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Happy New Year Everyone! QUIZ 248 - 09.01.08 This page was last modified: Sorry - this is a shorter than usual quiz due to factors beyond my control |


PICTURE ROUND 248

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1
1.
Which bird is the international symbol of happiness?
2.
Who wrote the poem Funeral Blues that featured in the funeral scene of the
film Four Weddings and a Funeral?
3.
In 1936 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed an instantly recognizable object
designated as the K6, what was the K6?
4.
What is the title of the latest Eagles' album, their 1st for 28 years?
5.
Peppermint Patty is a character from which cartoon strip?
6.
The name of which Australian animal is an Aboriginal word for no water?
7.
Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, what name was Bram short for?
8.
What number does a black stripe on a bar code represent?
9.
Who was Poopdeck Pappy's most famous son?
10.
A car with the international registration letter E comes from which country?

FILM
1.
According to the title of which 1993 film did Tom Hanks suffer from insomnia?
2.
What was the subject of Michael Moore's 2007 feature-length documentary?
3.
Starring Gerard Depardieu, La Vie En Rose told the story of which French icon?
4.
What was the name of the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz?
5.
Which 1992 western earned Clint Eastwood a Best Director Oscar?
6.
Which actor played Clancy and beat Steve McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid?
7.
What was the title of the 1996 film that saw Helen Hunt chasing tornadoes?
8.
Who has recently been named the world's highest paid actress, earning between
$15 million to $20 million per movie?
9.
What do Kelsey Grammer, Minnie Driver and Erin Brockovich all have in common?
10.
Who directed the 1990 movie Goodfellas?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2
1.
Which female singer had a 2004 number one album entitled Call off the Search?
2.
For which industry is London's Wardour Street famous?
3.
Marsh Fever is another term for which ailment?
4.
After Earth, which planet was orbited first by a man-made object?
5.
Who wrote the Savoy operas?
6.
What is a young turkey called?
7.
Which popular TV programme shares its name with a horse that won the Derby
in 1939?
8.
Are sea-urchins animal, vegetable or mineral?
9.
Beriberi results from a lack of which vitamin?
10.
Which European country grows the most bananas?

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