QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

Round One - Halloween Happenings
1. Which Prime Minister of India was assassinated on 31 October in 1984?
Indira Gandhi
2. Which escapologist died on 31st October 1926?
Harry Houdini
3. Who died outside Jonny Depp’s club on 31st October 1993?
River Phoenix
4. On 31st October 1997, which British nanny was found guilty of manslaughter in a Boston court?
Louise Woodward
5. Which pedestrian road safety innovation came into being on 31st October 1951?
Zebra crossings

Round Two - Monsters
6. What monster supposedly roams the Himalayas?
Yeti or Abominable Snowman
7. What was the name of the imaginary creature that was described by Lewis Caroll as having "jaws that bite and claws that catch"?
Jabberwocky
8. A lake demon called Ogapogo is said to inhabit Okanagan Lake, but in which country would you find this lake?
Canada
9. In Greek mythology, what name is given to the three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hades?
Cerberus
10. Which ugly creatures in the form of men, are said to lurk in the northern forests of Scandinavia?
Trolls

Round Three - Ghosts
11. The ghost of which wife of Henry VIII has been seen many times gliding through the Tower of London, where she was beheaded in 1536?
Anne Boleyn
12. What is the name of Shakespeare’s ghost that haunts Macbeth?
Banqo
13. Which ‘A’ is another word for ghost?
Apparition
14. According to Irish folklore, what name is given to a female spirit whose wailing warns of an impending death?
Banshee
15. What name is given to a ghost that throws objects around?
Poltergeist

Round Four - Witches
16. What name was given to witches pets, which were believed to be evil spirits that resembled the witch?
Familiars
17. The bundled twigs of which tree are used to make witches besom brooms?
Birch
18. The last witchcraft trial to take place in England was that of Jane Wenham, (she was found innocent) in which year did it take place, was it 1512, 1612, 1712 or 1812?
1712  
19. On which night of the week do witches traditionally hold their meetings?
Friday
20. The world’s largest collection of witchcraft related artefacts are located in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, in which county is Boscastle?
Cornwall

Round Five - Mystery Round - Halloween Anagrams
21) Retractor Kit = Trick Or Treat
22) I’m Pipe Punk = Pumpkin Pie
23) Pam Bit Vera = Vampire Bat
24) Egos Thirst So = Ghost Stories
25) Hulls Lost Gain = All Souls Night

Round Six - Vampires
26. What is the best-known way to kill a Vampire until it was made illegal in 1823?
Drive a stake through it’s heart
27. Bats, when leaving a cave, will always exit in which direction?
Left
28. Is "Dracula", Hungarian for Son of the Dragon, Vampires Son, Werewolf or Member of Parliament?
Son of the Dragon
29. David Jason was the voice for which television vampire, who turned out to be vegetarian, after a mix-up when tomato sauce was used to make him instead of blood?
Count Duckula
30. Kiefer Sutherland played a vampire in which 1987 movie?
The Lost Boys

Round Seven - Myths & Legends
31. In which part of the world did Voodoo’ magic originate?
West Africa (Note - The Caribbean Island of Haiti is regarded as the centre of the voodoo cult)
32. Which British island is the home of the giant ghost dog, Moddy Dhu?
Isle of Man
33. If armed with a silver bullet what mythical creature must you be expecting to meet?
Werewolf
34. From which countries folklore do we get the character Jack O’Lantern which now describes a carved out pumpkin with a light inside?
Ireland - Originating from a story about an Irish blacksmith, who ran into the Devil in a pub - name is given to a pumpkin if it has a face carved into it and is illuminated by a candle
35. Dia de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead - is celebrated in which Latin American country?
Mexico - which includes the tradition of passing a live person in a coffin through streets

