Sunday 17th June 2007
Special thanks to Graham who presented this week's quiz, and i hope you all were gentle with him as it was the first quiz that he's presented!!!!
Round One – General Knowledge
1. Which singer became the first to sing at the new Wembley stadium?2. Which Saturday evening talent show was won last week by Lee Mead?
3. What are the Christian names of the twins in Big Brother?
4. Which country made the G7 (Group Of Seven) into the G8 in 1997?
5. In a pack of cards, which is the only king without a beard?
6. What is the one word Japanese translation of the words “number place”?
7. Smile.co.uk is the online version of which high street bank?
8. On TV, which type of illnesses do Dawn Harper and Christian Jessen investigate?
9. What is the name of the official country retreat of US Presidents?
10. The population of the Spanish town of Bunol (Bun-yol), near Valencia, swells by 20 000 people during which Festival held on the last Wednesday in August?
11. Whose biography begins in Seattle, USA in 1942 and ends in London in September 1970?
12. Whose biography begins in Brussels in 1929 and ends in Switzerland in 1993?
13. Who was “Not Such An Innocent Girl” in 2001?
14. And who was a “Naughty Girl” in April 2004?
15. How is the children’s author Theodor Geisel better known?
16. Which American-born travel writer sent “Notes From A Small Island”?
17. What is the name of a triangle whose three sides are all of different lengths?
18. Which fruit is a hybrid between a blackberry and a raspberry?
19. Which song by the presenters of Tiswas reached number 26 “in the hit parade” in August 1980?
20...And under what name did they record the song??
Round Two – Film Posters Of 2007
Round Two-And-A-Half – Who Am I?
(Not This Week - Back Soon!!!)
Round Three – A Variety
Fair Trade questions….
1. Other than black and white, which two colours feature on the Fair Trade logo?
2. What is the name of the first brand of coffee to bear the Fairtrade mark?
3. In a Fairtrade photographic exhibition in 2006, which TV presenter was photographed wearing a wig made from Fairtrade wool?
4. The international body that sets Fairtrade standards and co-ordinates the certification of producers is known as FLO – what is its full name?
5. What is the name of the documentary film just released, focussing on the coffee growers of West Ethiopia?
Girl Bands….
6. Which band had nineties hits with “Creep”, “No Scrubs” and “Unpretty”?
7. Which Nineties girl band had the members Donna Matthews and Annie Holland?
8. Which girl band released the best-selling albums “Lickin’ On Both Sides” and “Eye Candy”?
9. The girl group which from the first series of the Aussie version of “Popstars” was named after which female film icon?
10. “Deep Sea Skiving” was the title of which girl band’s first album?
London Calling…5 questions about our capital city
11. In which London cemetery is Karl Marx buried?
12. In the 70th anniversary London edition of the board game Monopoly what replaced the four railway stations?
13. Which London attraction was sub-divided into zones including Body, Work, Journey, Faith and Talk?
14. Which London building can be found a 30 St Mary Axe, EC1?
15. How many capsules are there on the London Eye?
Children’s TV Lyrics
Round Four - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
