Quiztime Weather Quiz
1. What is the study of weather called?
Meteorology
2. What name is given to a line on a weather map linking places of equal atmospheric pressure?
Isobar
3. What is the term for mild weather in late Autumn?
Indian Summer
4. If the weather is calm what is the wind force on the beaufort scale?
Zero
5. In the rules of golf what type of bad weather can stop play?
Lightning
6. What plant is sometimes called the poor mans weatherglass?
Scarlet Pimpernel
7. In 1983, breakfast television came to Britain, who was the regular weatherman on BBC’s’ Breakfast Time’, now to be found on Sky News?
Francis Wilson
8. What word is used to describe plants that can stand harsh weather?
Hardy
9. What type of cloud signifies bad weather?
Nimbus
10. What type of weather is associated with ‘dog-days’?
Hot weather
11. What was the catchphrase of Caroline Aherne’s Mediterranean weathergirl in “The Fast Show”?
Scorchio
12. “Looks like we’re in for nasty weather” is a line from which 1969 hit by Credence Clearwater Revival?
Bad Moon Rising
13. 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
14. Which company sponsors the ITV national weather?
Powergen
15. Geri Halliwell had a hit in 2001 with "It’s Raining Men". Who had the original hit with this song?
The Weathergirls - Izora Armstead and Martha Wash
16. In which film did Bill Murray play a weatherman?
Groundhog Day
17. Which weatherman got it wrong about the 1987 hurricane?
Michael Fish - broadcast his last forecast on Wednesday 6th October 2004
18. What device is normally used to measure wind direction?
Weather Vane
19. In the shipping forecast, what element of the weather can be described as poor, moderate or good?
Visibility
20. A figure of who appears on the weathercock at Lords Cricket Ground?
Old Father Time
21. Which weather phenomenon is formed when the sun shines through water droplets?
Rainbow
22. What kind of storm do Americans refer to as a ‘twister’?
Tornado
23. What Is The Name Given To The Lightning Which Clings To Ships’ Masts?
St Elmo’s Fire
24. Which weather phenomenon translates from the Spanish for "the infant"?
El Nino
25. What Is a Hurricane Called In The Pacific Areas?
Typhoon
26. What is the name of the scale used to measure wind speed?
Beaufort
27. In meteorology what do you call a high pressure area with counterclockwise winds in the Southern Hemisphere and clockwise winds in the Northern Hemisphere?
Anticyclone
28. What name is given to the high speed air flow in the atmosphere forming air rivers several hundred miles across that generally move west to east and mark the boundary that separates two global air masses with significant differences in temperature?
Jet Stream
29. True or False - The pop group Wet Wet Wet named themselves after the Scottish weather?
False - from a Scritti Politti song
30. If you were using a pine cone to forecast weather, how would you know it was going to rain?
It closes
31. What is the study of long term weather conditions called?
Climatology
32. What is the name for the sort of insurance you can take out against inclement weather?
Pluvious Insurance
33. There are four types of weather that are collectively known as precipitation?
Sleet, Rain, Snow and Hail
34. Which former TV weathergirl presented the game show ‘Dog Eat Dog’ in 2001?
Ulkrika Jonsson
35. What is the name of a weather front, where a cold front has overtaken a warm front?
Occluded
36. Of which weather condition is ombrophobia a fear?
Rain
37. What is represented by the number 12 on the Beaufort Scale?
Hurricane
38. Which of the X-Men characters has the mutant power to control the weather?
Storm
39. In which movie did Steve Martin play a weather man who pretaped his weather segments?
LA Story
40. The world’s first weather satellite, “Tiros 1", was launched in which year?
1960
Tiebreaker - The London Daily News carried the worlds fist Weather report in which year?
1848
