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QUIZ 236 - 19.09.07 This page was last modified: |
PICTURE ROUND 236
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1
1. Who wrote the children's book
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
2. Which group had a hit album in
1995 called The Great Escape?
3. With what large building society
did the Nationwide merge in the 1980's?
4. What is the name of the object
ball in bowls?
5. What country did King Zog I rule
in the 1930's?
6. Which product has been advertised
for 75 years by Cornelius the Cockerel?
7. What colour is the blood of an
octopus?
8. What metal is an alloy of copper
and tin?
9. What type of steel is an alloy
of iron with some added chromium and a small amount of nickel?
10. Castries is the capital of which
Caribbean nation?
FILM
1. What is the sub title of the
Fantastic Four II film?
2. Who provided Jessica Rabbit's
voice in the 1998 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
3. In filmmaking what term is used
to describe the head of the electrical department?
4. Who plays the character Edna
Turnblad in a recent remake of a 1988 John Waters movie?
5. Who plays the film special effects
man in the 1986 film F/X Murder By Illusion?
6. Who won the Best Actor Oscar
for his appearance in the 1997 movie Life Is Beautiful?
7. On which Greek island was Shirley
Valentine largely set?
8. Which actor played Johnny Blaze
in the 2007 superhero movie Ghost Rider?
9. What is the title of Natalie
Portman's debut film?
10. In which film does Bruce Willis
play the ageing Harry Stamper?
FOOD & DRINK
1. What is the flavour of the drink
Kummel?
2. Asadero, Colby and Fontina are
types of what?
3. The beer Hahn Vienna Red, a toasted
malt lager, comes from which country?
4. Which sauce is the base for Tartar
Sauce?
5. Which fruit is often served with
Parma Ham as a starter?
6. In which American city is Samuel
Adams beer brewed?
7. Which snack, created by French
monks was designed to resemble a child's arms in prayer?
8. What is distinctive about the
making of bagels as opposed to other types of bread products?
9. What is the most unusual aspect
of the non-alcoholic Happy Tail Ale?
10. A frittata is an Italian version
of what?
TELEVISION
1. What is the name of the butler
in The Addams Family?
2. In which BBC TV series does Jean
Alexander play junk shop owner Auntie Wainwright?
3. What is the name of Apu's convenience
store in The Simpson's?
4. Thalia Zucchi made a brief appearance
on our screens recently as whom?
5. How are Blossom, Bubbles and
Buttercup collectively known?
6. Who played David Addison co-owner
of the Blue Moon detective agency?
7. Which foursome celebrate their
10th year on TV this week?
8. Which popular television series
was set in Cooper's Crossing?
9. Which of Doctor Who's former
assistants is set to have her own adventures on BBC 1 very soon?
10. Tim Allen played Tim 'The Tool
Man' Taylor on which sit-com?
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2
1. Jupiter was the leader of the
Gods in Roman myth but who was his Greek equivalent?
2. What was officially opened by
the Queen in Manchester in 1992?
3. What is the title of Canada's
national anthem?
4. Which motor vehicle was unveiled
in Rome in 1946 with a name that in Italian means wasp?
5. Who, born in 1847, was a raider
during the American Civil War, then robbed banks and trains, and was finally
shot in the back in 1882?
6. What English town claims the
world's largest fish market?
7. What are the 3 states of matter?
8. Of what is a turophile inordinately
fond?
9. What cosmetics giant started
in 1886 as the California Perfume Company?
10. The Sasquatch is better known
by what name?
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