Round Eight - Horror Movies
36. In which film does Mia Farrow give birth to the Devil’s son?
Rosemary’s Baby
37. With which horror film would you associate the character of Leatherface?
"Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
38. In the film, Little Shop Of Horrors, the distinctive voice of the infamous man-eating plant was that of Levi Stubbs, the lead singer of which Motown group, was it: - The Miracles, The Four Tops or The Temptations?
The Four Tops
39. Which 1999 horror film was promoted with the following tagline "In October of 1994, three student film makers disappeared in the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland. One year later, their footage was found"?
The Blair Witch Project
40. Which film, based around the characters ‘Sam Wheat & Molly Jensen was the most popular ’spooky’ film of 1990?
Ghost

Round Nine - All Hell Breaks Out!
41. Which religious group first celebrated what we’ve come to know as Halloween?
The Druids  
42. What is the common job description of someone who practices Prestidigitation?
Magician
43. The mask in the film "Scream", which became a popular costume for dressing up in at Halloween, was based on a painting by which artist?
Edvard Munch
44. Which group of people considered Halloween to be the last day of the year?
The Celts
45. If you were a Haitian with a zombie sister, what would you do for her - a) Ignore her b) Call a doctor c) Ask for the mercy of the spirits or d) Avenge her by turning someone else into a zombie?
a) Ignore her

Round Ten - Mystery Round - Halloween Numbers
46) In ancient Egypt, how many demons were present at the judgement of a dead persons soul - a) 22 b) 32 or c) 42?
c) 42
47) According to ‘Voodoo’ religion how many souls does each person have, a) 2 b) 3 or c) 7?
a) 2
48) How many films have been made in the Halloween series, a) 6 b) 8 or c) 13?
b) 8
49) Are there 38, 58 or 78 Tarot cards in a full pack?
c) 78
50) How many films were there in the ‘Poltergeist’ series, a) 3 b) 4 or c) 5?
a) 3

Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Five things associated with Halloween?
Witches / Pumpkin / Trick or Treat / Masks / Dressing Up 

Round One - First or Last
1. The first elevator in England was seen in which London Department store in 1898?
Harrods
2. What was the name of the last woman to be hung in Britain in 1955?
Ruth Ellis
3. Flowers in the Rain was the first song ever played on Radio 1, who sang it?
The Move
4. In which year did Concorde make it’s last flight?
2003
5. Which actor is the last surviving member of the Magnificent Seven?
Robert Vaughan

Round Two - Food & Drink
6. Which London based brewery makes a beer called London Pride?
Fullers
7. Pegasus, Rhapsody and Bolero are all varieties of which fruit a) Strawberry b) Blackberry c) Grape?
a) Strawberry
8. What drink is added to vodka to make a Moscow Mule?
Ginger Beer
9. Celeste, Sunburst and Stella are all varieties of which fruit a) Peach b) Gooseberry c) Cherries?
c) Cherries
10. If you bought the following items packaged and did not open them which would last the longest - Custard powder, Plain flour or Ground Coffee?
Ground Coffee

Round Three - Telly Addicts
11. What is the name of the café in Coronation Street?
Roy’s Rolls
12. Which television crime series set in rural Warwickshire saw a country GP assist the police in solving the crimes?
Dangerfield
13. What were the names of the other two priests who regularly shared the house with Father Ted on Craggy Island?
Father Dougal and Father Jack
14. Which TV sitcom was about the Solomon family?
3rd Rock from the Sun
15. What is the name of the vicar who appears in Postman Pat?
Reverend Timms

Round Four - Sporting Chance
16. Durham County Cricket Club and Middlesbrough Football Club both have stadiums called what?
The Riverside
17. What is the highest score a judge can award in figure skating?
Six
18. Which three horse races make up the Triple Crown?
2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St Leger
19. In which famous race is the slowest man of the day given a red lantern?
Tour de France
20. In golf, what is referred to as a ‘golden ferret’?
Holing out from the bunker

Round Five - Mums the Word
21. What year did the Queen Mother sadly die?
2002
22. Who was the Mother of Elizabeth I?
Anne Boleyn
23.  Who had a 1997 number one song with Mama?
Spice Girls
24. Which mother would drop her baby six feet to the ground immediately after giving birth?
A Giraffe
25. Complete this well know World War II slogan - Be like Dad?
Keep Mum!

