QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - General Ignorance
1. Scheduled for 20th April 1964, what TV event had to be postponed because of power failure?
Opening of BBC2
2. Who wrote the first modern detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ published in 1841?
Edgar Allan Poe
3. Who played the title role in Woody Allen’s film ‘Annie Hall’ released in 1977?
Diane Keaton
4. Which armless statue was discovered by a peasant on the Aegean island of Melos?
The Venus de Milo
5. Born in 1957, which legendary horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup three times?
Arkle

Round Two - Sporting Chance
6. Which Olympic events have a course of one mile, 427 yards?
Rowing events
7. After how many points do players change service in table tennis?
Five
8. In which sport could you see a flying camel?
Ice Skating
9. Which player stands on the mound in the middle of the diamond in baseball?
The Pitcher
10. In which sport would you find a ‘kissing button’?
Archery - on a bowstring

Round Three - Metal Work
11. What is the Earth’s most abundant metal?
Aluminium
12. Which metal is obtained from the minerals haematite and magnetite?
Iron
13. What is the lightest (least dense) metal?
Lithium
14. Which metal is obtained from the mineral cinnabar?
Mercury
15. Which metal is obtained from the mineral galena?
Lead

Round Four - F-Words
Which F-Word can be…
16. Floating wreckage at sea?
Flotsam
17. Small deer with white spotted reddish brown summer coat?
Fallow
18. Former Royal coat of arms of France?
Fleur-de-lis
19. A narrow crack or split?
Fissure
20. Seasoned smoked sausage?
Frankfurter

Round Five - Options
21. According to legend how old was Arthur when he pulled the sword from the stone a) 15 b) 16 c) 17
a) 15
22. What kind of creature is a ’slippery dick’ a) A Bird b) A Fish c) A Bat
b) A Fish
23) According to recent American research the average woman speaks how many words per day a) 5,000 b) 6,000 c) 7,000
c) 7,000 (Average man speaks 2,000 - because he cant get a word in)
24. How many brothers and sisters does Michael Jackson have a) 7 b) 8 c) 9
b) 8 (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Randy, Rebbie, Janet, and La Toya)
25. The Medical term ‘bursitis’ is better known as what a) Tennis Elbow b) Frozen Shoulder c) Housemaids Knee
c) Housemaids Knee

Round Six - Call My Bluff
26. CROVEY - it’s Yoof Slang for a) someone who tries too hard to be cool, b) Hopelessly unfashionable, c) a swot, or d) really cool?

ANSWER = D
27. GOSSOON - is it a) An idiot, b) a boy-servant, c) A type of cloth or d) an dialect word for gooseberry?

ANSWER = B
28. RAMMY - Scottish - is it a) another word for randy, b) a small drink, like a nip, c) a free-for-all fight, or d) a narrow passage between two rows of houses?

ANSWER = C
29. OBANG - is it a) a brand of Irish fireworks, b) A Japanese coin, c) a hardwood tree from the Congo, or d) A Chinese board game?

ANSWER = B
30. MILSEY - again is Scots dialect for a) a milk-strainer, b) homosexual, c) misty or d) a young salmon?
ANSWER = A

Round Seven - Telly Addicts
31. Which two men co-ran the Woolpack in Emmerdale Farm during the 70’s & 80’s
Amos Brearley and Henry "Mr" Wilkes
32. In which Cartoon series has an Evil Character called ‘The Hooded Claw’ + 1 Point for his Alter Ego
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop / Sylvester Sneekly
33. In which TV series did Stephanie Cole play the aging character ‘Diana Trent’
Waiting for God
34. Name Rita’s 4 Different Surnames in Coronation Street
Bates / Littlewood / Fairclough / Sullivan
35. Who wrote the Stories in the TV series ‘Tales of the Unexpected’
Roald Dahl

