The George Quiz Brighton

QUIZ TEN

Sunday 25th March

Round One – General Knowledge

1. The name of which goldsmith is associated with making decorated eggs for the Russian Court

2. On which hill, the name meaning "The place of the skull" did the crucifiction of Jesus take place?

3. Sabena is which country’s national airline?

4. Which Alpine peak translates into English as “Ogre”?

5. Which not-very-popular building stands at the junction of Charing Cross Road and Oxford Street?

6. Which New York art deco skyscraper, completed in 1931, once had an airship mooring pylon at its top?

7. The world’s driest place is in which desert which stretches the length of Chile?

8. The Negev desert forms the southern half of which Middle-Eastern country?

9. Who has sponsored the London Marathon since 1996?

10. Who sponsors both the Great North Run and the Great South Run?

11. Which supermarket produces a healthy food range called “Perfectly Balanced”?

12. And which supermarket has a low-cost range called “Makes Sense”?

13. Which UK sporting body has the acronym BNMAA?

14. Which sport is governed by the sporting body known by the acronym GBWBA?

15. Which 1996 TV drama starred a future 007 and a Time Lord?

16. Which character in an American drama has two children Meadow and AJ?

17. Who wrote the 1976 book “Roots: The saga Of An American Family” which was adapted into a long-running TV series?

18. Which African capital city was founded by freed black American slaves in the 1790’s?

19. Which gameshow stated with two original hostesses Bev & Kathy, before downsizing to just one?

20. In Bullseye, what was your “BFH”?

Round Two - Exotic Food
Identify the various fruits, herbs, grains and vegetables shown here (Click to open)

Round Two-And-A-Half – Who Am I?

5 Points: I was born in 1954 near Manchester but now live in London with my husband and four children. In 2000 it was revealed that I am distantly related to the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

4 Points: In 2003 I caused controversy when I was invited to a Melbourne shop and invited to take home a few items for free; I took 68 items of clothing. I felt guilty afterwards and offered to pay £2000

3 Points: My actor father left home when I was 8; in 1983 I unsuccessfully contested the seat of north Thanet in Kent in the general Election

2 Points: I became a barrister in 1976 and specialize in employment, discrimination and public law.

1 Point: I am married to the Prime Minister and my children are called Euan, Nicky, Kathryn & Leo?

Round Three – A Variety

Current Affairs
1. Which government minister was accused this week of “Stalinist ruthlessness”?

2. Whose death in the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston quickly turned into a murder enquiry?

3. Who or what s known to the Germans as “Knut”?

4. Which English model and pop star is to have a statue of herself unveiled in the Serbian town of Cacak?

5. Which glorious nation recorded their first ever footballing victory this weekend?

Nursery Rhymes
6. In which nursery rhyme is the line “The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn”?

7. In “Rain, Rain, Go Away”, where is the rain persuaded to go?

8. Why did the old lady who swallowed a fly later swallow a bird?

9. What is the last line of the nursery rhyme “Oranges & Lemons”?

10. Which unlikely avian-feline partnership made an aquatic-borne journey to a land where, after acquiring a ring from a motionless porcine, they were matrimonially cojoined by a flightless, elevated terrain-dwelling avian of a type much favoured at Yuletide?

In which year…?
11. Scientists warn over GM food; Charles Kennedy voted Lib Dem leader; Tony Martin arrested for shooting an intruder in his home; Who Wants To Be A Millionaire premieres in the UK?

12. Shah of Iran flees as Ayotollah Khomeni flies in; Sid vicious dies of a heroin overdose; Trevor Francis becomes the first £1m footballer

13. Michael Hesteltine and Leon Brittan resign over the Westland Affair; Richard Branson beats the transatlantic record; Jeffrey Archer resigns over allegations; Top Gun was the highest grossing film of the year?

14. Launch of the controversial “Jerry Springer; The opera”; Concorde’s last commercial flight; England beat Australia in the Rugby World Cup; Dido released “Life For Rent”?

15. Violent poll-tax riots in Trafalgar square; Channel Tunnel workers from Britain and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel; Britain joins the ERM; Madonna “Vogued” her way across the globe?