QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - First or Last
1. The first elevator in England was seen in which London Department store in 1898?
Harrods
2. What was the name of the last woman to be hung in Britain in 1955?
Ruth Ellis
3. Flowers in the Rain was the first song ever played on Radio 1, who sang it?
The Move
4. In which year did Concorde make it’s last flight?
2003
5. Which actor is the last surviving member of the Magnificent Seven?
Robert Vaughan

Round Two - Food & Drink
6. Which London based brewery makes a beer called London Pride?
Fullers
7. Pegasus, Rhapsody and Bolero are all varieties of which fruit a) Strawberry b) Blackberry c) Grape?
a) Strawberry
8. What drink is added to vodka to make a Moscow Mule?
Ginger Beer
9. Celeste, Sunburst and Stella are all varieties of which fruit a) Peach b) Gooseberry c) Cherries?
c) Cherries
10. If you bought the following items packaged and did not open them which would last the longest - Custard powder, Plain flour or Ground Coffee?
Ground Coffee

Round Three - Telly Addicts
11. What is the name of the café in Coronation Street?
Roy’s Rolls
12. Which television crime series set in rural Warwickshire saw a country GP assist the police in solving the crimes?
Dangerfield
13. What were the names of the other two priests who regularly shared the house with Father Ted on Craggy Island?
Father Dougal and Father Jack
14. Which TV sitcom was about the Solomon family?
3rd Rock from the Sun
15. What is the name of the vicar who appears in Postman Pat?
Reverend Timms

Round Four - Sporting Chance
16. Durham County Cricket Club and Middlesbrough Football Club both have stadiums called what?
The Riverside
17. What is the highest score a judge can award in figure skating?
Six
18. Which three horse races make up the Triple Crown?
2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St Leger
19. In which famous race is the slowest man of the day given a red lantern?
Tour de France
20. In golf, what is referred to as a ‘golden ferret’?
Holing out from the bunker

Round Five - Mums the Word
21. What year did the Queen Mother sadly die?
2002
22. Who was the Mother of Elizabeth I?
Anne Boleyn
23.  Who had a 1997 number one song with Mama?
Spice Girls
24. Which mother would drop her baby six feet to the ground immediately after giving birth?
A Giraffe
25. Complete this well know World War II slogan - Be like Dad?
Keep Mum!

Round Six - Ask The DJ
26. Which Madonna song has the lyric line "Hey Mr DJ put a record on"?
Music
27. Which much loved British DJ became the first DJ to ever use twin turntables after paying a welder to fuse two decks together in 1947?
Jimmy Saville
28. Which popular Radio breakfast time DJ was married to Anthea Turner in the 90’s?
Peter Powell
29. Radio 1 DJ Michael Pasternak was better known under which name?
Emperor Rosko
30. Which DJ joined forces with Will Smith on many of their 90’s hits?
DJ Jazzy Jeff

Round Seven - Housey Housey
31. What is the usual name for the game of Housey Housey?
Bingo
32. Who had hit songs "Our House" and "House of Fun"?
Madness
33. In which city would you visit Anne Frank’s house?
Amsterdam
34. Which company’s website is www.house.co.uk?
British Gas
35. According to the proverb people in glass houses shouldn’t do what?
Throw Stones

Round Eight - Taking A Nap
36. Who fell asleep for 20 years in the Caitskill Mountains?
Rip Van Winkle
37. What does a Somnabulist do?
Sleep Walk
38. Who composed the music for the ballet Sleeping Beauty?
Tchaikovsky
39. In a nursery rhyme, who fell asleep under a Haystack?
Little Boy Blue
40. Who had a hit song called Sleeping Satelite?
Tamsin Archer

Round Nine - In the Box
41. What was left in Pandora’s Box after she released misery and evil?
Hope
42. In which sport would you have a Planting Box?
Pole Vaulting
43. Which bank released a series of money boxes in the shape of a pig in the 80’s which are now collectible items?
NatWest
44. In the Mr Men series what colour is Mr Chatterbox?
Pink
45. Who manufactures the X Box?
Microsoft

Round Ten - Ooodles & Ooodles
46. What is the main food ingredient of a noodle?
Flour
47. In the term Kit and Caboodle, what does caboodle mean?
Everything
48. What are the three main types of Poodle?
Standard Miniature and Toy
49. In the nursery rhyme Cock a doodle doo what have the dame and master lost?
A shoe and a fiddling stick
50. In which TV show would you find a dog called Doodle?
Tweenies

