sword
4. In which country is the Barossa Valley Vineyard?
Australia
5. Which instrument did the composer Franz Liszt play?
Piano
6. RA are the international car registration letters for which country?
Argentina
7. Which Lloyd Webber show followed Jesus Christ Superstar?
Evita
8. In which country is Tobruk, the scene of heavy fighting during WWII?
Libya
9. O is the chemical symbol for Oxygen but what is O3?
Ozone
10. Which city does Haneda International Airport serve?
Tokyo
11. What is the name of the leading horse racing course of Paris?
Longchamps
12. What place in England uses the postcode SS?
Southend-on-sea
13. In showjumping, how many faults are incurred if the rider falls off?
Eight
14. Which number in bingo lingo is half a crown?
26
15. Who is credited with the quotation "I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back"?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
16. If you suffered from Pyrophobia, what would you fear?
Fire
17. Which town in Shropshire was named after a famous local engineer?
Telford
18. Foreman, Longman, Lechman, Little Man and Thuma can all be found together where?
Hand - old names for fingers
19. Where do you pass through the Pedro Miguel lock?
Panama Canal
20. One point each, name the two independent kingdoms between India and China?
Nepal & Bhutan

21. Which Year - Greece joined the EEC, France abolished capital punishment and the Newcastle Metro opened?
1981
22. What is the only house in England that the Queen may not enter?
House of Commons
23. Camp X-Ray is on which island?
Cuba
24. Which basic condiment of South East Asia, is called shoyu in Japan and jiang youg in China?
Soy Sauce
25. When Jeffrey Archer became a Lord, he chose a title that included the name of the town where he grew up as a young boy, which town?
Weston-super-Mare
26. Which is the only sign of the zodiac to start and finish with the same letter?
Sagittarius
27. Which game was invented in 1982 by three Canadians Scott Abbott and Chris & John Haney?
Trivial Pursuit
28. Which Lennon & McCartney song includes the lyrics "Tangerine tree and marmalade skies"?
Lucy In The Sky
29. Canaletto was famous for his landscape paintings of two cities. Venice and which other?
London
30. What name is given to the carving of bone or ivory often done by sailors?
Scrimshaw
31. What is the more common name for the creature sometimes called a prairie wolf?
Coyote
32. What profession would be followed by a member of RIBA?
Architect
33. In newspaper car sales advertisements, for what do the initials ESR stand?
Electric Sun Roof
34. What is the French equivalent of James?
Jacques
35. Which cartoonist created "The Fosdyke Saga"?
Bill Tidy
36. Nat King Cole in 1957, Donny Osmond 1973 and Rick Astley in 1987 all recorded the same song, which one?
When I Fall In Love
37. Which breed of dog is called "The King of the Terriers"?
The Airedale
38. Which ‘T’ was the surname of the subject of the first of the Mr Men books?
Mr. Tickle
39. Who created the words "obscene", "drugged", "torture" and "assassination"?
William Shakespeare
40. What is 4 cubed minus 8 squared?
0 (nought)

Tiebreaker - In square kilometres, what is the area of the Caspian Sea?
371,000

1. Who became French Prime Minister in 1997?
Lionel Jospin
2. How many noble gases are there?
Six
3. Which Manic Street Preachers hit of 1999 shares its name with a natural disaster?
Tsunami
4. George W Bush was Governor of which state before he became president?
Texas
5. The Halle Orchestra is based in which English city?
Manchester
6. Which is the only country in the world which the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator pass through?
Brazil
7. Which deities form the Hindu trinity?
Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma
8. What is the currency of South Africa?
Rand
9. Which actress played the single mum in 2000 film Chocolat?
Juliette Binoche
10. Which number on a standard computer keyboard would be pressed with shift to produce the Percentage sign (%)?
5 (Five Key)
11. In which country were the 1964 Olympic Games held?
Japan
12. How many Chance squares are there on a standard Monopoly board?
Three
13. What is toxiphobia the fear of?
Poison
14. What type of clouds produce rain or snow?
Nimbus
15. Who was the first occupant of Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey?
Geoffrey Chaucer
16. Which Asian Country has the greatest area of inland water?
India
17. Who was the third crew member along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission?
Michael Collins
18. Who was the head villian in the TV Cartoon ‘The Smurfs’?
Gargamel
19. What word goes before block, price and stalls?
Starting
20. Which artist or band released the album ‘Tango in the Night’ in 1987?
Fleetwood Mac

