QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Bloody Questions!
1. What is the medical term for an obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot or air bubble?
Embolism
2. Which organization’s motto is "Blood and Fire"?
The Salvation Army  
3. Which military leader acquired the nickname of "Old Blood and Guts"?
General Patton  
4. What word is the name given to the smallest blood vessels in the body?
Capillaries
5. Who was the first member of the British royal family to donate blood?
Prince Charles in 1985
Spare - Which rocker wrote the song "Only Women Bleed"?
Alice Cooper  

Round Two - The Eyes Have It
6. What is the light sensitive portion of the eye called?
The retina  
7. According to a song lyric in which American state is "The corn as high as an elephant’s eye"?
Oklahoma, the song being Oh What A Beautiful Morning  
8. Which eye condition is also the name of a type of waterfall?
Cataract
9. Of all the creatures in the world which has the largest eyes?
The giant squid, their eyes can measure up to 20 inches or 500 millimetres in diameter
10. What is the connection between the 1993 song "Dreams", the film "True Grit" and the ship HMS Victory?
Eye patches, the singer of Dreams, Gabrielle wore an eye patch as did the lead character Rooster Cogburn in the film True Grit. The HMS Victory was the flagship of Admiral Nelson who also wore an eye patch

Round Three - Telly Addicts
11. In which TV show did the character Seymour Utterthwaite occasionally appear?
Last of the Summer Wine
12. In which role did Lynda Bellingham replace Carol Drinkwater?
Helen Herriott - All Creatures Great and Small
13. Which TV newsreader went on to present Treasure Hunt?
Kenneth Kendall
14. In which comedy series did Rik Mayall appear as Lord Flashheart?
Blackadder
15. In whose show did Charley Farley and Piggy Malone solve the case of "The phantom raspberry blower of old London town"?
The Two Ronnies

Round Four - Capital Punishment
16. Which Mexican state’s name and state capital are also the name of a breed of small dog?
Chihuahua
17. In which US state’s capital is the headquarters of the Mormon Church?
Utah
18. Who sang about the capital of Catalonia in 1992?
Montserrat Caballe, Freddie Mercury
19. Which capital is known as the Eternal City?
Rome
20. ‘They Came to’ which Middle Eastern capital in the title of a mystery by Agatha Christie?
Baghdad
Spare - The name of the capital of which country means ‘good air’?
Argentina

Round Five - Food For Thought
21. What type of nuts are used in the preparation of satay sauce?
Peanuts
22. What name is given to a dish of Chicken or veal in a sauce of white wine, tomato, mushroom and garlic?
Marengo
23. Which vegetable popular in Chinese dishes is obtained from the stems of the bulrush?
Water Chestnuts
24. What was the first commercially manufactured breakfast cereal? Cornflakes, Shredded Wheat, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies or Weetabix
Shredded Wheat
25. What dessert is made from the starch extracted from the pith of a palm tree?
Sago

Round Six - No Smoke Without Fire
26. Which pop group hit the charts in 1959 with the song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"?
Platters
27. What type of smoked sausage took it’s name from a German city?
Frankfurter
28. Harold Wilson, James Galway and Freddie Trueman are all past winners of which award?
Pipe Smoker Of The Year  
29. Which European capital city has a name that means "smoky bay"?
Reykjavik
30. Name the actor who played the fire chief in the 1974 film "The Towering Inferno"
Steve McQueen

Round Seven - At The Movies
31. Who plays Professor Xavier in the X Men movies?
Patrick Stewart
32. Which actress links the films Cold Mountain, Chicago and Me Myself and Irene?
Renee Zellwegger
33. Who is Eric Claudin who has been played on film by Herbert Lom, Claude Rains and Lon Chaney?
Eric Claudin is the name of the Phantom of the Opera
34. Who is the only Oscar winning actress to have two Oscar winning parents?
Liza Minnelli, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the 1972 film "Cabaret". Her mother Judy Garland won a special Academy Award in 1939 and her father Vincente Minnelli won a Best Director Oscar for the 1958 film  "Gigi"
35. Which child actress was adopted as the official mascot of the Chilean Navy on the orders of President Allessandri?
Shirley Temple, the Chilean President was besotted with the child actress and viewed all of her films on a private screen at his official residence in Santiago

Round Eight - Get the Beers in!
36. Which company produces McEwan’s and Theakston’s?
Scottish & Newcastle
37. Where are lambic and faro beers made?
Belgium - they are beers made without yeast
38. Which Kent brewer is believed to be the oldest continuous brewer in the country?
Shepherd Neame - make my favourite - Spitfire Ale!
39. What does beer contain which ale traditionally did not?
Hops
40. Which brewery makes Abbot Ale?
Greene King
Spare - For which beer is Rutland famous?
Ruddles

Round Nine - Song Lyrics
41. Me with the floorshow / Kickin’ with your torso / Boys getting high / And the girls even more so
Rock DJ - Robbie Williams
42. As I walk along I wonder / What went wrong with our love / A love that was so strong
Runaway - Del Shannon
43. She would never say where she came from / yesterday don’t matter cause it’s gone / while the sun is bright - or in the darkest night / no one knows - she comes and goes
Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones
44. I’m gonna write a little letter / gonna mail it to my local DJ / It’s a rockin’ rhythm record
I want my jockey to play
Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry or ELO
45. Charlie had a think and he thought we ought / to take off all the handles / And the things that hold the candles / but it did no good, well I never thought it would
Right Said Fred - Bernard Cribbins

Round Ten - General Ignorance
46. ‘When you’re in Love with a Beautiful Woman’ reached Number One in the UK pop charts in 1979. Who sang it?
Dr. Hook
47. Chris Eubank won the WBO title in 1990, but at what weight?
Middleweight (He stopped defending champion Nigel Benn in the 9th round)
48. American actor Burgess Meredith was born in 1908. Which of Batman’s villains did he play in the sixties TV series?
The Penguin
49. In 1852, the Duke of Wellington was buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral. What was his nickname?
‘The Iron Duke’
50. Known as the ‘Grand Old Lady of the Atlantic’, which liner set sail from Liverpool in 1907?
The Mauritania