QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Q For Answers
1. What was the first drug ever used to treat malaria?
Quinine
2. In which film did Peter Ustinov play Emperor Nero?
Quo Vadis
3. What is the smallest member of the partridge family?
Quail
4. Which eight-letter word describes marshy, boggy ground?
Quagmire
5. Which dish could be described as an egg tart?
Quiche Lorraine

Round Two - Dukes
6. On which Mediterranean island was the Duke of Edinburgh born?
Corfu
7. Which Duke led the British forces at the Battle of Waterloo?
Wellington
8. In Which English County Is Chatsworth House, The Home Of The Duke Of Devonshire?
Derbyshire
9. If you were to speak to a Duke, what would be the correct way of addressing him?
Your Grace
10. What was the character name of the Sheriff in "The Dukes Of Hazard"?
Roscoe P Coltrane

Round Three - Sunday Best
11. Which long running TV series was first broadcast in 1969 and was created and presented by Jess Yates?
Stars On Sunday
12. For how many Sundays must the bans be read for a forthcoming marriage?
Three
13. What is the fourth Sunday in Lent called?
Mothering Sunday
14. Which famous European horse race is run annually on the first Sunday in October?
The Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe
15. In which year did Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Safeway, Asda and Gateway first open on a Sunday?
1991

Round Four - Exploring Hampshire
16. Which King fist used Hampshire’s New Forest as a Royal Hunting ground?
William The Conqueror
17. Which famous aircraft flew from a Hampshire airfield for the first time on March 5th 1936?
Spitfire
18. Which Hampshire City was the capital of England before London?
Winchester
19. Which ex-Labour Prime Minister was born in Portsmouth in 1912?
James Callaghan
20. Which famous ship made its maiden voyage from Southampton on May 2nd 1969?
QEII (QEI - 16/10/1946)

Round Five - Cryptic Scottish Football Teams
example - Prison Clock = CELTIC
21. What son might say after parent’s illness
MOTHERWELL
22. Speechless, refuses the weight
DUMBARTON
23. Murder mother? I’ll pass
KILMARNOCK
24. It’s a home for sub-machine guns Frank
STENHOUSEMUIR
25. Not a low Berni Inn
HIBERNIAN

Round Six - All Electric
26. Who invented the electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
27. What name is given to the chief electrician on a film set?
Gaffer
28. How Many Volts Is A Standard Car Battery?
Twelve
29. ‘Old Sparky’ Has Killed More Than 200 People In Florida, What Is It?
Electric Chair
30. What trade name was given to the first synthetic plastic developed in 1909, and widely used for electrical appliances?
Bakelite

Round Seven - Famous Animals
31. In which city will you find a statue to a dog called Greyfriar’s Bobby?
Edinburgh
32. Burmese, a black mare, was a favoured mount of Queen Elizabeth 2nd at which annual state event?
Trooping The Colour
33. What was Guy, a famous inhabitant of London Zoo, who died in 1978?
Gorilla
34. What sort of animal was Socks, an inhabitant of the White House?
A cat
35. What sort of animal was Chi-Chi, a gift from China to London Zoo in 1958?
Giant Panda

Round Eight - Risings and Revolutions
36. In which city did the Easter Rising of 1916 take place?
Dublin
37. Against whom did Hereward the Wake lead a fenland revolt?
The Normans
38. Who was the leader of the 1917 Communist revolution in Russia?
Lenin
39. Which gladiator led a rising against Rome?
Spartacus
40. Which warrior race fought the British during an uprising in New Zealand in 1845?
Maoris

Round Nine - Connections
41. What is the first property you pass on a standard Monopoly board?
Old KENT Road
42. The US lawyer Francis Scott Key wrote a poem about a flag. This poem was later set to music. By what title is it now known?
"The Star Spangled BANNER"
43. Which US jazz musician was nicknamed ‘Bird’?
Charlie PARKER
44. Who played The Ringo Kid in the 1939 film Stagecoach and won an Oscar for his role in True Grit?
John WAYNE
45. What is the connection?
Aliases used by SUPERHEROES - Clark Kent (Superman) / David Banner (The Incredible Hulk) / Peter Parker (Spiderman) / Bruce Wayne (Batman)

Round Ten - Call My Bluff
46. A QUEAN is a) a brick used as a keystone to an arch, b) a fallen woman, c) an African deer?
b) a fallen woman
47. Other than the nickname for a World War II flying bomb, is a DOODLEBUG a) a divining rod, b) a parasite of chickens or c) a type of carp?
c) a type of carp
48. LIGULATE means a) to throttle, b) to truss up like a chicken, or c) strap-shaped?
a) to throttle
49. A BLUFFIE is a) a type of dog, b) an amateur card player or c) a practice arrow at archery?
c) a practice arrow at archery
50. MILSEY – is Scots dialect for a) a milk-strainer, b) homosexual, c) a young salmon?
a) a milk-strainer

Tiebreaker - How may horses in the Bayeux Tapestry?
202