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QUIZ 191 - 13.09.06
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1
1.
What did the rat do in 'The house that Jack built'?
ATE THE MALT
2.
Which number is represented by the Roman numeral D?
500
3.
Which planet in our solar system has the longest day from sunrise to sunset?
VENUS (117 EARTH DAYS)
4.
What may be mixed, complex or vulgar?
FRACTIONS
5.
Who are dumping their blue flaming torch logo in favour of a green tree?
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY
6.
Who was the 1st player to score 100 goals in the English Premier League?
ALAN SHEARER
7.
Which island was sold by Norway to Scotland in 1266?
THE ISLE OF MAN
8.
Which famous Australian landmark was opened on March 19th 1932?
THE SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE
9.
What is neutralised by degaussing?
A MAGNETIC FIELD
10.
What does a pantophagist eat?
ANYTHING
TRUE OR FALSE
1.
Issur Danielovitch changed his name to Yul Brynner - true or false?
FALSE (KIRK DOUGLAS)
2.
Former professional wrestler, Governor of Minnesota and actor Jesse Ventura
is an ex-Navy Seal - true or false?
TRUE
3.
The first black pitcher to pitch a World Series game was called Joe Black -
true or false?
TRUE
4.
New York is further south than Rome, Italy - true or false?
TRUE
5.
Stevie Wonder has been blind since birth - true or false?
TRUE
6.
Halle Berry's stunt double in the 'Catwoman' film was a man - true or false?
TRUE
7.
In Tombstone, Arizona, a cowboy was fined £100 for riding his horse without
lights in 1992 - true or false?
TRUE
8.
Natasha Hamilton, Liz McLarnon and Jenny Frost were collectively known as Destiny's
Child - true or false?
FALSE (ATOMIC KITTEN)
9.
The E in E Numbers stands for exclusive - true or false?
FALSE (EUROPEAN)
10.
Neroli Oil is distilled from the flowers of the lime tree - true or false?
FALSE (ORANGE)
TELEVISION
1.
Patrick McGoohan played the character John Drake in which TV series?
DANGER MAN
2.
In which comedy series did Stephen Tompkinson play Damien Day?
DROP THE DEAD DONKEY
3.
Who is making 'a big sting' on Ch 5?
DONAL MACINTYRE
4.
Corporal Henshaw was a central character in which long running series?
THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW (BILKO)
5.
What indicated that you were doing well in Blockbusters but cancelled success
in Strike It Lucky?
HOT SPOT
6.
Which character was played in the 60's by Dennis Price and in the 90's by Stephen
Fry?
JEEVES
7.
What is the name of the daytime game show hosted by Eamon Holmes?
SUDO-Q
8.
What was the name of Edina Monsoon's incompetent PA in Absolutly Fabulous?
BUBBLE (JANE HORROCKS)
9.
What was Private Frazer's 'day job' in Dad's Army?
AN UNDERTAKER
10.
What is the name of the Teletubbies' vacumn cleaner?
NOO NOO
SPIES
1.
Born in 1660, which English author also spied for England in Edinburgh, assisting
in the bribery scandal which led to the Treaty of Union 1707?
DANIEL DEFOE
2.
What was the name of the character played by Alec Guinness in the TV series
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
GEORGE SMILEY
3.
Which couple were executed on June 19th 1953 for passing nuclear weapons secrets
to the Soviet Union?
JULIUS & ETHEL ROSENBERG
4.
Who played the role of Alec Leamas in the 1965 film 'The Spy Who Came In From
The Cold'?
RICHARD BURTON
5.
Which former British diplomat, who was sentenced to 42 years for spying in 1961,
escaped from Wormwood Scrubs five years later?
GEORGE BLAKE
6.
The Dutch dancer Margareta Zeile was shot as a German spy by the French in 1917;
what Malay expression (meaning 'The Sun') did she adopt professionally?
MATA HARI
7.
Who wrote The Spy Who Came in From the Cold?
JOHN LE CARRE
8.
Operation Snow White was the name given internally by which organisation to
a program which included the single largest infiltration of the US government
in history?
THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY
9.
What was the name of the spy played by Michael Caine in The Ipcress File?
HARRY PALMER
10.
As in the James Bond books, the head of British intelligence is known as M?
FALSE
FILM
1.
Who played the feamle lead in Truly, Madly Deeply?
JULIET STEVENSON
2.
Who played the Master of Ceromonies in the film Cabaret?
JOEL GREY
3.
What was the name of the nuclear processing plant worker played by Meryl Streep
in a 1983 film?
(KAREN) SILKWOOD
4.
Who plays executioner Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005 film Pierrepoint?
TIMOTHY SPALL
5.
Who played the title role in the 1991 film The Butcher's Wife?
DEMI MOORE
6.
Who directed the Clint Eastwood 'Spaghetti Westerns'?
SERGIO LEONE
7.
Who played Jean-Claude Van Damme's brother in the film Double Impact?
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME (he played twins!)
8.
Who plays the USA's 1st Lady in the recent film, The Sentinel?
KIM BASINGER
9.
Which classic film is known in France as La Train Sifflera Trois Fois?
HIGH NOON
10.
The credits on all Bond films finish with which same four words?
JAMES BOND WILL RETURN
FINE(?) ARTS
1.
For which instrument did Bach write his Fiddle Fugue?
THE ORGAN (he had a sense of humour then!)
2.
Which French artist found fame with his posters advertising the Follies Bergeres?
HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
3.
Who wrote the opera The Love For Three Oranges?
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (The libretto was by Prokofiev and Vera
Janacopoulos, based on Vsevolod Meyerhold's adaptation of Gozzi's play)
4.
In which year was the Angel of the North erected?
1998
5.
Which musical event takes place every summer near Lewes?
GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA FESTIVAL
6.
Which French painter and sculptor created The Pink Nude?
HENRI MATISSE
7.
Which architect designed New York's Guggenheim Museum?
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
8.
What is majolica?
ENAMMELED POTTERY
9.
Which technique, devoloped by the painter Seurat uses small dabs of colour laid
side by side?
POINTILLISM
10.
Who composed the Symphony #7, known as 'The Leningrad' Symphony?
SHOSTAKOVICH
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2
1.
In which Country was the late Princess Margaret born?
SCOTLAND
2.
In The Batman comics/films/tv series, what was Robin's alter-identity?
DICK GRAYSON
3.
What signal rplaced the CQD signal in 1906?
SOS
4.
A perfect game of 10 pin bowling has how many strikes?
12
5.
What was the name of the Romanian secret police force abolished when Ceaucescu
was executed?
THE SECURITATE
6.
Ickibana is the traditional Japanese art of what?
FLOWER ARRANGING
7.
According to the song, how did Molly Malone die?
OF A FEVER (AND NO ONE COULD SAVE HER)
8.
In which Irish County is the port of Rosslare?
WEXFORD
9.
TAP is the national airline of which Country?
PORTUGAL
10.
In the radio series The Archers, what is the name of the pub run by Sid &
Jolene Perks?
THE BULL
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