Quiz 110707
Round One - Christopher’s Round
1. In which modern country was Christopher Columbus born?
Italy
2. Which singer, born Christopher John Davidson, spent three weeks at No.1 in 1986 with a song written for his wife?
Chris de Burgh (Lady in Red)
3. What type of transport did Sir Christopher Cockerell invent and develop?
Hovercraft
4. In which film did Christopher Lloyd play a character called Doctor Doom?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5. Who Played Captain George Von Trapp in the classic film The ‘Sound Of Music’?
Christopher Plummer
Round Two - A Bright Pair
6. If You Bought A Pair Of Purdey’s, What Would You Be Buying?
Shotguns
7. Which pair of television crime fighters have the first names Andy and Peter?
Dalziel and Pascoe
8. What would you normally find hanging from a pair of ‘Davits’?
A Lifeboat on a ship
9. If you entered a Canadian pair’s race, in what sport would you be participating?
Canoeing
10. Which Page-3 girl once said; “I have 10 pairs of trainers, one for each day of the week”?
Samantha Fox
Round Three - City! City!
11. Which Italian city is served by Marco Polo International Airport?
Venice
12. Which is the smallest city in the United Kingdom?
St Davids
13. What is the largest city on the South Island of New Zealand?
Christchurch
14. What is Japan’s second largest city?
Yokohama
15. Which name is shared by cities in California, Costa Rica, the Philippines and Guatemala?
San Jose
Round Four - Use Your Loaf
16. Which brand of bread is advertised on TV with the slogan, “Bakers born and bred?
Warburton’s
17. Which biblical town’s name means ‘House of Bread’ in Hebrew?
Bethlehem
18. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was the lead singer of the group Bread?
David Gates
19. Which type of long slender cigar is also the Italian word for a “small loaf”?
Panatella
20. Who, in a nursery rhyme, was awarded a supper of brown bread and butter?
Little Tommy Tucker
Round Five - Coffee Break
21. Which country is the world’s largest coffee exporter?
Brazil
22. What flavour is made by combining chocolate and coffee?
Mocha
23. What Color Are Coffee Berries?
Bright Red
24. What is added to coffee to make a “Kentucky Coffee”?
Southern Comfort
25. Which brand of coffee is advertised on TV with the slogan ‘everything we know about coffee in an instant’?
Kenco
Round Six - Centre Of Attention
26. Who wrote the novel “Journey to the Centre of the Earth?”
Jules Verne
27. What is the height at the centre of the net in tennis?
Three Feet
28. Which country was at the centre of the Ottoman Empire?
Turkey
29. What Circular Object Appears In The Centre Of The Flag Of India?
Spinning Wheel
30. Who was the most famous person to work at the Donnybrook Medical Centre?
Harold Shipman - in Hyde, Manchester
Round Seven - Superheroes
31. Which member of the X-Men was the first black superheroine?
Storm
32. Which 2004 Academy Award-winning animated feature film centred around a family of superheroes?
The Incredibles
33. Who used the weapon called “The Lasso Of Truth”?
Wonder Woman
34. Which Superhero does Ardal O’Hanlon turn into?
Thermoman
- What is the name of the superhero that has the alter-ego of blind lawyer Matt Murdoch?
Daredevil
35. What is Ghost Rider’s usual mode of transport?
Motorcycle
Round Eight - Little People
36. In the Wizard of Oz what is the name of the native little people?
Munchkins
37. Which beautiful little girl was found inside the petals of a flower in a Hans Christian Andersen tale?
Thumbelina
38. What is the name of the little people who work for Willy Wonka in his Chocolate Factory?
Oompa Loompas
39. Which nursery rhyme character was arachnophobic?
Little Miss Muffet
40. Who made famous the classic song ‘Thank Heaven For Little Girls’?
Maurice Chevalier
Round Nine - Connections
41. Who was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31st 1984?
Indira GHANDI
42. Which is the largest city in Morocco?
CASABLANCA
43. In the Second World War who commanded the US Seventh Army in the Allied invasion of Sicily?
General George PATTON
44. In terms of population which is the third largest city in the USA?
CHICAGO
45. What is the connection?
Titles of Best Picture Oscar Winning Films
Round Ten - What Happened?
46. What happened in Blackpool on the 18th September 1879?
The illuminations were switched on for the first time
47. What happened in Paris on 25th July 2000?
Concorde crashed
48. What happened near to the village of Cheddington in Buckinghamshire on 7th August 1963?
Great Train Robbery
49. What happened in Memphis, Tennessee on 4th April 1968?
Martin Luther King was killed
50. What happened in both the 1946 & 1947 FA Cup Finals that had not happened before and hasn’t happened since?
Ball Burst
