Monday, September 08, 2008

The George Quiz - Week Twenty-Nine Of 2008
Sunday 27th July 2008


Round One – General Knowledge

1. KLM is the major airline of which country?
Netherlands (Royal Dutch Airlines)
2. Whose record did the Simpsons surpass for the longest-running animated series?
The Flintstones
3. Which number would be pressed on a standard keyboard with shift, to get the percentage sign?
Five
4. Which artist had a Number One hit with “Hips Don't Lie” in July 2006?
Shakira (featuring Wyclef Jean)
5. Which book by Eric Carle begins with the line “by the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”?
The Hungry Caterpillar
6. If a web address ends in .ch, in which country is it registered?
Switzerland
7. Prior to becoming a TV host, of which city was Jerry Springer mayor?
Cincinnati
8. Lyrics: what is the next line of this song: “Into this house we're born, into this house we're thrown...”?
The Doors - "Riders On The Storm"
9. Which animals can be Forest, Asian or Savannah?
Elephants
10. Which blue veined Italian cheese takes its name from the village near Milan where it was reportedly first produced over a thousand years ago?
Gorgonzola
11. On which two Mediterranean islands can you drive on the left?
Malta & Cyprus
12. In colour theory, what are the three secondary colours?
Orange, Purple and Green
13. What name meaning “angry style” is given to the Italian sauce of garlic, basil, tomatoes and red chilli, cooked in olive oil and served with pasta penne?
Arrabiata
14. From which film is the following quote taken: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he didn't exist”?
"Usual Suspects"
15. Who wrote in his 1944 book “No Exit”, that “Hell Is Other People”?
Jean Paul Sartre
16. With which scandal of the 1990’s would you associate the name Linda Tripp?
Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski "Zippergate" scandal
17. What was the name of Zadie Smith’s Whitbread-winning debut novel, released in the year 2000?
White Teeth
18. Keisha Castle-Hughes became the youngest person to be niominated for an Oscar in 2003 at the age of 13 for which film from New Zealand?
"Whale Rider"

Round Two: Picture Round


I Spy With My Little Eye…Something Beginning With E; all the answers to the following pictures begin with the letter "E"


1. Entourage
2. Ecuador
3. Eraser (Thom Yorke album)
4. Ewok
5. Ever Decreasing Circles
6. Edinburgh
7.
8. Euphonium
9.
10. Escher
11. Echidna
12. Elmer Fudd
13. Estelle
14. Essex (County Cricket Club)
15. Editors
Round Three
Kids Tv; identify the kids tv programmes from a couple of their episode titles...
1. Vanishing Pancake and Bungo Up a Tree?
The Wombles
2. Wendy’s Bright Plan and Travis Paints the Town?
Bob The Builder
3. The Magic Carpet and the Big Game Hunter?
Mr Benn
4. The Spy Who Stayed in with a Cold and The Invasion of Colonel K?
Dangermouse
5. The Melodious Mermaid and The Dingly Dangly Crab?
Captain Pugwash

Country name origins...
6. Which country's name comes from the latin word for silver?
Argentina
7. Which country's name means “resplendent isle” in Sanskrit?
Sri Lanka
8. Which country's name is Arabic for “fortress built near the water”?
Kuwait
9. Which country's name is Swahili for “land of men”?
Uganda
10. Which country's name means “land of the trees in the Mayan language”?
Guatemala

The “V” Word
11. What is the capital of Lithuania?
Vilnius
12. The name of which type of pasta literally means “little worms”?
Vermicelli
13. What is the nickname of Port Vale FC?
The Valiants
14. Montpelier is the capital of which American state?
Vermont
15. Which French soup is made of pureed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream and chicken stock?
Vichyssoise


Round Four – Fastest Finger
Put the following in the order requested in the question...take as long as you like!!!

1. CBDA

2. BADC

3. ABCD

4. CDAB

5. DBCA

6. CBAD

7. DCBA

8. BADC

9. BACD

10. DACB

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome quizzes!

Anonymous said...

Fab quizes - especially the picture rounds.

Anonymous said...

Cannot fault it

Melinda said...

Very clever....

Mike Smail said...

Thanks for your kind comments; i am currently re-using the quizzes from 2009 in a couple of different pubs on different weeks, so i haven't posted them on this blog, but i hope to do so when the year is out...

thanks again

Mike

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