Quiz 010306
Round One - Holiday Destinations
1. Dalaman, Alanya and Side are holiday resorts in which country?
Turkey
2. Which two countries can offer Dead Sea Beach holidays?
Israel & Jordan
3. If you went on holiday to Agadir, which country would you be in?
Morocco
4. In what city is main airport for holidays to the Costa del Sol?
Malaga
5. Which ocean would you paddle in, if you were holidaying in Zanzibar?
Indian Ocean
Round Two - No Smoking
6. Which country smokes the most cigarettes per head of population?
China
7. What capital city means ‘Bay of Smoke’ in the local language?
Reykjavik
8. In which US state will you find ‘the valley of ten thousand smokes’?
Alaska
9. What do Americans call a chimney?
Smoke Stack
10. Which female solo singer in 1998 had a top ten hit with “Smoke”?
Natalie Imbruglia
Round Three - Olympic Rings
11. In which sport did Shaun Curlly compete for Great Britain in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics?
Hockey
12. An Olympic swimming team medley relay starts with which stroke?
Backstroke
13. Which nine times Olympic gold medalist was voted athlete of the last century?
Carl Lewis
14. Who, in the 1976 Olympics, won Britain’s first skating medal for 24 years?
John Curry
15. The Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" means what?
Faster, Higher, Stronger
Round Four - Cowboys & Indians
16. Which 1992 western starred Clint Eastwood as William Mooney?
Unforgiven
17. What 1881 Wild West incident has been the subject of 29 movies?
Gunfight at the OK Corral
18. What was the name of the western series that ran for 20 years (1955-75) starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon?
Gunsmoke
19. In which TV western series did the Chinese cook Hop Sing appear?
Bonanza
20. Which western TV series featured the characters Jed “Kid” Curry and Hannibal Heyes?
Alias Smith And Jones
Round Five - Telly Addicts
21. Which TV celebrity has a cottage in Mill Water Gardens in Romsey, Hampshire?
Charlie Dimmock (it’s in a water garden centre)
22. In which series did Robson Green launch his TV career?
Casualty (hospital porter)
23. Who had ‘Weird Weekends’ on TV?
Louis Theroux
24. In which show did Angus Deayton show potentially embarrassing clips of celebrities in their early days?
Before they were famous
25. What did Wonder Woman’s lasso always make people do?
Tell the truth
Round Six - WWII Flying Display
26. By what name is the DC-3 aircraft better known?
Dakota
27. By what name was the German Junkers JU87 dive-bomber known?
Stuka
28. The Fairey Swordfish generally carried which type of bomb?
Torpedoes
29. The De Havilland DH98 was built entirely of wood – how was it more commonly known?
The Mosquito
30. Which bomber was adapted to take the ‘bouncing bomb’?
Avro Lancaster
Round Seven - Go For Your Guns
31. Who played demolition expert in The Guns of Navaronne?
David Niven
32. In guns, what word is used to define the internal diameter of the barrel?
Calibre
33. Which James Bond theme was covered by Guns and Roses?
Live and Let Die
34. In the army what collective name is given to large guns?
Artillery
35. Which of Hitler’s associates is paraphrased as saying, in a 1936 broadcast: "Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat"?
Goering
Round Eight - Birdwatch
36. The Teal belongs to which family of birds?
Ducks
37. Which part of a Redshank is red?
Legs
38. What can the Hummingbird do that other birds can’t?
Fly backwards
39. Which birds are associated with the Tower of London?
Ravens
40. What is the correct name for a birds feathers?
Plumage
Round Nine - Connections?
41. Which BBC motoring magazine has been presented by Angela Rippon and Noel Edmonds?
Top GEAR
42. Which crude explosive device was named after a Soviet statesman who organised their production during WWII?
Molotov COCKTAIL
43. In which film did Susan Sarandon play a nun and Sean Penn a convicted murderer on death row?
Dead Man WALKING
44. In popular music, what does R and B stand for?
RHYTHM and Blues
45. What is the connection?
Types of Stick
Round Ten - This Round’s A Flop!
46. Which American company invented the computer floppy disc in 1970?
IBM
47. Who is the brother of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?
Peter Rabbit
48. Which two Hollywood stars played the male leads in the 1990 flop "The Bonfire Of The Vanities"?
Tom Hanks & Bruce Willis
49. My first single release “Chills and Fever” in late 1964 was a flop but my next release went to Number One in the UK singles charts. Who am I?
Tom Jones
50. What was the name of the flop British soap opera that was located in Manchester and lasted barely a year from its launch in August 1985?
Albion Market
Tiebreaker - In which year was the smoke detector invented?
1969
