QUIZ FIFTEEN

Sunday 29th April 2007

Round One – General Knowledge

1. Which singer has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment?

2. The ashes of which actor were blasted off into space this week?

3. Which Kent town was hit by an earthquake yesterday?

4. Which type of sportsman would be called a pugilist?

5. Santa Cruz is the capital of which Spanish island?

6. Which is the longest nerve in the human body?

7. On which show did Ian Woodley become the first TV quiz show millionaire?

8. Cillian Murphy can currently be seen in which Danny Boyle directed sci-fi film?

9. Which film director has based his films “Dead Man’s Shoes” and “This Is England” on his experiences growing up in Uttoxeter?

10. What gas is used to inflate an airbag in a car?

11. Which weatherman was immortalised in song by a band called “The Tribe Of Toffs” in the late 80’s?

12. Who presented the weather from a large floating map of Britain on the TV show “This Morning”?

13. What French stockbroker fled his homeland to paint in the Pacific?

14. Which work of art was discovered by Dumond D’Urville on the Island of Melos?

15.Computer jargon: what does PDA stand for?

16. Computer jargon: what does URL stand for?

17. What magical power did Wonder Woman's lasso have?

18. Who is the only female member of the Fantastic Four?

19. Who has written a series of science fiction novels about the doomed planet “Dune”?

20. Singer James Osterberg reached 60 years of age against all odds this week; how is he better known to us?

Round Two - One Hit Wonders
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Round Two-And-A-Half – Who Am I?

5-point clue I was born in 1956 in California and I began my acting career on stage at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Ohio. I am currently adding my voice to the third in a successful series of children’s films. Who Am I?

4-point clue I made my big screen debut in the 1980 slasher movie, He Knows You’re Alone. In 1984 I starred in the fantasy film Splash. My son from my first marriage is also an actor and played the assistant to Jack Black in 2005’s King Kong? Who Am I?

3-point clue My film CV includes the movies Volunteers, The Money Pit and Nothing In Common. In 1996 I turned to directing and producing with the film “That Thing That You Do” about a 60’s group. Who am I?

2-point clue I won Oscars in consecutive years for Best Actor in two very different roles. I have co-starred with Meg Ryan in a number of films, the first of which was Joe Versus The Volcano. Who am I?

1-point clue: I am the highest grossing actor of all time. Who Am I?


Round Three – A Variety

The week’s Sport News
1. Which Australian batsman scored 149 runs yesterday to help his side win the 2007 Cricket World Cup?

2. Who is the footballer who said this week in a radio interview that he wouldn’t pay to see the team he captains?

3. Anthony Hamilton, Stephen MacGuire, & Matthew Stevens are all currently competing to win the World Championship in which sport?

4. Beth Tweddle is representing Britian in which sport this weekend in Amsterdam?

5. Which two countries have been selected to jointly host the 2012 European Football Championship?


Classic literature…
6. Widely considered to be the most important contribution to psychology, who published his book “Interpretation Of Dreams” in 1900?

7. Published in 1910, which EM Forster novel tells of class struggles in turn-of-the-century England?

8. Which English novelist wrote the books Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse and Orlando between 1925 and 1928?

9. Which 1930’s novel starts with the murder of Fred Hale?

10. Winston smith was the anti-hero of which novel, published in 1948?


“Z” Words…
11. Which city starting with the letter "Z" stands on the River Limmat?

12. Which word describes the highest point in the sky reached by a celestial object?

13. Which 2001 film stars Ben Stiller as a dim-witted male model brainwashed into assassinating the President Of Malaysia?

14. Which “Z” is a character in a children’s TV programme narrated by Eric Thompson?

15. On which island was Freddie Mercury born?

American States....

Champion's League - Week Four

Thanks to everybody who took part in last night's quiz - once again beset by speaker problems, for which i can only apologise (again!!!). Quiz winners last night were a slimmed-down version of Arse Pizza (Arse Lite????), but performance of the night went to The League Against Alternative Medicine who foresook their habitual fourth place to come runners-up!!! Dizzy Heights.

This week's totals are as follows:

Arse Pizza - 5 points

The League Against Alternative Medicine - 4 points

Captain Natalia - 3 points

Julia's Angels - 2 points

We Got The Funk... - 1 point

See the panel to the right for the positions after Week Four.