QUIZTIME QUIZZES

1. In which English county is Glastonbury situated?
Somerset
2. Which planet is named after the Roman god of the Dead?
Pluto
3. More than 200 British troops have been killed in Afghanistan. Last week Karen Upton became the first widow to receive which military medal?
Elizabeth Cross
4. Garlic flowers are blue, but what colour is wild garlic?
White
5. Television chef Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant in Berkshire has topped the 2010 Good Food Guide, what is it called?
Fat Duck
6. Which James Bond film used the space shuttle?
Moonraker
7. Why has Thorpe Park in Surrey banned rollercoaster riders from putting their hands in the air - It’s actually very dangerous, People have been getting elbowed in the face or There have been complaints about body odour?
There have been complaints about body odour
8. What is the name of the elephant headed god in India?
Ganesha
9. The last guillotine execution was in 1967, 1977 or 1984?
1977
10. Which unusual method have Nasa scientists found to prevent Earth from overheating - Abolish all cars, Mine the Moon for alternative energy solutions or Move Earth to a cooler spot?
Move Earth to a cooler spot
11. Every human first spent about half an hour as a single what?
Cell
12. Which country is known as the roof of the world?
Tibet
13. True or Fale - Sir Ian McKellan is originally from Burnley?
True
14. Which colourful bird turns its head upside down to eat?
The Flamingo
15. The International Olympics Committee have announced the addition of which sport, last seen in 1904, to the 2012 Games?
Women’s boxing
16. Which item of office equipment did the American George C Beidler invent in 1903 that has seen many a bottom!?
Photocopier!!!
17. What protein makes blood red?
Haemoglobin
18. “Canoeman” John Darwin, who faked his own death in 2002 but was jailed earlier this year, has smuggled what out of prison?
Memoirs - "The Canoeman to Panama and back"
19. He died in 1723, His tomb in St. Paul’s Cathedral says: ‘Reader, if you seek a monument, look around’. Who is he?
Sir Christopher Wren
20. One point each - Name the six nations that have competed in every Commonwealth Games?
Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales

21. Which British TV star and disc jockey said `It`s not affected my work - how healthy do you have to be to play Da Do Ron Ron?` in 1992 after confirming he had AIDS?
Kenny Everett
22. What national flag has the largest animal emblem - a lion?
Sri Lanka
23. Which musical instrument with 4 or 5 pairs of strings is descended from the lute and so called because of its almond shaped body?
Mandolin (Italian mandola = almond)
24. What books original title was Murder in the Calais Coach?
Murder on the Orient Express
25. The Taj Mahal in India is built from which material?
Marble
26. What is the most common use for a Sea Cucumber?
A Loofah
27. Who is the only actor from the original Magnificent Seven still alive?
Robert Vaughn - Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughan, Brad Dexter, and James Coburn made up the original Magnificent Seven
28. Which haulage company began its own fan club in 1992?
Eddie Stobart
29. Which artist tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in 1890, but didn`t succeed until he tried again two days later?
Vincent Van Gogh
30. What did Leofric the Earl of Mercia’s wife have between her legs when she made her most famous historical gesture?
A Horse
31. Who was the first African-American to win the best actress award at the Oscars?
Halle Berry
32. What country does China have its longest land border with?
Mongolia
33. True or False - Cricketer Andrew Flintoff played chess for Lancashire as a schoolboy?
True
34. Which manufacturers made the PS, that was used as the official car for former prime ministers, Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher?
Rover
35. If you were served ‘Popes Eyes’ what would you be eating?
A Steak
36. For which historical event did Benjamin Brittain compose the opera `Gloriana`?
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
37. Water, Madonna and Marco Polo are all varieties of which flower?
Lily
38. Golden Bear International of Florida is a company owned by which famous golfer?
Jack Nicklaus
39. Where would their tounge be if someone started to run it around under your tragus?
In your ear
40. Who was the first American to make $100 million a year?
Al Capone

Tiebreaker - In which year did Burnley first win the FA Cup?
1914
- The Bank of England issued the first ever pound note in which year?
1791