1. In the insect world, what are brimstones, small coppers and commas?
Butterflies
2. Which common garden insect gets its scientific name from the latin for ‘little scissors’?
Earwig – (forficula)
3. What insect can also be known as the devil’s darning needle?
Dragonfly
4. What do female mosquitoes feed on?
Blood
5. What name is given to a male non-working bee?
Drone
6. The Bombyx Mori produces in its cocoon a fine, lustrous fibre used to make a certain high quality cloth. Which cloth?
Silk – The Bombyx Mori is the silkworm
7. By what common name are headlice known?
Nits
8. What is the worlds longest insect?
Borneo stick insect
9. Which insect suffers from ‘Isle of Wight’ disease?
Bee
10. ‘Garden Tiger’ and ‘Hornet Clearwing’ are species of which insect?
Moth
11. The female of which insect frequently bites off the head of the male during reproduction?
Praying Mantis
12. What type of insect is a Whirligig?
Water beetle
13. What is the common name of the insect Lampyris Noctiluca the female of which produces light to attract the male?
Glow Worm
14. The bloodworm is the larval form of what insect?
Gnat or midge
15. What is the worlds fastest moving insect?
Tropical Cockroach
16. The Cardinal is the largest type of which British insect?
Spider
17. The daddy-longlegs is the popular name for which insect?
Crane fly
18. What sort of insect is a "cockchafer"?
Beetle
19. An insect’s body is divided into three main parts, the head, the abdomen and which other?
Thorax
20. What is the most commonly consumed insect in the world?
Grasshopper

21. What is the world’s largest insect?
Acteon Beetle from South America
22. According to the nursery rhyme, which insect is advised urgently to ‘fly away home’?
Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home
23. What is the state insect of Texas?
Monarch Butterfly
24. What insect in Spain is known as La Cucaracha?
The Cockroach
25. The tumblebug is an alternative name for which insect?
Dung Beetle
26. Which insect is the symbol of female potency?
The Honey Bee
27. Which insect has “weaver and driver” varieties?
Ant’s
28. What insect has a king as well as a queen?
Termites
29. Which plant-sucking insect caused huge disruption to the wine industry of Europe in the 19th century?
Phylloxera
30. Which of the following varieties of insect is the most common, as judged by the number of known species - A) Ants (hymenoptera), B) Beetles(coleoptera), C) Bugs (hemiptera), D) Flies (diptera)?
Beetles, at 400,000, more than twice as many as their nearest rival
31. Rabble, Rainbow and Kaleidoscope are all collective nouns for which insect?
Ladybirds, Butterflies, Wasps
32. What insect uses a substance called propolis to construct its dwelling?
Bee
33. An aggregation of any insect is usually referred to as what?
A Colony
34. What common insect is known in scottish dialect as clipshears?
Earwig
35. What insect can live up to nine days without its head?
Cockroach
36. What insect spreads Sleeping Sickness?
The Tse Tse Fly
37. What is the only insect that can turn its head?
Praying Mantis
38. As seen in long grass how is the froth made by the froghopper insect commonly known?
Cuckoo spit
39. Siverline bird wing, vanished arrow and white dragon tail are all species of which insect?
Butterfly
40. Which insect is popular with gardeners because it feeds on aphids?
Ladybird

Tiebreaker - The hawkmoth is the fastest flying insect, but what is it’s top speed in MPH?
33.3