Round Eight - Snookered
36. Born in 1957, this player has won the World Championship six times, currently ranked 13th, won the World Trick shot competition in 1994, 96 & 97 and first won Pot Black on TV in 1982, who is it?
Steve Davis
37. Hitting one ball first, which in turn (possibly indirectly) causes another ball to be potted is called a what?
Plant
38. Jimmy White is nicknamed the Whirlwind but which player has the nickname of the Tornado?
Tony Drago - from Malta
39. Which player beat seven times world champion Stephen Hendry 18-17 in the 2002 World Championship final?
Peter Ebdon
40. The highest possible score in a break that can be achieved without receiving penalty points is 147 but what is the highest possible score achievable in a single break?
155 points - happens when an opponent fouls before any balls are potted and leaves every red ball at least partially obscured by a colour. The player nominates and sinks a colour which is scored as a red, then sinks the black for a total of 8 points. He then clears the table to score the 147 points maximum, and adds that to his 8 points for a total of 155

Round Nine - Connections
41. The Dewey Decimal System is used to catalogue which items?
BOOKS
42. In Doctor Who the time travelling TV programme apart from a time machine what actually is the Tardis?    
Police BOX
43. What device was traditionally used to secure a babies nappy?
SAFETY Pin
44. In connection with sport what do the initials MCC stand for?
Marylebone CRICKET Club
45. What is the connection?
The word MATCH

Round Ten - Monkey Business
46. Which cricketer was nicknamed ‘Guy The Gorilla’
Ian Botham
47. What was the name of the Orang-utan who appeared in ‘Every Which Way But Loose’ starring Clint Eastwood
Clyde
48. What kind of monkeys would you associate with Gibraltar
Barbary Apes
49. King Kong comes from which island
Skull Island
50. In slang how much money is a monkey
£500

Tiebreaker - How many times was Kevin Keegan capped for England?
64

Round One - General Ignorance
1. Born in 1866 which American outlaw was portrayed by Paul Newman in a film?
Butch Cassidy- the film was ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ with Robert Redford playing the Sundance Kid
2. Actor and singer Howard Keel was born in 1917. Which character did he play in the TV series ‘Dallas’?
Clayton Farlow
3. Launched in 1981, what was the name of the world’s first space shuttle?
Columbia
4. Frank Sinatra and his daughter Nancy hit the top of the UK pop charts in 1967 with which song?
‘Somethin’ Stupid’
5. In 1950 a character dubbed ‘The Pilot of the Future’ appeared in the first ‘Eagle’ comic. What was his name?
Dan Dare

Round Two - Chocoholics
6. Which chocolate uses the phrase "How do you eat yours"?
Cadburys Creme Egg
7. What is the world’s best-selling chocolate bar?
Kit Kat - Dairy Milk is the most popular bar in Britain
8. Which country is the world’s biggest chocolate consumer, Switzerland, United States or Mexico?
Switzerland - an average of 10 kg per person per year
9. Which of the following is not a genuine chocolate dish, Italian chocolate pizza, Mexican spicy chocolate sauce for meat or Austrian chocolate squid?
Austrian chocolate squid
10. Which chocolate uses the phrase "Tap it - unwrap it"?
Chocolate Orange

Round Three - What Happened Next?
11. 11 Feb 1990, a gate opens and a frail 73-year-old man walks towards a small crowd of people?
Nelson Mandela walks free from prison
12. It’s 1969 and Lulu has just entered a BBC television studio?
…and relieves herself all over the Blue Peter Studio because she’s an elephant!
13. April 1985, Ten minutes past midnight, he places his hand on the table after a very tiring night’s work…?
Denis Taylor’s last pot in the 1985 World Snooker final
14. June 1988 and a bell rings in Atlantic City?
91 seconds later (at a pay rate of $219,780 per second) Mike Tyson has destroyed Michael Spinks
15. A young orphan who witnessed his parents’ murder returns from self imposed exile in the Orient and discovers a cavern under his home…?
Batman begins!

