QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

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