1. In the First World War, in which country, primarily, was The Western Front?
France
2. Someone following a gluten-free diet, needs to avoid what food item?
Wheat
3. Which northern English town was the first in the world to have electric street lights?
Blackpool
4. How many squares are there on a snakes and ladders board?
100
5. What came first - cars or traffic lights?
Traffic Lights - to control the flow of pedestrians and horse carriages
6. Charles Babbage’s calculating machine of around 1822 is generally regarded as the world’s first computer. What powered it - electricity, steam or an airpump?
Steam
7. If you ordered a ‘squeeze’ in an American diner what would you get?
Orange Juice
8. What is the Iranian word for King?
Shah
9. What kind of cars do people mainly drive to the Bug Jam festival held every year?
VW Beetles
10. What sound does the Antpitta bird from Equador make; a neigh; a bark or a whistle?
Bark
11. What year did Freddie Mercury die?
1991
12. Cubic zirconia is used as a substitute for what?
Diamonds
13. There is the same known number of black farmers in the UK as there are £1 million notes. How many is that?
Two
14. In ballroom dancing, would a man offer his left or right hand to a woman to lead her onto the dance floor?
Right
15. Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit
16. Which of the following is not a British aristocratic title - Earl, Duke, Count, Baronet or Viscount?
Count
17. What is the value of the highest blue figure in Deal or No Deal?
£750
18. What does the DeWalt company predominately make?
Power Tools
19. The phrase ‘saved by the bell’ comes from which sport?
Boxing
20. How many languages are spoken in Indonesia; 3, 36 or 365?
365

21. Name a pop group, past or present, that you can spread on toast?
MARMALADE, THE JAM, HONEYZ, HOT BUTTER
22. The government has guaranteed your savings up to how much if your bank or building society collapses?
£50,000
23. On which South American river is there a tidal bore that produces the longest surfable wave in the world?
Amazon
24. The ghost of which of Henry VIII’s wives is apparently often seen gliding through the Tower of London where she was beheaded?
Anne Boleyn
25. What is the name of the particle accelerator complex that has been built in the mountains in Switzerland?
Hadron Collider
26. Which of the following is NOT a real place name in England - Lickey End, New Invention or Wimple Bumstead?
Wimple Bumstead (Lickey End is in Worcestershire and New Invention is a village in the West Midlands)
27. What dish would you most likely make with Arborio rice?
Risotto
28. Which nursery rhyme character is usually portrayed as an egg?
Humpty Dumpty
29. Fabio Capello gave David Beckham his 100th England cap but who gave him his first?
Glen Hoddle
30. True or false? A Serbian chef has published the world’s first testicle recipe book?
True - Subtitled Cooking with Balls, you get handy hints on how to peel and slice them to make tasty dishes like testicle pizza and battered testicles. His personal favourites are bulls, stallions and ostriches, but claims they can all be eaten except humans of course!
31. In which country was the first ski-thru McDonalds opened?
Sweden
32. What is the Christian name of French President Sarkozy’s Italian born wife?
Carla
33. If you mixed a pot of Dulux Easter Morn with a pot of Azure Sky, what colour would you get?
Green
34. Give Points For The Most Inventive Answers - If you want to take your goldfish on a bus in Seattle, you can so long as it does what?
Keeps Still
35. What gas goes into the decorative floating balloons often seen at parties and weddings?
Helium
36. How many Weetabix are there in the smallest box you buy from a supermarket?
Twelve
37. Quite an expensive product in health food shops, Manuka is a trendy variety of what?
Honey
38. What is a traditional picnic hamper made of?
Wicker
39. What name is given to a rectangular bar of gold?
Ingot
40. There are 11 words written on the front of a current UK passport - European Union are two, followed by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. What is the last one?
Passport

Tiebreaker - What year was the total abolition of the death penalty for all crimes in the UK?
1998

