QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Bookworm
1. What was Muhammad All’s autobiography called?
The Greatest
2. Which Dorothy L Sayers’ creation was Harriet Vane’s husband?
Lord Peter Wimsey
3. Which children’s classic was written to encourage adults to be kinder to horses?
Black Beauty
4. Which book by ex intelligence agent Peter Wright, did the British government try to have banned?
Spycatcher
5. What was the subject of Benjamin Spock’s most famous books?
Childcare

Round Two - Telly Addicts
6. Who starred as Rodney Blackstock in Emmerdale & also starred in Taggart & Special Branch?
Patrick Mower
7. Which reporter found fame during her reporting of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980?
Kate Adie
8. Roger Lloyd Pack played trigger in Only Fools & Horses and Owen Nesbitt in which comedy?
Vicar of Dibley
9. Which TV programme had a character called Bulldog, and a dog-named Eddie?
Frasier
10. Who did Richard Gibson play in Allo Allo?
Herr Flik of the Gestapo

Round Three - Food & Drink
11. Which sauce/salad shares its name with Latin big band music?
Salsa
12. Where did satsumas originate?
Japan
13. What are cornichons?
Gherkins (pickled cucumbers)
14. Puerto Rico and Jamaica are the main producers of which spirit?
Rum
15. What colour is cayenne pepper?
Red

Round Four - Basic Body Facts
16. What is the medical name for the longest bone in your body?
Femur
17. What in centigrade is the standard body temperature?
36 degrees
18. How is your Trachea better known?
Windpipe
19. What name is given to your pits of which hair grows from?
Folicules
20. Where in your body is your Cochlea and your Stirrup?
Ear

Round Five - Stars Without Makeup 1
21. Christina Aguilera
22. Pam Anderson
23. Alicia Silverstone
24. Demi Moore
25. Britney Spears

Round Six - Pop Blockbusters
26. T T N - a number five hit in 1976 for Rod Stewart
Tonight’s The Night
27. T O M P - a number one hit in 1990 for Kylie Minogue
Tears On My Pillow
28. T A T - a number three hit in 1984 for Cindi Lauper
Time After Time
29. I H A D - a number two hit in 1979 for Abba
I Have A Dream
30. M O T - a number seven hit in 1988 for Mica Paris
My One Temptation

Round Seven - Stoned
31. Which member of The Rolling Stones married Mandy Smith in 1989?
Bill Wyman
32. What name is given to the ancient stones situated on Salisbury Plain?
Stonehenge
33. What is the name is given to the stone located in a castle in Ireland, that legend has it when kissed it gives you the gift of the gabb?
Blarney Stone
34. Which metal takes its name from the Swedish for ‘heavy Stone’?
Tungsten
35. Oliver Stone won an Oscar for directing which 1986 film?
Platoon

Round Eight - Up and Down
36. Which British female singer was "Downtown" at No. 2 in 1964?
Petula Clark
37. Which author wrote "Down and Out in Paris and London"?
George Orwell
38. Which British comedy actor played the character Lurchio in The BBC TV series "Up Pompeii?
Frankie Howerd
39. Which English actress starred as Mrs Kate Bridges who in the very last episode of "Upstairs Downstairs" married The Butler Angus Hudson played by Gordon Jackson?
Angela Baddeley
40. David Chappellet, played by American superstar actor Robert Redford, clashes with US Skiing coach Eugene Claire, played by Gene Hackman, in which 1969 film?
Downhill Racer

Round Nine - Connections
41. Where in London is the tomb of the unknown warrior?
Westminster ABBEY
42. What is the name of the oldest soft drink that was created in Wacko in Texas?
Dr PEPPER
43. What was the subject of the film The Hunt For Red October in 1990?
SUBMARINE
44. Which weapon in Cluedo starts with the same letter that it ends with?
REVOLVER
45. What is the connection?
The Beatles - Albums

Round Ten - Stars Without Makeup 2
46. Cameron Diaz
47. Christina Ricci
48. Lisa Kudrow
49. Charlize Theron
50. Calista Flockhart

Tiebreakers - Name the Year
Which year did Kurt Cobain commit suicide?
1994
Which year was Ceylong renamed Sri Lanka?
1972
Which year did Coka Cola create diet coke?
1985
Which year did Allenson patent the fire extinguisher?
1863
Which year did Sir Arthur conan Doyle write first Sherlock holmes Book?
1891
When did Edward Healy discover Haley’s comet?
1682
When was Walt Disney born?
1901
When was the first F1 world champion?
1969
When did the first FA Charity Shield match take place?
1908
When was the first London Marathon?
1981