Sunday 18th February
Round One - General Knowledge (in the style of the board game, Trivial Pursuit)
1. Which rotund comedian presented the game show version of the board game “Trivial Pursuit” on BBC in 1990?2. GEOGRAPHY: Which major motor racing and rock concert venue is in Leicestershire?
3. GEOGRAPHY: Which canal separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland?
4. GEOGRAPHY: Which common British first name is also France’s most popular surname?
5. ENTERTAINMENT: Which Nineties film was based on the investigation into the death of murdered former rock star Johnny Boz?
6. ENTERTAINMENT: Which Scottish comedian hosted Channel 5’s late night chat show shortly after the channel’s launch in 1997?
7. ENTERTAINMENT: How were Diane Youdale, Judy Simpson, James Crossley, & Michael Van Wyck collectively known in a hugely popular TV show of the Nineties?
8. HISTORY: Who pioneered birth control in London in the 1920’s?
9. HISTORY: Which Russian city had three different names in the course of the 20th Century?
10. HISTORY: Which British historian was branded a racist and a holocaust denier after a failed libel action in 1999?
11. SCIENCE & NATURE: Which tree is depicted on the flag of Lebanon?
12. SCIENCE & NATURE: Which of the two bones that make up the forearm is on the same side as the thumb?
13.SCIENCE & NATURE: Which English physicist, mathematician and astronomer first developed the theory of colour based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into a visible spectrum?
14. ART & LITERATURE: Which Plymouth housewife became famous with her delicious paintings of big fat ladies?
15. ART & LITERATURE: Which 1952 children’s story by the American author E. B. White was the biggest selling children’s paperback ever until 2000?
16. ART & LITERATURE: Whose sculpture of the pregnant artist Alison Lapper stands on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square?
17. SPORT & LEISURE: Which European club side plays its home games at the “Mestalla”?
18. SPORT & LEISURE: Which game involves hitting the feathers of a goose with the insides of a sheep?
19. SPORT & LEISURE: What has got stuffed in a Turkish restaurant to make dolmas?
20. In the late 1990’s which smooth actor/comedian reprised the role of presenter of Trivial Pursuit, albeit now watched by only a few people on the Family Channel?
Round Two - Female Cartoon Silhouettes
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Who Am I?
Five Clues To A Famous Person.....
5 point clue – I was born in 1939 and made my film debut in a 1968 movie entitled Interlude. Who am I?
4 point clue – In a 1979 episode of Dr Who I played an art gallery visitor. On film I have played a pirate, a teacher, a Roman centurion and a Wild West sheriff. Who am I?
3 point clue – I appeared in a famous comedy sketch stood next to Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. Who am I?
2 point clue – My CV includes the films Life of Brian, Clockwise and Fierce Creatures. Who am I?
1 point clue – On TV I memorably played the role of Basil Fawlty. Who am I?
Round Three - A Variety
Connections: Spot the connection between the next four answers…
1. Which character did Robbie Williams voice in the disastrous film version of “The Magic Roundabout”?
2. Which band recorded the Nineties albums “Fanfare For The Common Muse”, “Casanova” and “Fin De Siecle”?
3. Which author’s three books in the “Barrytown Trilogy” were “The Commitments”, “The Snapper” and “The Van”?
4. Who launched his career as a stand-in on the Channel 5 chat show “The Jack Docherty Show” in 1998?
5. What is the connection??
The following five two-word answers have the initials GC or CG
6. The GC- What collective name is given to the four treaties adopted in 1864 in the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino?
7. The GC- What was put into effect in much of Western Europe on October 15th, 1752?
8. The GC- What begins near Lee’s Ferry and ends near Lake Mead?
9. The CG- What was banned in Singapore in 1969?
10 The CG- Where in the Mendips Hills is a public path called Jacob’s Ladder to be found?
What numbers are represented by the following phrases in bingo terminology?
11. "Man alive"
12. "The Brighton Line"
13. "Dirty Knees"
14. "Doctors orders"
15. "Stop and run "
Fill in the missing words from this week's news headlines
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1 comment:
Mike, you must take photos of the plasticine models and post them each week - not that they're the best bit about your fine quiz, obviously. Although, embarrasingly, you'll just be exposing how bad our team, under the tutelage of Captain Natalia, is at demonstrating our creative side.
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