QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Music Mix
1. Which music programme started on BBC TV in 1958 with a Saturday Night slot hosted by David Jacobs?
Juke Box Jury
2. 1963, Lesley Gore started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with which song which was also a UK number one for Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin in 1981?
‘It’s My Party’
3. 1968, Simon and Garfunkel went to No.1 on the US singles chart with which song, the song was also a UK hit for the Lemonheads in 1992?
‘Mrs Robinson’ - Featured in the Dustin Hoffman and Ann Bancroft film ‘The Graduate’
4. 1982, Madness were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with which song which was the groups only No.1 from 27 UK Top 40 hits?
‘House Of Fun’
5. 1996, the official song of the England Football team went to number one in the UK Charts, who were the artists?
Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

Round Two - Superstars
6. Who is Britain’s most successful female chart artist, who became a Dame in 2000?
Shirley Bassey
7. Who was the first singer to have No 1 hits in five decades?
Cliff Richard
8. Who has recorded singles with Paul McCartney, Julio Iglcsias and Diana Ross?
Stevie Wonder
9. Which American singer had 35 consecutive UK Top Ten Hits between 1984 and 1994?
Madonna
10. Which Frank Sinatra single won him a Grammy, only the ninth ever awarded?
"Strangers In The Night"

Round Three - ‘B’ Groups
11. With which group did Jimmy Somerville provide lead vocals on the hit record ‘Smalltown Boy’?
Bronski Beat
12. Keith Richardson, Nick Carter and Brian Littrell are all members of which US boy band?
Backstreet Boys
13. Which group had their first number one for nineteen years with the 1999 chart topper ‘Maria’?
Blondie
14. Richie Sambora plays the lead guitar for which rock group?
Bon Jovi
15. In which group did Jacqui O’Sullivan replace Siobhan Fahey?
Bananarama

Round Four - Who was first?
16. - Jamaican act to have a number one hit in the UK?
Desmond Decker
17. - French act to have a number one hit in the UK?
Charles Aznavour
18. - Norwegian act to have a number one hit in the UK?
A-Ha
19. - German act to have a number one in the UK?
Kraftwerk
20. - Italian act to have a number one in the UK?
Black Box

Round Five - Musical Pictures Handout
21) Dancing Queen
22) I heard it through the grapevine
23) Footloose
24) St Elmo’s Fire
25) Maneater
(Handout Round)

Round Six - Country Music
26. Who won a 2002 Grammy for Best Country Album, the year before his death?
Johnny Cash
27. Under what name do the country trio Natalie Maines, Martine Maguire and Emily Robinson record?
The Dixie Chicks
28. Who was backed by the First Edition on his first hit record?
Kenny Rogers
29. Which country and western star was born Virginia Pugh?
Tammy Wynette
30. Which legend of country music penned the song ‘Always On My Mind’?
Willie Nelson

Round Seven - The Numbers Game
31. How many number one hits did Take That have in the UK?
Nine
32. According to the lyrics of the song, how old is Abba’s dancing queen?
Seventeen
33. Which group topped the charts in 2000 with the song ‘Never Had A Dream Come True’?
S Club 7
34. Which song, a chart topper for the Commodores features the line ‘and now that we’ve come to the end of our rainbow’?
Three Times A Lady
35. Sheila Ferguson provided lead vocals for which trio?
The Three Degrees

Round Eight - Shared Song Titles
Which song title was a hit for…
36. The Beatles, Bay City Rollers, Samantha Fox and Dollar?
I Want To Hold Your Hand
37. The Bee Gees, Portrait and Take That?
How Deep Is Your Love
38. Buddy Holly, Showaddywaddy and Nick Berry?
Heartbeat
39. Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Leo Sayer and Bobby Vee?
More Than I Can Say
40. The Righteous Brothers, Robson & Jerome and Gareth Gates?
Unchained Melody

Round Nine - Elvis Lyrics
41. You know I can be found, Sittin’ home all alone, If you can’t come around, At least please telephone?
Don’t Be Cruel
42. Your lips excite me, Let your arms invite me, For who knows when, We’ll meet again this way?
It’s Now Or Never
43. Baby let me be around you every night, Run your fingers through my hair and cuddle me real tight?
Teddy Bear
44. If I found a lucky penny, I’d toss it across the bay, Your love is worth all the gold on earth, No wonder that I say?
Good Luck Charm
45. Bright light city gonna set my soul, Gonna set my soul on fire, Got a whole lot of money that’s ready to burn, So get those stakes up higher?
Viva Las Vegas

