QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Turkey Trivia
1. From which country does the Turkey originate - Turkey, Mexico or China?
Mexico
2. What is a baby Turkey called - A Poult, A Gobbler or A Turk?
A Poult
3. What is a Turkey’s FURCULA better known as?
Wishbone
4. What is the collective noun for a group of Turkeys - A Gaggle, A Flock or A Gobble?
A Flock
5. Which country eats most Turkey per head of population - UK, Israel, France or USA?
Israel
Spare - What weight (in pounds), according to the Guiness Book of Records is the heaviest Turkey ever recorded?
86lbs

Round Two - Waving Flags
6. Which botanical emblem appears on the flag of Canada?
Maple leaf
7. How many stars appear on the national flag of Australia?
Six
8. What colour is the cross on the national flag of Finland?
Blue
9. Which country’s national flag shows the Union Jack in the top left corner and four red stars on a dark blue background?
New Zealand
10. On which country’s national flag is there an image of a cedar tree?
Lebanon

Round Three - Telly Addicts
11. Who was the first female presenter of The National Lottery?
Anthea Turner
12. Which Eastender’s actress played the role of Saucy Nancy in the television series Worzel Gummidge?
Barbara Windsor
13. Which actor played the role of television cop Nash Bridges?
Don Johnson
14. In the television series Kavanagh QC, what was Kavanagh’s first name?
James
15. Nick Frost plays Comamnder Michael Henderson in which series?
Hyperdrive

Round Four - Food & Drink
16. Cambridge Favourite and Cambridge Vigour are types of what?
Strawberries
17. What colour wine goes into sangria?
Red
18. What is the outer layer of a Baked Alaska made from?
Meringue
19. Mozarella cheese is used on top of which snack food?
Pizza
20. Is ‘green bacon’ smoked or unsmoked?
Unsmoked  

Round Five - January
21. Which god gave his name to the month of January?
Janus - a two faced Greek god of gates and doors
22. On 1st January in 1785, the Daily Universal Register first appeared. By what name do we now know it?
The Times - it was published under its new name exactly three years later
23. Whose birthday is celebrated by a public holiday on the third monday in January in the USA?
Martin Luther King
24. Which group of islands celebrate ‘Thatcher Day’ on January the 11th?
Falklands
25. Which city has a name that literally translates into English as "River of January"?
Rio de Janeiro

Round Six - Movie Madness
26. 1983 film, Shirley Maclaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito, about a feuding mother and daughter?
Terms of endearment
27. 1993 film, Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, a man returns from the civil war?
Sommersby
28. 1992 film, Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, test-pilot from 1939 is frozen in suspended animation?
Forever young
29. 1994 film, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, icy tale of a serial killer?
Se7en
30. 1955 film, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Darren Mcgavin, Eleanor Parker, card dealing and heroin addiction?
Man with the golden arm

Round Seven - Great Britain
31. Fort William is at one end of which canal?
Caledonian
32. In which county is East Midlands airport?
Derbyshire
33. Which port is connected to London by the A3?
Portsmouth
34. Over which river does the Clifton suspension bridge cross?
River Avon - Somerset
35. Off which English county are the Goodwin Sands?
Kent

Round Eight - Human Body
36. What name is given to the four small bones at the base of the spine?
The coccyx
37. Which part of the body is affected by glaucoma?
The eyes
38. What name is informally given to the spot where the ulna nerve lies over the humerus?
Funny bone
39. What is produced by lacrimal glands?
Tears
40. What is the scientific name for the upper jaw?
Maxilla

Round Nine - Connections
41. In which well-known musical were there gangs named The Jets and The Sharks?
West SIDE Story
42. Which was the first film to feature the character Marty McFly?
BACK to the Future
43. Which singer songwriter formed the vocal group The Miracles in the 1950s?
SMOKEY Robinson
44. What name is given to the area west of India which includes the countries of the Arabian peninsula?
MIDDLE East
45. What is the connection?
Cuts or Types of BACON

Round Ten - Sports’ Bag
46. Which sport is governed by the BDA?
Darts - British Darts Association
47. Which ex-Liverpool manager was born in Bootle in October 1948?
Roy Evans
48. Which country does golfer Ian Baker-Finch come from?
Australia
49. Which Spanish football club did Mark Hughes play for?
Barcelona
50. Which county cricket club has its home at Grace Road?
Leicestershire

Spot Prize -
In the Proclaimers record "Letter from America" there are 9 places in Scotland mentioned in the song;
Lochaber (no more)
Linwood
Bathgate
Irvine
Sutherland
Methil
Lewis
Skye
And the hard one…..Wester Ross!