QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

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ROUND ONE - GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1.    WHAT IS THE ZODIAC SIGN FOR GEMINI?
TWINS
2.    WHICH SCOTTISH RUGBY PLAYER MARRIED A TV PRESENTER IN 2001?
KENNY LOGAN
3.    FROM WHICH COUNTRY DOES THE LAMBADA ORIGINATE?
BRAZIL
4.    WHAT DOES VOLKSWAGEN MEAN AS IN THE CAR MAKE?
PEOPLES CAR
5.    WHICH SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY WAS NAMED AFTER AN ITALIAN CITY?
VENEZUELA (VENICE)

ROUND TWO - RHYMING QUIZ (ALL THE ANSWERS RHYHME WITH EACH OTHER)
1.    WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOGI BEARS BEST BUDDY?
BOO BOO
2.    WHICH ORIENTAL VILLAIN CAME FROM THE PEN OF SAX ROHMER?
FU MANCHU
3.    IN WHICH TV SERIES DID DAVID JASON PLAY THE ROLE OF TED SIMCOCK?
A BIT OF A DO
4.    WHO HAD A 1986 HIT WITH THE SONG ‘I JUST DIED IN YOUR ARMS TONIGHT’?
CUTTING CREW
5.    WHAT IS THE STATE CAPITAL OF HAWAII?
HONOLULU

ROUND THREE - LINK LETTERS (THE LAST LETTER OF THE FIRST ANSWER WILL BE THE FIRST LETTER OF THE SECOND ANSWER AND SO ON)
1.    WHO IS THE BRAINS BEHIND THE POP GROUP ‘THE GORILLAZ’?
DAMON ALBARN
2.    WHICH SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY EXTENDS FURTHEST NORTH?
NORWAY
3.    WHO WAS THE ONLY ACTOR TO STAR IN THE FILMS ‘THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ (1960) AND IT’S FIRST SEQUEL ‘THE RETURN OF THE SEVEN’ (1966)?
YUL BRYNNER
4.    WHAT NAME IS GIVEN TO A PRE ARRANGED MEETING PLACE?
RENDEZVOUS
5.    WHICH HORSE RACE WAS TEMPORARILY SWITCHED TO AYR IN 1989, THE FIRST TIME SCOTLAND HAD STAGED A CLASSIC?
ST LEGER

ROUND FOUR - QUIZLINK
1.    WHO APPEARED ON THE WORLDS FIRST POSTAGE STAMP?
QUEEN VICTORIA
2.    WHAT WAS LOUISE BROWN OF BRISTOLS’ CLAIM TO FAME IN 1978?
WORLDS FIRST TEST TUBE BABY
3.    WHICH ACTRESS HAS BEEN TWICE MARRIED TO ACTOR DON JOHNSON?
MELANIE GRIFFITHS
4.    WHAT IS THE NAME OF CHRIS EVANS’ MEDIA GROUP?
GINGER (GMG)
5.    WHAT IS THE LINK OR CONNECTION?
THE SPICE GIRLS

ROUND FIVE - MOVIES
1.    IN THE 1988 WESTERN ‘YOUNG GUNS’, WHO PLAYED BILLY THE KID?
EMILIO ESTEVEZ
2.    IN WHICH FILM DID DAVID BOWIE PLAY THE KING OF THE GOBLINS?
LABYRINTH
3.    WHICH WRITER DID NICOLE KIDMAN PORTRAY IN THE FILM ‘THE HOURS’?
VIRGINIA WOOLF
4.    WHICH COMEDIAN PLAYED THE PART OF OSCAR WILDE IN THE 1997 FILM ‘WILDE’?
STEPHEN FRY
5.    IN WHICH FILM OF 1999, DID RICHARD GERE AND JULIA ROBERTS TEAM UP AGAIN FOR?
RUNAWAY BRIDE

