Quiz 121207
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
