Colin's Web From Belfast - Spaniard Quiz 231

QUIZ 231 - 27.06.07

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. How is postal worker Patrick Clifton better known?

2. Which founder member of The Grateful Dead died in 1995?

3. What name is given to the unchanging position in which forces cancel each other out?

4. What name is given to the meeting place for Jehovah's Witnesses?

5. Which song begins with the words, "My young love said to me, my mother won't mind, and my father won't slight you for your lack of kind..."?

6. How is the Bankside Power Station in London now known?

7. In children's literature, which bear lives in the village of Nutwood?

8. What are Matroschkas?

9. They are called Pitiful in Spain and Schlep in Germany, what are they called in the UK?

10. Jailed for tax evasion, who was Alcatraz inmate #85?

FILM

1. Who plays the eponymus Aeon Flux in the 2005 film?

2. How many weeks later in the recent London zombie sequel?

3. For his part in which 1988 film did Tom Hanks receive his 1st Best Actor Oscar nomination?

4. Who played Loretta Castorini in the film Moonstruck?

5. Which 1956 film starring Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen is loosely based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest?

6. Who topped FHM's poll as being the sexiest woman on the planet, and plays the part of Sue Storm in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer?

7. Which singer played the vampire-hunting weapons expert in the film Blade?

8. By what name is Issur Danielovitch Demsky better known?

9. Who played the 'hippy' tank commander in the film Kelly's Heroes?

10. In the film Breakfast at Tiffanys, what is the name of Holly Golightly's (Audrey Hepburn's) cat?

SPORT

1. Who won the 2007 US Open golf championship?

2. Who was the first batsman to score more than 500 runs in a single first-class innings?

3. Which jockey rode Yeats to Gold Cup success at Ascot last year?

4. Which Rugby League team has the nickname the Rams?

5. Over what weight does a male boxer become a heavyweight - 180, 200 or 220lbs?

6. With which spin bowler did the Nicorette* chewing gum manufacturers sign a four-month deal on condition that he not smoke during that period?

7. In Australian Rules Football, how many points are awarded for a behind?

8. Who crashed his go kart just minutes after selling it for £42,000 on E Bay?

9. Alex Ferguson was the manager of which club before he came to Manchester United?

10. Which team won this year's American football Super Bowl?

TELEVISION

1. Who plays late-night radio talk-show host Mitch Moore?

2. Which TV detective has been played by Rupert Davies and Michael Gambon?

3. Simon Cowell is one, but who are the other two judges in Britain's Got Talent?

4. Who is the only puppet to have won the quiz show The Weakest Link?

5. In which series does Jason Lee play a character who is setting out to undo all the bad things he did in his life?

6. Mike Reid, who played Frank Butcher in Eastenders, once hosted which children's show?

7. Which father & son team present 20th Century Battlefields on BBC 2?

8. Who won the first series of Channel Four's Big Brother?

9. Who plays Albert Stroller in BBC 1's Hustle?

10. Simon Ambrose is the latest winner of which show?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. How many verses are there in The Greek National Anthem - 1, 26 or 158?

2. What is the small town called in which Clark Kent grew up?

3. Which reconnaissance aircraft is named after the biblical figure described as the mighty hunter?

4. What is the name of the US Presidential retreat, the equivalent of the Prime Minister's Chequers?

5. Which soul singer died in 1984 after lying in a coma for eight years?

6. Ailurophobia is a fear of what?

7. In which field is Renzo Piano a leading light?

8. How many astronauts have walked on the moon?

9. Phyllis Dorothy are the Christian names of which author?

10. Which female singer sang 'Better The Devil You Know' as the UK's 1983 Eurovision Song Contest entry?