1. What A is an instrument used in aircraft that measures height above sea level?
Altimeter
2. Which aircraft company makes the Jumbo jet?
Boeing
3. By what name is the DC-3 aircraft better known?
Dakota
4. If you were an Apache pilot in the airforce, what sort of aircraft would you be flying?
Helicopter
5. Which type of wind is thought to take its name from the Spanish for “thunderstorm”, and in turn has given its name to a type of military aircraft?
Tornado
6. Till it was destroyed in a fire in 1937, the German airship “The Hindenberg” was the biggest aircraft ever to fly – with which gas was the Hindenberg filled?
Hydrogen
7. By what name was the German Junkers JU87 dive-bomber known?
Stuka
8. The De Havilland DH98 was built entirely of wood – how was it more commonly known?
The Mosquito
9. The main German bomber used during the ‘blitz’ was a HE111 – who made these?
Heinkel
10. Which British fighter finally took to the skies in november 1942?
The Typhoon
11. Which bomber was adapted to take the ‘bouncing bomb’?
Avro Lancaster
12. What part of an aircraft is the empennage?
Tail Unit
13. International Aircraft Registration, what country is SU?
Egypt
- International aircraft registration letters, what country is PP or PT?
Brazil
- VH is the international aircraft registration for which country?
Australia
14. What was the worlds first passenger jet aircraft?
Comet
15. With which type of aircraft is Igor Sikorsky associated?
Helicopters
16. What is the B-2 Spirit, a U.S. fighter aircraft, better known as?
Stealth Bomber
17. On 4th August, 1954, Britain’s first supersonic fighter plane, made its maiden flight, What was its name?
The English Electric Lightning P-1
18. What name is given to the Black Box which is actually Orange that collects data on an aircraft?
Flight Recorder
19. What does the acronym VTOL stand for when applied to an aircraft?
Vertical take off and landing
20. In 1929 the first what happened on an aircraft?
Birth

21. Aircraft from Great Britain have G as their first registration letter - what letter do American aircraft have?
N
22. Which company manufactured the ‘Tristar’ aircraft?
Lockheed
23. What type of Aircraft made its first trial flight in 1900?
Zeppelin
24. Which company publishes the handbook ‘All The World’s Aircraft’?
Janes
25. What on aircraft are known as blue rooms?
Toilets
26. Which British aircraft company manufactured the WWII ‘Lancaster’ bomber?
AVRO
27. Which famous pilot flew an aircraft called ‘Jason’?
Amy Johnson
28. In WWII, how was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the allies?
Zero
29. What V made the aircraft Viscount, Valiant and Vulcan?
Vickers
30. What Was The Name Of The Boeing 747 Aircraft Blown Up Over Lockerbie, Scotland?
Spirit Of The Sea
31. Who manufactured the Merlin engines, used to power the Spitfire fighter aircraft?
Rolls Royce
32. Which one is the name of a military aircraft: Pandacat, Tigercat or Wolfcat?
Tigercat
33. Who was Minister of Aircraft Production in Winston Churchill’s wartime Cabinet?
Beaverbrook
34. The are nine aircraft in the RAF Red Arrows display team, how many aircraft are there in the French equivalent ‘The Patrouille de France’?
Eight - Alpha Jets
35. The Soviet Sukhoi-34 fighter was the worlds first fighter aircraft with what - a) an ejector seat b) a rear firing cannon or c) a toilet?
Answer c) a toilet fitted in it!
36. Which twin boom aircraft was the only allied jet to enter production during WWII?
Vampire
37. Which aircraft starred in the film 633 Squadron?
Mosquito
38. The RAF Red Arrows display team have nine aircraft, how many aircraft do the National Acrobatic Team “Frecce Tricolori” of the Italian Air Force have?
Ten - Aermacchi MB-339-A/PAN aircraft (They fly with ten MB-339’s and they have three spare planes)
39. Who is credited with inventing the Jet engine?
Sir Frank Whittle
40. True or False, According to Alaskan state law it is illegal to look at a Moose through an aircraft window?
True!

-Which South American capital city is laid out in the shape of an aircraft?
Brasilia

Tiebreaker - In which year - US inventor Paul MacCready’s aircraft Gossamer Condor makes the first human-powered flight and The first Laker ‘Skytrain’ flies from London to New York?
1977

Round One - General Knowledge
1. A statue of which J.M.Barrie hero was unveiled in London’s Kensington Gardens in 1912?
Peter Pan
2. Born in 1937, who played Alf Garnet’s daughter in TV’s ‘Till Death Do Us Part’?
Una Stubbs
3. In which London Park did the Great Exhibition open in 1891?
Hyde Park
4. What type of plane was being flown by Gary Powers when he was shot down over the USSR
in 1960?
The U2 - Spy plane
5. What gambling facility was opened for the first time in Britain in 1961?
Betting Shops

