Quiz 030107
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
