Quiz 311007
Round One - Ships At Sea
1. What class of ship was the Sheffield, which was sunk in the Falklands conflict?
Destroyer
2. What does RMS on British liners stand for?
Royal Mail Ship or Royal Mail Steamer
3. The sinking of which ship by Germany in 1915 was instrumental in bringing the USA into the First World War?
Lusitania
4. At the Battle of Pearl Harbour only two ships were totally lost, one was the oklahoma, what was the other one?
The Arizona
5. What signal did Vice Admiral Nelson send to all Engish ships at Trafalagar?
England expects every man will do his duty
Round Two - Hairy Questions
6. Its body is covered with long and silky hair which hangs down like the wool of sheep. Tibetans have domesticated this ruminant mammal whose typical habitat is in the highest and coldest regions of Central Asia. Name this animal?
Yak
7. She was tall and red-haired. She spent considerable time in the Tower of London. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded at the order of her father. Who was this British queen?
Queen Elizabeth I
8. This describes what plant - When an insect brushes the trigger hairs on the edge of the leaves, the leaves close like clam shells?
Venus Flytrap
9. The name for certain heavenly objects is derived from a Latin word which literally means "hairy star." What do we call these objects?
Comets
10. Apparently the CIA once dreamed up a plan to dust a foreign leader’s shoes with a hair-removing substance which would cause his beard to fall out. Name that Communist leader?
Fidel Castro
Round Three - Around Britain
11. Which motorway links Telford to the M6?
M54
12. What town has the post code IM1?
Douglas (on the Isle of Man)
13. Warren Street, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road…what comes next?
Leicester Square
14. Which English county has the shortest coastline?
Durham
15. What comes next: Toddington, Newport Pagnell, Northampton?
Watford Gap (M1 service stations)
Round Four - Turning Japanese
16. What name is given to the rice wine which is the national drink of Japan?
Sake
17. What name is given to the Japanese art of flower arranging?
Ikebana
18. What form of entertainment means ‘empty orchestra’ in Japanese?
Karaoke
19. What name is given to the Japanese martial art whose name translates as ‘gentle skill’?
Ju-Jitsu or Ju-Jutsu
20. What name is given to the traditional Japanese style of theatre acted only by men with highly stylised song and dance routines?
Kabuki
Round Five - Flying High
21. Which company produced the world’s first commercial jet airliner?
De Havilland (the Comet)
22. What name was given to the Boeing B-52 bomber that first flew in 1952?
Stratofortress
23. What was the name of the (Java-born) Dutch aircraft manufacturer who, during World War I, produced more than 40 types of airplanes for the German High Command?
Anthony Fokker
24. Which company started as the Pacific Aero Products Company in 1916, was given its present name in 1917, and is today the largest aviation company in the world?
Boeing
25. Who was dubbed ‘Queen of the Air’ by the British press in the 1930s after her solo flight from England to Australia?
Amy Johnson
Round Six - Natural World
26. In Norfolk they call the male of this creature a Jack, the female they call a Broadster. Found along the seashore, which creature is it?
Crab
27. ‘Cats tail’, ‘Cock’s foot’, ‘Sheep’s fescue’ and ‘Meadow foxtail’ are all species of what?
Grasses
28. Which is the largest species of parrot?
Macaw
29. Which tree has English, White and Slippery varieties?
Elm
30. Which animal has a foot but no legs?
Snail
Round Seven - Hi Ho Silver!
31. What name is given to the medieval practices which tried to turn lead into silver and gold?
Alchemy
32. Which silver emblem appears on New Zealand rugby jerseys?
A fern leaf
33. In which English city is the Cutlers Hall, which contains a collection of silver craftsmanship dating back to 1773?
Sheffield (Copper coated with silver is called Sheffield plate)
34. In heraldry what is silver called?
Argent
35. Which company is the world’s largest user of silver?
Kodak
Round Eight - Pops The Question
36. In which song did 10cc claim that they did not like cricket?
Dreadlock Holiday
37. Which song has been a hit for Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding and David Bowie?
Knock On Wood
38. Which playing card was a disco hit for K C and the Sunshine Band?
Queen Of Clubs
39. What was Abba’s last No 1 hit in the UK?
Super Trooper
40. What type of hot food gave Fat Les a No 2 hit in 1998?
Vindaloo
Round Nine - Connections
41. Who was the female star of the film ‘A Fish Called Wanda’?
JAMIE Lee Curtis
42. Who partnered Jeremy Bates to victory in the Wimbledon mixed doubles tournament in 1987?
JO Durie
43. Which singing sisters had a 1987 No 1 hit with "Respectable"?
MEL and Kim Appleby
44. Which 1983 TV series starring Sam Neill as a double agent, was based on a novel by Robin Bruce Lockhart?
Reilly ACE of Spies
45. What is connection with above five answers?
Dr Who assistants
Round Ten - Sports Round
46. Which heavyweight boxer is nicknamed `The Real Deal`?
Evander Holyfield
47. Which sport do you play if you if you compete in the Mosconi cup?
Pool
48. Which English football club used to call themselves `Garibaldi Reds` after being inspired by Guiseppe Garibaldi?
Nottingham Forest
49. With which sport would you associate the Eisenhower trophy?
Golf - golf trophy awarded to the winner of a biennial international amateur competition open to teams of three or four players from all nations
50. Which football team lost both the 1982 and 1986 World Cup finals?
West Germany
Tiebreaker - How many years old is the oldest discovered playable flute?
9,000