Round Six - Ask The DJ
26. Which Madonna song has the lyric line "Hey Mr DJ put a record on"?
Music
27. Which much loved British DJ became the first DJ to ever use twin turntables after paying a welder to fuse two decks together in 1947?
Jimmy Saville
28. Which popular Radio breakfast time DJ was married to Anthea Turner in the 90’s?
Peter Powell
29. Radio 1 DJ Michael Pasternak was better known under which name?
Emperor Rosko
30. Which DJ joined forces with Will Smith on many of their 90’s hits?
DJ Jazzy Jeff

Round Seven - Housey Housey
31. What is the usual name for the game of Housey Housey?
Bingo
32. Who had hit songs "Our House" and "House of Fun"?
Madness
33. In which city would you visit Anne Frank’s house?
Amsterdam
34. Which company’s website is www.house.co.uk?
British Gas
35. According to the proverb people in glass houses shouldn’t do what?
Throw Stones

Round Eight - Taking A Nap
36. Who fell asleep for 20 years in the Caitskill Mountains?
Rip Van Winkle
37. What does a Somnabulist do?
Sleep Walk
38. Who composed the music for the ballet Sleeping Beauty?
Tchaikovsky
39. In a nursery rhyme, who fell asleep under a Haystack?
Little Boy Blue
40. Who had a hit song called Sleeping Satelite?
Tamsin Archer

Round Nine - In the Box
41. What was left in Pandora’s Box after she released misery and evil?
Hope
42. In which sport would you have a Planting Box?
Pole Vaulting
43. Which bank released a series of money boxes in the shape of a pig in the 80’s which are now collectible items?
NatWest
44. In the Mr Men series what colour is Mr Chatterbox?
Pink
45. Who manufactures the X Box?
Microsoft

Round Ten - Ooodles & Ooodles
46. What is the main food ingredient of a noodle?
Flour
47. In the term Kit and Caboodle, what does caboodle mean?
Everything
48. What are the three main types of Poodle?
Standard Miniature and Toy
49. In the nursery rhyme Cock a doodle doo what have the dame and master lost?
A shoe and a fiddling stick
50. In which TV show would you find a dog called Doodle?
Tweenies

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Round One - Famous Addresses
1. Which famous building will you find at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
The White House
2. According to the Beatles, where is there a barber showing photographs and a banker sitting waiting for a trim?
Penny Lane
3. Who lived at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, which is now a museum?
Anne Frank
4. What is at the junction of Broadway and Wall street in New York?
New York stock exchange
5. Which landmark is at Benelong point in Australia?
The Sydney opera house

Round Two - Football Nicknames - 1 point for the answer & 1 point for the team
6. Which orange, named after a port in Morocco, is a cross between the mandarin and bitter oranges?
Tangerine - Blackpool
7. What type of animal was Robin in the Disney film Robin Hood?
Fox - Leicester City
8. Lanzarote and Tenerife are part of which group of islands?
The Canaries - Norwich
9. Which animals became extinct in Britain in the 1760’s?
Wolves - Wolverhampton
10. Published in 1928, Meet The Tiger by Leslie Charteris was the first book to feature which character?
The Saint - Southampton
Spare - Which ITV magazine show ran from 1968 to 1980 and featured presenters including Jenny Hanley, Mick Robertson and Tommy Boyd?
Magpie - Newcastle

Round Three - Windy Weather
11. What are the winds that originate in the Sahara desert called?
Scirroco
12. What was the highest wind speed ever recorded on the surface of the Earth - Was it (A) 165 mph, (B) 195 mph, (C) 225 mph?
C - 225 mph
13. Which strong wind, which blows off the lee side of a mountain range, is named after a native American people?
Chinook
14. In which year did Southern Britain suffer hurricane force winds?
1987
15. Beginning with Z, What name is the west wind or any soft, gentle wind?
Zephyr