Round Four - Sports Bag
16. In which annual sporting event, founded in 1829 was Susan Brown the first woman to take part in 1981?
The University Boat Race
17. What sport is played by the Montreal Canadians?
Ice Hockey
18. Who was approached by the Irish FA in February 1986 and took over the Irish team which eventually went on to beat England 1-0 and was followed by qualification for the 1990 World Cup?
Jackie Charlton
19. Alex Greaves was the first female jockey to ride in which horse race?
The Derby
20. Who were the defending champions at the start of the 1966 World Cup?
Brazil

Round Five - Mystery Round -  ANAGRAMS OF ELVIS SONGS
21. OR RENT DENTURES = RETURN TO SENDER
22. HOGTIE TENTH = IN THE GHETTO
23. GIDDIES LIVE IN US = DEVIL IN DISGUISE
24. REMODEL EVENT = LOVE ME TENDER
25. RUB ALCHEMISTS = BLUE CHRISTMAS

Round Six - About Britain
26. Which of the Channel Islands is the furthest south?
Jersey
27. Which river flows through the city of Bath?
Avon
28. What is the only Shakespeare play with a British town in the title?
The Merry Wives of Windsor
29. Which island was originally known as Vectis?
Isle of Wight
30. Which canal runs from just north of Wolverhampton to Ellesmere Port?
Shropshire Union

Round Seven - At The Movies
31. In which film did Kevin Spacey play a serial killer?
Seven
32. Who was the female star in "Notting Hill"?
Julia Roberts
33. Which actor played the role of Paul Sheldon, held captive by Kathy Bates in Misery?
James Caan
34. In which film based on Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ did Martin Sheen seek Marlon Brando?
Apocalypse Now
35. Which musical did "Shakin at the High School Hop" come from?
Grease

Round Eight - True or False?
36. According to the book of Genesis, it was the fourth day God created the sun, moon and stars?
TRUE
37. Hawks Champagne and Prince Albert are all types of Rhubarb?
TRUE
38. Paul McCartney was the only Beatle to be left handed?
FALSE - Ringo was as well
39. Garidaldi the biscuit is named after a Mexican revolutionary?
FALSE - it’s named after a Italian revolutionary
40. Albert Einstein’s eyes were put up for sale at an auction in 1994?
TRUE (They were actually removed during his autopsy in 1955 and stored in a safety deposit box)
Spare - The world’s longest running soap opera is Coronation Street?
FALSE - The Archers

Round Nine - Connections
41. Name the Elton John single said to have been about Maryln Monroe, which he also rearranged and sang at Princess Diane’s funeral?
CANDLE in the wind
42. Which building did King Kong climb in the final scene of the classic 1933 movie?
EMPIRE state building
43. Which Ecclesiastical sounding term is used to describe the fatty flesh at the rump of cooked fowl?
Parson’s NOSE
44. Located in New York Harbour, it was a gift of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States?
The STATUE of Liberty
45. What is the connection?
ROMAN

Round Ten - Mystery Round - CRYPTIC FOOTBALL TEAMS
HURRY TO FOX’S HOUSE WITH PRECIOUS GEMS = RUSHDEN AND DIAMONDS
PROMINENT HILL WITH A JETTY = TORQUAY
IT’S A HOME FOR SUB-MACHINE GUNS FRANK = STENHOUSEMUIR
FOUND BETWEEN THE WHEELS = CARDIFF
COTTON FACTORY’S OWN BARRIER = MILLWALL

TIEBREAKER - How many Cameras did CBS have on course to cover the Masters Golf?
52

Round One - Famous People
1. Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia?
Amy Johnson
2. Which writer created the character of ‘Jeeves’?
P. G. Wodehouse
3. David Ben Gurion became prime minister of which country in 1948?
Israel
4. Whose controversial radio broadcast of H G Wells the War of the Worlds in 1938 caused widespread panic in the US?
Orson Welles
5. Which scottish poet was also employed as an excise officer?
Robert Burns

Round Two - Music In The Calendar
6. Who had a No.3 hit in 1967 with “Autumn Almanac”?
The Kinks
7. Which Canadian, who opened the U.S. segment of 1985’s ‘Live-Aid’ concert, had a U.S. Top-5 hit with Summer of ‘69?
Bryan Adams
8. Which former singer with Manchester band, The Smiths, scored a solo hit with November Spawned A Monster?
Morrissey
9. Which group, formerly called The Iveys, recorded the million-selling song “Day after Day” for The Beatles’ label Apple Records in 1971?
Badfinger
10. Who enjoyed a hit in 1961 with a song entitled Calendar Girl?
Neil Sedaka