ROUND SIX - SPORT
1.    OTHER THAN SKI-ING, OR ANYTHING SNOW ORIENTATED, WHICH SPORT TAKES PLACE ON A PISTE?
FENCING
2.    WHAT DO THE INITIALS ‘WD’ STAND FOR ON A NETBALL SHIRT?
WING DEFENCE
3.    WHO DID SIR BOBBY ROBSON MANAGE IMMEDIATELY AFTER MANAGING ENGLAND?
PSV EINDHOVEN
4.    WHO WAS THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO BE CROWNED WORLD DARTS CHAMPION?
JOHN LOWE
5.    IN 1996, WHICH BRITISH ATHLETE PARTICIPATED IN THEIR 6TH CONSECUTIVE OLYMPIC GAMES?
TESSA SANDERSON

ROUND SEVEN - TV
1.    WHICH CHARACTER DID GARETH HUNT PLAY IN THE TV SERIES ‘THE NEW AVENGERS’?
GAMBIT, MIKE GAMBIT
2.    FOR HOW MANY DECADES HAS BLUE PETER BEEN ON THE TV SCREEN?
6, STARTED IN 1958
3.    WHICH WAR FEATURED IN THE TV SERIES ‘SHARPE’, STARRING SEAN BEAN?
NAPOLEONIC WAR
4.    WHAT WAS THE NAME OF SHARRON DAVIES’ GLADIATOR CHARACTER WHEN SHE JOINED THE SHOW?
AMAZON
5.    WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE TV SERIES IN WHICH KEITH CHEGWIN RAN ABOUT NAKED?
THE NAKED JUNGLE

ROUND EIGHT - FOOD & DRINK
1.    WHAT WERE ‘STARBURST’ SWEETS FORMERLY KNOWN AS?
OPAL FRUITS
2.    WHICH LAGER WAS ADVERTISED ON TV WITH THE SLOGAN, ‘REASSURINGLY EXPENSIVE’?
STELLA ARTOIS
3.    WHAT ‘P’ IS THE ALTERNATIVE NAME FOR THIN LENTIL CRACKERS?
POPPADOM
4.    IN WHICH COUNTRY DID CHUTNEY ORIGINATE?
INDIA
5.    WHO WAS THE FEMALE WINE EXPERT ON THE BBC’S ‘FOOD AND DRINK’ PROGRAMME?
JILLY GOOLDEN

ROUND NINE - FAMOUS PEOPLE
1.    WHICH FILM DIRECTOR WAS MARRIED TO SOON YI PREVIN IN 1997?
WOODY ALLEN
2.    ANNE, COLLEEN, BERNADETTE, MAUREEN AND LINDA MADE UP WHICH 70/80′S POP GROUP?
THE NOLANS
3.    STICKING WITH 80′S POP, WHICH 80′S POP STAR WON THE 2003 TV TALENT CONTEST, ‘REBORN IN THE USA’?
TONY HADLEY OF SPANDAU BALLET
4.    WHICH WELSH ACTOR HAS PLAYED JAMES BOND?
TIMOTHY DALTON
5.    WHICH BUSINESSMAN, WHO HAS BUSINESS INTEREST’S IN THE UK, OWNS THE RITZ HOTEL IN PARIS?
MOHAMMED AL FAYED

ROUND TEN - SPEED ROUND (THIS IS A 2 MINUTE ROUND)
1.  THE QUESTION IS: ONLY 5 COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD END WITH THE LETTER ‘L’, CAN YOU NAME THEM?
BRAZIL, PORTUGAL, ISRAEL, SENEGAL, NEPAL

ROUND ONE - GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1.    WHICH MUSICAL TELLS THE STOY OF THE VON TRAPPS?
SOUND OF MUSIC
2.    IN WHICH OCEAN DID THE TITANIC SINK?
ATLANTIC
3.    WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF AGORAPHOBIC?
CLAUSTROPHOBIC
4.    WHICH MONTH OF THE YEAR IS NAMED AFTER THE FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR?
AUGUST
5.    WHICH DESSERTS (PUDDINGS NOT SAND) NAME, FRENCH IN ORIGIN, LITERALLY MEANS ‘WHITE FOOD’?
BLANCMANGE