1. The Holy Grail was a cup used at which Biblical event?
The Last Supper
2. Corazon Aquino, who has died, was president of where?
The Philippines
3. Which flowers are also sometimes known as pinks?
Carnations
4. In the Royal Family what relation is the Duke of York to the Earl of Wessex?
Brother
5. Property show Location, Location, Location was cleared of unfairness after calling which town the worst place to live in the UK?
Middlesbrough
6. What vegetable was considered to be a cure for sex problems in Ancient Egypt - Radish, Spring Onion or Cucumber?
Radish
7. New figures show that 22,000 people doing what job have been bitten by dogs in the past 4 years?
Postmen
8. Which country has just introduced trial by jury - Turkey, Japan or Mexico?
Japan
9. Which political party introduced the old age pension?  (A) Labour (B) Conservative (C) Liberal
(C) Liberal
10. What was the name of the 64lb carp - much beloved by the UK’s anglers - that died recently?
Benson
11. Which seaside town was the first to have its name running through a stick of rock?
Blackpool
12. Computer hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his bid in the UK high court to avoid extradition to where?
The United States
13. True or False - In the same year that the Titanic sank, both crews in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race also sank?
True
14. Which bakery chain can now be seen on petrol forecourts?
Greggs
15. Riot police in Buenos Aires dispersed a stone-throwing crowd last week. What were the people protesting about?
A 30% cut in old age pensions / The arrest of an opposition politician or A delay to the start of the football season
A delay to the start of the football season
16. Which country was the first to use red lights to advertise houses of ill repute - Greece, India or China?
China - in the 10th century
17. The Blue Peter garden is to be relocated to which city in 2011?
Manchester - Salford Quays
18. Who is known in the press as SuBo?
Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle
19. In which town will you find the Manx Museum?
Douglas (Isle Of Man)
20. One point each - Name the worlds 5 leading mobile phone handset companies?
NOKIA - MOTOROLA - SAMSUNG - SIEMENS - SONY ERICSSON

21. One Point Each - What are the 5 most commonly used consonants in the English language?
T - N - S - H - R
22. Which cricket ground has the Mound and Warner stands?
Lords
23. Who, on TV, answers the phone by saying, "the lady of the house speaking"?
Hyacinth Bouquet
24. Which of the X-Men character has the mutant power to control the weather?
Storm
25. In which unusual way does Yorick first appear on stage in "Hamlet’?
Appears as a skull picked up by Hamlet
26. In which sport might you sometimes get your hands on a half butt?
Snooker
27. Which brass musical instrument shares its name with an ice-cream?
Cornet
28. The works of Mrs Darrell Waters have been translated into 128 languages, but by which name is she better known?
Enid Blyton
29. Who has replaced Christiano Ronaldo as Manchester United’s No.7?
Michael Owen
30. In the TV show ‘Blue Peter’, who was the first presenter to actually be called Peter?
Peter Purves
31. Which market town in Derbyshire is famous for its tarts?
Bakewell
32. Which word can mean an herb of the cabbage family, a firework and a telling off?
Rocket
33. True or False - Actor Ben Affleck has a pet cat called Chairman Meow?
True
34. Where are the headquarters of the Rugby Union?
Twickenham
35. Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Otis Williams and Paul Williams formed which soul band?
The Temptations
36. In the title of a famous film, how is Uncas Chingacgook better known?
The Last Of The Mohicans
37. In the Mr Men series, what colour is Mr Bounce?
Yellow
38. Which sporting star has a line of designer clothing called Aneres?
Serena Williams - Aneres is Serena spelt backwards                                 
39. Abolished in 1960, it was completed by the last batch in 1962, what was it?
National Service
40. What is pig skin most widely used for?
Covering Pigs!

