Quiz 041006
Round One – Up On The Roof
1. Which Country Is Sometimes Referred To As The Roof Of The World?
Tibet
2. Which Motown group had a UK Top 10 Hit in 1970 with the song ‘Up The Ladder To The roof’?
Supremes
3. Who played Bert the Chimney Sweep in the film “Mary Poppins”?
Dick Van Dyke
4. Which duo achieved a UK No. 1 in 1995 with the song ‘Up on the Roof?
Robson and Jerome
5. Which entertainer died in 1999 after falling from his roof while attempting to adjust his TV aerial?
Rod Hull
Round Two - Dukes
6. On which Mediterranean island was the Duke of Edinburgh born?
Corfu
7. Which Duke led the British forces at the Battle of Waterloo?
Wellington
8. In Which English County Is Chatsworth House, The Home Of The Duke Of Devonshire?
Derbyshire
9. If you were to speak to a Duke, what would be the correct way of addressing him?
Your Grace
10. What was the character name of the Sheriff in “The Dukes Of Hazard”?
Roscoe P Coltrane
Round Three - Tool Box
11. Which every day tool is one of the murder weapons in the game of Cluedo?
Spanner
12. Which machine tool shapes material by rapidly turning it against a stationary cutting device?
Lathe
13. What is the No. 1 best selling DIY tool bought in Britain?
Cordless Drill
14. The Distance Between Each Thread In A Screw Is Known As What?
Pitch
15. What kind of tool is a Glasgow Screwdriver?
Hammer
Round Four - Exploring Hampshire
16. Which King fist used Hampshire’s New Forest as a Royal Hunting ground?
William The Conqueror
17. Which famous aircraft flew from a Hampshire airfield for the first time on March 5th 1936?
Spitfire
18. Which Hampshire City was the capital of England before London?
Winchester
19. Which ex-Labour Prime Minister was born in Portsmouth in 1912?
James Callaghan
20. Which famous ship made its maiden voyage from Southampton on May 2nd 1969?
QEII (QEI - 16/10/1946)
Round Five - American Sports
21. FLORIDA MARLINS - Baseball
22. MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES - Basketball
23. CAROLINA PANTHERS - American Football
24. CLEVELAND CAVALIERS - Basketball
25. SAN JOSE SHARKS - Ice Hockey
Round Six - Towers
26. In which US city is the Sears Tower?
Chicago
27. Who was the last man to be locked up in the Tower of London?
Rudolph Hess
28. What was ruled out of bounds to tourists for safety reasons in 1990, the first time it had been closed since around 1275?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
29. Which organisation produces a magazine called the Watchtower?
Jehovah’s Witnesses
30. According to The Beatles’ song ‘I Am The Walrus’, up what is semolina pilchard climbing?
The Eiffel Tower
Round Seven - Sunday Best
31. Which long running TV series was first broadcast in 1969 and was created and presented by Jess Yates?
Stars On Sunday
32. For how many Sundays must the bans be read for a forthcoming marriage?
Three
33. What is the fourth Sunday in Lent called?
Mothering Sunday
34. Which famous European horse race is run annually on the first Sunday in October?
The Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe
35. In which year did Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Safeway, Asda and Gateway first open on a Sunday?
1991
Round Eight - All Electric
36. Who invented the electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
37. What name is given to the chief electrician on a film set?
Gaffer
38. How Many Volts Is A Standard Car Battery?
Twelve
39. ‘Old Sparky’ Has Killed More Than 200 People In Florida, What Is It?
Electric Chair
40. What trade name was given to the first synthetic plastic developed in 1909, and widely used for electrical appliances?
Bakelite
Round Nine - Connections
41. In which 1970 film did Clint Eastwood sing I Talk To The Trees?
Paint Your WAGON
42. Which 1986 film had the tag line “Be afraid. Be very afraid”?
The FLY
43. What were the surnames of Bonnie and Clyde?
Parker and BARROW
44. Who was the most borrowed author from British libraries for twenty years before losing the title to Jacqueline Wilson in 2004?
CATHERINE Cookson
45. What is the connection?
Types of Wheel
Round Ten - Historical Figures
46. LOW MILL COVERER - Oliver Cromwell
47. A WEATHER GRILL - Walter Raleigh
48. CASUAL JURIES - Julius Caesar
49. CHRONIC TWIN HULLS - Winston Churchill
50. CRANKED FAIRS - Francis Drake
TIEBREAKER - If you took all the blood vessels in the human body and laid them end to end, what would be the combined length, in miles?
60,000 miles
