Quiz 280207
Round One - Get Knotted
1. What name is given to the brittle glazed salty biscuit usually made in the form of a knot?
Pretzel
2. Who played the role of Debbie Porter in Knot’s Landing and went on to become an Oscar winning actress?
Halle Berry
3. ‘The Sealed Knot Society’ recreate battles from which war?
English Civil War
4. A GRANNIE KNOT is an anagram of which singer?
Ronan Keating
5. What is the name of the knot used to shorten a rope to save cutting it?
Sheepshank
- Which type of knot is used to secure a rope to a post?
Clove Hitch
Round Two - Short Skirts
6. Which famous British ship`s name means `The Short Skirt`?
The Cutty Sark
7. Men from which country often wear a traditional stiff white skirt called a Fustanella?
Greece
8. Which designer is credited with inventing the mini-skirt?
Mary Quant
9. The video for which 80s hit featured Freddie Mercury dressed in a black leather mini skirt?
I Want To Break Free
10. In which film was Marilyn Monroe’s skirt famously blown up around her waist?
The Seven Year Itch
- What is the skirt like Malaysian outfit made popular by David Beckham?
Sarong
Round Three - Shipwrecked
11. What name is given to goods that are washed overboard from a shipwreck?
Flotsam, as opposed to jetsam which are goods thrown overboard
12. What was the title of the 1980 shipwreck film starring Brooke Sheilds and Christopher Atkins?
Blue Lagoon
13. Who received a medal for helping her lighthouse keeper father to rescue five people from a shipwreck in 1838?
Grace Darling
14. ‘The Shipwreck’, is a typical work by which English painter?
J.M.W.Turner
15. In which Shakespeare play does Prospero use magic to shipwreck Antonio?
The Tempest
- Which Book of the New Testament describes Paul’s shipwreck in Malta?
Acts of the Apostles
Round Four - Old Father Thames
16. Who rescued Captain John Smith, married John Rolfe and is buried in England near the River Thames?
Pocahontas
17. Boris Johnson MP represents which constituency?
Henley on Thames
18. Which palace on the Thames built for Cardinal Wolsey was later home and a ‘prison’ to Charles I?
Hampton Court
19. Which horseracing venue would you find at Sunbury-on-Thames?
Kempton Park
20. One point each - What are the names of the three road tunnels under the river Thames?
Dartford, Blackwall and Rotherhithe
Round Five - Absolutely Quackers
21. Which cartoon character constantly derided his enemies as ‘despicable’?
Daffy Duck
22. What was the call sign of Kris Kristofferson in the film Convoy?
Rubber Duck
23. What is the smallest British duck?
Teal – also a shade of dark greenish-blue
24. True or False - A duck only lays eggs in the morning?
True
25. Who lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota?
Donald Duck
Round Six - Truck Stop
26. How many axles does an 18 wheeler truck have?
Five - one at the front with 2 wheels on, 4 others with 4 wheels on
27. Which pop band named itself after an American fire truck?
REO Speedwagon
28. Actor Martin Fisk achieved fame in a 1977 advert as a truck driver eating what?
A Yorkie
29. In which sport was ‘The Dump Truck’ a professional competitor?
Sumo Wrestling
30. DAF are truck manufacturers originally from which country?
Holland
Round Seven - A Trip To Sweden
31. Which country has the longest border with Sweden?
Norway
32. A hotel in Sweden is rebuilt every year with a totally new design every twelve months, what material is used?
Ice - The Ice Hotel
33. What is the chief seaport of Sweden?
Gothenburg
34. One point each - In the 1970’s, what were Sweden’s two largest export earners?
Volvo Cars & Abba
35. Which two colours are on the Swedish flag?
Yellow & Blue - yellow cross on a blue background
Round Eight - A Load Of Balls
36. The secret policeman’s ball was staged in aid of which organisation?
Amnesty International
37. Who had a number one hit in 1958 with ‘Great Balls Of Fire’?
Jerry Lee Lewis
38. Whose opera ‘A Masked Ball’ was premiered in 1859?
Verdi - Giuseppe Verdi
39. Which American singer had his first British hit in 1961 with ‘Rubber Ball’?
Bobby Vee
40. Add the number of balls in billiards to the number of balls needed for a game of pool?
19 (3 + 16)
Round Nine - Connections
41. Which long-running Alastair Cooke radio show had the same title as a hit song for the Proclaimers?
LETTER From America
42. What was the name of the series of 134, 25-minute science fiction TV shows made by CBS between 1959 and 1963?
The Twilight ZONE
43. What name is given to the famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln on 19th November 1863?
Gettysbury ADDRESS
44. In which 1981 film did Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange have an erotic encounter on a kitchen table?
The POSTMAN Always Rings Twice
- Which informal term refers to a computer that is able to perform extremely lengthy and difficult mathematical calculations?
NUMBER Cruncher
45. What is the connection?
The Elvis Presley song - ‘Return To Sender’
Round Ten - Telly Anagrams
46. BLAME HIS WOEFUL WIN - When Will I Be Famous
47. CHATTER FOX - The X-Factor
48. IN TRIBAL TITLE - Little Britain
49. ITEM IN QUOTES - Question Time
50. SHARE QUAINT WOODS - Antiques Roadshow