ROUND TWO - TV
1.    WHICH ‘YOUNG ONE’ REPLACED ERIC THOMPSON AS THE NARRATOR IN THE TV SHOW, ‘THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT’?
NIGEL PLANER
2.    IN WHICH SITCOM DOES ARDAL O’HANLAN PLAY ‘THERMOMAN’?
MY HERO
3.    WHICH TV DRAMA WAS FILMED IN THE IRISH TOWN OF AVOCA?
BALLYKISSANGEL
4.    WHICH TV COMEDIAN AND CHAT SHOW HOST HAS THE REAL NAME OF CHRISTOPHER COLLINS?
FRANK SKINNER
5.    WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE WOMBLES COOK?
MADAME CHOLET (SHOW-LAY)

ROUND THREE - QUIZLINK
1.    WHO WAS THE SECOND TEAM TO WIN THE ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP AFTER IT’S BREAKAWAY FROM THE OLD DIVISION 1 WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THE 1992/3 SEASON?
BLACKBURN ROVERS
2.    WHICH ‘FRIENDS’ STAR, APPEARED IN THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN VIDEO TO ‘DANCING IN THE DARK’?
COURTNEY COX
3.    IN MUSIC, WHICH GROUP NAMED THEMSELVES AFTER THE LEAD CHARACTER IN THE FILM ‘PARIS, TEXAS’?
TRAVIS
4.    AT WHICH ATHLETICS EVENT DID AMERICAN MIKE POWELL, BREAK THE WORLD RECORD IN 1991, A RECORD WHICH HAD STOOD FOR 33 YEARS?
LONG JUMP
5.    WHAT IS THE LINK OR CONNECTION?
NAMES OF RADIO DJ’S, TONY BLACKBURN, SARA COX, DAVE LEE TRAVIS, JANICE LONG

ROUND FOUR - SPORT
1.    WHO WAS THE YOUNGEST GOLFER IN THE 2002 RYDER CUP?
SERGIO GARCIA
2.    WHICH TEAM WERE THE OPPONENTS WHEN ERIC CANTONA LAUNCHED A KUNG FU STYLE KICK AT A SPECTATOR?
CRYSTAL PALACE
3.    WHAT IS THE NATIONAL SPORT OF BULGARIA, BASEBALL, FOOTBALL OR WEIGHTLIFTING?
WEIGHTLIFTING
4.    WHAT CONNECTS THE DEATH OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND ANS THE 1984 WINTER OLYMPICS?
BOTH TOOK PLACE IN SARAJEVO
5.    WHICH FORMER CAPTAIN OF THE ENGLISH FOOTBALL TEAM HAS THE MIDDLE NAMES OF EMERSON CARLYLE?
PAUL INCE, ALSO ENGLANDS FIRST BLACK CAPTAIN

ROUND FIVE - LINK LETTERS (LAST LETTER OF QUESTION 1 WILL BE THE FIRST OF QUESTION 2, LAST OF QUESTION 2 WILL BE THE FIRST OF QUESTION 3 AND SO ON)
1.    WHO WAS THE LITTLE BOY BROUGHT UP BY WOLVES IN THE JUNGLE BOOK?
MOWGLI
2.    WHAT IS THE 19TH LARGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD?
ICELAND (103,000KM SQUARED, IRELAND 84,100 KM SQUARED)
3.    IN WHICH DAILY NEWSPAPER DOES RUPERT THE BEAR APPEAR IN?
DAILY EXPRESS
4.    WHICH MEDICAL DEVICE WAS INVENTED BY DR  RENE LAENNEC TO PRESERVE HIS FEMALE PATIENTS MODESTY?
STETHOSCOPE
5.    IN THE 1956 OLYMPICS, HELD  IN AUSTRALIA, WHICH EVENTS WERE HELD IN SWEDEN?
EQUESTRIAN

