Quiz 037-2008
1. Which Mediterranean port, now a suburb of Tel Aviv, is famous for its oranges?
Jaffa
2. Which of the ‘Mister Men’ is coloured orange and has long, rubbery snake like arms?
Mister Tickle
3. What name is shared by a small orange and a Chinese official?
Mandarin
4. Which British city has an underground railway that is nicknamed “The Clockwork Orange”?
Glasgow
5. Which fruit is a cross between an orange and a tangerine?
Clementine
Round Two - Around The World
6. If you sailed east from Cape Town in South Africa to the city of Perth in Western Australia, which ocean would you cross?
The Indian Ocean
7. Which was the only city to host the summer Olympic Games in the 1980’s that was not a capital city?
Los Angeles (1984)
8. Bordered by France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia, which country is a peninsula projecting into the Mediterranean sea?
Italy
9. Which African country has a coastline on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?
Morocco
10. If American states were listed alphabetically, which two states would separate Tennessee and Vermont?
Texas and Utah
Round Three - Metallic Round
11. Plumbers derive their name from the latin word for which metal?
Lead
12. By what more familiar name is iron pyrates known?
Fools Gold
13. Which metal is the most common on the earth’s surface?
Aluminium
14. Which metal is liquid at normal room temprature?
Mercury
15. Which part of the body is sometimes metaphorically described as silver?
The tongue
Round Four - Call The Cops
16. Who is credited with founding the modern police force?
Sir Robert Peel
17. What name is given to the legal document, which allows the police to enter a suspect’s home?
Search Warrant
18. What Was The Name Of The Policeman In ‘Allo ‘Allo?
Officer Crabtree
19. What Was The Name Of The Policeman That Top Cat And His Gang Were Always Trying To Avoid?
Officer Dibble
20. Which comic police force was invented by Mack Sennett?
Keystone Cops
Round Five - Celebrity Choices
21. Which of the following celebrities adopted a new surname to reflect the county of his or her birth - Eileen Derbyshire, David Essex or Sarah Lancashire?
David Essex
22. Why did John Wayne have the nickname the Duke, as a child he was found fist fighting, he claimed noble English ancestry or he had a pet dog of that name?
He had a pet dog of that name
23. Why did actor Michael Keaton change his surname to Keaton, his surname was Douglas and there was already a Michael Douglas, because his real name was Ketanschevski or his maternal grandfather was Buster Keaton?
His surname was Douglas and there was already a Michael Douglas
24. Which ot the following has won a Bafta acting award for a performance in a TV advert, Bob Hoskins, Maureen Lipman or Rowan Atkinson?
Maureen Lipman
25. Which entertainer is in the Guiness Book of Records for telling 1,500 jokes non stop in three and a half hours, Ken Dodd, Bob Monkhouse or Jimmy Tarbuck?
Ken Dodd
Round Six - No Pots, Just Pans
26. Which canal links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
Panama
27. What Spanish name is given to a long thin cigar?
Panatela
28. Which name, used by Milton in the book Paradise Lost for the capital of hell, is now used to mean a tumultuous uproar?
Pandemonium
29. Which large gland in the human body discharges digestive enzymes into the intestine?
Pancreas
30. What name is given to a species of violet that includes the hearts-ease?
Pansy
Round Seven - Plants & Flowers
31. Which plants leaves are the traditional antidote to nettle stings?
Dock
32. What are the fruits of the wild rose called?
Hips
33. What is the more common name for the plant Atropa Belladonna?
Deadly Nightshade
34. What colour are the flowers of St Johns Wort?
Yellow
35. From which type of flower are vanilla pods obtained?
Orchid
Round Eight - Chicken Run
36. What name is given to a dish of chicken, bacon and red wine?
Coq au Vin
37. What is the collective noun for a group of chickens?
Brood
38. In 1970 who had a hit single with "Do The Funky Chicken"?
Rufus Thomas
39. What is the name for a chicken less than one year old?
Pullet
40. Which children’s TV program featured the Iron Chicken?
The Clangers
Round Nine - Connections
41. What rang out on July 8th 1776 to proclaim the first reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Dixon in Pennsylvania?
The Liberty Bell
42. Which snooker player (turned TV personality) won the World Championship in 1991?
John Parrot (sketch)
43. What name was given to the purification process started in 1478 by Roman Catholics in Spain to drive out Jews and other non-believers?
The Spanish Inquisition
44. What is the common name for unsolicited junk e-mail?
Spam
45. What is the Coonection?
Monty Python
Round Ten - The Sex Test
46. Name the Carolina-born soul singer who claimed in 1970 that he was a sex machine?
James Brown
47. In the sexual practise of ‘Shrimping’, what parts of the body are sucked?
Toes
48. True or False – In London it is illegal to have sex on a parked motorcycle?
True!
49. "Oculolinctus" is a fetish in, which people are sexually aroused by licking a partner’s what?
Eyeball
50. According to a recent sex survey, which household appliance is most commonly ‘misused’ by men?
Vacuum cleaner
Tiebreaker - According to the ‘Karma Sutra’, how many sexual positions are there?
526
Attachment: Quizerama 50Q Answer Sheet.xls
