QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Let It Snow
1. How many points are there on every snowflake?
Six
2. Which Jim Carey film stars a dolphin called ’snowflake’?
Ace Ventura Pet Detective
3. According to a Christmas Song who comes dressed in her snow white gown and tap tap taps at your window pane?
Suzy Snowflake
4. Is an ‘Atomic Snowflake’ a winter cocktail, a herb with mauve flowers or the name of a Japanese pop group?
Herb - ‘Atomic Snowflake’ H.H.P. 25 cm. Mauve flowers May/October. An attractive green/white variegated leaf. Scent almost like Lemon Verbena
5. What name is given to a violent snowstorm?
Blizzard

Round Two - Television
6. Which actor plays Vernon Scripps in ITV’s Heartbeat"?
Geoffrey Hughes
7. "Charisma", "Bayleaf", and "Vaseline" were all characters in which TV series?
London’s Burning
8. Played by Jonathan Frakes, who is jean-Luc Picard’s Number One in "Star Trek: The Next Generation"?
William Riker
9. Name the actor who played Hawkeye Pierce in "MASH" and Dr Gabriel Lawrence in "ER"?
Alan Alda
10. What was the name of the drama set in competing hairdressing salons starring Amanda Holden and Sarah Parrish?
Cutting It

Round Three - Firing Missiles
11. In the world of weaponry, what do the initials ICBM stand for?
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
12. What was the name of the anti-missile missiles used by the Americans during The Gulf war to shoot incoming scuds?
Patriot
13. The name of which subsonic tactical missile is the French word for a flying fish?
Exocet
14. Name the movie starring Kevin Costner which was about the Cuban missile crisis?
Thirteen Days
15. What is the name of the isolated spot on the North York Moors national park which became the site of the government’s Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station in the early 1960’s?
Fylingdales
- Which US general was nicknamed Black Jack, and gave his name to a nuclear missile?
Pershing
- Which 1993 Michael Douglas movie has “kid with missile launcher” amongst the cast credits?
Falling Down

Round Four - Supermarket Shopping
16. What is the country of origin of Aldi supermarkets?
Germany
17. In which year were bar codes introduced into supermarkets was it 1974, 1978 or 1982?
1974
18. Which Supermarket chain has run a series of "Computers for Schools" voucher schemes? Tesco
19. Netto owns thousands of supermarkets worldwide, but where did it originate?
Denmark
20. Which supermarket chain took over Safeways in 2004?
Morrisons

Round Five - Winter Sports
21. True or False – A Skiier losing a Ski on his way down is automatically disqualified?
False – Two Ski’s Yes!!!
22. What is the name of the famous bobsleigh track at St. Moritz?
Cresta Run
23. Which winter sport comprises Cross Country Skiing with small-bore rifle shooting?
Biathlon
24. In which Winter Olympic Sport was the 5000 metres event won in a time of 6m 59.97secs?
Speed Skating
25. In which sport has the fastest speed been achieved without mechanical assistance?
Downhill Skiing

Round Six - Car Spotting
26. Which car manufacturer uses a badge consisting of four interlocked circles?
Audi
27. Which Ford motor car was named after the Spanish word for a high jagged peaked mountain range?
Sierra
28. Which American car firm made the Corvette?
Chevrolet
29. Which motor car manufacturer makes the Leon and the Toledo?
Seat
30. Which car manufacturer makes the model called "Octavia"?
Skoda

Round Seven - Food & Drink
31. What type of food is John Montagu credited with inventing in 1765, who said that he liked this food because be could continue to gamble at the same time as eating it?
Sandwich (he was the Earl of Sandwich)
32. Which company makes the chocolate sweets Smarties?
Nestle
33. From which animal does Haggis come?
Sheep
34. Which famous drinks company’s name originates from a medical condition concerning stomach pains that it was initially intended to cure?
Pepsi (from dyspepsia)
35. What is the most popular fruit in the world?
The tomato

Round Eight - You’ve Got Soul
36. Who is known as "the hardest working man in show business" and "the godfather of soul"?
James Brown
37. Which US soul singer was shot dead by his father in 1984?
Marvin Gaye
38. Name the American soul singer who died in 2005 at the age of 54 after suffering a stroke?
Luther Vandross
39. Who is called, The Queen Of Soul?
Aretha Franklin
40. Benjamin Earl Nelson was the real name of which soul singer?
Ben E King

Round Nine - Connections
41. Who was the origonal presenter of A Question of Sport?
David VINE
42. What was Elvis Presley’s first ever Uk hit single?
Heartbreak HOTEL
43. Which TV series featured the Ingal family of Walnut Grove?
Little HOUSE on the prarie
44. Which song topped the charts for Abba in 1978?
Take a CHANCE on me
45. What is the connection?
Monopoly  

Round Ten - Freezing Cold
46. How many degrees Fahrenheit are there between freezing and boiling points?
180 (212-32)
47. Who first perfected freezing food commercially?
Clarence Birdseye
48. What is the study of very low temperatures called? (as in freezing things)
Cryogenics
49. What name is given to the permanent freezing of the ground in areas bordering ice sheets?
Permafrost
50. Which area of Russia, famous for its freezing winter conditions, was used to exile political and criminal prisoners?
Siberia

Tie - How long does an average-sized snowflake take to fall to earth from 1,000 feet?
8 to 10 minutes
- How much did a colour TV licence cost in 1974?
£12