Tiebreaker - How much more did ITV pay for Friends Reunited than it received when it sold the social networking site?
£150m

1. What is the world’s most eaten convenience food?
The sandwich
2. Which sports broadcasting company’s name was inspired by a brave Irish mythological hero?
Setanta
3. NEWS - Who has signed with Geffen Records, which warned listeners would be shocked by His “incredible voice”?
The Pope
4. Starting with ‘s’ and ending with ‘e’, what six letter word can mean ‘neat and tidy’?
Spruce
5. Now a world heritage site, in which country is Auschwitz concentration camp?
Poland
6. NEWS - On returning to Earth after a month orbiting in the space station, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata revealed he had what?
Wore the same experimental odour-free underpants for four weeks
7. What job would you do if you were described as an ambient replenishment assistant?
Shelf Stacker
8. How many rows of players are there on most standard table football games?
Eight
9. NEWS - On a visit to Nepal, actor and Gurkha rights campaigner how was Joanna Lumley honoured?
Famous beauty spot renamed - Mattikhan Lumley View
10. What kind of creature is a slippery dick?
A Fish
11. Does the Captain sit in the left or right hand seat in the cockpit of a commercial aeroplane?
Left
12. NEWS - Which statesman recently said ‘I’m no saint, by now you’ve figured that out’?
Silvio Berlusconi
13. True or false - The Queen is a trained mechanic?
True (She drove ambulances during the war and also trained as a truck mechanic)
14. The Yorkshire Dales are not completely in Yorkshire, into which other county do they extend?
Cumbria
15. NEWS - Which make of car has signed its biggest ever fleet deal, for 14,000 vehicles, with driver training giant BSM, replacing Vauxhall whose contract runs out in September?
Fiat
16. The Americans, typically, call it a weed whacker. What do we call it?
Strimmer
17. What year did Ronnie Biggs escape from Wandsworth jail?
1965
18. NEWS - What is the name of the new Swiss chocolate that is heat resistant to 55C?
Vulcano
19. Who said; ‘For years politicians have promised the moon; I am the first one to be able to deliver it’?
Richard Nixon
20. One Point Each - Name (4) countries whose capitals contain the name of the country in them?
Andorra - Andorra la Vella / Brazil - Brasilia / Djibouti - Djibouti / Guatemala - Guatemala City / Kuwait - Kuwait City / Luxembourg - Luxembourg / Mexico - Mexico City / Panama - Panama City / San Marino - San Marino / Singapore - Singapore

21. In which country will you find the world’s largest bullring?
Mexico
22. What other foodstuff can be used to describe the colour of a ginger cat?
Marmalade
23. Which Prime minister opened the M25 motorway?
Margaret Thatcher
24. In the Thunderball Lottery, how many thunderballs are there?
Fourteen
25. What is the largest country in the world with a four-letter name (in area)?
Iran
26. Which sport uses the lightest ball?
Table Tennis
27. Which very famous Scandinavian pop group were originally known as the Engaged Couples?
Abba
28. Using springs and a timer, what appliance did Charles Stright invent in 1919?
Toaster
29. During which century did the world’s greatest lover Casanova live?
18th Century
30. Highway Code: How many cars are depicted on the triangular sign for queues likely?
Three
31. What fictional creatures from South London did children’s writer Elizabeth Beresford create?
The Wombles
32. What was Oliver Cromwell’s real surname, Clarke, Williams or Johnstone?
Williams
33. On which British river is Eel Pie Island?
Thames
34. A black bull is the badge of which car company?
Lamborghini
35. How many letters made up the title of Kirsty Mcoll’s first UK hit single?
44 - There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
36. Which type of music was born when the people of Trinidad celebrated the departure of U.S. troops in 1945?
Steel Bands - they were using upturned oildrums
37. What unusual occurrence caused the death of King Alexander of Greece in 1920 - a) Crushed by a snake b) Bitten by a pet monkey or c) Trampled by a horse?
b) Bitten by a pet monkey
38. On 4th August, 1954, Britain’s first supersonic fighter plane, made its maiden flight, What was its name?
The English Electric Lightning P-1
39. Collectively, Coffee, Gold, Lipstick, Octopus and Sausage are all names of - Paint colours, Card games or Trees?
Trees
40. Against which country did Bobby Moore score his last international goal?
Germany (in the film Escape to Victory)

Tiebreaker - A woman from Scotland is believed to be Britain’s most prolific library book reader, how many has she borrowed?
It’s nearly 25,000. Louise Brown, 91, borrowed her first book in 1946 and reads 12 a week
- What is the total length of the water pipes in the Empire State building?
70 miles