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QUIZ 199 - 08.11.06
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PICTURE ANSWERS 199
1. AVA GARDNER
2. KATE WINSLETT
3. A MORAY EEL
4. DAVID CAMERON
5. FILM - MARS ATTACKS
6. DANNY DEVITO (as The Penguin)
7. THE CORPSE BRIDE
8. HESTON BLEMENTHAL
9. GRACE SLICK (a long time ago!!)
10. REMBRANT
1.
Which band was voted best British group at the 2006 Brit Awards?
THE KAISER CHIEFS
2.
When built in 1931 the Empire State Building replaced which building as the
world's tallest?
EIFFEL TOWER
A correction from Ken in Sacramento on this one
Prior
to the Empire State building's erection (!) in 1931, the tallest building in
the world was The Chrysler Building in New York, which was completed in 1929.
It was twenty metres taller than the Eiffel Tower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_tallest_structures
3.
What is the name of the bay near Glasgow that is home to Britain's Trident Nuclear
submarines?
FASLANE
4.
Which London park features a drive called The Ladies Mile?
HYDE PARK
5.
In which Country does Waterways Airways operate - Canada, Australia or New Zealand?
NEW ZEALAND
6.
Which company created the perfumes Dolce Vita and Poison?
CHRISTIAN DIOR
7.
In which country would you find the tourist resort of Hurghada?
EGYPT
8.
Promising action after receiving a major report it had commissioned on global
warming, the British government hired a prominent American as an adviser on
future strategy. Who is he?
AL GORE
9.
In which country was Fidel Castro born?
CUBA
10.
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun is the world's biggest selling example of what type
of product?
DAILY NEWSPAPER
1.
What is the name of the sitcom featuring homeless Sheldon and wheel chair bound
Paul?
I'M WITH STUPID
2.
Isaac Washington was the name of the bartender on board which sailing vessel?
THE LOVE BOAT
3.
If Elle is trying to come between Sky and Dylan, what is the programme?
NEIGHBOURS
4.
What is the name of the brown bear from cult kid's TV show Rainbow?
BUNGLE
5.
What was the eponymous Robin's Nest?
A RESTAURANT
6.
What sort of 'treatment' are urban dwellers receiving at the hands of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall?
THE RIVER COTTAGE TREATMENT
7.
Who was the leader of the good Transformers?
OPTIMUS PRIME
8.
What was the name of Roscoe's dog on the Dukes of Hazzard?
FLASH
9.
Tom Cruise has starred as secret agent Ethan Hunt in three films based on what
classic television series that ran from 1966 to 1973?
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
10.
Which animated TV character once said "I'm not normally a religious man,
but if you're up there, save me, Superman"?
HOMER J SIMPSON
1.
In Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', how did Ophelia die?
DROWNING
2.
Peter Benjamin Parker is the alter-ego of which comic-book superhero?
SPIDERMAN
3.
Who wrote The Magus; The French Lieutenant's Woman and Daniel Martin?
JOHN FOWLES
4.
In which century did Samuel Pepys write his diaries?
17th
5.
Who wrote the novel Bleak House?
CHARLES DICKENS
6.
According to the Bible, with what did Samson kill 1,000 men?
THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS
7.
Who wrote the children's story Matilda?
ROALD DAHL
8.
Who wrote the Booker Prize winning novel Hotel du Lac?
ANITA BROOKNER
9.
Who wrote the classic children's story The Wind in The Willows?
KENNETH GRAHAM
10.
The 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five was set amongst the destructive aerial bombing
of which city?
DRESDEN
HISTORY
1.
Which Prime Minister was assassinated on 31 October in 1984?
INDIRA GANDHI
2.
The Battle of Borodino was between the troops of Napoleon and which Country?
RUSSIA
3.
In which Country did the Sandinistas overthrow the government in 1979?
NICARAGUA
4.
In what year was the Battle of Agincourt?
1415
5.
What was the name of Hitler's personal secretary who disappeared at the end
of WW II?
MARTIN BORMAN
6.
What was the name of the North Sea oil platform that caught fire in July 1988?
PIPER ALPHA
7.
Who was the commander of Italy's 'Red Shirts'?
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI
8.
Who became Master of All Britain following his victory at the Battle of Worcester?
OLIVER CROMWELL
9.
Why was Ian Botham banned from 1st class cricket for 2 months in 1986?
HE ADMITTED HE HAD SMOKED CANNABIS
10.
Born in 1725 he died in 1803 and is possibly the most famous Irishman in the
world, who is he?
ARTHUR GUINNESS
1.
In which recent film do Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon 'house' Owen Wilson?
YOU ME AND DUPREE
2.
Who played Professor Donald Kessler in the film Mars Attacks!?
PIERCE BROSNAN
3.
Which Country & Western singer made an acting appearance in the film True
Grit?
GLEN CAMPBELL
4.
Jodie Foster won an Oscar for her performance in The Silence of the Lambs in
1992 but for her performance in which film was she awarded an Oscar in 1989?
THE ACCUSED
5.
Who created the girls of St Trinians?
RONALD SEARLE
6.
In which film do Jane Fonda and George Segal play a couple who resort to armed
robbery when he loses his job?
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE
7.
Who played 006, codename Janus, real name Alec Trevelyan in the film Goldeneye?
SEAN BEAN
8.
Which 2004 Mike Leigh film stared Imelda Staunton as a 'backstreet abortionist'?
VERA DRAKE
9.
Which was the first colour film to win Best Picture Oscar?
GONE WITH THE WIND
10.
What is the title of the 2004 puppet satire created by Trey Parker and Matt
Stone?
TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
1.
Which building has the postcode London W1A 1AA?
BROADCASTING HOUSE (BBC)
2.
Which aircraft safety device was invented by British engineer James Martin?
THE EJECTOR SEAT
3.
Which suave actor died at the age of 81 last week?
WILLIAM FRANKLIN
4.
Which game was formerly known as whiff-waff?
TABLE TENNIS
5.
In which country would you find Great Slave Lake?
CANADA
6.
Which popular dance means "a crack of a whip" in Portuguese?
THE LAMBADA
7.
Which Royal Navy submarine torpedoed and sank the General Belgrano on 2nd May
1982?
H.M.S. CONQUEROR
8.
Which ex-world leader nicknamed The Great Crocodile died last week?
P. W. BOTHA
9.
When processed the ore Galena produces which metal?
LEAD
10.
In Greek mythology, who was the Goddess of Retribution and Vengeance?
NEMESIS
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