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QUIZ 180 - 14.06.06 This page was last modified: |
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1
1.
What links a Civil War battle of 1862, The Virginian and Brad Pitt & Angelina
Jolie?
SHILOH (American battle - the ranch in the TV show &
their new daughter)
2.
After which Saint is the main square in Venice named?
SAINT MARK
3.
Church bells of Marainello in Italy ring on Sundays, Public Holidays and on
which sporting occasion?
WHEN THE FERRARI F1 TEAM WIN (they've been pretty silent
recently lol)
4.
If a male hedgehog is a boar, what is a male squirrel?
A BUCK
5.
How many years after the National Lottery started did the Wednesday draw start?
3 (1994 - 1997)
6.
Which beer shares its name with the largest island in the Azores?
SAN MIGUEL
7.
Portia Simpson Miller is the 1st female Prime Minister of which country?
JAMAICA
8.
Which car manufacturer produces the Sorento and Sedona models?
KIA
9.
What is the top hand in a game of poker?
A ROYAL FLUSH (according to my extensive research the
suits are all equal except for some reason in Italy)
10.
Which brand of disinfectant took its name from a London Sanitary Engineer called
Harry Pickup?
HARPIC
MUSIC
1.
After 30 years of playing bass with The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman left the
band in 1992 and later formed a group called what?
THE RHYTHM KINGS
2.
In which country was the singer Avril Lavigne born?
CANADA
3.
What name is given to the piece of metal that swings inside a bell?
THE CLAPPER
4.
What was the name of the first single released by the Beatles?
LOVE ME DO (Oct 62 - #17 in the UK singles charts)
5.
Which useful musical device was invented by Johann Maelzel in 1814?
THE METRONOME
6.
What instrument was played by jazzman Django Reinhardt?
GUITAR
7.
Which singer's albums include the songs: Here with Me and Hunter?
DIDO
8.
What is the more commonly used nickname given to Waltz in D Flat Major, Opus
64, No. 1 by Chopin?
THE MINUTE WALTZ
9.
Ricky Wilson, Andrew Whitey White, and Nick Peanut Baines are members of which
indie band?
THE KAISER CHIEFS
10.
Which great rock-and-roller died in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 22?
BUDDY HOLLY
CURRENT AFFAIRS
1.
Tony Blair had a meeting with the Prime Minister of where,this week?
ISRAEL
2.
Czech Republic striker Milan Baros joined Aston Villa from which club?
LIVERPOOL
3.
Children cooling off in the summer heat wave by setting off fire hydrants has
led to about how many litres of water being lost in the past two weeks in N.I.?
12 M
4.
Gems, jewellery and paintings belonging to which Royal are being auctioned this
week?
PRINCESS MARGARET
5.
15 year-old Tadd Fujikawa will be making an appearance at which mjor sporting
event?
THE U.S. OPEN (GOLF)
6.
Which controversial former Irish Prime Minister died at the age of 80?
CHARLES HAUGHEY
7.
What did a woman in South Wales find in a bag of Tesco grapes?
A SCORPION
8.
Which newspaper is Heather Mills McCartney set to sue after they alleged that
she worked as a prostitute in her 20s?
NEWS OF THE WORLD
9.
Who won this year's Orange Prize for fiction?
ZADE SMITH
10.
At 92, Doris Long has set a new world record for being the oldest person to
ever do what?
ABSEIL
GEOGRAPHY
1.
What is the capital City of Venezuela?
CARACAS
2.
On which river does Bratislava stand?
THE DANUBE
3.
How many countries have land borders with Denmark?
1 - GERMANY
4.
What is the capital of Montenegro - Podgorica, Touraygovar or Montenegro?
PODGORICA
5.
On the Beaufort scale, what number corresponds to a Gale?
8
6. What is the capital of El Salvador?
SAN SALVADOR
7.
On which river does Dresden stand?
THE ELBE
8.
In which US State will you find 'the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes'?
ALASKA
9.
Which is the largest (in area) of the five boroughs of New York City?
QUEENS
10.
What is the capital City of Costa Rica?
SAN JOSE
FILM
1.
In which film does Robert De Niro play Ben Stiller's potential father-in-law?
MEET THE PARENTS
2.
In which film did Nicholas Cage play an alcoholic called Ben Sanderson?
LEAVING LAS VEGAS
3.
Who played Morphius in The Matrix trilogy?
LAURENCE FISHBURN
4.
In Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events what was the name of the
character played by Jim Carrey?
COUNT OLAF
5.
What is the title of the 1994 sequel to Patriot Games starring Harrison Ford
as CIA agent Jack Ryan?
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
6.
Who played Katherine Hepburn to Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes in The Aviator?
CATE BLANCHETT
7.
In which film did the evil gang of Pete, Georgie, Dim and Alex feature?
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (THE DROOGS)
8.
Who played the explosives expert in The Guns of Navaronne?
DAVID NIVEN
9.
Rowan Atkinson appeared alongside Sarah Michelle Geller in which film?
SCOOBY-DOO
10.
What was the name of the robot in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet?
ROBBIE THE ROBOT
THE BELLS THE BELLS
1.
The Mike Oldfield album Tubular Bells was the first major success for which
record company?
VIRGIN
2.
Glen Bell was 23 when he left the army in 1946; he went on to found which fast
food giant?
TACO BELL
3.
Which famous inventor was born in Edinburgh on March 3rd 1847?
ALEXANDER (GRAHAM) BELL
4.
Which group had a 1959 top ten hit with The Three Bells?
THE BROWNS
5.
There is a City in California called Bell - true or false?
TRUE
6.
Which famous Bell was born in Belfast on October 21st 1935?
DEREK (FLEETWOOD) BELL (THE CHIEFTAINS)
7.
Who wrote the novel 'The Bell Jar'?
SYLVIA PLATH
8.
Who did Martin Bell (possibly the country's best known Independent politician)
defeat to win his Tatton seat?
NEIL HAMILTON
9.
Who topped the charts in 1979 with 'Ring My Bell'?
ANITA WARD
10.
Advertised with the slogan 'It has the power, It has the versatility, It has
the record' what is the 412 LUH?
A BELL HELICOPTER
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2
1.
Who was the first non-GB Eurovision Song Contest winner to top the British charts?
DANA (ALL KINDS OF EVERYTHING 1970 - Abba was 1974)
2.
Which City is home to more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, and more
Jews than Tel Aviv?
NEW YORK
3.
Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War I?
HERBERT ASQUITH
4.
Where would you find the inscription "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof," and the names Pass and Stow?
THE LIBERTY BELL IN PHILADELPHIA
5.
Which group topped the album charts with Stadium Arcadium?
THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS
6.
In which City are the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund?
WASHINGTON
7.
In which City was the opening game of the 2006 World Cup held?
MUNICH
8.
Everyone is familiar with the Sony PSP but what do the initials PSP stand for?
PLAY STATION PORTABLE
9.
If Phiz was Hablot Knight Browne, who was Boz?
CHARLES DICKENS (Hablot Knight Browne was the illustrator)
10.
Who set sail from La Coruna in 1588?
THE SPANISH ARMADA
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