Quiz 250407
Round One - Breakfast Time
1. A SNOB NO TASTE is an anagram of which meal?
Beans On Toast
2. What name is given to a sausage made of pigs blood and fat with oatmeal and seasoning?
Black Pudding
3. Which fish is smoked to produce kippers?
Herring
4. Which word literally meaning ’sweet paste’ is Paddington bears favourite breakfast spread?
Marmalade
5. What is the name of the Seaweed that is a national delicacy in Wales, where it is fried with bacon and eaten at breakfast?
Laver bread
Round Two - Doctor Who
6. What type of doctor specialises in diseases of the skin?
Dermatologist
7. A Doctor on an emergency may use what colour flashing light?
Green
8. What name is given to a doctor that specialises in children’s diseases?
Paediatrician
9. What name is given to a doctor who stands in for another doctor?
Locum
10. If a doctor wrote the letters p.c. on a medical prescription, should your medication be taken before or after meals?
After meals – from the latin ‘port cibum’
Round Three - Russian About
11. Who became first president of the Russian Federation when the USSR was dissolved in 1991?
Boris Yeltsin
12. Who was the first Russian Cosmonaut in space?
Yuri Gagarin
13. Which Russian novelist wrote Dr Zhivago?
Boris Pasternak
14. What was the name of the last Russian Royal Family?
Romanov
15. Which Russian novelist wrote “Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace”?
Leo Tolstoy
Round Four - Lakes Of The World
16. In which US state is Lake Placid?
New York state
17. What is the name of the largest lake in Italy?
Lake Garda
18. Which is the northernmost of North Americas five great lakes?
Lake Superior
19. What is the largest lake that the Equator passes through?
Lake Victoria
20. Which body of water, the largest lake in the Alps, lies on the border of France and Switzerland?
Lake Geneva
Round Five - Songs From Musicals - 1
21. Chess
22. South Pacific
23. Hair
24. Calamity Jane
25. The Student Prince
Round Six - Entertaining Underwear
26. In which 1992 thriller did Sharon Stone infamously cross her legs to reveal that she was wearing no underwear?
Basic Instinct
27. Which knight of the realm is well known for having certain items of ladies underwear thrown at him?
Sir Tom Jones
28. Who designed Madonna’s famous conical Basque?
Jean-Paul Gaultier
29. What brand and color of underwear is Marty wearing in Back to the Future?
Purple Calvin Klein briefs
30. On which TV programme might you have heard the line "Naturally you didn’t know I was wearing my special Super B long thermal underwear"?
Batman
Round Seven - Running A Marathon
31. In which year was the London Marathon first Run?
1981
32. How many completed miles must be run to complete a Marathon?
26 miles and 385yds
33. In the London Marathon, which famous ship do the competitors pass after about 10k?
Cutty Sark
34. During the London Marathon, which bridge do the runners cross after 12 miles then pass under after 22 miles?
Tower Bridge
35. Specifically, where does the London Marathon finish?
The Mall
Round Eight - Supermodels
36. Which Supermodel played Carol in Love Actually?
Claudia Schiffer
37. Which Supermodel became the first living Australian entertainer to be depicted on an Australian Postage Stamp?
Elle MacPherson
38. Which Supermodel played Ursula Andress in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers?
Heidi Klum
39. Which Supermodel carried out her Community service for the New York Sanitation Department in 2007?
Naomi Campbell
40. Which Supermodel was voted Britain’s Model Of The Year in 2006?
Kate Moss
Round Nine - Connections
41. Which Rowan Atkinson character drives a mini?
Mr Bean
42. Which Englishman led the expedition to the South Pole on the 18th January 1912?
Robert Falcon Scott
43. Who had a hit with Swinging on a Star in 1963?
Big Dee Irwin
44. Which jazz trumpet player and singer was known as ‘Satchmo‘?
Louis Armstrong
45. What is the connection?
Surnames - All walked on the moon / Astronauts
Round Ten - Songs From Musicals - 2
46. Grease
47. Half A Sixpence
48. Meet Me In St Louis
49. Cabaret
50. West Side Story
