Quiz 080206
1. Which bishop’s death officially occurred in Rome on 14th February 270AD?
St Valentine
2. Which member of the Royal Family died on the 6th of February 1952?
The Queens father, George VI
3. Which Black Muslim leader was assassinated on 21st February 1965?
Malcolm X
4. When is Superman’s birthday?
29th February
5. If every month was the length of February, how many days would be leftover in a year?
Twenty Nine
Round Two - Pass The Biscuits
6. Following a recent scientific study, what was said to be the best biscuit for dunking in tea?
Ginger Nut
7. What do the Americans call what we in Britain know as a biscuit?
Cookie
8. Which famous biscuit was originally called Rowntrees chocolate crisp when it was first advertised?
Kit Kat
9. Which is Britain’s biggest biscuit company?
McVitie’s
10. In 1950 a biscuit factory was built for the mass production of just one product. It’s a chocolate biscuit still extremely popular today. What is it?
Penguin
Round Three - Stop Cheating
11. Whose first cookbook was entitled ‘How to cheat at cooking’?
Delia Smith
12. Who starred as the cheat in the film Quiz Show?
Ralph Fiennes
13. "I’ve been cheated by you since I don’t know when" are words from what Abba song?
Mamma Mia
14. In which Bond film does the villain try to cheat at golf?
Goldfinger
15. In which year did Major Charles Ingram, his wife and their peculiar accomplice famously cheat on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
2001
Round Four - Goalkeepers
16. Which England International goalkeeper’s career came to an end after a 1972 car crash?
Gordon Banks
17. Who in 1989 became England’s most expensive goalkeeper, and the first to be transferred for a million pounds?
Nigel Martyn
18. Which goalkeeper was beaten by Maradonna’s “hand of god goal” in 1986?
Peter Shilton
19. Before fame as a Singer, Julio Inglesias was a Goalkeeper with which club?
Real Madrid
20. Which US film star played the goalkeeper in the film ‘Escape To Victory’?
Sylvester Stallone
Round Five - Do Not Pass Go
21. How much money does each player have at the start of a game of Monopoly?
£1,500
22. In the game of Monopoly, if you owned Pall mall and Whitehall, which other property would you need to complete the set?
Northumberland Avenue
23. What is the highest bank note in monopoly?
£500
24. In Monopoly, which property completes the set with Fleet Street and the Strand?
Trafalgar Square
25. How much does it cost to buy a station in the board game Monopoly?
£200
Round Six - Lancashire
26. In which town in Lancashire would you find the Thwaites brewery?
Blackburn
27. Lancashire’s Industrial Landscape was often the subject for which Famous Artist?
L.S Lowry
28. On which English course is the Lancashire Oaks run?
Haydock Park
29. Which comedy double act worked as welders in a Lancashire factory before forming a singing duo called The Harper Brothers?
Cannon and Ball
30. Which TV and newspaper fortune teller was born in Accrington, Lancashire?
Mystic Meg
Round Seven - Military Manoevers
31. What is the most prestigious British military medal, first awarded in 1856?
Victoria Cross
32. What one time military invention, used all over the world now, was invented by Robert Watson Watt?
Radar
33. After WW2, the British Commandos became part of which military corps?
Royal Marines
34. Which organisation provides shops and canteen facilities for British military personnel at home and abroad?
NAAFI
35. Which is the only country that competes in the Eurovision Song Contest, that has compulsory military service for women?
Israel
Round Eight - Whale Meat Again!
36. Which is the largest type of whale which can grow to over 100 feet long?
The Blue Whale
37. What is a baby whale called?
Calf
38. What colour was the whale in Moby Dick?
White
39. What name is given to minute plants and animals floating on the surface of the water, used as food by whales and other creatures?
Plankton
40. What is the collective noun for a group of whales?
Pod (also Gam)
Round Nine - Great Danes
41. Which building toy was designed by a Dane, Ole Kirk Christiansen?
Lego
42. If Clare Danes was Juliet in the 1996 film “Romeo & Juliet” who was Romeo?
Leonardo Di Caprio
43. Which Dane wrote The Ugly Duckling?
Hans Christian Anderson
44. Danes, led by Ivar the Boneless, captured which British town from the Vikings in 867?
York
45. Which cartoon dog is a Great Dane?
Scooby Doo
Round Ten - The Sex Test
46. Name the Carolina-born soul singer who claimed in 1970 that he was a sex machine?
James Brown
47. In the sexual practise of ‘Shrimping’, what parts of the body are sucked?
Toes
48. True or False – In London it is illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle?
True!
49. "Oculolinctus" is a fetish in, which people are sexually aroused by licking a partner’s what?
Eyeball
50. According to a recent sex survey, which household appliance is most commonly ‘misused’ by men?
Vacuum cleaner
Tiebreaker - According to the ‘Karma Sutra’, how many sexual positions are there?
526
