QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - General Ignorance
1. Scheduled for its start in 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 - Doctor Who?
21. In Doctor Who, what was the name of the leader of the Daleks?
Davros
22. The Scandanavian pop group Aqua had a hit single about which doctor?
Doctor Jones
23. Who wrote the novel about Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Robert Louis Stevenson
24. Who had a eighties hit with the song ‘Doctor Doctor’?
Thompson Twins
25. Which number is referred to as ‘doctors orders’ in bingo?
Nine
Spare - Which cult TV show featured the character of Doctor Jacobi?
Twin Peaks
Spare - In chronological order, who was the fourth actor to play Doctor Who in the famous TV series?
Tom Baker

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?
27. GOSSOON - is it a) An idiot, b) a boy-servant, c) A type of cloth or d) an dialect word for gooseberry?
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?
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?
30. MILSEY - again is Scots dialect for a) a milk-strainer, b) homosexual, c) misty or d) a young salmon?
ANS = D / B / C / B / 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 - Newspapers
46. Which current Sunday newspaper used to be called the Sunday Pictorial, before it adopted its current name in 1963?
Sunday Mirror
47. The Daily Sketch was merged into which other daily newspaper in 1971?  
Daily Mail
48. Which Sunday newspaper did Rupert Murdoch take over in 1969?
News of the World
49. In which year was the Sunday Sport newspaper first published, 1983, 1986, 1989, or 1992?
1986                                   
50. Which current daily newspaper was first published in 1978?                                                 
Daily Star
Spare - Which man bought the Mirror group newspapers in 1984?   
Robert Maxwell
Spare - Newspaper cartoonist Reg Smythe, who died in 1998 aged 80, was best known for creating which working-class comic strip character?
Andy Capp
Spare - Which daily newspaper was first published on 7th October 1986?
The Independent
Spare - Which national daily paper has ‘The Crusader’ as its logo?
Daily Express

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