Round Ten - Musical Pictures Handout
46) Great balls of fire
47) The devil went down to Georgia
48) Roll over Beethoven
49) Video killed the Radio Star
50) Pump up the Jam
(Handout Round)

Tiebreaker - How old was Elton John when he hit No I with the single in memory of Diana Princess of Wales?
Fifty-one

Round One - General Knowledge
1. Born in 1926, John Bartholomew was the real name of which bespectacled comedian?
ERIC MORECAMBE
2. Author Sir Henry Rider Haggard died in 1925. Which of his novels was made into a film starring Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr?
‘KING SOLOMON’S MINES’
3. Released in 1993, which film tells the story of a man offering another man $1m to sleep with his wife?
`INDECENT PROPOSAL’
4. To which American President was a memorial at Runnymede unveiled in 1965?
JOHN F. KENNEDY
5. In which American state did the first Englishman settle in 1607?
VIRGINIA

Round Two - Cinema
6. What were the Christian names of the Blues Brothers?
JAKE & ELWOOD
7. Which actress, born in Berlin in 1940, starred with Peter Sellers in A Shot in the Dark?
ELKE SOMMER
8. Who was killed in a plane-crash shortly after completing her starring role in Queen Of The Damned?
AALIYAH
9. Who won an Oscar in 2003 for her part in the film Chicago?
CATHERINE ZETA JONES
10. In the 2001 film Behind Enemy Lines a US Navy pilot is shot down in which country?
BOSNIA

Round Three - The Arts
11. Who painted The Laughing Cavalier?
FRANS HALS
12. What operatic heroine works in a cigarette factory?
CARMEN
13. Which style of art is characterised by lightness, delicacy and elaborate ornamentation and corresponds with the reign of Louis XV of France?
ROCOCO
14. Which of Shakespeare’s plays begins with the words "If music be the food of love, play on"?
TWELFTH NIGHT
15. L.S. Lowry, what was the artist’s first name?
LAURENCE

Round Four - Sports Bag
16. Only one tennis player has achieved a ‘Golden Grand Slam’, winning all four major tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in the same year. Who was it?
STEFFI GRAFF
17. Which football team were the first to be promoted to the Premier League?
NEWCASTLE UNITED
18. Which Formula 1 team made their debut in Australia 2002?
TOYOTA
19. It’s played over four periods of 15 minutes and only two of the seven players can score, which sport?
NETBALL
20. In cricket how many runs are scored when the ball hits a helmet left on the ground by the fielding team?
FIVE

Round Five - Titanic Questions
21. Which Belfast shipbuilding company built Titanic?
HARLAND & WOLFF
22. What was the name of Titanic’s older sister ship?
OLYMPIC
23. How many watertight compartments was Titanic’s hull divided into?
SIXTEEN
24. What was the name of the ship that came to rescue Titanic’s survivors?
CARPATHIA
25. How many propellors did Titanic have?
THREE

Round Six - Food & Drink
26. In corned beef what are the corns?
SALT
27. Which company opened the first Burger Restaurant in Britain in 1954?
WIMPEY
28. The wine Marsala comes from which region of Italy?
SICILY
29. What kind of nuts are used in a bar of Cadbury’s Fruit And Nut?
ALMONDS
30. What is the world’s most popular bottled malt whisky?
GLENFIDDICH

Round Seven - Music
31. The Beatles had several earlier names. Which wasn’t one of them: The Quarrymen, Johnny and the Moondogs, The Silver Beetles, Rory Storme and the Hurricanes?
RORY STORME & THE HURRICANES (It was Ringo´s band before joining)
32. What Elton John song begins "It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside…"?
YOUR SONG
33. What was Bob Dylan’s first hit single in the UK?
TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’
34. According to The Eagles, where can you check out but never leave?
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
35. Who had a 90s hit with ‘Born Slippy’?
UNDERWORLD

