QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - ‘Firsts’ Round
1. Who was the first British Monarch to chose Buckingham Palace as their home?
Queen Victoria
2. Who was the first person to win £1 million on a British TV Show?
Judith Keppell
3. What was the first ship to reach the Titanic after the disaster?
Carpathia
4. What was the title of the first Carry On film?
Carry On Sergeant
5. Which London Hospital took its first infant patient in 1852?
Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital

Round Two - ‘Lasts’ Round
6. What was last seen outside Newgate Prison in 1868?
Public Hanging
7. Which football team were the last winners of an FA Cup final at Wembley?
Chelsea (beat Aston Villa 1-0)
8. Marie Jeanette Kelly was the last victim of whom?    
Jack The Ripper
9. What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?
Omega
10. The last witchcraft trial in England was the trial of Jane Wenham in 1712. Was she found guilty or not guilty?
Not guilty

Round Three - World Geography
11. Which river runs through the Grand Canyon?
Colorado
12. Beneath which Paris monument is the tomb of France’s unknown soldier?
Arc de Triumphe
13. What is the nearest major town to Ayers Rock in Australia?
Alice Springs
14. Which Island is 50 times bigger than Denmark, its Mother country?
Greenland
15. What was the former name for Ho Chi Minh City?
Saigon

Round Four - Sports Mix
16. What is the oldest golf course in Europe?
St Andrews
17. Who won the F.A. Cup for the first time in 1965 and won the 1986 FA Cup without any English players?
Liverpool
18. Which US City has an American Football team called the ‘Falcons’ and a baseball team called the ‘Braves’?
Atlanta
19. Which British athlete won two silver medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?
Roger Black
20. Which International Rugby Union team has the shortest name?
Fiji

Round Five - Hold The Front Page - 1
21. 1945
22. 2001
23. 1990
24. 1965
25. 1981

Round Six - Telly Addicts
26. What do Columbo, Frasier, and Arthur Daley all have in common?
A wife we never see
27. Which TV funnyman had a character called Fred Scuttle?
Benny Hill
28. In which sitcom did John Thaw play Henry Willows?    
Home To Roost
29. Who plays Les Battersby on Coronation Street?
30. Who starred as Rodney Blackstock in Emmerdale & also starred in Taggart & Special Branch?
Patrick Mower

Round Seven - Inventions
31. Which game created in 1930’s, was originally called Lexico?    
Scrabble
32. Who invented the pneumatic tyre?
Jon Dunlop
33. Who invented the decorative lamp and the Gramophone?
Thomas Edison
34. What was the surname of the man who invented vulcanised rubber?
Goodyear
35. What was the name of the blind monk who invented champagne?    
Don Perignon

Round Eight - At The Seaside
36. In which city would you find Copacabana beach?
Rio De Janiero
37. Who played the character Don in the film ‘Summer Holiday’?
Cliff Richard
38. Which two chemical elements can be found in sand?
Oxygen and Silicon
39. What was the first number one for the Beach Boys?
Surfin USA
40. Who played the character Daffy in the film the Beach?
Robert Carlyle

Round Nine - Connections
41. Which actor played the title role in the 1995 film Judge Dredd?
Sylvester Stallone
42. Who was the creator and producer of Yorkshire Television’s series Stars On Sunday?
Jess Yates
43. What name is given to the game of Bingo in which a jackpot is paid if won in less than a stipulated total of numbers drawn?
Snowball
44. What is the capital of the US state of Oregon?
Salem
45. What is the connection?
Fictional Cats

Round Ten - Hold The Front Page - 2
46. 2002
47. 1969
48. 1979
49. 1957
50. 1963

Round One - Lets Play Darts
1. What is the lowest number of darts required to score 501?
Nine
2. Which darts players nickname is “The Viking”?
Andy Fordham
3. Traditionally, flights on Darts were made from feathers from which bird, a) Turkey, b) Peacock or c) Pheasant?
a) Turkey
4. Which top darts player is nicknamed "The Count"?
Ted Hankey
5. If you were playing darts and got a ‘Shanghai’ score of 72 with three darts which number have you scored on?
Twelve

Round Two - Pickup-a-Penguin
6. At which Pole are penguins found?
The South Pole - Antarctic
7. What is the collective name for a group of penguins?
Rookery
8. Where do Emperor penguins keep their eggs?
Balanced on their feet
9. In which film does Dick Van Dyke dance with Penguins?
Mary Poppins
10. Who insisted on ‘no penguins’ in a John Smiths Bitter TV ad?
Jack Dee

