Colin's Web From Belfast - pat's quiz 229

QUIZ 229 - 13.06.07

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PICTURE ROUND 229

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. Who was the daughter of a prime minister, the mother of a prime minister and was also a prime minister herself?

2. In what year was decimal currency introduced in the UK?

3. Whose current album release is entitled Memory Almost Full?

4. By what name was the atomic energy establishment Sellafield formerly known?

5. Which band did Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simenon and Terry Chimes form in 1976?

6. What is the three-dimensional image created by laser beams called?

7. Who will not face a jail term after pleading guilty to driving while unfit?

8. What S is the point in the body where two nerves meet?

9. Which group of islands celebrates Thatcher Day on January the 11th?

10. What do birds have two of, spiders have eight of and bees have five of?

FILM

1. Which film featured Geri Halliwell's version of the song It's Raining Men?

2. In which 1981 film did Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange have an erotic encounter on a kitchen table?

3. What is the name of the evil penguin in The Wrong Trousers?

4. Which Quentin Tarantino film was originally called Black Mask?

5. Who played opposite Patrick Swayze, as the female lead in the 1987 film, Dirty Dancing?

6. In which film did Whoopi Goldberg win an Oscar playing the character of Oda May?

7. With which ball do you score a goal in Quidditch?

8. Who is the mother of actress Melanie Griffith who made her screen debut in the Hitchcock's 1963 suspense thriller The Birds?

9. Who played the strip cartoon character Dick Tracy on the big screen?

10. Acid Burn & Crash Override are the computer names of the characters in which film?

GEOGRAPHY

1. What is the largest Island in the Caribbean?

2. Which country is called Suomi in its native language?

3. The A1 road starts in London and finishes where?

4. What is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

5. In which City is the University of East Anglia?

6. The Needles are off the west coast of which English county?

7. How is the group of 6 States on the northeast coast of the USA collectively known?

8. On which island is Mount Suribachi, famous for an incident in Feb 1945?

9. What is the name of the range of hills that lie in the county of Somerset?

10. On landing at José Marti Airport, you have arrived in which country?

SPORT

1. Which team did Liverpool beat (in extra time) to win the 2006 FA Cup?

2. The 'Roxy Chicken Jam' is an annual event in which sport?

3. In which country was the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup played?

4. What sport links Prince, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Janet Jackson and Shania Twain?

5. Lennox Lewis won gold for which country at the Seoul Olympics in 1988?

6. The oldest sporting trophy, first contested in 1851 is a silver ewer (pitcher) called what?

7. What do cricketers call a ball that flies over the batsman's head without bouncing?

8. Who has won more F1 Grand Prix races than any other driver?

9. Which team won the IRB World Series, Rugby Sevens?

10. In the game of golf what do Americans call an Abatross?

TELEVISION

1. Which former TV weathergirl presented the game show Dog Eat Dog in 2001?

2. What was the name of the dog in Fraggle Rock?

3. Who is the host of The People's Quiz?

4. Which disheveled detective had a Basset Hound called Fang?

5. What was the name of He-Man's castle?

6. Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie ask what question in the title of their programme?

7. Which detective series starred Patricia Hodge in the title role?

8. Which popular comedy show featured a man called Bulldog and a dog called Eddie?

9. What were Cagney and Lacey's first names?

10. Rik Mayall, Morwenna Banks, Matt Lucas and Phil Cornwell supply the voices for whose ITV Disasters?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. Where would someone have worn a Billycock?

2. Which truck manufacturer made the Lynx, Hippo, Lion and Octopus?

3. In Norfolk they call the male of this creature a Jack, the female they call a Broadster, found along the seashore, which creature is it?

4. Brookfield Farm, Home Farm, Bridge Farm and Grange Farm can all be found in which soap?

5. What colour is Angelica?

6. What record began being played non-stop in 10,000 Starbucks' outlets across 29 countries on June 5th?

7. How many Presidents' faces are sculpted on Mount Rushmore?

8. The battleship USS Arizona is a designated US War Memorial. Where is it to be found?

9. What word can be a connection between mobile phones, computers, etc, or a nickname given to King Harald I of Denmark?

10. What 'whiter than white' singer represented the UK at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest?