Quiz 160507
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