21. In which Television program did the character Detective Saperstein appear?
Kojak
22. Francis Ford Copola is the uncle of which film actor?
Nicholas Cage
23. Who said "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind"?
Albert Einstein
24. Which Abba song includes the line "Do you still recall that fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande"?
Fernando
25. What name is given to the spicy gingerbread originating in Northern counties and often eaten at bonfire parties?
Parkin
26. Which island group, a British Crown Colony, has one town,approx 2200 people and 750,000 sheep?
The Falklands
27. Who in the Bible was asked to interpret the writing on the wall?
Daniel
28. In a game of ice hockey, what is the maximum number of players allowed on the ice at any one time?
Twelve
29. Where in the human body would you find the malleus, incus and stapes?
In the Ear
30. What was the first programme to be shown on BBC2?
Play School
31. Found in central Africa, an okapi is a mixture of what two animals?
Giraffe and Zebra
32. Who was the first to break Fred Perry’s record of 3 consecutive Mens Wimbledon Titles?
Bjorn Borg
33. In which Television program did the character Detective Mark Petrie appear?
Cagney & Lacey
34. What type of plant is a silver slipper?
Azalea
35. Who was the first British woman to finish in the London Marathon of 2004?
Tracey Morris
36. Which number on a standard computer keyboard would be pressed with shift to produce the ‘asterisk’ sign (*)?
8 (eight Key)
37. What is the currency of Turkey?
Turkish Lira (accept Lira)
38. In advertising, who currently designs sofas for DFS?
Linda Barker
39. Who in Greek mythology killed Achilles when he shot a poisoned arrow into his heel?
Paris
40. From which musical does the song ‘Consider yourself’ come from?
Oliver

Tiebreaker - How many teams entered the first FA Cup competition in the 1871-72 season?
Fifteen
How many top 20 singles did Status Quo have in the 80’s?
Eighteen

1. Which Formula 1 driver won the BBC sports personality of the year in 1994?
Damon Hill - Nigel Mansell won in 1992
2. Which of Shakespeare’s history plays is divided into three parts?
Henry VI
3. Which two sorts of amphibians make up the order Anura?
Frogs and toads - Caudata are Salamanders and newts
4. Which city’s underground railway system is nicknamed ‘The Clockwork Orange’?
Glasgow
5. What type of farm animal is a Targhee?
Sheep
6. Which fruit has varieties, Onward and Sensation?
Pear
7. On the coast of which English county are Gibraltar Point, Chapel St Leonard’s and Mablethorpe?
Lincolnshire
8. In which sport are penalties awarded for hooking, spearing or slashing?
Ice Hockey
9. In the context of the naval service, what is the RFA?
Royal Fleet Auxiliary
10. Which Scottish Football club play their Home games at Rugby Park?
Kilmarnock
11. Potamology is the scientific study of which geographical features?
Rivers
12. Which of Henry VIII’s six wives had four husbands including Henry)?
Catherine Parr
13. In 1981, Sebastian Coe broke the world record in the 800m, 1500m and what else?
The Mile
14. Which medical term comes from two Greek words meaning "lack of blood"?
Anaemia
15. St Mary’s, St Agnes, St Martin’s, Bryher and Tresco are the five inhabited islands of which island group?
The Scilly Isles
16. Which sea was known to the Romans as Pontus Euxinus?
The Black Sea
17. Lucy, Linus and Peppermint Patty are all characters in which comic strip?
Peanuts
18. Death Cap, Shaggy Ink Cap and Stink Horn are all types of what?
Toadstools
19. Who composed the music to the film ‘The Mission’?
Enrico Morricone
20. In Cockney rhyming slang, which edible is known as a ’sexton’?
A Cake (Sexton Blake)

21. Which monarch was the last to be buried at Westminster Abbey?
George II
22. Who wrote "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Emperor’s New Clothes"?
Hans Christian Anderson
23. Who was the first US President to appear on television?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
24. What kind of vegetable is a "rose de Roscoff" from Brittany?
A pink onion
25. Its Arabic name means "House of Meat"; its Hebrew name means "House of Bread". Which Middle Eastern town is this?
Bethlehem
26. Complete this proverb "When you can tread upon nine daisies at once "?
Spring has come
27. What kind of animal is a saki?
Monkey (Not Ape or Chimp)
28. On which island are King Christian IX Land, King Christian X Land and King Frederick VIII Land?
Greenland
29. Which English football club name begins with five consonants?
Crystal Palace
30. Whose only UK top ten single is "Oxygene (part IV)"?
Jean Michel Jarre
31. Which famous English sailor and explorer died on 28th January 1596 and was buried at sea off the coast of Panama?
Sir Francis Drake
32. Capricorn and Virgo and two of the three Earth signs. Which is the third?
Taurus
33. The Channel Islands have been part of England since the reign of which monarch?
William the Conqueror
34. In cooking, what does the French word ‘farci’ mean?
Stuffed
35. Who, in 1990, became the first head of government to give birth whilst in office?
Benazir Bhutto
36. Queen Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII. Was the daughter of the king of which European country?
Denmark
37. What is the name of the multimedia company owned by Madonna?
Maverick (Entertainment)
38. Apry is an alternative name for a type of brandy flavoured with which fruit juice?
Apricot
39. What are tested at the annual Trial of Pyx in Goldsmith’s Hall, London?
Coins
40. In Cockney rhyming slang, what transport is known as a ’sherbet’?
A Cab (Sherbet Dab)

