Quiz 271206
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)