ROUND SIX - FILM
1.    WHO PLAYED BOBBY DARIN IN THE FILM ‘BEYOND THE SEA’ LAST YEAR(2005)?
KEVIN SPACEY
2.    WHICH ‘MONSTER’ ACTOR PLAYED THE PART OF THE JUDGE IN THE COURTROOM COMEDY FILM ‘MY COUSIN VINNY’?
FRED GWYNNE, HERMAN MUNSTER
3.    IN THE STAR WARS FILMS, WHAT IS THE HOME PLANET OF THE EWOKS?
ENDOR
4.    WHICH EX SOAP STAR PLAYED THE MOTHER OF CHRISTINE KEELER IN THE FILM ‘SCANDAL’?
JEAN ALEXANDER, HILDA OGDEN IN CORRIE
5.    BENJAMIN BRADDOCK WAS THE LEADING MALE CHARACTER IN WHICH FILM?
THE GRADUATE

ROUND SEVEN - RAINING CATS & DOGS
1.    WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PANTHER IN THE JUNGLE BOOK?
BAGHEERA
2.    WHICH ANIMATED SPACE AGED FAMILY HAD A POOCH CALLED ‘ASTRO’?
THE JETSONS
3.    WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE SHIPS CAT IN ALIEN?
JONES
4.    WHAT BREED OF DOG TAKES IT’S NAME FROM THE RUSSIAN FOR ‘SWIFT’?
BORZOI
5.    WHAT WAS THE NAME OF RIGBY’S CAT IN ‘RISING DAMP’?
VIENNA

ROUND EIGHT - ALPHABET SOUP
1.    WHICH A IS THE LAST WORD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT?
AMEN
2.    WHICH B IS THE SCOTTISH TERM FOR A HILLSIDE?
BRAE
3.    WHICH C IS THE NAME FOR THE USED FOR THE MEETINGS OF A PARLIAMENT?
CHAMBER
4.    WHICH D IS THE DISEASE WITH INFLAMATION OF THE INTESTINES, CAUSING A SEVERE DOSE OF THE RUNS?
DYSENTRY
5.    WHICH E IS THE MIDDLE NAME OF INSPECTOR MORSE?
ENDEAVOUR

ROUND NINE - LETS GO (ALL THE ANSWERS START WITH  THE WORD ‘GO’)
1.    WHAT IS THE NATIONAL DISH OF HUNGARY?
GOULASH
2.    IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, WHAT TYPE OF MYTHICAL BEAST WAS MEDUSSA?
GORGON
3.    WHAT IS THE MORE COMMON NAME FOR HORIPITULATION?
GOOSEBUMPS
4.    WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THE ONLY NOVEL WRITTEN BY MARGARET MITCHELL?
GONE WITH THE WIND
5.    WHICH POP DUO HAD A 1985 HIT WITH THE SONG ‘WE CLOSE OUR EYES’?
GO WEST

ROUND TEN - NAME THE YEAR (ANSWER THE 4 QUESTIONS AND THEN FOR QUESTION 5 TELL ME THE YEAR IT ALL TOOK PLACE, AS IN THE SAME YEAR FOR ALL 4)
1.    WHICH MEMBER OF THE BEE GEES PASSED AWAY IN THIS PARTICULAR YEAR WE ARE LOOKING FOR?
MAURICE GIBB
2.    WHO APPEARED ON LARRY KING’S US CHAT SHOW AND ANNOUNCED HE WAS WILLING TO SELL 64 LOVE LETTERS?
JAMES HEWITT
3.    WHICH FILM WON A GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST MUSICAL IN THIS SAME YEAR?
CHICAGO
4.    WHICH FORMER CHANCELLOR AND HOME SECRETARY DIED IN THE SAME YEAR?
ROY JENKINS
5.    WHAT WAS THE YEAR?
2003

Round One - Think of a Number - How many …
1. Numbers on a bingo board?
90
2. Keys on a piano?
88
3. Legs on a shrimp?
10
4. Labours performed by Hercules
12
5. States in the USA beginning with M?
8

