QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Pioneers
1. Which company introduced the first personal stereo?
Sony
2. What was the first item of non stick cookware marketed by Teflon?
Frying Pan
3. Which pioneer in men’s appearance had the first names King Camp?
Gillette
4. Which country in the world was the first to have a woman Prime Minister?
Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
5. What was the name of the world’s first test-tube baby?
Louise Brown - 1978

Round Two - Cheese & Biscuits
6. In which county is Stilton cheese traditionally made?
Leicestershire
7. What name is given to a chewy biscuit, made of oats, sugar, butter and golden syrup?
Flapjack
8. Which town in Italy shares its name with a type of cheese, which is pierced with copper needles to produce a greenish blue mould?
Gorgonzola
9. What is the name of the fancy biscuits or cakes that are taken from the french for Little Oven?
Petits Four
10. What type of cheese do we get from the milk of the Buffalo?
Mozzarella

Round Three - Follow That Car
11. Which member of the public found fame in The TV documentary ‘Driving School’?
Maureen Rees
12. In which 1990 film does Tom Cruise play a stock car driver?
Days Of Thunder
13. What Vehicle Did Penelope Pitstop Drive In Wacky Races?
The Compact Pussycat
14. What make and model of car did Steve McQueen drive in "Bullitt", famous for its car chase sequence?
Ford Mustang
15. What Make Of Car Did Inspector Morse Drive?
Jaguar

Round Four - What’s The Score?
16. Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in World Championship snooker?
Cliff Thorburn
17. In tennis what score follows Deuce?
Advantage
18. What is the maximum possible score in a game of ten pin bowling?
300
19. In Which Game Do You Score ‘One For His Nob’?
Cribbage
20. In darts, what is the lowest score from three different trebles?
Eighteen

Round Five - Windy Weather
21. What are the winds that originate in the Sahara desert called?
Scirroco
22. What was the highest wind speed ever recorded on the surface of the Earth - Was it (A) 165 mph, (B) 195 mph, (C) 225 mph?
C - 225 mph
23. Which strong wind, which blows off the lee side of a mountain range, is named after a native American people?
Chinook
24. In which year did Southern Britain suffer hurricane force winds?
1987
25. Beginning with Z, What name is the west wind or any soft, gentle wind?
Zephyr

Round Six - Snakes Alive
26. What type of snake is depicted on the crowns of Egyptian pharaohs?
Cobra
27. What is the largest poisonous snake in Africa?
Black Mamba
28. In which adventure movie will you hear the line "Snakes! Why does it always have to be snakes"?
Indiana Jones & The Raiders Of The Lost Ark
29. Which pop group, who had six number one hits, were originally called Angel And The Snakes?
Blondie
30. On which countries national flag is there an eagle and a snake?
Mexico

Round Seven - Hello Sailor
31. What is the name of the sailor who appears in many of the Arabian Nights stories?
Sinbad
32. Which shipwrecked sailor settled a war between King Bombo and King Little?
Gulliver
33. What name is given to the carving of bone or ivory often done by sailors?
Scrimshaw
34. Who was the marooned sailor of Treasure Island?
Benn Gunn
35. REMOTELY PIANO SHAPE is an anagram of which famous sailor’s name?
Popeye The Sailorman

Round Eight - Gone Fishing
36. To which fish family does the goldfish belong?
Carp
37. Which freshwater fish, found commonly throughout Britain, has the latin name Rutilus rutilus?
Roach
38. Which fish is the largest of the mackerel family?
Tuna
39. Which fish, if caught in British waters, must be given to the Queen?
Sturgeon
40. What is Britain’s largest freshwater fish?
The Pike

Round Nine - Connections
41. Lord David Sutch, who committed suicide in 1999, was famous for founding what in 1983?
The Monster Raving Loony PARTY
42. Which African American civil rights activist was assassinated in 1968 by escaped convict James Earl Ray?
MARTIN Luther King
43. Which 1997 British film had the working title Eggs, Beans and Chippendales?
The FULL Monty
44. According to the film Gremlins, if you are looking after a Gremlin you should not feed him after midnight, you should not get him wet and you should not expose him to what?
Bright LIGHT
45. What is the connection?
House - part of each answer can be combined with the word "house" to make another word or phrase  

Round Ten - Who Married Who
46. Who was married to Dan Donovan, Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher?
Patsy Kensit
47. Which actress member of the cast of Fawlty Towers was married to John Cleese?
Connie Booth (who played Polly Sherman)
48. Who got married to German music engineer Renate Blauel on Valentines Day 1984?
Elton John
49. Who married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?
Laurence Olivier
50. Who was married to Burhan Belge, Conrad Hilton, George Sanders, Herbert Hutner, Joshua S Cosden Jnr., Jack Ryan, Michael O’Hara, Felipe de Alba and Prince Frederick von Anhalt?
Zsa Zsa Gabor