Round Four - Music Power
16. With which band did Mike Rutherford of Mike and the Mechanics fame originally make his name?
Genesis
17. Who released the 1996 album ‘Older’?
George Michael
18. Of which band was Richard Ashcroft the lead singer?
The Verve
19. Which band had a huge 70s hit with ‘Take It Easy’?
The Eagles
20. From which country did Eurovision Song Contest winner Gina G originate?
Australia

Round Five - Sports Doubles
21. What are the two longest distances contested on the track in a decathlon event?
1500m and 400m
22. Which two British drivers were Formula One world champions in the 1970s?
James Hunt and Jackie Stewart
23. Which two types of canoeing events are contested in rough waters?
Slalom and Wild Water
24. Who were the first two Canadian snooker players to score a 147 break in a ranking tournament?
Kirk Stevens and Cliff Thorburn
25. Who were the first two German football clubs to win the European Cup?
Bayern Munich and SV Hamburg

Round Six - Around The World
26. What country provides only overland exit from S America?
Panama
27. What Euro capital is 208 miles from London by air?
Paris
28. What is the official language of Cuba?
Spanish
29. What is Santa Clara Valley in California better known as?
Silicon Valley
30. What European country colonised Mozambique and Angola?
Portugal

Round Seven - Movie Taglines
e.g. In space no one can hear you scream - Alien
31. Collide with destiny
Titanic
32. She walked off the street, into his life and stole his heart
Pretty Woman
33. Protecting the earth from the scum of the universe
Men In Black
34. A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood
A Fish Called Wanda
35. A man sent to a mental hospital finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the other patients
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest

Round Eight - The Bear Facts
36. According to the song, which hero ˜killed him a bear when he was only three"?
Davy Crockett
37. The only South American bear is the Andean bear, which has white circles around its eyes. By what other name is it known?
Spectacled Bear
38. After whom is the teddy bear named?
Theodore Roosevelt
39. What is the collective noun for a group of bears?
Sloth
40. Archibald Ormsby Gore was the much-loved bear of which famous English poet?
John Betjeman

Round Nine - Connections
41. Who played the two lead roles in ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’?
Roseanne Arquette & MADONNA
42. Name Rod Stewart’s current blonde girlfriend?
PENNY Lancaster
43. Who played Michael Cain’s roll in the remake of ‘Alfie’?
JUDE law
44. Who played Cindy Beale in Eastenders?
MICHELE Collins
45. What is the connection?
Beatles songs

Round Ten - Who Married Who
46. Who was married to Dan Donovan, Jim Kerr and Liam Gallagher?
Patsy Kensit
47. Which actress member of the cast of Fawlty Towers was married to John Cleese?
Connie Booth (who played Polly Sherman)
48. Who got married to German music engineer Renate Blauel on Valentines Day 1984?
Elton John
49. Who married Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh and Joan Plowright?
Laurence Olivier
50. Who was married to Burhan Belge, Conrad Hilton, George Sanders, Herbert Hutner, Joshua S Cosden Jnr., Jack Ryan, Michael O’Hara, Felipe de Alba and Prince Frederick von Anhalt?
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Round One - General Ignorance
1. Born in 1786, who was referred to in the song as the ‘King of the Wild Frontier’?
Davy Crockett
2. Which high-ranking Nazi died in 1987 after 46 years in prison?
Rudolf Hess
3. Which pop group reached Number One in the US charts in 1974 with ‘The Night Chicago Died’?
Paper Lace
4. Name the creator of Sooty, who died in 1989?
Harry Corbett
5. Born in 1892, who spoke the line: ‘Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?’ in the film ‘She Done Him Wrong’?
Mae West