Round Three - Movie Time
11. In which Sylvester Stallone movie, set in the future, are all the restaurants Taco Bells?
Demolition Man
12. What sort of cowboys were James Garner, Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones in 2000?
Space Cowboys
13. Who played Snake Plissken in the 1981 film “Escape From New York” and again in 1996 in “Escape From LA”?
Kurt Russell
14. Who plays the part of The Queen in the 2006 film?
Helen Mirren
15. The Last King Of Scotland about Idi Amin stars which actor?
Forest Whitaker

Round Four - Sports Mix
16. In which sport could you be awarded a ‘16 yard hit’?
Hockey
17. In the Six Nations Rugby Tournament which cup is played for when England and Scotland meet?
Calcutta Cup
18. With 31 to his name, which British driver has most Formula One Grand Prix victories?
Nigel Mansell
19. In Which Sport Did Ben Ainslie Win Gold For Britain In The 2000 Sydney Olympics?
Yachting / Sailing
20. Which British woman was the first track and field athlete to compete in six Olympic games?
Tessa Sanderson

Round Five - Golden Oldies - 1
21. Rudolph Valentino
22. Liz Taylor
23. Angela Lansbury
24. Joseph Stalin
25. Franklin D Roosevelt

Round Six - Stress Levels
26. Which actor’s name (first name & surname) is an anagram of "ONLY AT STRESS LEVEL"?
Sylvester Stallone
27. According to a study, what activity produces stress levels in men similar to those experienced by fighter pilots in emergency situations?
Shopping
28. From which TV programme does this quote originate "Always keep your bowler on in time of stress, and watch out for diabolical masterminds"?
The Avengers
29. What eight-letter name is given to a fissure or crack in a glacier, resulting from stress produced by movement?
Crevasse
30. What allegedly causes the most stress: Pregnancy, moving home, marriage or retirement?
Retirement

Round Seven - Telly Addicts
31. How is Dr. Andrew Hall better known in the world of TV comedy?
Harry Hill
32. In the TV Series Frazier, what was the name of Frazier’s brother?
Nyles
33. Which Sci-Fi TV series featured Apollo and Starbuck?
Battlestar Galactica
34. Geoffrey Fairbrother was replaced by Squadron Leader Clive Dempster in which TV comedy?
Hi-De-Hi
35. What was the name of the painting that was the subject of forgery in TV’s Allo Allo?
The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies

Round Eight - Snakes Alive!
36. Which snake kills most humans?
Cobra
37. With which part of its body does a snake detect sounds?
Its tongue
38. Cleopatra used a snake to commit suicide, what type of snake was it?
Asp
39. What is the only venomous snake in Britain?
Adder or Viper
40. Which snake of the Cobra family shares its name with a Cuban ballroom dance?
Mamba

Round Nine - Connections
41. Which seaside resort in West Sussex has a name which means "Of the king" in Latin?
Bognor REGIS
42. Which American painter is credited with the creation of the action painting style?
JACKSON Pollock
43. What name has subsequently been given to the date of 19th October 1987 on which the British stock market crashed?
BLACK Monday
44. Yellow River was the biggest hit for which group?
CHRISTIE       
45. What is the connection?
British Athletics / Runners

Round Ten - Golden Oldies - 2
46. Al Capone
47. Johnny Cash
48. Buffalo Bill (William F Cody)
49. Charlie Chaplin
50. Dean Martin

Round One - Weather Report
1. How fast must a wind be before it becomes a hurricane, is it 70mph, 74mph or 78mph?
Speed - 74mph
2. Which company sponsors the ITV national weather?
Powergen
3. In which year did British weather reports start giving temperatures in Centigrade as well as Fahrenheit, 1958,1960 or 1962?
1962
4. What kind of weather are you afraid of if suffering from astraphobia?
Lightning
5. From which song do these lyrics come "What shall I write? What can I say? How can I tell you how much I miss you? The weather here has been as nice as it can be, Although it doesn’t really matter much to me"
It might as well rain until September - Carole King

Round Two - Bird Brains
6. Which is the world’s smallest bird?
Hummingbird
7. What is the claw on a bird of prey called?
Talon
8. Which bird can swim the fastest?
Penguin
9. What is the only bird that can drink water without having to raise its head to swallow - a) Budgerigar b) Pigeon or c) Cockatoo?
b) Pigeon
10. What is the first bird mentioned by name in the Bible?
Raven

