QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - General Ignorance
1. What song replaced "Bohemian Rhapsody" at number one in the UK Charts in 1975, the title of which can be found in the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody?
Mamma Mia
2. Which synthetic material was named by combining the French words for Velvet and Hook?
Velcro
3. With which game would you use a "squidger"?
Tiddly Winks
4. In 1970 - What did Football Referees get that they hadn’t had before?
Red & Yellow Cards
5. The Melody for which famous song was written by sisters and school teachers Patty and Mildred Hill in Kentucky in 1893?
Happy Birthday

Round Two - Food & Drink
6. In which century was chocolate introduced in the UK?
Seventeenth
7. From which country does Dao wine come?
Portugal
8. Caraway is related to which family of vegetables?
Carrot
9. In which country did satsumas originate?
Japan
10. Which traditional pudding ingredient comes from the cassava plant?
Tapioca

Round Three - Sporting terms
In which sport would you —
11. Throw stones at houses
Curling
12. Sit in a sulky
Harness Racing
13. Employ the O’Brien shift
Shot Putt
14. Trim your sheets
Yachting
15. Abide by the Cartwright Rules
Baseball

Round Four - The Four Seasons
16. Who had a 1950’s hit with "Summertime Blues"?
Eddie Cochran
17. Who received an Oscar for her performance in the film "The Lion In Winter"?
Katherine Hepburn
18. Which spring flower has the Latin name " Narcissus pseudonarcissus "?
Daffodil
19. From which play does the line "Now is the winter of our discontent" come?
Richard the Third
20. Autumn is generally reckoned to start from the equinox in which month of the year?
September

Round Five - Around Britain
21. In which English county is most of the Forest of Dean?
Gloucestershire
22. What are the canals in Cambridge called?
The Backs
23. Which English county with a sea border has the shortest coastline?
Durham
24. The Orkney’s are separated from mainland Britain by which body of water?
Pentland Firth
25. Which English Football League club’s ground is farthest away from any other?
Carlisle

Round Six - Letter Sandwiches
All answers start and end with the same letter
26. Which detective did George C Scott think he was in the film They Might be Giants?
Sherlock Holmes
27. In which country would you find the Cape York Peninsula?
Australia
28. Who had top 10 hits with Going Back, All I See Is You, and Losing You?
Dusty Springfield
29. Which breed of dog is also known as the badger-dog?
Dachshund
30. Who dresses up as Herne the Hunter in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor?
Falstaff

Round Seven - Name the Monkey
31. In the film The Jungle Book
King Louie
32. That raised Tarzan in the novel
Kala
33. That gives its names to a blood group
Rhesus
34. Played by Roddy McDowell in the film The Planet of the Apes
Cornellius
35. In the film The Lion King
Rafiki

Round Eight - Movie Links
36. Who links The Witches of Eastwick and Batman Returns?
Michelle Pfeiffer (NOT Jack Nicholson - Batman)
37. Who links Twelve Monkey’s and Thelma and Louise?
Brad Pitt
38. Which actor links The Beach and The World Is Not Enough?
Robert Carlysle
39. Which director links A Clockwork Orange and Spartacus?
Stanley Kubrick
40. Who links Trainspotting and Rogue Trader?
Ewan McGregor

Round Nine - Totaliser
41. If you started a game of scrabble by laying down the word QUIZ on the empty board, how many points would you score?
44
42. The binary number 1010 is equivalent to which decimal number?
10
43. How many old pence were there in a Guinea?
252
44. How many EDGES are there on a cube?
12
45. In cricket, what score is described as a Nelson?
111

Round Ten - Science Fiction
46. Who is the captain of the USS Voyager?
Catherine Janeway
47. Which programme starred Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett?
Quantum Leap
48. Who narrated "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"?
Peter Jones
49. Which series featured Moonbase Alpha?
Space 1999
50. Which series featured Tweaky?
Buck Rogers