Round Two - Dogs
6. Which short-legged dog is named after an English parson who developed the breed in the 18th century?
Jack Russell
7. In the musical Annie what is orphan Annie’s dog called?
Sandy
8. What is the name of the three headed dog, which guards the trap door in Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone?
Fluffy
9. Roy Rogers had a horse named Trigger and a dog named what - Bullet, Rebel, Flash or Duke?
Bullet
10. What is the meaning of the Roman motto ‘Cave Canemm’ mean?
Beware of the Dog

Round Three - Elvis Presley
11. In which town was Elvis born on 8 January 1935?
Tupelo, Mississippi
12. What was Elvis’s first British top ten hit in May 1956?
Heartbreak Hotel
13. In which city did Elvis marry Priscilla on 1 May 1967?
Las Vegas
14. What was Elvis’s first UK number one single?
All Shook Up
15. How old was Elvis Presley when he died - 42, 43 or 44?
42

Round Four - Catastrophe
16. One of the worst fires in American history gutted the 26 storey MGM Grand hotel in
1980. In which town was the hotel situated?
Las Vegas
17. In 1989, the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army crushed a student protest in Beijing. In
which large square did the massacre take place?
Tiananmen Square
18. In the 14th century a plague killed up to one third of Europe’s population, what was it called?
The Black Death
19. How many voyages had the Titanic made when it hit an iceberg and sank in 1912?
None
20. The worst oil spill ever known in the US Occurred when the Exxon Valdez ran aground, where did the spill occur?
Alaska

Round Five - Pop Blockbusters
21) T O W F Y - a number one hit in 1965 for The Kinks
Tired Of Waiting For You
22) S H W G - a number three hit in 1982 for Soft Cell
Say Hello Wave Goodbye
23) T T A B E F B O U - a number two hit in 1974 for Sparks
This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us  
24) C T W - a number one hit in 2003 for Busted
Crash The Wedding
25) N S O M - a number six hit in 1991 for Genesis
No Son Of Mine

Round Six - Children’s TV
26. Which children’s TV program began with the words ‘here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready to play’?
Camberwick Green
27. Which children’s series was set on a canal barge called the Ragdoll?
Rosie and Jim
28. What was the name of the Woodentops cow?
Buttercup
29. In Mary, Mungo and Midge, what kind of animal was Midge?
A Mouse
30. Gary Coleman played the character of Arnold Jackson in which American children’s sitcom?
Different Strokes

Round Seven - Colours
31. Which lake is the source of the White Nile?
Victoria
32. What colour are the flowers of St Johns Wort?
Yellow
33. Which state of America is known as the Bluegrass state?
Kentucky
34. Which English artist painted the picture "The Blue Boy"?
Thomas Gainsborough
35. Which sea separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and the Sudan?
The Red Sea

Round Eight - Conservation
36. In 1961, an international organisation was established to raise funds for conservation, what was it called?
World wildlife fund
37. The number of rhinos has been dramatically reduced because their horn is so highly prized in the Gar East, what is it used for?
Medicine
38. Which colour flag is flown on beaches that have been declared clean and free of avoidable pollution?
Blue
39. The ‘crown of thorns’ starfish is responsible for the depletion of coral at which world heritage site?
The Great Barrier Reef
40. Which gas is produced by the rotting of household waste in landfill sites?
Methane

Round Nine - Double Initials
41. Which cartoon character gets dumped outside his front door by the cat?
Fred Flintstone
42. By what name do we know Doris Van Kapplehoff?
Doris Day
43. Which artists’ works include a painting inspired by the bombing of a town called Guernica in the Spanish Civil War?
Pablo Picasso
44. Who was the fortieth president of The United States?
Ronald Reagan
45. Which character was played by Shelley Duvall opposite Robin Williams in a film of the adventures of a popular cartoon character?
Olive Oyl

Round Ten - Options
46) In which country will you find the headquarters of the Fairy Investigation Society a) Ireland b) Scotland c) Wales?
a) Ireland (Dublin)
47) Is Brussels Lace a) a fabric made in Belgium, b) the froth left on the inside of a beer glass, c) The neck covering worn by barristers in English courts?
b) Froth left on the inside of a beer glass
48) According to insurance companies, what is regarded as the most hazardous occupation a) Racing Driver b) Policeman c) Fireman?
c) Fireman
49) Which animal provides us with more by-products than any other and is included in the production of buttons, glass, paintbrushes, crayons, chalk and insulation a) Pig b) Cow c) Horse?
a) Pig
50) In what country did bongo drums originate, a) Haiti b) Botswana or c) Cuba?
c) Cuba

Round One - Question Time With Tony
1. Who played Tony in Men Behaving Badly?
Neil Morrissey
2. Who is the only British golfer to have won the British and US Open in the same year?
Tony Jacklin in 1970
3. Who was the first DJ to be heard on Radio One?
Tony Blackburn
4. With which sports event would you associate ‘Tony Jarrett’?
110 mtr Hurdles
5. Thurl Ravenscroft is the voice of who?
Tony the Tiger - Frosties Tony the Tiger had a Son Tony Jr and a daughter named Antoinette!

