QUIZERAMA QUIZ FILES

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