Quiz 241007
Round One - Connect This!
1. What word connects a breed of heavy draught horse and a bank based in Scotland?
Clydesdale
2. What name links a Shakespeare king, a nineteenth century poet and painter, and a manufacturer of jet aircraft?
Lear
3. What word links a type of shoe with a distinctive heel, a type of golf club and a tapering piece of wood?
Wedge
4. What word can mean a chamber for storing grain, an airtight pit for storing green fodder or an underground chamber housing a guided missile?
Silo
5. What name connects a nineteenth century German statesman and the state capital of North Dakota?
Bismark
Round Two - Entertainment
6. Who was Batman’s first Arch enemy in the 1990 film "Batman"?
The Joker
7. What type of car did nurse ‘Glady’s Emanuelle’ drive in "Open all Hours"?
Morris Minor
8. Who played the star Detective in the the film "Spy Hard"?
Leslie Nielson
9. Dreamworks Productions is owned by whom?
Stephen Speilberg
10. Which British TV and Film Comedian is an anagram of ‘Raw Onion stank’?
Rowan Atkinson
Round Three - Antiques Roadshow
11. With which area of antiques would you associate Thomas Chippendale?
Furniture
12. What can be either Bracket, Carriage or Mystery?
Clocks
13. Lalique was a famous maker of what?
Glassware
14. From which country did Delft ware originate?
Holland
15. If an antique was said to be distressed, what would have happened to it?
Artificially aged
Round Four - Monkey Business
16. What is the name of the monkey that gave its name to a blood group?
Rhesus monkey
17. What are the ‘monkeys’ called that are native to Gibraltar?
Barbary apes
18. What was the name of the self proclaimed ‘King of the Swingers’ in The Jungle Book?
King Louie
19. What was the name of the monkey played by Roddy McDowall in the film version of Planet Of The Apes?
Cornelius
20. What was the name of the monkey that raised Tarzan in the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel?
Kala
Round Five - True or False?
21. The clock face of Big Ben is the largest clock face in Britain?
False - The clock-face on the Liver Buildings in Liverpool is the biggest
22. A group of sea cucumbers is known as a pickle?
True
23. Robbie Williams once appeared as an extra in Coronation Street?
False - He appeared as an extra in Eastenders
24. Sean Connery won the Mr Universe bodybuilding contest in 1953?
False - He came third
25. Postman Pat is banned in Japan?
True - Because he only has three fingers!
Round Six - Animal World
26. Which is the largest web-footed bird?
Albatross
27. What is a female ferret called?
A jill
28. What is a group of crocodiles called - a snap, a float or a swim?
A float
29. What is the most common bird of prey in Britain?
The Kestrel
30. Which is the only bird to give us leather?
Ostrich
Round Seven - Water Water Everywhere
31. What is the name of the stretch of water that separates the Isle of Wight from mainland Britain?
The Solent
32. Which is the world’s busiest ship canal?
The Panama
33. In which country is the River Kwai?
Thailand
34. Which is the world’s largest freshwater lake?
Lake Superior
35. Of all the rivers in the world which contains the greatest amount of water?
The Amazon, the flow of the Amazon is sixty times greater than that of the Nile and at it’s deepest point it is 407 feet deep
Round Eight - Food and Drink
36. What is the usual shape of a Camembert cheese?
Round
37. What flavour is the liqueur Midori?
Melon
38. What colour wine is Beaujolais Nouveau?
Red
39. Picholine, sevillana and cerignola are all types of what?
Green Olives
40. What are Northern Ireland’s fadge cakes made from?
Potatoes
Round Nine - Connections
41. What is the former name of the country now known as Ghana?
GOLD Coast
42. Which plant has the scientific name Trifolium?
CLOVER
43. What is the name of the famous English ceramic design created by the potter Thomas Minton in the late 18th century?
WILLOW Pattern
44. Which Scottish heroine is remembered for her part in the escape of Bommie Prince Charlie in 1746?
FLORA Macdonald
45. What is the connection?
Names of MARGARINES or SPREADS
Round Ten - Never Mind the Buzzcocks
46. Which song begins with the words "When I was a little girl, I had a rag doll"?
River Deep Mountain High
47. Which instrument did Lionel Richie play in the Commodores?
Saxaphone
48. Reach Out, I’ll be There was the first British No 1 for which group?
Four Tops
49. Which group’s last British No 1 was Figaro, in 1978?
Brotherhood Of Man
50. The Famous Flames backed which classic soul performer?
James Brown
Tiebreaker - What is the furthest distance that a grape has been thrown and caught in the mouth?
Eighteen Feet