Round Two - Knights Out
6. What was the name of the car driven by David Hasselhoff in the TV series Knight Rider?
Kitt - (Knight Industries Two Thousand) there are five ‘Kitts’ including one in Cumbria at The Cars Of The Stars
- What kind of car was Kitt in Knight Rider?
Pontiac Trans Am
7. Who was the first British popstar to become a Knight?
Cliff Richard
8. Which Knight of the Round Table found the Holy Grail?
Sir Galahad
9. Who was a knight of the order of the inverted dragon in Hungary?
Count Dracula
10. According to the 2000 census in the UK, what is now a religion?
Jedi Knight

Round Three - Acid Chemistry
11. The excess of which acid causes Gout?
Uric
12. Vinegar is a dilute solution of which acid?
Acetic acid
13. Which acid was first prepared from distilled red ants and also gives nettles their sting?
Formic acid
14. It is sometimes called “Oil Of Vitriol”, what is it otherwise known as?
Sulphuric Acid
15. Which acid is produced in the human stomach?
Hydrochloric Acid

Round Four - The Far East
16. Which desert covers a large part of Mongolia?
Gobi
17. In what year did China regain possession of Hong Kong from Britain?
1997
18. The Yellow Sea separates North and South Korea from which country?
China
19. In which Asian capital did Spiderman 3 premiere?
Tokyo
20. What is the longest river in China?
Yangtze

Round Five - Around The World Anagrams
21. UK cable campaign =  Buckingham Palace
22. Up on shady eyesore =  Sydney Opera House
23. A trivial coke =  Lake Victoria
24. Altogether, chain flaw =  The Great Wall of China
25. Shrivel Belly =  Beverly Hills

Round Six - It’s Turning Yellow
26. Yellow fever is predominantly transmitted to humans by which animal?
Mosquito
27. Which of the Teletubbies is yellow?
La La
28. What is the name of Snoopy yellow bird friend in the comic strip Peanuts?
Woodstock
29. What number is on the yellow, striped pool ball?
Nine
30. What toothpaste’s advertisement claimed: "you’ll wonder where the yellow went"?
Pepsodent

Round Seven - Royalty - Maybe?
31. Which is the only piece on a chess board which can move horizontally, diagonally or vertically?
Queen
32. Which jazz musician has a guitar called Lucille?
BB King
33. Which North American butterly has the scientific name of Danaus plexippus?
Monarch
34. What nickname did singer Gene Chandler give himself which is also the title of a major hit from the 1960’s?
Duke of Earl
35. What is the alter ego of Wonder Woman?
Diana Prince

Round Eight - On The Farm
36. Light Sussex, Dark Cornish and Dorking are all types of which farmyard animal?
Chickens
37. Which farmyard animal has the greatest number of different breeds; the sheep; the cow or the pig?
Sheep
38. If you were performing vaccimulgence what would you be doing?
Milking a cow
39. The eyes of which farm animal have rectangular pupils?
Goat
40. Which farmyard animal has a pregnancy that lasts for three months, three weeks and three days?
A Pig

Round Nine - Connections
41. How many circles appear on an Olympic flag?
Five
42. Which cult sci-fi film of 1984 was an adaptation of a novel by Frank Herbert and was about the mining rights of an exotic spice on a planet in the year 10991?
Dune
43. Which US Rock band had hits with Every Rose has its thorn and Unskinny Bop Why?
Poison
44. What were the names of the original three Musketeers?
Porthos, Athos and Aramis
45. What is the connection?
They are all perfumes or aftershaves