Tiebreaker - How many test matches did Nasser Hussain play in?
96

1. In Iraq, are there more Sunni Muslims or more Shiite Muslims?
Shiite
2. Which Scottish Sport star is the owner of the luxurious Columbus Hotel in Monaco?
David Coulthard
3. In which English seaside town might an organisation hold its conference at the Spa Centre?
Scarborough
4. According to Daniel Defoe, how many years did Robinson Crusoe spend on his island, 8, 18 or 28?
28 years
5. Which 1977 hit record had a French title meaning ‘Love Poem’?
Chanson d’amour by Manhattan Transfer
6. In which country is the ancient city of Dubrovnik?
Croatia
7. Who circled the world in just 1 hour and 29 minutes in April 1961?
Yuri Gagarin
8. In Mythology, who was the father of Jupiter?
Saturn
9. What is the name of the black terrier in the Fred Bassett cartoon strip?
Jock
10. Which Italian football club is sometimes referred to as the ‘Grand Old Lady’?
Juventus
11. In which English county is the Watford Gap service station?
Northamptonshire
12. Who narrated the classic children’s TV series Chigley, Trumpton and Camberwick Green?
Brian Cant
13. Which European city has a famous street called Las Ramblas?
Barcelona
14. Which branch of the armed forces was founded in 1918?
R.A.F.
15. How is the National Campaign for the Homeless more commonly known?
Shelter
16. Which country’s two main political parties are the Congress Party and the B.J.P?
India
17. One point each, name the three female Cluedo murder suspects?
Mrs Peacock, Miss Scarlet and Mrs White
18. Which Cheshire town was traditionally the base of Britain’s Silk industry?
Macclesfield
19. Who climbed the Eiger in 1962 and was awarded the CBE in 1975?
Chris Bonnington
20. Rampant Rabbitt is one of the best selling items in Ann Summers shops, what is it?
A Vibrator!

21. Which country has the International car registration PNG?
Papua New Guinea
22. Which small European country is home to 611 breweries?
Belgium
23. What is the largest species of British beetle?
Stag Beetle
24. Mythology, on which Greek Island did Sappho write poems for her female admirers?
Lesbos
25. What was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and originally known as K6?
Red Telephone Box
26. In home buying, what does GCH stand for?
Gas Central Heating
27. What was the surname of the first man to fit pneumatic tyres to a car?
Michelin (1895)
28. For what was Operation Z the codename in World War II?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
29. Which English man played on the losing side in the 1980 European Cup Final?
Kevin Keegan (Hamburg)
30. Which company, who make toy cars and other models, won the first toy of the year award in 1965 for a model Aston Martin from the first James Bond film?
Corgi
31. In 1941, the Rainbow Bridge was opened over which waterfalls?
Niagra Falls
32. What started with Singapore in 1940 and ended with Hong Kong in 1962?
Road Movies starring Bing Crosby & Bob Hope
33. What type of ball did Nolan Ryan once throw at a record speed of 100.9 mph?
Baseball
34. What links the English towns of Barton and Hessle?
The Humber Bridge
35. Which TV Chef plays drums in the pop group Scarlet Division?
Jamie Oliver
36. The phrase ‘mind your p’s and q’s’ originally meant to watch how much you had to drink, but what did the letters p & q stand for?
Pints & Quarts
37. When the TV sitcom Fawlty Towers was sold to Spanish television, what nationality did they make the character Manuel?
Italian
38. Which pop duo was made up of Colin Routh and Alan Barton?
Black Lace
39. Who was the famous widow of the oil billionaire J Howard Marshall?
Anna Nicole Smith
40. Which animal can help give you the temperature in Fahrenheit by adding the number of noises it makes in 14 seconds and adding 40?
A Cricket

TIEBREAKER – How many different languages and dialects are spoken throughout India?
1,652