Round Eight - Around The World
36. Which country is home to the Mosquito Coast, El Salvador, Costa Rica or Honduras?
HONDURAS
37. In what county is Canvey Island?
ESSEX
38. The Strait of Hormuz separates Oman from which country?
IRAN
39. Where is the Thar Desert?
INDIA
40. Where would the next place you came to if you travelled due west from Cape Horn?
CAPE HORN

Round Nine - Connections
41. What is the general term used to describe the woman in charge of a religious community of women - for example nuns?
MOTHER SUPERIOR
42. In which U.S. State would you find Detroit?
MICHIGAN
43. Which Spice girl had hit with "this groove / let your head go"?
VICTORIA BECKHAM
44. What is the name of the international agreement that established a code for the treatment of prisoners of war?
GENEVA CONVENTION
45. What is the connection?
LAKES

Round Ten - Kissing
46. Which Nursery Rhyme Character "kissed the girls and made them cry"?
GEORGIE PORGIE
47. On which Ship did Horatio Nelson allegedly say, "Kiss me, Hardy"?
HMS VICTORY
48. Which "Royal" caused a scandal by being photographed having her Toes kissed?
THE "DUCHESS OF YORK" (SARAH FERGUSON)
49. Which Animated Disney film (1989), featured a song called "Kiss the Girl"?
THE LITTLE MERMAID
50. Which Actor said, "kissing Marilyn Monroe" was like kissing Hitler!"?
TONY CURTIS, (AFTER STARRING WITH HER IN THE 1959 FILM, "SOME LIKE IT HOT")

ROUND ONE. FOOD & DRINK
1.    WHICH IS THE BEST SELLING FLAVOUR OF HEINZ SOUP IN THE UK
(TOMATO)
2.    WERE BANANAS FIRST SOLD IN BRITAIN IN 1633, 1733 OR 1833
(1633 - OLIVER CROMWELL WAS PRESENTED WITH ONE!)
3.    WHICH IS THE BEST SELLING CONFECTIONARY BAR IN THE UK
(KIT KAT)
4.    HOW MANY NORMAL SIZE BOTTLES ARE EQUIVALENT TO A JEROBOAM
(FOUR)
5.    FROM WHICH FISH DOES THE DELICACY CAVIAR COME
(STURGEON)

ROUND TWO. PUSSY CATS
6.    WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CAT, ALONG WITH RIPLEY, THAT IS A SURVIVOR IN THE FILM ‘ALIEN’
(JONES)
7.    WHAT IS THE NAME OF ALICE’S CAT IN ‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND’
(DINAH)
8.    WHO HAD A HIT IN 1979 & 1992 WITH ‘COOL FOR CATS’
(SQUEEZE)
9.    WHICH CARTOON CAT WAS THE FIRST TO BE A FILM STAR IN 1927
(FELIX)
10.    WHAT IS THE MOST POPULAR NAME FOR A CAT IN BRITAIN
(SOOTY)

ROUND THREE. SPORTS TRIVIA
11.    HOW LONG IS A DRAG RACING STRIP
(A QUARTER OF A MILE)
12.    WHAT IS THE WOMENS EQUIVALENT OF THE RYDER CUP
(SOLHEIM CUP)
13.    HOW LONG IS THE PLAYING TIME IN A HOCKEY MATCH
(60 MINUTES / ONE HOUR)
14.    IN JUDO, WHAT IS THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE GRADE ATTAINABLE
(12TH dan / WHITE BELT)
15.    HOW MANY PEOPLE FORM A TUG-O-WAR TEAM
(EIGHT)

ROUND FOUR. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE!
16.    WHICH CLASSICAL COMPOSER WROTE ‘THE WATER MUSIC’
(HANDEL)
17.    HOW MANY PLAYERS ARE IN THE WATER AT ONE TIME IN A WATER POLO MATCH
(14)
18.    WHO WROTE ‘WATERSHIP DOWN’
(RICHARD ADAMS)
19.    FOR WHAT PRODUCT IS THE IRISH TOWN OF WATERFORD FAMOUS
(CRYSTAL GLASS)
20.    WHO WROTE THE CLASSIC NOVEL ‘THE WATER BABIES’
(CHARLES KINGSLEY)  