Round Ten - Sporting Numbers
46. 4 R in a R R
Four Runners In A Relay Race
47. 3 H in a T P B B
Three Holes In A Ten Pin Balling Ball
48. 6 P on a S T
Six Pockets On A Snooker Table
49. 4 Q in a G of A F
Four Quartes In A Game Of American Football
50. 8 C in a P M
Eight Chukkas In A Polo Match

Round One - Closing Down Sale
1. Which US TV series of the 90’s ended after 275 episodes with the words, "Sorry we’re closed"?
Cheers - last episode called ‘One for the Road’
2. What was closed down in the year 2000, because it was swinging too much?
The Millenium Bridge
3. Which notorious prison, a jail for the most hardened criminals, closed after 54 years service in 1963?
Alcatraz Prison
4. Which song features the lyrics "Have you seen the old man in the closed down market, kicking up the papers with his worn out shoes"?
Streets Of London - Ralph McTell
5. Which major British newspaper closed down for almost a year in 1978?
The Times

Round Two - Sports Bag
6. Which annual event takes place in the grounds of the Duke of Beaufort’s Gloucestershire home?
Badminton Horse Trials
7. Which North-West Football Club play their home matches at Christie Park?
Morecambe - capacity of approximately 6400 with a seating capacity of 1200 in The Main Stand
8. Which race is the Flat season’s first Classic, held at Newmarket?
2000 Guineas
9. Which F1 Circuit has corners named Elf, Renault, Campsa, Repsol & Seat?
The Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
10. In which sport is a single front somersault with two-and-a-half twists called a Randolph?
Trampolining

Round Three - Counting Your Pennies
11. What financially significant site is based at Llantrisant (clan-tris-ant) in Wales?
The Royal Mint
12. What is the name given to a person who collects coins?
Numismatist
13. What is the name of the Hong Kong stock exchange?
Hang Seng
14. Which British coin was first issued in 1982?
Twenty Pence piece
15. What do the initials of the HSBC stand for?
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

Round Four - Movie Time
16. Which actress danced with John Travolta in the film Pulp Fiction?
Uma Thurman
17. In the 1997 film The Full Monty, which was the city in which the six male strippers lived?
Sheffield
18. Which film about Vietnam won the best picture Oscar in 1978?
The Deer Hunter
19. Who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 film Ray?
James Foxx
20. In which film do the lovers of author Catherine Trammell die in mysterious circumstances which have been recreated or predicted in her novels?
Basic Instinct

Round Five - Sound Round - 1
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Round Six - Telly Addicts
26. What were the first names of the young couple who lived next door to the Meldrews in the earlier editions of One Foot In the Grave?
Patrick and Pippa
27. In which TV show was Dr David Banner accidentally injected with an overdose of gamma rays?
The Incredible Hulk
28. Who played Maggie in the ITV comedy drama series Life Begins?
Caroline Quentin
29. In Emmerdale who is the father of Zoe Tate’s daughter Jean?
Scott Windsor
30. Which TV character’s classic lines include "Time’s Fun When You’re Having Flies" and "It’s Not Easy Being Green"?
Kermit (The Frog)

Round Seven - Rabbit Stew
31. In the film ‘Bambi’, what is the name of Bambi’s rabbit friend?
Thumper
32. What is a baby rabbit called?
Kit or Kitten
33. Who is the brother of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?
Peter Rabbit
34. What is a male rabbit called?
A buck - female rabbit is a doe
35. What is the name of the hunter who never catches the rabbit in Bugs Bunny cartoons?
Elmer Fudd

Round Eight - Staffordshire Links
36. The source of which river is located in Staffordshire between the towns of Biddulph and Mow Cop?
River Trent
37. Which English writer was named after a lake in Staffordshire?
Rudyard Kipling
38. What is the most famous book by the English novelist and playwright Jerome K Jerome, who was born in Walsall, Staffordshire?
Three Men In A Boat
39. Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the famous pottery firm, was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, in which century?
Eighteenth - 1730
40. Which Crosse & Blackwell preserve is named after a village in Staffordshire?
Branston Pickle
- Which racecourse is situated in the county of Staffordshire?
Uttoxeter
- Who is the Greek goddess of Retribution who rests in Staffordshire?
Nemesis
- What is the name of the Pub in Staffordshire owned by Eric Bristow?
The Crafty Cockney
- Which Staffordshire village is famous for it’s horn dance in September?
Abbots Bromley

