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QUIZ 204 - 13.12.06
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1
1.
Into which Ocean does the River Amazon flow?
THE ATLANTIC
2.
What is the name of the hammer used by a chairman or an auctioneer?
A GAVEL
3. QUESTION DELETED
4.
Matthew Bellamy is the front man with which rock band?
MUSE
5.
Which French City, near Paris, is the site of an elaborate residence built for
Louis XIV?
VERSAILLES
6.
What is the name of the pilgrim in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress?
CHRISTIAN
7.
If a female donkey is a Jenny, what is a male donkey called?
A JACK
8. How is Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi's Opus 8, No's 1-4 better known?
THE FOUR SEASONS
9.
A Jellyfish can still sting when it's dead - true or false?
TRUE
10.
Which country is home to Miss World 2006?
THE CZECH REPUBLIC
TELEVISION
1.
How are Jane Turner & Gina Riley's characters known in the title of their
sitcom?
KATH & KIM
2.
What did The Stranglers do when they were forced to mime Go Buddy Go on Top
Of The Pops in 1977?
THEY REMOVED THE STRINGS FROM THEIR GUITARS
3.
What is the name of the BBC series in which prospective entrepreneurs and inventors
try to persude a panel of self made millionaires to invest in their ideas?
DRAGON'S DEN
4.
Who presented TV's Room 101 before Paul Merton?
NICK HANCOCK
5.
Elizabeth was the Starchild on which sci-fi sieries?
V- THE VISITORS
6.
Richard Hillman killed Maxine Peacock in which soap?
CORONATION STREET
7.
Who played the pest controller, Tommy Saxondale?
STEVE COOGAN
8. Who live in Wisteria Lane?
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
9.
Steve Brookstein was the first winner of which UK TV talent show?
THE X-FACTOR
10.
Which famous fictional venue is located at 112½ Beacon Street, Boston
USA?
CHEERS BAR
GEOGRAPHY / HISTORY
1.
Who was the wife of the biblical king Ahab?
JEZEBEL
2.
Which American blues singer who died in 1937 was alleged to have sold his soul
to the Devil at a crossroads at midnight to acquire his talent?
ROBERT JOHNSON
3.
Which Central American country has the shortest distance from East to West coast?
PANAMA
4.
Who was shot in the back by the cowardly Jack McCall?
WILD BILL HICKOCK
5. What runs through the mouth of the River Amazon and Lake Victoria (water is NOT acceptable)?
THE EQUATOR
6.
Where would you find the Queen Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Maud mountain
ranges?
ANTARCTICA
7.
Who, in Greek mythology, rode a horse called Xanthus?
ACHILLES
8.
What is the Capital City of Qatar?
DOHA
9.
How many days did the reign of Pope John Paul I last in 1978?
33
10.
How did American country singer Pasty Cline die in 1963?
PLANE CRASH
FOOD & DRINK
1.
Which drink can be sweet, dry or rough?
CIDER
2.
Alicante, Cardinal, Cassidy, Niagara and Palamino are all varieties of which
fruit?
GRAPE
3.
What does the adjective chambre mean, when applied to a wine?
AT ROOM TEMPERATURE
4.
What is the main ingredient of the Mexican beer pulque?
CACTUS
5.
If someone gave you butterkase, what would you be eating?
A (GERMAN) CHEESE
6.
What is the name of the Italian sausage often flavoured with garlic and whose
name is derived from the Latin for salted?
SALAMI
7. Which beer is advertised with the slogan 'We only let you drink it when its
ready'?
GROLSCH
8. What can be a ham or a German white wine?
HOCK
9.
What country is the world's #1 producer and consumer of pork?
CHINA
10.
What does a butcher call the streaks of fat running through a piece of meat?
MARBLING
FILM
1.
Who played the stationmaster in the film The Railway Children?
BERNARD CRIBBENS
2.
Which 1997 movie starred Jim Carrey as an attorney that had a habit of not telling
the truth?
LIAR LIAR
3.
Who played Legolas in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy?
ORLANDO BLOOM
4.
What was Mr Darcy's first name in Bridget Jones' Diary?
MARK
5.
Which villainess did Uma Thurman play in Batman and Robin?
POISON IVY (DR PAMELA ISLEY)
6.
In which 1992 Disney movie does the villian Jafar appear?
ALADDIN
7.
Which film centres on two idiots from Rhode Island driving to Colorado to return
a briefcase?
DUMB AND DUMBER
8.
Complete this line from the film Casablanca "I'll always remember the day
the Germans entered Paris"
YOU WORE BLUE THE GERMANS WORE GREY
9.
What was Kris Kristofferson's call sign in the film Convoy?
RUBBER DUCK
10.
Which actor was The Last Boy Scout in the 1991 film?
BRUCE WILLIS
LITERATURE / ISH
1.
Who wrote the 1937 novelette Of Mice And Men?
JOHN STEINBECK
2.
In J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, what did Wendy sew on for Peter?
HIS SHADOW
3.
From what Shakespeare play would you find the Fairy King Oberon and the Fairy
Queen Titania?
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
4.
In what Century did Geoffrey Chaucer write The Canterbury Tales?
14th
5.
Who is the magical spirit of the air in Shakespeare's The Tempest?
ARIEL
6.
Which poet had an unrequited love for Miss Maud Gonne, who told him: "The
world will thank me for not marrying you"?
W.B. YEATS
7.
Which British horror storywriter penned the novel The Rats?
JAMES HERBERT
8.
Whose autobiography is entitled Losing My Virginity?
RICHARD BRANSON
9.
Which novel features a pig called Napoleon?
ANIMAL FARM (GEORGE ORWELL)
10.
Who are the authors of Margrave of the Marshes?
JOHN & SHEILA PEEL
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2
1.
What is the name of the prison that stood on the site now occupied by The Old
Bailey?
NEWGATE
2.
On a standard UK Monopoly board, what lies diagonally opposite Go?
FREE PARKING
3.
What is the literal meaning of the word Cenotaph?
EMPTY TOMB
4.
What sort of creature is a Frogmouth?
A FISH
5.
Jazz musician Miles Davis is an exponent of which instrument?
THE TRUMPET
6.
What is the boiling point of water at sea level in degrees farenheit?
212
7.
Which children's book included the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
8.
What was the name of the first spacecraft to land on the moon?
LUNA 2
9.
What does QUANGO stand for?
QUASI-AUTONOMOUS NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION
10.
What kind of bomb contains hydrogen sulphide?
A STINK BOMB
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