ROUND FIVE. CAR-A-GRAMS (MAKE & MODEL OF CARS)
21. SOFT RECORD (FORD ESCORT)
22. KNOWS GLOVE FLAG (VOLKSWAGEN GOLF)
23. SINS ANY NUNS (NISSAN SUNNY)
24. LOYAL ACTOR TOO (TOYOTA COROLLA)
25. VIA COD CHIN (HONDA CIVIC)

ROUND SIX. LIVING WORLD
26. WHAT IS A MALE HONEY BEE KNOWN AS
(DRONE)
27. IS A GURNARD - A BIRD, A FISH OR AN INSECT
(A FISH)
28. WHICH BIRD IS ASSOCIATED WITH LUNDY ISLAND
(PUFFIN)
29. WHICH IS THE LARGEST MEMBER OF THE CROW FAMILY
(RAVEN)
30. WHAT DO POLLED CATTLE NOT HAVE
(HORNS)

ROUND SEVEN. ANIMATED MOVIES
31. WHICH OF THE SEVEN DWARFS HAS THE LONGEST NAME
(BASHFUL)
32. WHO CREATED ‘WALLACE & GROMIT’
(NICK PARK)
33. WHICH ANIMATED FILM TAKES PLACE IN PEPPERLAND
(YELLOW SUBMARINE)
34. WHAT IS SIMBA’S UNCLE CALLED IN THE LION KING
(SCAR)
35. WHAT IS THE PRINCESS CALLED IN ALADDIN
(JASMINE)

ROUND EIGHT. NUMBER TWO’S!
36. ONE FOR SORROW, TWO FOR WHAT
(JOY or MIRTH)
37. THE ANIMALS WENT IN TWO BY TWO, THE ELEPHANT AND THE WHAT
(KANGAROO)
38. VALENTINE AND PROTEUS WERE THE NAMES OF TWO GENTLEMEN FROM WHERE
(VERONA)
39. THE GOD ‘JANUS’ HAD TWO WHAT
(HEADS)
40. WHAT NATIONALITY WERE THE 90’s CHART TOPPING DUO ‘2 UNLIMITED’
(DUTCH - maybe double-dutch!)

ROUND NINE. AROUND THE WORLD
41. IN WHICH MOUNTAIN RANGE CAN YOU MOUNT THE JUNGFRAU (PRON: YOUNG-FROW)
(THE ALPS)
42. WHICH VOLCANO RAINED ASH ON WASHINGTON STATE IN 1980
(MOUNT ST.HELENS)
43. WHAT IS THE ENGLISH NAME FOR MOSCOWS’ ATTRACTION KNOWN LOCALLY AS KRASNAVA PLOSCHAD
(RED SQUARE)
44. WHICH SEASONAL KIDDY ATTRACTION IN FINLAND RECEIVES A £125,000 E.U. GRANT
(SANTA’S GROTTO)
45. WHICH TURKISH MOUNTAIN RANGE SHARES ITS NAME WITH A SIGN OF THE ZODIAC
(TAURUS)

ROUND TEN. TRUE OR FALSE!
46. HUMANS ARE THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH WHO HAVE SEX FOR PLEASURE
(FALSE - DOLPHINS)
47. A PIG’S ORGASM LASTS FOR 30 MINUTES
(TRUE)
48. LEFT HANDED PEOPLE LIVE, ON AVERAGE, NINE YEARS LONGER THAN RIGHT HANDED PEOPLE
(FALSE - OTHER WAY ROUND)
49. THE HUMAN HEART CREATES ENOUGH PRESSURE WHEN IT PUMPS OUT TO THE BODY TO SQUIRT BLOOD 30 FEET
(TRUE)
50. IF YOU FART (PASS WIND) CONSISTENTLY FOR 6 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS, ENOUGH GAS IS PRODUCED TO CREATE THE ENERGY OF AN ATOMIC BOMB
(TRUE!!!)