Round Two - Music
6. According to The Guinness Book of Hit Singles this 1957 Christmas hit still holds the dubious distinction of being the fastest falling UK number 1 single, Name the song?
Mary’s Boy Child by Harry Belafonte
7. With which group did Van Morrison sing on the single “Baby Please Don’t Go” which reached no. 10 in the UK charts in 1965?
Them
8. Brothers Ron and Russell Mael had a single that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1974, Under what name did they record?
Sparks
9. Which Italian producer/composer who launched the career of Donna Summer, won an Oscar for the film soundtrack to Midnight Express?
Giorgio Moroder
10. Which female singer was born Folasade Adu in Nigeria in 1960?
Sade

Round Three - The 80’s
11. The world was first aware of the Chernobyl disaster after detectors were triggered at a nuclear plant in which country?
Sweden
12. In which country did Torvill and Dean win Olympic gold with their Bolero routine?
Yugoslavia
13. Which TV reporters stories of the famine in 1984 inspired Bob Geldof to set up Band Aid?
Michael Buerk
14. Who won the ladies singles most times at Wimbledon in the 80s?
Martina Navratilova
15. Where was John Paul II when an attempt was made on his life in 1981?
Rome

Round Four - Around The World
16. How many states of the United States of America have a Pacific coast?
Five
17. Where would you find the Pensacola Mountains?
Antarctica
18. Which three counties of Ulster are not in Northern Ireland?
Cavan, Monaghan, and Donegal
19. What is the current name of what used to be the German Ocean?
The North Sea
20. What is the highest mountain in North America?
Mount McKinley

Round Five - Pot Luck
21. What is the last word of Rule Britannia?
Slaves
22. In the Old Testament Aaron was the elder brother of which prophet?
Moses
23. Cranwell trains cadets for which of the armed forces?
RAF
24. What is the collective name for a litter of piglets?
A farrow
25. How many hours are there in a week?
168

Round Six - Mathematics
26. How many vertices does a cube have?
Eight
27. How many zeros are there in a traditional British billion?
Twelve (Other countries, notably America have 9)
28. On a mathematical graph, what letter is conventionally given to the horizontal axis?
X
29. What branch of mathematics deals with the measurement, properties and relationships of points, lines, surfaces and solids?
Geometry
30. What is the name of an angle that is more than 180° and less than 360°?
Reflex

Round Seven - Beginning To Look A Lot Like…
31. Who is the famous stepsister of Anastasia and Drezilla?
Cinderella
32. In which Bond film would you find Doctor Christmas Jones?
The World Is Not Enough
33. In which part of the world were Turkey’s first found?
North America
34. Who wrote the song “White Christmas”?
Irvine Berlin
35. Who were Mel and Kim who recorded “Rocking Around The Christmas Tree”?
Mel Smith and Kim Wilde

Round Eight - Literature
36. Which famous character did Michael Bond create in a series of books for children?
Paddington Bear
37. Who wrote the best selling novel Hollywood Wives?
Jackie Collins
38. Who wrote the book “A Brief History Of Time”?
Steven Hawking
39. Who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Victor Hugo
40. Who wrote Das Kapital?
Karl Marx

Round Nine - Drive Time
41. Which British car company was founded by Sir William Lyons in 1922?
Jaguar
42. Which company makes the classic Corvette Stingray?
Chevrolet
43. Which company gave us the Scimitar GTE?
Reliant
44. “GT.” after a car name means what?
Gran Turismo / Grand Touring
45. From which country do Hyundai cars come?
South Korea

Round Ten - Multiple Choice
46. How many weeks did Abba spend in the UK charts in the 70s - (a)106 (b)159 (c)181?
C
47. In feet, how high is Ben Nevis - (a)4406ft (b)4458 (c)5002?
A
48. In what year did white lines first appear on Britain’s roads - (a)1922 (b)1925 (c)1928?
B
49. In which year did Samuel Pepys write his last diary entry - (a)1645 (b)1655 (c)1669?
C
50. In which year was the Ryder Cup golf tournament launched - (a)1924 (b)1927 (c)1930?
B