QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - General Ignorance
1. Terry Wogan was born in 1938. What was his pop hit of the seventies?
‘The Floral Dance’
2. What is the name of Milan’s opera house, opened 1778?
La Scala
3. What footballing first was achieved by John Charles in 1957?
He was the first British player to be transferred to a foreign club (Juventus)
4. Which English king was killed in the New Forest in 1100 after being mistaken for a deer?
William II (William Rufus)
5. Fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen died in 1875. What was his nationality?
Danish

Round Two - Food Glorious Food
6. A combination of cumin, black mustard, fennel, fenugreek and nigella seeds is known as what?
Five-spice
7. What are mortadello, chipolata and boudin blanc?
Type of sausage
8. Redcurrant jelly, port and orange juice are the basis of which sauce?
Cumberland
9. Oval balls of minced fish, meat or poultry are called what?
Quenelles
10. Which popular spice is made from the bark of a Ceylon laurel tree?
Cinnamon

Round Three - Top Of The Pops
11. Who has recorded with Cliff Richard, Steve Harley and Jose Carreras?
Sarah Brightman
12. Who was the lead singer of the Bay City Rollers?
Les McKeown
13. Who were the next Irish group to top the British charts after the Bachelors?
Boomtown Rats
14. Who was the first British female to have two consecutive No.1’s?
Helen Shapiro
15. Who wrote the hits for the Electric Light Orchestra?
Jeff Lynne

Round Four - Sports Round
16. In an Olympic swimming final, the two fastest qualifiers race in which lanes?
4 and 5
17. In which sport do you have a 100-metre transition zone, which you have to enter twice to change footwear?
Triathlon
18. In which sport do you use balls weighing from 6lbs to 16lbs?
Ten pin bowling
19. What piece of sporting equipment is 5 metres long and just 4 inches wide?
Balance Beam
20. Which famous sports commentator once said "Fred Davies is getting on a bit, but he can’t get his right leg over, so he prefers to use his left arm instead"?
‘Whispering’ Ted Lowe

Round Five - Movies
21. What is the name of the dolphin that Jim Carey had to find in "Ace Ventura Pet Detective"?
Snowflake
22. In which film did Mel Gibson play an advertising executive with the ability to read the minds of the female sex?
What Women Want
23. Which 2000 film starred Nicholas Cage and Vinnie Jones as car thieves?
Gone In Sixty Seconds
24. In which Bond film did Vijay Amritraj play the part of a tennis player?
Octopussy
25. What type of creature is Poomba in Disney’s Lion King?
Warthog

Round Six - Historical
26. Between which two towns was the railway for Stephenson’s first locomotive?
Stockton and Darlington
27. Which publishing company introduced the first mass-market paperback in 1935?
Penguin
28. Who was killed in the world’s first televised murder in 1963?
Lee Harvey Oswald
29. What was the invention of Robert Fulton, which was tried out in the River Seine in 1801?
First submarine
30. Who was Ronald Reagan’s Vice President?
George Bush Snr.

Round Seven - Water Water Everywhere
31. What is the name of the stretch of water that separates the Isle of Wight from mainland Britain?
The Solent
32. Which is the world’s busiest ship canal?
The Panama
33. In which country is the River Kwai?
Thailand
34. Which is the world’s largest freshwater lake?
Lake Superior
35. Of all the rivers in the world which contains the greatest amount of water?
The Amazon, the flow of the Amazon is sixty times greater than that of the Nile and at it’s deepest point it is 407 feet deep

Round Eight - First Names
36. In Rising Damp what was Rigsby’s first name a) John b) Robert c) Rupert?
c) Rupert
37. In the films what was Rambo’s first name?
John
38. What is singer Shaggy’s real first name, a)Orville b) Alvin c) Martin?
a) Orville
39. What was the first name of Dad’s Army’s Captain Mainwaring?
Arthur
40. What was Ivanhoe’s first name a) Alexander b) Wilfred c) William?
b) Wilfred
Spare -What was Rumpole’s first name in the legal TV series Rumpole of the Bailey?
Horace
 
Round Nine - Connections
41. What is the former name of the country now known as Ghana?
GOLD Coast
42. Which plant has the scientific name Trifolium?
CLOVER
43. What is the name of the famous English ceramic design created by the potter Thomas Minton in the late 18th century?
WILLOW Pattern
44. Which Scottish heroine is remembered for her part in the escape of Bommie Prince Charlie in 1746?
FLORA Macdonald
45. What is the connection?
Names of MARGARINES or SPREADS

Round Ten - Back to School
46. What was the name of the school that was attended by Billy Bunter?
Greyfriars
47. Where did Tom Brown spend his schooldays?
Rugby
48. What was the name of the school where Buffy The Vampire Slayer, slayed on?
Sunnydale High
49. Which title character of a film attended Crunchem Hall Primary and was eventually adopted by one of the teachers, Miss Honey?
Matilda
50. In which school would you find Togger Johnson in year 7; Maddie Gilks in year 9 and Calvin Braithwaite in year 11?
Grange Hill
Spare - Which school did Danny, Toots, Erbert, Plug, Wilfred, Smiffy, Spotty and Sydney attend?
Bash Street