Round Three - Cookery Class
11. What term for excellent cookery is derived from a Blue Ribbon worn by members of a French Order of Knighthood?
Cordon Bleu
12. In cookery, ‘FOO-YOUNG’, is the Chinese-style equivalent of which western dish?
Omelette
13. In cookery how is something julienne prepared?
Thin Strips
14. In cookery a ganache is made from cream and what?
Chocolate
15. In cookery which word describes a dish which has been set alight during preparation?
Flambe

Round Four - Flash, Bang, Wallop
16. If you wanted to let more light into a camera lens, would you choose a lower or a higher aperture number?
Lower
17. What was the former occupation of the man who invented the speed camera – Bus Conductor, Rally Driver or Pig Farmer?
Rally Driver
18. What do the initials SLR stand for with regard to a camera?
Single Lens Reflex
19. Kodak launched the digital camera in the same year that the soap Brookside was first shown, was it 1980, 1982 or 1984?
1982
20. Which rugged movie star got an early break as photographer sleuth Mike Kovac in Man With a Camera?
Charles Bronson

Round Five - ITV Regions - 1 (Handout)
21.    CENTRAL
22.    MERIDIAN
23.    SOUTHERN
24.    YORKSHIRE
25.    LONDON WEEKEND
 
Round Six - Sporting Chance
26. Who is to become the new boss of Rangers FC?
Walter Smith
27. Who defeated Phil Taylor in the recent PDC World Darts Championship?
Raymond van Barneveld
28. Which was the first Rugby League team to win ‘Team of the Year’ at the BBC Sports Personality awards?
Wigan (1994 - Damon Hill was ‘Personality of the Year’)
29. In the London Olympics of 2012 Horse Guards Parade will be the venue for which sport?
Beach Volleyball
30. On which racecourse is the Midlands Grand National run?
Uttoxeter

Round Seven - Fruit & Veg
31. What is the most popular fruit in the world?
The tomato
32. What vegetable is often called Lady’s Fingers?
Okra
33. Which fruit is a cross between a tangerine, a grapefruit and an orange?
Ugli Fruit
34. Which vegetable produces E162 red food colouring?
Beetroot
35. Which fruit has varieties that include Braeburn, Jonathan, Lord Nelson and Sturmer?
Apple

Round Eight - Bridge Work
36. A bridge based on exactly the same design as The Sydney Harbour Bridge and completed before it can be seen in which British city?
Newcastle
37. Which two groups in the 90’s had hits with the song ‘Under the Bridge’?
Red Hot Chilli Peppers / All Saints
38. Which bridge, spanning the River Avon in Bristol was designed by Brunel and opened in 1864?
The Clifton Suspension Bridge
39. Who won an oscar for his portrayal of Colonel Nicholson in the 1957 film “Bridge on the River Kwai”?
Alec Guinness
40. In which US state can you find London bridge today?
Arizona

Round Nine - Connections
41. Which singer’s only British number one hit was ‘Runaway’?
Del Shannon
42. In which decade of the 20th century was the first atom bomb exploded?
Forties
43. Between which two ports is the shortest sea crossing between UK and Europe?
Dover & Calais
44. Who played Princess Leia in the first Star Wars film?
Carrie Fischer
45. What is the connection?
Shipping Forecast Areas

Round Ten - ITV Regions - 2 (Handout)
46.    ANGLIA
47.    TYNE TEES
48.    SCOTTISH
49.    GRAMPIAN
50.   HTV (Harlech)

Round One - Start The Year
1. Which Roman god gave his name to the month of January?
Janus
2. In which sport are half of the participants considered to have been born on January the first?
Horse Racing (horses have an official birthday)
3. Whose birthday is celebrated by a public holiday on the third monday in January in the USA?
Martin Luther KIng
4. Which group of islands celebrate ‘Thatcher Day’ on January the eleventh?
Falklands
5. Which Christian festival is celebrated on 6th January, which marks the end of Christmas, and was the day when Jesus was shown to the Three Wise Men?
Epiphany

Round Two - Food & Drink
6. What is beef fillet cooked in puff pastry called?
Beef Wellington or Boeuf en croute
7. What are the ingredients of the drink a ‘rusty nail?
Whiskey and Drambuie
8. A ‘Crown Roast’ would contain which meat?
Lamb
9. What does the French word Brut mean on a wine bottle?
Dry
10. What is the main ingredient of coleslaw?
Cabbage