Round Two - All Action Movies
6. What nationality cop did Sean Connery play in The Untouchables?
Irish
7. Which English Oscar winner was the villain in Die Hard III?
Jeremy Irons
8. Who played two roles in the 90’s version of The Man In The Iron Mask?
Leonardo DiCaprio
9. Who played Bernado in The Magnificent Seven and Danny Velinki in The Great Escape?
Charles Bronson
10. Which Oliver Stone film with Kevin Costner was about events prior to Kennedy’s assassination?
JFK

Round Three - Food & Drink
11. In cookery what type of food is the Italian " Frittata"?
Omelette
12. Which Dutch beer features a five pointed red star in it’s logo?
Heineken
13. Lobster Thermadore is a dish of lobster served with which type of sauce?
Cheese
14. On a Spanish menu, what are gambas?
Prawns
15. Which cartoon duo share their name with a cocktail of rum, brandy, nutmeg, egg and milk?
Tom & Jerry

Round Four - Wildlife
16. What type of hog-nosed animal is only two centimetres long?
Bat
17. Which American native has a black masked face and a distinctive ringed tail?
Racoon
18. What is the largest rodent in the world?
Capybara
19. What is the skin on a deer’s antlers called?
Velvet
20. What is a fully-grown male gorilla called?
Silverback

Round Five - Countdown Conundrums
21. NIGIMSORP = PROMISING
22. ALBUMHINT = THUMBNAIL
23. ANGLEHOAX = HEXAGONAL
24. LATINBOAT = BATTALION
25. ATRIMACUT = TRAUMATIC

Round Six - By The Rivers Of…
26. The Oubangi, Lulonga and Lamami rivers are tributaries of which river?
Congo
27. On which river does Washington DC stand?
Potomac
28. The Puni, Jari and Xingu rivers are tributaries of which river?
Amazon
29. Which Cheshire river flows through Nantwich, Winsford and Northwich before joining the Mersey just outside Runcorn?
Weaver
30. Which river has its source in Western Switzerland and enters the sea at the Camargue delta?
Rhone
Spare - Which area of India has a name, which means ‘Five-Rivers’?
The Punjab

Round Seven - Transport
31. Which mode of transport first crossed the English Channel on 25/07/59?
Hovercraft
32. Which British Airline collapsed in 1982?
Laker Airlines / Skytrain
33. In which decade of the 20th century was the Volkswagen Beetle first launched?
Thirties / 1938
34. Which was the first railway station to be built in London?
Euston
35. In which country did Steve Fosset land following his successful Circumnavigation of the World in a hot air balloon in 2002?
Australia

Round Eight - Famous Suicides
(Guess who from the method and / or circumstances)
36. Walked into blizzard so as not to slow down Scott’s expedition?
Lawrence Oates
37. To avoid capture by the Romans (183 BC)?
Hannibal
38. Killed himself by hanging whilst in custody in 1995?
Fred West
39. Stabbed himself after Roman senate sentenced him to death (AD 68)?
Nero
40. Overdose of barbiturates 1962?
Marilyn Monroe

Round Nine - Connections
41. Which Novel by Jules Verne features the character Professor Challenger?
Journey to the CENTRE of the Earth
42. Where according to the film title did Marty McFly go?
BACK to the Future
43. Which US Cop was played on TV by William Shatner?
TJ HOOKER
44. Which US Actress recieved an acadamy award nomination for her role in yhe 1983 film Terms of Endearment?
Debra WINGER
45. What is the connection?
Rugby (Positions)

Round Ten - 90’s Song Lyrics
46. So when I’m lying in my bed, thoughts running through my head?
Angels / Robbie Williams
47. She’s into superstitions, black cats and voodoo dolls?
Livin’ La Vida Loca / Ricky Martin
48. And all the men are gargoyles dipped long in Irish stout?
Rotterdam / The Beautiful South
49. Rita Hayworth gave good face?
Vogue / Madonna
50. So hurry up and bring your jukebox money?
Love Shack / B52s