Quiz 150306
1. Which company sponsors the ITV national weather?
Powergen - cheaper than Grittish Bass!!!
2. If you are climbing up a mountain, by how many degrees Fahrenheit will the temperature drop for every 1,000 metres you climb?
Six
3. What was the catchphrase of Caroline Aherne’s Mediterranean weathergirl in “The Fast Show”?
Scorchio
4. What type of cloud signifies bad weather?
Nimbus
5. True or False - In 1778, fashionable Parisian women never went out in windy weather unless they had a lightning rod attached to their hats?
True
Round Two - Keep Your Nose Out
6. What land animal has the longest nose?
Elephant
7. Which English company first made a ‘bull nosed’ car?
Morris
8. What spirit is mixed with beer to make the drink a “Dog’s Nose”?
Gin
9. The name of which animal derives from the Greek for ‘nose horn’?
Rhinoceros
10. In which comedy series was Elizabeth Montgomery constantly twitching her nose?
Bewitched
Round Three - At The Movies
11. What is the name of the dolphin that Jim Carey had to find in “Ace Ventura Pet Detective”?
Snowflake
12. In which film does Denzil Washington play a bedridden forensic expert hunting for a serial killer?
The Bone Collector
13. Which racing driver appeared in the Bond film “Casino Royale”?
Stirling Moss
14. Which actress appeared in the films “Cactus Flower”, “Shampoo”, and “There’s A Girl In My Soup”?
Goldie Hawn
15. Who played Brad Pitt’s wife in the film “Se7en”?
Gwyneth Paltrow
Round Four - Who Said That
16. Which broadcaster said “The British motor industry is … owned by Nazis” and South Koreans are “too busy eating dogs to design a decent car”?
Jeremy Clarkson
17. Who said; ‘For years politicians have promised the moon; I am the first one to be able to deliver it’? Richard Nixon
18. Which cricketer said “Nobody’s perfect. You know what happened to the last man that was – they crucified him”?
Geoff Boycott
19. Which page-3 girl once said; “I have 10 pairs of trainers, one for each day of the week”?
Samantha Fox
20. Who said “If Everton were playing in my garden, I’d draw the curtains!”?
Bill Shankly
Round Five - People In The News - Picture Handout
21. Dan Brown
22. Dr Rowan Williams
23. John Profumo
24. Jimmy Johnstone
25. Daz Sampson
Round Six - Horses For Courses
26. In a nursery rhyme where would you go to see "a fine lady on a fine horse"?
Banbury Cross
27. Which ancient city fell to The Wooden Horse?
Troy
28. Which magazine uses the mythological winged horse Pegasus for its logo?
Readers Digest
29. On the TV show The Lone Ranger, what was the name of Tonto’s horse?
Scout
30. Allegedly this horse pulled the fastest milk-cart in the west, what was his name?
Trigger
Round Seven - Deal Or No Deal
31. In which TV quiz show would you have seen Dolly Dealers?
Play Your Cards Right
32. A Business Situation, where an Individual takes advantage of Information about a Company before it is made Public in order to make a Profit, is known by what Term?
Insider Dealing
33. What was the name of the Sitcom staring Windsor Davies & Donald Sindon as Antique Dealers?
Never the Twain
34. In which TV sitcom does Charlie Higson play an eccentric second-hand car dealer?
Swiss Toni
35. How many red boxes are there in TV’s Deal or No Deal?
Twenty Two
Round Eight - Collecting Berries
36. What berries are the fruit of the blackthorn?
Sloe
37. With what type of food are juniper berries most often used?
Game
38. Lingon berries are better known by what other name?
Cranberries
39. What colour are fresh coffee berries?
Bright Red
40. In Medieval England rents were frequently calculated and paid in the dried berries of which condiment?
Pepper - Peppercorn rents
Round Nine - Connections
46. Who is known as the creator of the frozen food industry, born in 1886 and died in 1956?
Clarence Birdseye
47. If you face ENE and turn 112.5 degrees anticlockwise, which direction are you facing?
Northwest
48. What is the scientific study of behavior and experience, that is, the study of how human beings and other species sense, think, learn, know, communicate and interact?
Psychology
49. Who was Isaac’s wife and the mother of Esau and Jacob?
Rebecca
50. What is the connection?
Alfred Hitchcock films - The Birds, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rebecca
Round Ten - The Sound Round - Cult TV Themes