Round Three - Telly Trivia
11. CLEVERLY HINT A GENIUS is an anagram of which long running TV programme?
University Challenge
12. Carol Smiley made her TV debut as a hostess on which game show?
Wheel of Fortune
13. Who do ‘Till Death us Do Part’ & ‘Worzel Gummidge’ have in common?    
Una Stubbs
14. In which TV series did Edward Woodward and Tim Healy play dustmen?
Common as muck
15. What did the initials T.I.S.W.A.S stand for from the TV show?
Today is Saturday Wear a Smile

Round Four - Music Maestro Please
16. This song was in 1987 and a line from it went like this " It was a flight on the wings of a young girls dreams that flew too far away"?
China In Your Hand by T’Pau
17. Which group had hits with Daddy Cool, Painter Man and Rasputin?            
Boney M
18. Well she touched my hand what a chill I got. Her lips are like a volcano when it’s hot I’m proud to say that she’s my buttercup    
All Shook Up (Elvis Presley)
19. The name of which Asian country gave its name to a Kim Wilde hit?    
Cambodia
20. Whitney Houston’s song I Will Always Love You was top of the charts for 10 weeks in 1992. Who wrote and sang the original?
Dolly Parton

Round Five - Handout Round - End Of The World 1
21.    Mount Rushmore
22.    The Great Pyramids
23.    Big Ben
24.    The White House
25.    Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom

Round Six - Sporting Chance
26. Which Ex-England captain is a cousin of boxer Nigel benn?    
Paul Ince
27. In ten pin bowling what bird’s name is the name given to three successive strikes?
Turkey
28. How many points would you score with a touchdown in American Football?
Six
29. Who became the national football coach of Australia in 1996?
Terry Venables
30. Which country has won the most gold medals at the winter Olympics?
Norway

Round Seven - At The Movies
31. In which movie did Arnold Schwarzenegger team up with Jamie Lee Curtis?
True Lies
32. Which movies, starring Mel Gibson, did the main character have the last name "Rockatansky"?
Mad Max
33. In which two James Bond movies did Timothy Dalton star as James Bond?
Living Daylights / License To Kill
34. In the Harry Potter movies what is the name of the Professor played by Alan Rickman?
Severus Snape
35. Which 1986 movies three main characters were Dusty Bottoms, Lucky Day & Ned Nederlander?
The Three Amigos

Round Eight - Human Body
36. What sort of tissue connects muscles to bones?
Tendons
37. Which small muscular sac stores bile from the liver?
The Gall Bladder
38. Which is the largest joint in the human body?
Knee joint
39. Where on your body is your skin the thinnest?
Eyelids
40. What is the most abundant mineral in the human body?
Calcium

Round Nine - Connections
41. Which classic TV comedy show starred Windsor Davies, Don Estelle and Melvyn Hayes?
It Aint Half Hot Mum
42. Who was hunted for five months but with the help of Flora Macdonald he crossed from Benbecula to Portree, disguised as her maid?
Bonnie Prince Charlie
43. Which presenter of Opportunity Knocks was eventually found out to be Paula Yates Father?
Hughie Green
44. Which items belonging to the Duchess of Windsor were auctioned for £31 million in 1987?
Her Jewels
45. What is the connection?
Crown - Half Crown / Crown Prince / Crown Green / Crown Jewels

Round Ten - Handout Round - End Of The World 2
46.    Eiffel Tower
47.    US Capital Building
48.    The Louvre
49.    Golden Gate Bridge
50.   Tower Bridge

Round One - A Partridge In A Pear Tree
1. True or false, it is illegal to kill a partridge on Christmas Day?
True
2. Which is the smallest species of the partridge family?
Quail
3. Which Abba hit became the name of an Alan Partridge spoof TV show?
Knowing Me, Knowing You
4. Whose autobiography was entitled "C’mon, Get Happy : Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus"?
David Cassidy
5. Which soap used to have a character called Alan Partridge?
Brookside

Round Two - Calling Birds
6. Which bird with a thickly speckled yellow breast-feeds on mistletoe (viscum album) berries as well as snails and worms?
Mistle Thrush
7. Which birds featured in the 1996 movie Fly away Home starring Jeff Daniels?
Geese
8. Which birds owned by the Queen are annually counted on the River Thames?
Swans
9. Which family of birds have the longest beaks?
Pelicans
10. Which birds of prey have soft plumage, acute hearing, binocular vision and heads which can turn 180 degrees?
Owls