Round One - F-Words
Which F-Word can be…
1. Floating wreckage at sea?
Flotsam
2. Small deer with white spotted reddish brown summer coat?
Fallow
3. Former Royal coat of arms of France?
Fleur-de-lis
4. A narrow crack or split?
Fissure
5. Seasoned smoked sausage?
Frankfurter

Round Two - Around The World
6. What country provides only overland exit from S America?
Panama
7. What Euro capital is 208 miles from London by air?
Paris
8. What is the official language of Cuba?
Spanish
9. What is Santa Clara Valley in California better known as?
Silicon Valley
10. What European country colonised Mozambique and Angola?
Portugal

Round Three - Food & Drink
11. In cookery what type of food is the Italian " Frittata"?
Omelette
12. Which Dutch beer features a five pointed red star in it’s logo?
Heineken
13. Lobster Thermadore is a dish of lobster served with which type of sauce?
Cheese
14. On a Spanish menu, what are gambas?
Prawns
15. Which cartoon duo share their name with a cocktail of rum, brandy, nutmeg, egg and milk?
Tom & Jerry

Round Four - Sporting Chance
16. Which Olympic events have a course of one mile, 427 yards?
Rowing events
17. After how many points do players change service in table tennis?
Five
18. In which sport could you see a flying camel?
Ice Skating
19. Which player stands on the mound in the middle of the diamond in baseball?
The Pitcher
20. In which sport would you find a ‘kissing button’?
Archery - on a bowstring

Round Five - Nicknames and Aliases
21. Who was William Frederick Cody better known as?
Buffalo Bill
22. Who has as one of his titles ‘Patriarch of the West’?
The Pope
23. By what name is Brown Owl (the leader of Brownies) now officially known?
Brownie Guider
24. What other name is the fruit ‘Bramble’ better known as?
Blackberry
25. I’m the urban spaceman, a hit for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band was produced by Apollo C. Vermouth. Whose alias is this?
Paul McCartney

Round Six - Metal Work
26. What is the Earth’s most abundant metal?
Aluminium
27. Which metal is obtained from the minerals haematite and magnetite?
Iron
28. What is the lightest (least dense) metal?
Lithium
29. Which metal is obtained from the mineral cinnabar?
Mercury
30. Which metal is obtained from the mineral galena?
Lead

Round Seven - Transport
31. Which mode of transport first crossed the English Channel on 25/07/59?
Hovercraft
32. Which British Airline collapsed in 1982?
Laker Airlines / Skytrain
33. In which decade of the 20th century was the Volkswagen Beetle first launched?
Thirties / 1938
34. Which was the first railway station to be built in London?
Euston
35. In which country did Steve Fosset land following his successful Circumnavigation of the World in a hot air balloon in 2002?
Australia

Round Eight - History Class
36. In WWII, how was the Japanese aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M known to the allies?
Zero
37. Who was Prime Minister at the time of the abdication of Edward VIII?
Stanley Baldwin
38. In what year was the first maritime SOS signal sent?
1912 (Titanic)
39. In 1965 Douglas Englebart invented which computer accessory?
Mouse
40. Which battle took place on 21st October 1805?
Battle of Trafalgar  

Round Nine - Connections
41. Who was the origonal presenter of A Question of Sport?
David VINE
42. What was Elvis Presley’s first ever Uk hit single?
Heartbreak HOTEL
43. Which TV series featured the Ingal family of Walnut Grove?
Little HOUSE on the prairie
44. Which song topped the charts for Abba in 1978?
Take a CHANCE on me
45. What is the connection?
Monopoly

Round Ten - What Happened Next?
46. 11 Feb 1990, a gate opens and a frail 73-year-old man walks towards a small crowd of people?
Nelson Mandela walks free from prison
47. It’s 1969 and Lulu has just entered a BBC television studio?
…and relieves herself all over the Blue Peter Studio because she’s an elephant!
48. April 1985, Ten minutes past midnight, he places his hand on the table after a very tiring night’s work…?
Denis Taylor’s last pot in the 1985 World Snooker final
49. June 1988 and a bell rings in Atlantic City?
91 seconds later (at a pay rate of $219,780 per second) Mike Tyson has destroyed Michael Spinks
50. A young orphan who witnessed his parents’ murder returns from self imposed exile in the Orient and discovers a cavern under his home…?
Batman begins!

Tiebreaker - What is the greatest number of miles ridden backwards on a Uni cycle without stopping?
53 miles