Quiz 130708
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
