QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - The Sweet Counter
1. Which chocolate bar was described as a ‘taste of paradise’?
Bounty
2. What did Opal Fruit sweets change their name to?
Starburst
3. From what sort of confectionery is the character Bertie Bassett constructed?
Liquorice Allsorts
4. What name is given to almonds fried in boiling sugar syrup, often found in Belgian chocolates?
Praline
5. Which confection is a mixture of boiled syrup, beaten egg whites, nuts and fruit?
Nougat

Round Two - Not Good, Not Bad, Just Ugly!
6. Which gorgon was so ugly that all who saw her face were turned to stone?
Medusa
7. What is the ability to pull ugly, grotesque and strange faces called?
Gurning
8. An old Russian saying goes "There are no ugly women in the world, only a shortage of…..", what?
Vodka
9. With which television show do you associate "The Ugly Bloke" spot?
TFI Friday
10. If Clint Eastwood was the "Good", and Lee Van Cleef was the "Bad" who was the "Ugly" in the film "The Good the Bad & The Ugly"?
Eli Wallach

Round Three - Organisations
11. Which organisation is responsible for the running of the annual Crufts Dog Show?
The Kennel Club
12. What organisation do the initials "PCC" stand for?
Press Complaint Commission
13. What organisation publishes a journal called ‘Rucksack’?
The Ramblers’ Association
14. Which Organisation Began Life As The Brighton Motor Road Patrol?
The AA
15. Which organisation is responsible for the care of all lighthouses in England, Wales, The Channel Islands and Gibraltar?
Trinity House  

Round Four - Goalkeepers
16. Which England International goalkeeper’s career came to an end after a 1972 car crash?
Gordon Banks
17. Who in 1989 became England’s most expensive goalkeeper, and the first to be transferred for a million pounds?
Nigel Martyn
18. Which goalkeeper was beaten by Maradonna’s “hand of god goal” in 1986?
Peter Shilton
19. Before fame as a Singer, Julio Inglesias was a Goalkeeper with which club?
Real Madrid
20. Which US film star played the goalkeeper in the film ‘Escape To Victory’?
Sylvester Stallone

Round Five - It’s A Puzzle
21. A Cruciverbalist is interested in what?
Cossword Puzzles
22. Student Julian Chivers became British champion of what in 1981 by taking only 26 seconds?
Rubik’s Cube
or - What frustrating puzzle won the toy of the year award in both 1980 and 1981?
Rubik’s Cube
23. What word describes a poem, word puzzle or other composition, written in such a way as letters line up to form other words?
Acrostic
24. Mark Nyman, a former Scrabble world champion, became a producer on which TV show?
Countdown
25. On which TV show do contestants have to solve word puzzles by selecting letters they think are found in the hidden phrase?
Wheel Of Fortune

Round Six - Lancashire
26. In which town in Lancashire would you find the Thwaites brewery?
Blackburn
27. Lancashire’s Industrial Landscape was often the subject for which Famous Artist?
L.S Lowry
28. On which English course is the Lancashire Oaks run?
Haydock Park
29. Which comedy double act worked as welders in a Lancashire factory before forming a singing duo called The Harper Brothers?
Cannon and Ball
30. Which TV and newspaper fortune teller was born in Accrington, Lancashire?
Mystic Meg

Round Seven - Magic Moments
31. Which film contains the magic words ‘Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo’?
Cinderella
32. Who Was The First British Magician To Become A TV Star?
David Nixon
33. In Norse Mythology who had a magic hammer?
Thor
34. What nationality was the famous magician and illusionist Harry Houdini?
American
35. Which film with an animated sequence featured Angela Lansbury using her magic powers against the Nazis?
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Round Eight - Whale Meat Again!
36. Which is the largest type of whale which can grow to over 100 feet long?
The Blue Whale
37. What is a baby whale called?
Calf
38. What colour was the whale in Moby Dick?
White
39. What name is given to minute plants and animals floating on the surface of the water, used as food by whales and other creatures?
Plankton
40. What is the collective noun for a group of whales?
Pod (also Gam)

Round Nine - Connections
41. What character was played by Felicity Kendall in The Good Life?
BARBARA Good
42. Who was the first New Zealander to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
Sir Edmund HILLARY
43. Who did Ricky Valance want told he loved her according to the title of his Number 1 hit of August 1960?
LAURA (Tell Laura I Love Her)
44. Which female detective featured in the books `The Hidden Staircase`, `The Bungalow Mystery` and `The Secret Of The Old Clock`?
NANCY Drew
45. What is the connection?
The first names of the recent FIRST LADIES of the USA  

Round Ten - Which Is Not?
46. Which is not a sheep - Tamworth, Jacob or Herdwick?
Tamworth is a pig
47. Which is not a fish - Shad, Finfoot or Grunt?
Finfoot is a bird
48. Which is not a shell fish - Prickly Helmet, Arthritic Spider or Stargazer?
Stargazer is a fish
49. Which is not a bird - Noddy, Shag or Cardy?
Cardy is a sheep
50. Which is not a plant - Townhall Clock, Creeping Jenny or Butcher’s Broom?
Butcher’s broom is a tree