QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - French Cuisine
1. What is the headwaiter in a French restaurant called?
Maitre D’Hotel
2. How is a drink served when it’s described as frappe?
Iced
3. What have you ordered if a thin pancake is cooked in butter, sugar, orange juice and Curaco, and then flambeed at your table?
Crepe Suzette
4. Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand was a novelist, poet and politician.  What type of food was name after him?
Fillet of Beef
5. At what stage of the meal would you eat a charlotte?
Dessert

Round Two - Art Gallery
6. What nationality was Salvador Dali?
Spanish
7. In which British city is the Baltic Art Gallery?
Newcastle
8. What is the name of the sculptor who cut created ‘The Kiss’?
Rodin
9. Which famous artist wrote in "mirror" writing?
Leonardo da Vinci
10. In which city did Tintoretto do most of his painting?
Venice

Round Three - Human Body
11. How many chambers are there in the heart?
Four
12. What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs called?
Alveoli
13. Which vitamin is required in blood clotting?
Vitamin K
14. Which is the human body’s largest organ?
The Skin
15. Where in the human body would you find the thalamus gland?
Front of the brain

Round Four - Famous Freds
16. What was Freddie Mercury’s real second name?
Bulsara
17. Freddie Powell is the real name of which comedian?
Freddie Starr
18. From which city did 60s group Freddie and the Dreamers come from?
Manchester
19. With which branch of science do you associate Fred Hoyle?
Astronomy
20. Which Fred famously won Mastermind?
Fred Housego

Round Five - Locations
In which modern country would you locate the following -
21) The world’s largest pyramid?
Mexico - "Pyramid of Tipanipa" at Cholula
22) The game of snooker was first devised in 1875?
India
23) The source of the River Rhine?
Switzerland
24) The world’s largest monolith?
Australia - Uluru (Ayers Rock)
25) The birthplace of John McEnroe?
Germany - Wiesbaden, Hessen

Round Six - Astronomy
26. Who was the first person to observe the heavens using a telescope?
Galileo Galilei in 1609
27. The Asteroid Belt lies between which two planets?
Mars and Jupiter
28. What is the term used by astronomers to measure star brightness?
Magnitudes
29. Which planet has moons called Deimos and Phobos?
Mars
30. What do we call a huge cloud of gas and dust found in the space between the stars- some glow?
Nebulas

Round Seven - In The Ring
31. Which boxer got a chunk or his ear bit off by Mike Tyson?
Evander Hollyfield
32. Who starred as Ali in the movie Ali?
Will Smith
33. Who did Ali fight in the rumble in the jungle?
George Foreman
34. Who was the first person to knock Mike Tyson out?
Buster Douglas
35. Which boxer was known as The Dark Destroyer?
Nigel Benn

Round Eight - Rock Bottom
36. Which footballer wrote an autobiography called Rock Bottom after his battle with drink and drugs?
Paul Merson
37. How many vowels are on the bottom row of a standard typewriter keyboard?
None
38. Horse Racing - on which famous course is Swinley Bottom?
Ascot
39. Which film featured the character Dusty Bottoms?
The Three Amigos
40. In what year did Queen have a hit with Fat Bottomed Girls?
1978

Round Nine - Connections
41. Who was director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972?
J Edgar HOOVER
42. Before joining the Police, Stewart Copeland had chart success with which group?
Curved AIR
43. The ‘Fred Basset’ cartoon strip appears in which daily newspaper?
Daily MAIL
44. On ‘The Fast Show’ what was the catchphrase of the insecure girl played by Arabella Weir?
‘Does my BUM look big in this?’
45. What is the connection?
BAGS
 
Round Ten - Locations
In which modern country would you locate the following -
46) The birthplace of Mohammed?
Saudi Arabia
47) First battle in which tanks were used?
France
48) The Kalahari Desert?
Botswana
49) The country at the other end of the Brenner pass from Austria?
Italy
50) The ruins of Carthage?
Tunisia

TIEBREAKER - For how many years did the golliwog appear on Robertson’s jam jars?
91 years