QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - General Ignorance
1. Born in 1912 which singer had a UK Number One hit in 1958 with ‘Magic Moments’?
Perry Como
2. Which Oueen of England was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1536?
Anne Boleyn
3. Which English footballing hero won the first of his 108 caps in 1962?
Bobby Moore
4. In 1927, Norma Talmadge became the first celebrity to take part in an impressive Hollywood tradition. What was she required to do?
Preserve her hands and foot prints in cement outside Mann’s Chinese Theatre
5. Name the organiser of the world’s first package holiday, which set in 1861?
Thomas Cook

Round Two - Wimbledon
6. What is the name given to the electronic line judge at Wimbledon?
Cyclops
7. Which tennis player was runner up in the mens singles final at Wimbledon in both 2000 and 2001?
Pat Rafter
8. Since WWII, who has won the most consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon?
Martina Navratilova
9. Who was the first to break Fred Perry’s record of 3 consecutive Mens Wimbledon Titles?
Bjorn Borg
10. Which British tennis player’s greatest achievement was, arguably, to marry Chris Evert?
John Lloyd
Spare - In April 2003, who became the oldest man to be rated number one in the World Tennis Association rankings at the age of 33?
Andre Agassi

Round Three - Is The Chemist Open?
11. An Antipyretic drug is used to treat what?
Fever
12. Which vitamin would you need if you were suffering from Blood Clotting Disorder?
Vitamin K
13. True or False - in medieval England, if you broke your leg you would call out the local carpenter?
False - you would call out the Blacksmith!
14. Which type of drug would you require to treat an allergy?
Antihistamine
15. What would you be doing if you suffered from Nocturnal Enuresis?
Bed Wetting

Round Four - Around Britain
16. In which county are the Mendip Hills, an area of outstanding beauty?
Somerset
17. The Grand Union Canal was built to link London with which other city?
Birmingham
18. On which river does Chepstow stand?
Wye
19. What is the only county in England to have two separate coastlines?
Devon
20. Of Blackpool’s three piers, which is the longest?
North Pier

Round Five - Wizards
21. What was the name of King Arthur’s Wizzard?
Merlin
22. Who was nicknamed ‘The Welsh Wizzard’?
Lloyd George
23. Which film wizard was played by Frank Morgan?
Wizard of Oz
24. Who formed the pop group Wizard?
Roy Wood
25. Who was nicknamed ‘The Wizard Of Dribble’?
Sir Stanley Matthews

Round Six - Famous People
26. Who was the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia?
Amy Johnson
27. Which former Prime Minister is buried in Blaydon churchyard in Oxfordshire?
Winston Churchill
28. In the world of showbiz how are Cyril Mead and Edward McGuinness better known?
Little & Large
29. Who was the last white President of South Africa, elected in 1989?
FW de Klerk
30. What did Paul Neal change his name to when he took up Firefighting?
Red Adair

Round Seven - Sporting Chance
31. Which country had a goalkeeper named Mustapha Kamel at the 1934 World Cup Finals?
Egypt
32. What was the name the last player from outside the British Isles to reach the final of snookers World Championship?
Cliff Thorburn - first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in a televised snooker match
33. Who was the first overseas player to captain a team to victory in the FA Cup Final?
Eric Cantona
34. Who carried the Union Jack at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics?
Steve Redgrave
35. Who was the first left-arm bowler to take 400 Test Wickets?
Wasim Akram  

Round Eight - Animal Kingdom
36. What colour head does a male Mallard usually have?
Green
37. What type of animal is a Suffolk Punch?
Horse
38. Of which family of fish is the mackerel a member?
Tuna
39. Spectacled, Brown, Cinnamon and Kodiak are all types of what animal?
Bear
40. How do Ants recognise each other?
By Smell

Round Nine - Connections
41. Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar in 1991, what was the name of the character he portrayed?
HANNIBAL Lecter
42. Which Humphrey Bogart film featured a character called Charlie Allnut?
The AFRICAN Queen
43. Which song was a number 1 hit for Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder in 1982?
Ebony and IVORY
44. What alternative name is given to the Sepoy rebellion of 1857/8?
The INDIAN Mutiny
45. What is the connection?
Elephants
Spare - Which Emmerdale Farm character died after accidentally shooting himself with his own shotgun?
Jackie MERRICK (John Merrick was known as the Elephant Man)

Round Ten - Celebrity True or False
46. Eddie Murphy once had to remove two pounds of jewellery to get through an airport metal detector?
TRUE
47. Sheena Easton has two very fat thumbs which means her coats have to buttoned up by someone else?
FALSE
48. Valerie Singleton was caught by an airship sunbathing topless on the secluded balcony of her flat?
TRUE
49. Alfred Hitchcock loved train timetables so much that he used to memorise them?
TRUE
50. Sammy Davis Jnr was blinded during a fight with Frank Sinatra when Sinatra thrust a biro into his eye?
FALSE

Tiebreaker - Largest number of custard pies thrown in one film sequence?
300 in Laurel & Hardy’s Battle Of The Century