Quiz 220206
Round One - Starter Questions
1. Which TV quiz offers starters for ten?
University Challenge
2. In Britain they are ’starters’, what are they called in Italy?
Antipasto
3. Who had a Top Ten hit in 1981 with ‘Start me up’?
Rolling Stones
4. What are the little dumplings or fried items served as starters in Chinese restaurants called?
Dim Sum
5. Which presenter used to say "I’ve started so I’ll finish"?
Magnus Magnessun
Round Two - Rock On
6. Devil’s Tower, a volcanic rock in the American state of Wyoming was used as the main setting for which famous Sci-Fi film?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7. What name is given to loose rocks on a mountainside?
Scree
8. The entrance to which sea is guarded by rocks called the ‘Pillars of Hercules’?
The Mediterranean
9. What name is given to the chalk rocks situated in the Solent off the coast of the Isle of Wight?
The Needles
10. Which group of rocks, and site of four famous lighthouses built between 1698 and 1882 is in the English Channel?
Eddystone
Round Three - Cartoon Time
11. What is the name of the hunter who never catches the rabbit in Bugs Bunny cartoons?
Elmer Fudd
12. Who is the smallest of the characters in the Peanuts cartoons?
Woodstock
13. Which cartoon features the Pickles family?
Rugrats
14. Which popular cartoon character lives on the island of Sweetwater?
Popeye
15. Which cartoon pop group had a UK No. 1 hit in 1969?
The Archies
Round Four - Fruit Bowl
16. Which fruit is often served with Parma Ham as a starter?
Melon
17. What fruit is also called an alligator pear?
Avocado
18. What fruit appears on the badge of Worcestershire County Cricket Club?
Pear
19. Hercule Poirot’s secretary had the same name as which fruit?
Lemon
20. What type of fruit stands on top of the men’s singles tennis trophy for Wimbledon?
Pineapple
Round Five - Oil Slick
21. Which comedy duo lived in Oil Drum Lane?
Steptoe and Son
22. What type of oil is used in Oil Paintings?
Linseed Oil
23. Which popular cocktail was so named because oilmen stirred it with their tools?
Screwdriver
24. Which country produces over 70% of the world’s olive oil?
Greece
25. Murphy’s Oil Soap is used to clean which large animals?
The Elephant
Spare - Which American state produces the most oil?
Alaska
Round Six - Destination Cyprus
26. What is the capital city of Cyprus?
Nicosia
27. In Cyprus, what is Commandaria - the local police, a type of wine or a chemist shop?
Wine - a desert wine made for over 800 years
28. Which commonly used metallic element, atomic number 29, takes its name from the island of Cyprus?
Copper
29. In Cyprus, what is Kimgazer - a newspaper, a beer or an ancient statue?
Newspaper
30. Two branches of which tree appear on the national flag of Cyprus?
Olive (flag shows a gold map of an island with two olive branches underneath)
Round Seven - Return Of The Muppets
31. What was the name of the drummer in the children’s series the Muppets?
Animal - in a band called Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
32. Which of the Muppets regularly used the catch phrase Kissy Kissy?
Miss Piggy
33. What was the name of the piano-playing dog in The Muppets?
Rowlf
34. Which member of the Muppets always told bad jokes?
Fozzie Bear
35. What was Zoot’s instrument in the Muppets Show Band?
Saxaphone
Round Eight - Seconds Out! Round Eight
36. Who bills himself as the ‘World’s Greatest Boxing Promoter’?
Don King
37. In which year did Mike Tyson become the youngest Heavyweight Boxing Champion?
1986
38. Who managed Frank Bruno through most of his boxing career?
Terry Lawless
39. Who was the only Heavyweight boxing champion to remain undefeated throughout his entire professional carear?
Rocky Marciano
40. Who drew up the rules of boxing in 1867?
Marquess of Queensbury
Round Nine - Catching A Train
41. The world famous steam engine ‘The Flying Scotsman’ used to depart from which London Station en route to Edinburgh?
Kings Cross
42. Which native of Wylam in Northumberland is credited with the invention of the locomotive?
George Stephenson
43. From which London station would you catch the Euro star train?
Waterloo
44. What was The King of Trains and The Train of Kings?
The Orient Express
45. Which engineer’s statue watches over the trains at Paddington Station?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Round Ten - Water Water Everywhere
46. Donald Campbell’s Bluebird was recovered from which stretch of water in the Lake District?
Coniston Water
47. What Is The Boiling Point Of Water In Farenheit?
212F
48. In what water based sport might you do a forward sweep or a draw stroke?
Canoeing
49. Which Scottish Loch contains more water than all the lakes of England & Wales combined?
Loch Lomond
50. Which soup on an Indian menu has a name that literally means "pepper water"?
Mulligatawny
