QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - General Ignorance
1. In 1983, Samantha Fox made her first appearance on Page Three of the Sun. What was the pop hit she had three years later?
‘Touch Me (I Want Your Body)’
2. Which Texan mission fortress was besieged by Mexicans in 1836?
The Alamo
3. In 1969, Mariner 6 was launched in America to take photographs of which planet?
Mars
4. The Dalai Lama was enthroned in 1940. He’s the head of the main Buddhist order in which Himalayan region?
Tibet
5. Tennis star Helena Sukova was born in 1965. What is her nationality?
Czech

Round Two - Hobbies
6. What would you be looking up if you referred to a book by Leslie Halliwell?
Films or Videos
7. What does a lepidopterist collect?
Butterflies or Moths
8. What season runs from 16th June to the 7th March?
Coarse Fishing
9. What are listed in Millers Price Guide?
Antiques
10. What would you buy from a Stanley Gibbons catalogue?
Stamps

Round Three - Castles
11. Which castle is on the island of Anglesey?
Beaumaris
12. At which castle was Mary, Queen of Scots executed?
Fotheringhay
13. Which is the biggest castle in Britain that is still in use?
Windsor
14. At which castle was Prince Charles made Prince of Wales?
Caernarfon
15. Which castle, originally part of England’s coastal defences, was shot at by the Germans in World War II?
Dover

Round Four - Clothes Line
16. What is the correct name for the short, braced trousers traditionally worn by men in Bavaria and Austria?
Lederhosen
17. What head covering is named after a battle?
Balaclava
18. For which group of people were the original jeans made?
Gold Miners in the 49 gold rush
19. Where would you wear a mantilla?
On you head
20. Where would a Japanese wear his or her Obi?
Around the waist - it’s a sash
Spare - What colour hats do ordinary Smurfs wear?
White

Round Five - Handout Round
21. HAMAS
22. HALIFAX
23. HYDROGEN
24. HUMBER BRIDGE
25. HELIOS

Round Six - Assassins
26. Who was the subject of the attempted assassination in The Eagle has landed?
Winston Churchill
27. Who killed J.R. Ewing in Dallas?
Kristen Shepard (Mary Crosby)
Or "who did Kristen Shepard kill in 1981?
28. Who killed John Lennon?
Mark Chapman
29. James Earl Ray was jailed for killing which American?
Martin Luther King
30. Who allegedly shot President Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald

Round Seven - Egyptology
31. The ancient temple of Karnak is in which Egyptian town?
Luxor
32. Egypt had at one time 2 of the 7 wonders of the world - one was the Pyramids, what was the other?
The Pharos of Alexandria - or a bloody great lighthouse!
33. On which bank of the Nile do the Pyramids stand - East or West?
West
34. The word Pharaoh literally means a) Noble King, b) Great God, c) Great House, or d) Son of the Sun
c) Great House
35. Who was the jackal headed god of ancient Egypt, who guarded tombs?
Anubis

Round Eight - Captains
36. Who was captain of the Trumpton Fire Brigade?
Captain Flack
37. Captains McIntyre and Pierce appeared in which TV series?
MASH
38. Who is captain of the Starship Voyager?
Janeway
39. Who was captain of the Titanic when it sank?
John Smith
40. Which captain was a floorwalker at Grace Brothers?
Peacock

Round Nine - Connections
41. In which US city was the TV series Cheers set?
BOSTON
42. Which artist painted the Blue Boy?
Thomas GAINSBOROUGH
43. Who plays Dirty Den Watts in Eastenders?
Leslie GRANTHAM
44. Which US President did John Wilkes Booth assassinate?
Abraham LINCOLN
45. What is the Connection?
Lincolnshire

Round Ten - Handout Round
46. HEZBOLLAH
47. HINDENBERG
48. HYUNDAI
49. HAITI
50. HOT CHOCOLATE