The George Quiz - Week Eleven Of 2008

Sunday 23rd March 2008

Round One – General Knowledge

1. Edward is number two, Henry number three, and Gordon number four: who is number one?

2. What is the common name for the clavicle?

3. What are map makers called?

4. What is Barack Obama’s rather unfortunate middle name?

5. Which British band currently in the album charts with “The Seldom Seen Kid” was formed by Guy Garvey and brothers Mark and Craig Potter in Manchester in the late 1990’s?

6. What is a more common name for a polygraph?

7. Harry Cross, Heather Haversham and Lucy Collins were early characters in which British soap?

8. Who took the photos in the British comedy film “Calendar Girls”?

9. What was Charles Lindbergh's famous first?

10. Which disease was commonly known as "hydrophobia", as sufferers were unable to swallow their own saliva?

11. With over 6 000 members, which country has the world’s largest parliament?

12. Foreign words: What is the name for an official who acts on behalf of the private citizen in investigating complaints against the government?

13. Which river flows through six European countries?

14. Which American island was used as a registration point for immigrants until 1954?

15. In which US state is Fort Worth the fifth largest city?

16. To what do Kepler's Laws relate?

17. To which Premiership football club does its supporter Uri Geller try to give an unfair psychic advantage?

18. Which famous author of the sci-fi classic novel 2001: A Space Oddessey died this week?


Round Two - Minipops

Identify the bands from the following pixellated pictures. As before, many thanks to http://www.flipflopflyin.co.uk/ for the images...

Round Three

Tigers
1. Which species of tiger is the largest?

2. Beginning with the letter “A”, what is the collective term for a group of tigers?

3. What did the tiger do in a children’s book by Judith Kerr?

4. What is the name of the tiger in a poular newspaper comic strp written and drawn by Bill Watterson?

5. Which two German/American entertainers included tiger taming as part of their Las Vegas act?


Foreign Words
6. Which French word is used for the unravelling of the plot of a work of fiction called?

7. What is meant by the Jewish word Shalom?

8. Perestroika was the name for the radical economic and political reforms in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. What does perestroika mean?

9. Who calls the Muslim faithful to prayer, five times a day, from the minaret of a mosque?

10. Which horticultural art originated in China before spreading to Japan?


Ancient History
11. In which modern day country is the ancient city of Troy?

12. Ancient forms of written communication in Mesopotamia were called what?

13. Where did a famous battle take place in 490 BC, the name now being associated with the world of athletics?

14. Which Greek mountain was considered to be the home of the gods in ancient times?

15. Which famous Royal Egyptian was the wife of Akenaten and probable step mother of Tutankamun?



Chocolate
16. What is the best-selling chocolate bar in the UK?

17. In which decade was the first Cadbury’s Crème Egg made?

18. Which ancient civilisation used chocolate instead of money?

19. Finish the advertising slogan of the nineties: “Somebody somewhere’s eating a…”?

20. Which range of chocolates made by Benedicks come in five different individually wrapped varieties, each with a hint of mint?

Round Four – Six Degrees Of Separation

Find the connections between the names shown here to link the first name with the last...

Bonus Round Acronym Quiz:

What is...

1. The "A" in CAD?

2. The "B" in BNFL?

3. The "C" in PGCE?

4. The "D" in DVLA?

5. The "E" in UNICEF?

6. The "F" in AFI?

7. The "G" in GUI?

8. The "H" in ASH?

9. The "I" in ISA?

10. The "J" in JPEG?

11. The "K" in KO?

12. The "L" in LED?

13. The "M" in IBM?

14. The "N" in CND?

15. The "O" in IOC?

16. The "P" in HIP?

17. The "Q" in NVQ?

18. The "R" in DEFRA?

19. The "S" in SIM?

20. The "T" in FACT?

21. The "U" in SUV?

22. The "V" in DVD?

23. The "W" in WMD?

24. The "X" in XML?

25. The "Y" in IYHA?
Answers to appear below as a "Comment", soonish...