Round Three - Scientific
11. What is the common name for the chemical with the formula NaCl?
Common tablesalt
12. What name is given to the study of the origin, evolution and structure of the universe?
Cosmology
13. Of what disease did Marie Curie die in 1934?
Leukaemia
14. What is O3 (O three) better known as?
Ozone
15. What element has the chemical symbol K?
Potassium

Round Four - Murders & Assasinations
16. Who was killed by a bomb at an election rally near Madras?
Rajiv Ghandi
17. Which country’s royal family was killed at Ekaterinburg?
Russia
18. In which city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria assassinated in 1914?
Sarajevo
19. What weapon was used to kill Leon Trotsky?
Ice Pick
20. What was the profession of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln?
Actor

Round Five - Cricket
21. Which team won the first two World Cup tournaments in 1975 and 1976?
West Indies
22. Which cricketer was born with an extra finger on each hand?
Gary Sobers
23. Who is the only player to score a century and take 10 or more wickets in the same test match?
Ian Botham
24. Who was the first English test cricketer to be fined for misconduct during a test match?
Mike Atherton
25. The earliest English cricket festival was established in 1842, but in which Kent town?
Canterbury

Round Six - Female Authors
Who wrote the following books?
26. Bridget Jones’ Diary
HELEN FIELDING
27. Hollywood Wives
JACKIE COLLINS
28. Persuasion
JANE AUSTEN
29. Polo
JILLY COOPER
30. How Was It For You?
MAUREEN LIPMAN

Round Seven - Movie Comedy
31. In which city does Sister Act 2 take place?
Las Vegas
32. Who starred opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in One Fine Day?
George Clooney
33. Who wrote and starred in L.A. Story?
Steve Martin
34. What is Nicole Kidman’s job in To Die For?
Weather Girl
35. Which Pink Panther sequel mentions nothing about the Pink Panther nor Inspector Clouseau in the title?
A Shot In The Dark

Round Eight - Telly Trivia
36. Which ITV company is based in Aberdeen?
Grampian
37. What shape were the blocks on the quiz show Blockbusters?
Hexagonal (six-sided)
38. What was the surname of both The Bionic Woman and Buffy The Vampire Slayer?
Summers
39. Which actor played Howard Cunningham in Happy Days and Father Frank Dowling in The Father Dowling Mysteries?
Tom Bosley
40. What was the name of the product that was advertised on TV with the slogan "A drink’s too wet without one"?
McVitie’s Rich Tea Biscuits

Round Nine - Connections
41. In which 1967 film did Paul Newman play the character Lucas Jackson?
Cool HAND Luke
42. What name is given to a report which shows the financial state of a business at a given date?
BALANCE Sheet
43. What is the name of the Chinese snack consisting of a pancake filled with vegetables, rolled up, and then fried?
SPRING Roll
44. Which 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film starred Ray Milland and Grace Kelly?
DIAL M For Murder
45. What is the connection?
Parts of a WATCH or CLOCK

Round Ten - General Ignorance
46. How many teaspoons make a tablespoon?
Three
47. What is the better known identity of minus 273 point 15 degrees celsius?
Absolute Zero
48. How many minutes does it take sunlight to reach earth?
Eight
49. How many years old is a town celebrating its sesquicentennial?
150
50. How many Australian states are there?
Six

TIEBREAKER - The first regular trans-Atlantic service began between New York and Liverpool in which year?
1818

Round One - Dogs
1. What is the name of the dog in the ‘Peanuts’ cartoon?
Snoopy
2. Which 70 year old dog trainer became a cult figure through her 1980’s Tv show?
Barbara Woodhouse
3. Which breed of dog takes its name from the Russian word for swift?
Borzoi
4. What was the name of the dog that found the stolen World Cup in 1966?
Pickles
5.  Susan was a gift to Queen Elizabeth II on her 18th birthday, what type of dog was Susan?
Corgi

Round Two - Allo Allo
6. What was Rene’s surname?
Artois
7. Who played the undertaker, Monsieur Alphonse?
Kenneth Connor
8. Who painted "The Fallen Madonna With The Big Boobies"?
Van Clomp
9. What was the first name of Herr Flick’s female assistant?
Helga
10. What were the names of the British Airmen hidden by Rene?
Fairfax & Carstairs

