Sunday 18th November 2007
Round One – General Knowledge
Each answer in this first section has four letters....
1. Which modern day country was known in ancient times as Mesopotamia?2. Which animal appears on the road sign 'Beware, Wild Animals'?
3. Which car manufacturer uses a badge consisting of four interlocked circles?
4. In which country is the source of the River Amazon?
5. Where in your body is your cuboid bone?
6. What type of insect is a tarantula hawk?
7. In which country is the fabled city of Timbuktu?
8. What was the name of the 1971 film about a trucker harassing a motorist on a remote and lonely road, directed by Stephen Spielberg?
9. Which Mr Man was blue, lived on his own, doesn’t have any friends, and a wizard is always checking up on him?
10. What word means Potato on an Indian Menu?
11. What is the name of the island, which lies off the north coast of Malta?
12. What name is given to the American stage and theatre equivalent of an Oscar?
13. Who had a hit with a version of the James Bond theme in Nvember 1997?
14. What kind of creature was Sebastian in Disney’s “Little Mermaid”?
15. Which desert covers a large part of Mongolia?
16. Which 1994 film starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman was known as The Professional in the US?
17. Which band had Nineties hits with titles “Place Your Hands”, “Consideration” and “Yer Old”?
18. Which river flows through both Florence and Pisa?
Round Two: Logomania
Can you identify the following logos?
Round Three
Medical Matters…
1. To which part of the body does the adjective “pulmonary” refer?
2. Which one of the five senses depends on the Gustatory nerve?
3. Which is the largest artery in the body?
4. What name is given to the flap of cartilage, which prevents food from entering the windpipe?
5. Where are your Zygomatic, ethmoid and vomer bones?
Cult Films
6. Who played the title role in the Oscar-nominated French film Betty Blue?
7. Which of the stars of the 1969 film Easy Rider also produced the film?
8. Which two Madonna songs is Tarantino as Mr Brown comparing at the start of Reservoir Dogs?
9. Which cult film featured a spaceship called the Nostromo and a cat called “Jones”?
10. Which musician was executive producer of the 1986 film “Withnail & I”?
Rivers
11. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
12. Through which European city does the River Tagus flow?
13. In which city does the Blue Nile meet the White Nile?
14. On which river would you find Victoria Falls and the Kariba Dam?
15. Which river forms most of the border between New South Wales and Victoria?
Medical Matters…
1. To which part of the body does the adjective “pulmonary” refer?
2. Which one of the five senses depends on the Gustatory nerve?
3. Which is the largest artery in the body?
4. What name is given to the flap of cartilage, which prevents food from entering the windpipe?
5. Where are your Zygomatic, ethmoid and vomer bones?
Cult Films
6. Who played the title role in the Oscar-nominated French film Betty Blue?
7. Which of the stars of the 1969 film Easy Rider also produced the film?
8. Which two Madonna songs is Tarantino as Mr Brown comparing at the start of Reservoir Dogs?
9. Which cult film featured a spaceship called the Nostromo and a cat called “Jones”?
10. Which musician was executive producer of the 1986 film “Withnail & I”?
Rivers
11. Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
12. Through which European city does the River Tagus flow?
13. In which city does the Blue Nile meet the White Nile?
14. On which river would you find Victoria Falls and the Kariba Dam?
15. Which river forms most of the border between New South Wales and Victoria?
Give ONE year in which the following each lived...
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Round Four; Pop Quiz
The following were all hits in November in years gone by - can you identify them?
Example: 1981 PC by AATA is Prince Charming by Adam And The Ants
1. 1987 LFA by TP
2. 1990 IIB by VI
3. 1991 (EID) IDIFY by BA
4. 1993 WILTY by C&E
5. 1996 BAT by DBS
6. 1997 SMBU by TP
7. 2001 CGYOOMH by KM
8. 2003 WITL by TBEP
9. 2005 IBYLGOTD by AM
10. 2006 WTTBP by MCR
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