Quiz 270607
Round One - Flood Warnings
1. On which river does Durham stand?
Wear
2. Which river forms 17 miles (27 km) of the South Eastern border between England and Scotland?
River Tweed
3. The Preserved Steam Railway which runs from Bridgenorth to Kidderminster has been affected by floods from which river?
River Severn
4. On which River is the resort town of Llangollen?
River Dee
5. The River Aire flows through which city?
Leeds
Round Two - Chewing Over The Answers
6. In which country was chewing gum first patented?
USA by William Fenley Semple in 1869
7. On Family Fortunes what was the top answer to the question - Name a food you can eat with hardly any chewing?
Soup
8. What are insects chewing jaws called?
Mandibles
9. There is a 25 year old packet of Wrigley’s spearmint chewing gum in the Smithsonian Institution is it because - Wrigley’s chewing gum was the first product advertised on American Television, it was the first bar scanner product in the world or it was the first commercial product in space?
It was the first bar scanner product in the world
10. In Big Brother 3, which animal did Jade Goody think that chewing gum was made from?
A Pig
- Who promoted their chewing gum in 1915 by mailing 4 sample sticks to each person in the US telphone books?
Wrigleys
Round Three - Journalistic Thread
11. In which TV drama series did Caroline Quentin play a journalist called Madeline Magellan?
Jonathan Creek
12. Jill Morrel was the fiancée of which British journalist kidnapped in Beirut in 1986?
John McCarthy
13. What is the name of the journalist who interviewed both Princess Di and Louise Woodward on TV?
Martin Bashir
14. Which Hitchcock movie has a journalist with a broken leg witness a murder?
Rear Window
15. What is the name of the BBC journalist who was abducted from a Gaza street on 12 March 2007?
Alan Johnston
Round Four - Minty Flavour
16. Which town is known as the ‘Gateway To The Lakes’, and is famous for its mint cake?
Kendal
17. Which greek dip is made from yoghurt, cucumber, garlic and mint?
Tzatziki
18. Which part of the mint plant is used to make mint sauce?
Leaves
19. Which herb, sometimes called wild marjoram, belongs to the mint family and is related to both marjoram and thyme?
Oregano
20. Which alcoholic crystal is mint flavoured and is used in many remedies for flu?
Menthol
Round Five - Wimbledon Tennis
21. Which woman won the wimbledon singles title seven times between 1988 and 1996?
Steffi Graf
22. In which year were male tennis players first tested for drugs at Wimbledon, 1984, 1986, 1988 or 1990?
1986
23. In a tiebreaker in tennis, after how many points do players change ends?
Six
24. Which Spanish tennis player beat Martina Navratilova in her last ladies singles final at Wimbledon?
Conchita Martinez
25. What type of fruit stands on top of the men’s singles tennis trophy for Wimbledon?
A Pineapple
Round Six - Jokers Wild
26. The Italian town of Pontedassia is home to a museum dedicated to which foodstuff, which was the subject of a April Fools joke many years ago?
Spaghetti
27. Which entertainer is in the Guinness Book of Records for telling 1,500 jokes non-stop in three and a half minutes?
Ken Dodd
28. In the Harry Potter stories what is the name of the joke shop in Hogsmeade?
Zonko’s
29. Which member of the Muppets always told bad jokes?
Fozzie Bear
30. Which ABBA song features the lyrics, I’m nothing special, in fact I’m a bit of a bore, if I tell you a joke , you’ve probably heard it before?
Thank You For The Music
Round Seven - Telly Trivia
31. Who plays Davina in the BBC series Sensitive Skin?
Joanna Lumley
32. Neil Oliver, Mark Horton and Nicholas Crane can be found on which award winning TV programme that is now in its third series?
Coast
33. Who presents National Lottery Jet Set 2012?
Eamonn Holmes
34. Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, James Bolam and Alun Armstrong star as an unlikely team of crack detectives in which series?
New Tricks
35. What is the name of Dawn’s baby in Eastenders?
Summer
Round Eight - Sports News
36. Which former Bolton, Liverpool and Republic of Ireland midfielder has announced his retirement?
Jason McAteer
37. Who has been handed the England Cricket Team’s one-day captaincy?
Paul Collingwood
38. In which round did Ricky Hatton floor Mexico’s Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas on Saturday?
Fourth
39. Which Argentinean golfer won the 2007 US Open?
Angel Cabrera
40. How many times has Tim Henman been a competitor at Wimbledon?
Fourteen
Round Nine - Connections
41. Which Formula One commentator penned the autobiography Unless I’m Very Much Mistaken?
Murray WALKER
42. Which former British Prime Minister was voted Pipe Smoker of The Year on two occasions?
Harold WILSON
43. Which TV western of the 1970s starred Ben Murphy and Pete Duel as Kid Curry and Hannibal Heyes?
Alias Smith and JONES
44. Which freshwater fish is nicknamed The King Of The Lake?
PIKE
45. What is the connection?
Dad’s Army
Round Ten - The Last Smoke
46. In 1982, who infamously broke into Buckingham Palace, sat on the Queen’s bed and asked her for a fag?
Michael Fagin
47. What is the smoke passage of a chimney called?
Flue
48. Which was the first country in the world to impose a ban on smoking in the workplace?
Ireland
49. From which song do the Lyrics "I smoke old doggies I have found, short but not too fat or round"?
King of the Road - Roger Miller
50. In which US state is the ‘Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes’?
Alaska