Round Nine - Connections
41. The quantity of which supply is measured in amperes?
Electric
42. Which group reach number eight in the charts in 1973 with Stuck In the Middle With You?
Stealers Wheel
43. Which 1968 Olympics event was won by Dick Fosbury with a radical new technique?
High Jump
44. Where in the human body is the humerus bone?
Upper Arm
45. What is the connection?
Types Of Chairs

Round Ten - Sound Round - 2
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1. Which country won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest?
Finland
2. In which year was the first Eurovision Song Contest?
1956
3. Which former Eurovision Song Contest winner became an MEP in the 1999 elections?
Dana
4. Which female singer sang "Better the devil you know" in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest?  
Sonia
5. Who was chosen as the UK’s entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest after winning a live public vote on BBC One?
Daz Sampson
6. What song was Britain’s first ever Eurovision Song Contest winner?
Puppet on a string
7. Celine Dion is Canadian by birth but which country did she represent in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Switzerland
8. Which country has won the Eurovision Song Contest the most times?
Ireland
9. Which dance phenomenon had its first major TV airing at the 1994 contest?
Riverdance
10. Which is the only country that competes in the Eurovision Song Contest, that has compulsory military service for women?
Israel
11. True or False: ‘Waterloo’ by Abba is the only Eurovision winning song to reach number one in the UK charts?
False - seven others
12. Who were involved in a four-way tie in 1969?
Holland, the UK, Spain and France
13. Who is the only artist to have won the Eurovision Song Contest twice (1980 & 1987)?
Johnny Logan
14. Who sang the Eurovision song contest entry ‘Sing Little Birdy’?
Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson  
15. In which sitcom did a song called ‘My Lovely Horse’ enter the Eurovision song contest?
Father Ted
16. What was the name of the Liverpool duo that sang ‘Cry Baby’ and scored ‘nil points’ at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest?
Jemini
17. In which year did the UK last win the Eurovision Song Contest?
1997
18. Who went to Ukraine to represent Britain in the Eurovision final in 2005?
Javine
19. In which year was there no Irish entry in the Eurovision song contest?
1983
20. ‘Grooviest tune is not chosen’ is an anagram of which annual event?
The Eurovision Song Contest

21. Which was the first non-British Eurovision Song Contest winner to top the British charts?
Dana / All Kinds Of Everything - 1970 (Abba was 1974)
22. Which Country won the Eurovision Song contest in 1998?
Israel
23. With which song did Niamh Kavanagh win the Eurovision song contest for Ireland?
‘In Your Eyes’
24. Who was the second person to win the Eurovision Song Contest for the UK?
Lulu in 1969 with Boom Bang A Bang
25. What links ‘precious’ in 1999, ‘Nikki French’ in 2000 and ‘Lindsay Dracass’ in 2001?
UK entries - 12th, 16th and 15th
26. From which country did Eurovision Song Contest winner Gina G originate?
Australia
27. Which country won the first Eurovision Song Contest?
Switzerland
28. In which year did Cliff Richard sing ‘Congratulations’ in the Eurovision Song Contest?
1968
29. Who represented Ireland in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest?
Brian Kennedy
30. Which singer, sang the UK entry to the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest, ‘One Step Out Of Time’?
Michael Ball
31. Which nation won the ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ for the first time in 2001?
Estonia
32. ‘Every Way That I Can’ gave which country its first ever victory at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest?
Turkey
33. Who won the Eurovision Song Contest for Britain in 1981?
Bucks Fizz
34. What was unusual about the 1995 Eurovision song contest winner?
Hardly any words
35. Who won the Eurovision song contest with Jack in a Box?
Clodagh Rogers
36. What was The New Seekers’ 1972 Eurovision entry?
Beg, Steal or Borrow
37. Which ‘Opportunity Knocks’ winner represented Britain on Eurovision?
Mary Hopkin
38. Who has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest on BBC1 in the 90’s?
Terry Wogan
39. In which year did Johnny Logan win his first Eurovision Song Contest?
1980
40. How many times have the UK won the Eurovision Song Contest?
Five

Round One - Your Turn To Do The Washing
1. In the printing trade, which word is used to describe text that is thicker than usual in order to give it prominence?
Bold
2. Newquay in Cornwall is labelled the … what capital of England?
Surf
3. What is the name for a naturally occurring ring of mushrooms on a lawn?
FAIRY Rings
4. What is the Latin word for Light, which is also a measure of illumination?
Lux
5. Who represented the UK at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest?
Daz Sampson

