QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Holiday Destinations
1. Dalaman, Alanya and Side are holiday resorts in which country?
Turkey
2. Which two countries can offer Dead Sea Beach holidays?
Israel & Jordan
3. If you went on holiday to Agadir, which country would you be in?
Morocco
4. In what city is main airport for holidays to the Costa del Sol?
Malaga
5. Which ocean would you paddle in, if you were holidaying in Zanzibar?
Indian Ocean

Round Two - No Smoking
6. Which country smokes the most cigarettes per head of population?
China
7. What capital city means ‘Bay of Smoke’ in the local language?
Reykjavik
8. In which US state will you find ‘the valley of ten thousand smokes’?
Alaska
9. What do Americans call a chimney?
Smoke Stack
10. Which female solo singer in 1998 had a top ten hit with “Smoke”?
Natalie Imbruglia

Round Three - Court Cases
11. Who were jailed for murdering Jack the Hat McVitie & George Cornell?
The Krays
12. Barry George was jailed for mudering which personality?
Jill Dando
13. Who was tried for the death of baby Matthew Eappen?
Louise Woodward
14. Who was tried for the murder of Ronald Goldman?
O J Simpson
15. What kind of punishment added to a prison sentence was abolished in 1948?
Hard Labour

Round Four - Cowboys & Indians
16. Which 1992 western starred Clint Eastwood as William Mooney?
Unforgiven
17. What 1881 Wild West incident has been the subject of 29 movies?
Gunfight at the OK Corral
18. What was the name of the western series that ran for 20 years (1955-75) starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon?
Gunsmoke
19. In which TV western series did the Chinese cook Hop Sing appear?
Bonanza
20. Which western TV series featured the characters Jed “Kid” Curry and Hannibal Heyes?
Alias Smith And Jones

Round Five - Quiz Links
21. What links a Religious Festival celebrated on November 1st with A Group of singing girls?
All Saints
22. What Name Links A Shakespeare King, A Nineteenth Century Poet And A Jet Aircraft?
Lear
23. What name links John Wayne, The title of a Genesis Album and the name of the dog in The Beverley Hillbillies?
Duke
24. What names links the Magic Roundabout and the father of the disciples James & John?
Zebedee
25. Which name links a Stephen King novel, a Cliff Richard single and Princes Leia in Star Wars?
Carrie

Round Six - WWII Flying Display
26. By what name is the DC-3 aircraft better known?
Dakota
27. By what name was the German Junkers JU87 dive-bomber known?
Stuka
28. The Fairey Swordfish generally carried which type of bomb?
Torpedoes
29. The De Havilland DH98 was built entirely of wood – how was it more commonly known?
The Mosquito
30. Which bomber was adapted to take the ‘bouncing bomb’?
Avro Lancaster

Round Seven - Take a Butchers
31. In Which 2002 Film Did Daniel Day Lewis Play The Role Of Bill The Butcher?
Gangs Of New York
32. What is the name for meat killed in the prescribed Muslim manner?
Halal
33. Which Nazi was tried as the Butcher of Lyon in 1987?
Claus Barbie
34. What is the name of the famous meat market in London?
Smithfield
35. What does a butcher call the streaks of fat running through a piece of meat?
Marbling

Round Eight - Birdwatch
36. The Teal belongs to which family of birds?
Ducks
37. Which part of a Redshank is red?
Legs
38. What can the Hummingbird do that other birds can’t?
Fly backwards
39. Which birds are associated with the Tower of London?
Ravens
40. What is the correct name for a birds feathers?
Plumage

Round Nine - Connections?
41. Which BBC motoring magazine has been presented by Angela Rippon and Noel Edmonds?
Top GEAR
42. Which crude explosive device was named after a Soviet statesman who organised their production during WWII?
Molotov COCKTAIL
43. In which film did Susan Sarandon play a nun and Sean Penn a convicted murderer on death row?
Dead Man WALKING
44. In popular music, what does R and B stand for?
RHYTHM and Blues
45. What is the connection?
Types of Stick

Round Ten - This Round’s A Flop!
46. Which American company invented the computer floppy disc in 1970?
IBM
47. Who is the brother of Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail?
Peter Rabbit
48. Which two Hollywood stars played the male leads in the 1990 flop "The Bonfire Of The Vanities"?
Tom Hanks & Bruce Willis
49. My first single release “Chills and Fever” in late 1964 was a flop but my next release went to Number One in the UK singles charts. Who am I?
Tom Jones
50. What was the name of the flop British soap opera that was located in Manchester and lasted barely a year from its launch in August 1985?
Albion Market