Round Three - I love Paris in the Spring Time
11. Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is set in the Paris Opera House?
The Phantom of the Opera
12. The Tour De France traditionally finishes on which Paris road?
Champs Elysee
13. What type of structure is the Pont Neuf?
Bridge - oldest Bridge in Paris
14. In the 1980’s and 90’s the Louvre underwent major renovations and a very controversial structure now stands at the entrance of the Louvre - what shape is it?
Pyramid
15. A famous musician was buried in Paris’s Pere Lachase cemetery in 1971 - who is that famous musician?
Jim Morrison

Round Four - Old Blue Eyes
16. Which US cities feature in two of Sinatra’s hit singles titles?
Chicago And New York
17. In which film did Sinatra sing the song with the lines ‘Have you heard, it’s in the stars, next July we collide with Mars’?
High Society
18. Which famous Sinatra song was the first to become a hit after being featured in a TV show?
Love And Marriage
19. In which musical did he co-star with Gene Kelly?
On The Town
20. Which album did he release three years after announcing his retirement?
Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back
Spare - What was the last film that Sinatra appeared in?
Cannonball Run II

Round Five - Famous Middle Names
21. WHICH IS THE CORRECT MIDDLE NAME FOR BRITNEY SPEARS? / A) JEAN OR B) JOANNE
22. WHICH IS THE CORRECT MIDDLE NAME FOR NICOLAS CAGE? / A) KEN OR B) KIM
23. WHICH IS THE CORRECT MIDDLE NAME FOR AUSTIN POWERS (THE MOVIE CHARACTER)? / A) DANGER OR B) MYSTERY
24. WHICH ARE THE CORRECT MIDDLE NAMES FOR MEL GIBSON? / A) COLUMCILLE GERARD OR B) HUNTER GERARD
25. WHICH IS THE CORRECT MIDDLE NAME FOR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV? / A) NICOLAE OR B) SERGEYEVICH
Answers A / B / A / A / B

Round Six - Iraq
26. The Iran-Iraq war started in which year?
1980
27. Which was the largest city to be ‘liberated’ by British troops during the recent conflict?
Basra
28. Who was Saddam Hussein’s deputy leader?
Tariq Aziz
29. What was the name of the political party of which Saddam Hussein was the leader?
Baath Party
30. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were situated in what is now Iraq?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Round Seven - Wine
31. What is the name of the French wine sold each November?
Beajolais Nouveau
32. What is the name of Australia’s biggest selling brand of wine?
Jacob’s Creek
33. Which is Hannibal Lecter’s favourite wine?
Chianti
34. The rose wine Mateus is produced in which country?
Portugal
35. Two brands of white wine that were produced in the 1970’s were rebranded in the late 90’s to boost sales?
Blue Nun & Black Tower

Round Eight - Cornwall
36. Which river forms part of the border between Cornwall & Devon?
Tamar
37. Who starred as Cornish Cop ‘Wycliffe’?
Jack Shepherd
38. Which daphne Du Maurier novel features a tavern high on Bodmin Moor?
Jamaica Inn
39. Which cornish resort is famous for its art galleries?
St Ives
40. What is the name of Cornwall’s most southerly point?
Lizard Point

Round Nine - Connections
41. In Which Film Did John Hurt act almost the entire film with a paper bag on his head?
The ELEPHANT Man
42. Bob Monkhouse, Anne Aston & Bernie the bolt starred in which quiz show?
The Golden SHOT
43. In which movie remake did vinny Jones take the part formally played by Burt Reynolds?
The Mean MACHINE
44. What is Eric Clapton’s nickname?
Slow HAND
45. What is the connection?
Connections GUNS - elephant gun, shotgun, machinegun and handgun

Round Ten - The anagrams are ILLNESSES
46. OPINIONS OF DOG (4,9) FOOD POISONING
47. SIP ICED PAINT / APPENDICITIS
48. WOO GUNGHO CHIP (8,5) WHOOPING COUGH
49. FRUGAL LAVENDER (9,5) GLANDULAR FEVER
50. ULCEROUS BITS / TUBERCULOSIS

TIEBREAKER - 1983 the first £1 coin to be struck was auctioned for how much by Spink & Son at the Cavendish Hotel in London
£2,310