Round Three - Five Gold Rings
11. In Greek mythology what was the name of the King whose touch turned everything to gold?
Midas - he accidentally turned his daughter into gold
12. If an item of gold jewellery has an anchor in its hallmark it would have been stamped in Birmingham, where would it have been stamped if it has a castle in the hallmark?
Edinburgh
13. Which offbeat 1970 film features the theft of some Gold from a German officer & stars Clint Eastwood & Telly Savallas?
Kelly’s Heroes
14. Producing about 600 metric tons annually, which country is the world’s leading supplier of gold?
South Africa
15. What is the name of the legendary South American city of gold?
El Dorado

Round Four - Swans A Swimming
16. An Olympic swimming team medley relay starts with which stroke?
Backstroke
17. How many lanes does an Olympic sized swimming pool have?
Eight
18. When celebrating his birthday in 1968 who drove a Lincoln Continental into the swimming pool at his hotel?
Keith Moon
19. How long is an Olympic standard swimming pool?
50 metres
20. Which was the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool?
Titanic

Round Five - Maids A Milking
21. What was the name of the Horse, that according to Benny Hill, pulled Ernies Milk Cart?
Trigger - Ernie, the fastest milkman in the west
22. Which blue veined French cheese, similar to Stilton, is made with Ewe’s milk?
Roquefort
23. What type of milk is a basic ingredient of Thai Cooking?
Coconut
24. When milk curdles what name is given to the liquid that runs from the curd?
Whey
25. What is the milk-secreting organ of a cow called?
Udder

Round Six - Lords A Leaping
26. Whose face adorned WWI posters saying’ Your country needs you’?
Lord Kitchener
27. Which Lord disappeared from home in 1974?
Lord Lucan
28. Which former pop star was the founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party?
Screaming Lord Sutch
29. Who sits on the Wool Sack in the House of Lords?
The Lord Chancellor
30. What was invented by an English Lord so that he may eat without leaving the gaming table?
Sandwich - Lord Sandwich

Round Seven - Pipers Piping
31. Harold Wilson, Freddie Trueman, Stephen Fry and James Galway have all won which now unfashionably annual award?
Pipe Smoker of the year
32. The album Pan Pipe Moods featured traditional music from which continent?
South America
33. Which building in Paris houses a 7,800-pipe organ?
Notre Dame Cathedral
34. Which European country has the largest amount of female pipe smokers - Italy, France, Spain or Denmark?
Denmark
35. What is the name for the fingered pipe that produces the notes in bagpipes?
Chanter

Round Eight - Drummers Drumming
36. Which (TV) father and son business was based at 24, Oil Drum Lane, Shepherds Bush, London?
Steptoe & Son
37. A museum dedicated to which fabled resident can be found at Drumnadrochit (drum-na-drokit) in the Scottish Highlands?
Loch Ness Monster
38. What is the more common name for the Timpanic Membrane?
Ear Drum
39. Which drummer received his first drum kit on Christmas Day 1957?
Ringo Starr
40. Which popstar raced a yacht called Drum?
Simon Le Bon

Round Nine - Ladies Dancing
41. Which type of dancing includes ‘The Camel Walk’ and ‘The Stamp’?
Line Dancing
42. Tom, the dancing cat, appeared in adverts for which drink?
Bacardi Breezers
43. Which insects communicate with one another by dancing?
Bees
44. Martha Reeves, David Bowie and Mick Jagger have all been Dancing where?
In the Street
45. Which brand of butter has been advertised on television using dancing cows?
Anchor

Round Ten - Its Behind You!
46. In which pantomime would you meet a ticking crocodile?
Peter Pan
47. In the pantomime Aladdin what was the name of Aladdin’s brother?
Wishy Washy
48. Which pantomime character marries Alice Fitzwarren?
Dick Whittington
49. Which pantomime contains the goose that lays the golden egg?
Jack & the Beanstalk
50. In panto, who is the beautiful daughter of Baron Henry Hardup?
Cinderella

Mathematical Puzzle - In the song 12 Days of Christmas - Add up all the legs and take away all the beaks, what number do you have left?
123 - 146 legs less 23 beaks of the 23 birds (if you take into account the maids are a-milking, they must be milking cows so that is another 8x4 = 32 therefore it would be 178 less 23 = 155)