Round Two - GMTV
6. Who spoke the first ever words on GMTV?
Eamon Holmes
7. What was the TV stage name of Derrick Errol Evans a fitness instructor who first appeared on GMTV in 1993?
Mr Motivator
8. Which former British tennis professional is now on the sofa at GMTV?
Andrew Castle
9. Who went from Blue Peter to GMTV In 1995?
Anthea Turner
10. Who moved to GMTV after his ‘The Time The Place’ was axed?
John Stapleton

Round Three - Visiting Somerset
11. Which Somerset town is said to be the burial place of King Arthur?
Glastonbury
12. What is the only football league team from Somerset?
Yeovil Town
13. Which city wouls you visit in Somerset to see the famous 12th century cathedral?
Wells
14. What is the name of the range of hills that lie in the county of Somerset?
Quantocks
15. Which Somerset city has a Spa railway station?
Bath
- What article of clothing is Yeovil in Somerset famous for manufacturing?
Gloves
- What Somerset village is famous for its cheese and its limestone caves?
Cheddar

Round Four - Art Gallery
16. What great work of art did Leonardo Da Vinci paint on the refectory wall for the dominican monks of Santa Marie Delle Grazie?
The Last Supper (In Milan)
17. Which painting style was practised by Renoir and Monet?
Impressionism - and Degas
18. Frans Hals painted his most famous work in 1624 what was it called?
The Laughing Cavalier
19. Which Dutch painter is well known for his self-portraits?
Rembrandt
20. Which artist said: "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them"?
Pablo Picasso

Round Five - Cryptic Pop Acts
21. Avoid TNT - Ms Dynamite
22. Hard of hearing wildcat - Def Leppard
23. Golf Peg King - T Rex
24. Not out too much - INXS
25. Raincoats found in a cemetery - Max Bygraves

Round Six - Sports Desk
26. Fundraiser Lloyd Scott, who set a record in 2002 for the slowest London Marathon dressed in a deep sea diving suit, completed this years race in just under 22 hours dressed as which character pursued by a giant boulder’?
Indiana Jones
27. Who recently set a new English Premiership record of 142 clean sheets, surpassing David Seaman’s record?
David James
28. The grandfather of which F1 star drives a school bus in Grenada?
Lewis Hamilton
29. Which two field events are in the Decathlon but not in the Heptathlon?
Discus & Pole Vault
30. Jacqui Oatley recently made TV history by becoming the first woman commentator on which long-running BBC show?
Match Of The Day

Round Seven - Something Fishy
31. What is the name of the world’s largest fish?
Whale Shark
32. What type of fish has a variety called ‘Albacore’?
Tuna
33. What is the world’s most poisonous fish?
Stonefish, direct contact with the spines of it’s fins which contain a strong toxic poison can prove fatal
34. Which fish, growing to a length of over 6ft, is the largest of the flatfish?
Halibut
35. A coarse fish can be defined as any freshwater fish other than which two species?
Salmon and Trout

Round Eight - Give Us A Kiss
36. Which sculptors work includes a piece called "The Kiss?"
Rodin
37. Which 60’s song includes the lyrics "Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you; Remember I’ll always be true"?
All My Loving - The Beatles
38. In the The Empire Strikes Back who or what did Princess Leia say she would rather kiss than Han Solo?
A Wookie
39. Which pop group were "kissing in the back row of the movies"?
The Drifters
40. Which Disney animation featured the song "Kiss The Girl"?
The Little Mermaid

Round Nine - Connections
41. What do astronomers call an exploding star?
A superNOVA
42. In which film does Marlon Brando become president of Mexico?
VIVA Zapata
43. Who were the supporters of Charles 1st during the English Civil War?
CAVALIERS
44. What is the name of the satellite used by Sky Television?
ASTRA
45. What is the connection?
Models of Vauxhall Cars

Round Ten - Cryptic Sweetshop
46. Gentle wave? - Ripple
47. Gesticulating at the races? - Tic Tac
48. Barbie’s assortment? - Dolly Mixtures
49. Nutty way to urge on a horse? - Walnut Whip
50. Gentler than a shock? - Kinder Surprise