The George Christmas Quiz

Sunday 23rd December 2007

A great quiz tonight, thanks to everybody who turned up on a bitterly cold night - and a special "thank you" to the management of The George for providing the Mulled Wine!!! Here are the questions...

Round One – General Knowledge
1. What “A” is the collective name given to the four Sundays before Christmas?

2. What “P” is the name is given to an Indian dish consisting of pieces of chicken or vegetables dipped in a spiced batter and deep-fried?

3. Which “S” is the lake in Hyde Park in which swimmers have a traditional Christmas Day dip?

4. In the human body, what “R” can be true, false or floating?

5. Which “C” is home to Wales’s largest castle and the annual Big Cheese Festival?

6. What “F” were first classified by the Galton-Henry system in 1901??


7. Which NH is the historic name for the continent of Australasia?

8. Which AS was used at the 1980 Winter Olympics for the first time?

9. Which MS presented Channel 4’s “Alternative Queen’s Speech” in 2004?

10. Which FP was patented by William B Purvis in January 1890?

11. Which HF features the vocal talents of Nicole Kidman, Robin Williams and Elijah Wood?

12. On TV which JT was the host of BBC’s “The People’s Quiz”?



13. Which WAG is a museum, opened in 1877 in William Brown Street, Liverpool?

14. Which HDM is the title of the trilogy of books written by Philip Pullman from which “The Golden Compasses” is taken?

15. Which RAH held the first Sumo Wrestling Championships outside of Japan in 1991?

16. Which BOM is it possible to be as tricky as?

17. Which TRW was the subtitle of the second "Mad Max" film, released in 1981?

18. Which WMA were held in Monaco on November 4th this year?


Round Two – Retro Toys And Games

Round Three

Music Intros From 2007…
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News Of The Week:
7. Who is the new leader of the Liberal Democrat Party?

8. Who won the Plain English Campaign’s Foot In Mouth Award this week for this quote: “He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through,"?

9. Which mammal was discovered to be descended from a raccoon-sized land-based mammal called the Indonyus?

10. On which island did the United Nations Conference on Climate take place this week?

11. What was the title of JK Rowling’s limited edition hand written book of fairy tales, which sold this week for £1.95m?

12. Ruth Kelly admitted this week that the government had mislaid the names and addresses of which group of people; numbering over three million?


Films Of 2007…
13. Which Hollywood superstar played Willy Banks, the victim of Danny Ocean’s gang of robbers in Oceans 13 this year?

14. Following on from Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore had another huge, angry success with a feature-length documentary on which subject??

15. Starring Gerard Depardieu, La Vie En Rose was one of the most talked-about European films of the year. It told the story of which French icon??

16. Sean Bean showed off his American accent in a remake of which classic horror film?

17. Why did Waitress, a low-key indie comedy, achieve massive media exposure even before it was released?

18. Which movie was the biggest "success" at the 2007 Razzies, winning such prestigious awards as Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay?


Round Four – Dead In 2007

Can you identify these people who shuffled off our mortal coil during the past 12 months?

Round Five

Winter Sports…
1. In which winter sport do competitors change lanes after every lap?

2. Which country hosted the 2006 Winter Olympic Games?

3. Which sport, developed in the United States in the 1960’s became a Winter Olympic Sport in 1998?

4. What name is given to the type of skiing where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski?

5. Which Winter Sport is governed by a body called the WCF?

6. In which country is the three quarter mile natural ice track called the Cresta Run?


Christmas Missing Lyrics…
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Christmas Questions To Finish….
13. The Christmas tree on show in Trafalgar Square is an annual gift from which European country?

14. Which English female solo artist was born on Christmas Day 1971?

15. In the song “Twelve Days Of Christmas”, how many ladies are dancing?

16. The names of which two of Santa’s reindeer are the German words for thunder and lightening?

17. In which Christmas film does the character of Jack Skellington appear?

18. From which modern day country does St Nicholas come?

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The George Quiz

Sunday 2nd December 2007

Round One – General Knowledge
Once again, in the style of Blockbusters....
1. Which M is the Indian soup whose name means “pepper water”?

2. Which G is the correct name for the basket suspended from a balloon?

3. Which B is the country that lies to the immediate east of the Andaman Sea?

4. Which A is the collective noun for a group of frogs?

5. Which H is the shape of an object described as hamiform?

6. Which R is measured by a udometer?

7. Which GM is permanently moored in a dry dock in Greenwich, South London?

8. Which LS is the cartoon character who was dropped from The Beano in 1992??

9. On 8th December 1980, which MC shot and killed John Lennon??

10. Which MD was a character in a famous sitcom of the 90’s played by Pauline McLynne?

11. Which GD is the nineties group who had minor hits with Earth With Love and Oh Jim?

12. Which PC was invented by Dr Edwin Land in 1947?

13. Which AMP is another man’s meat?

14. Which POS is the capital of Trinidad & Tobago?

15. Which DWW told the story of Lieutenant John Dunbar?

16. Which WTG is the name of the film, from which Madonna’s song “The Look Of Love” is taken?

17. Which WHC is a tourist attraction in the Mendip Hills in Somerset?

18. Which DBH was the bespectacled, lab-coated scientist who would do experiments on the Muppet Show?


Round Two – Musical Instruments

Round Three

On This Day In December…
1. On December 1st 1982 who released what was to become the biggest-selling album of all time?

2. On December 13th 1996, who was elected Secretary General of the United Nations, a position he held for 10 years?

3. On December 12th 1911, which city did Delhi replace as capital of India?

4. On December 23rd 1954, Dr Joseph Murray performed the first transplant of which body organ?

5. On December 23rd 1943 who is the American actor who voices the parts of Mr Burns and Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner and Otto Mannn in the Simpsons?

6. On 31st December 1923, what was broadcast from London for the first time on BBC radio?


Christmas Hits…
7. Who sent out the invitation to “Step Into Christmas” in 1973?

8. What was the Christmas number one single last year?

9. What song was the Christmas number one in the UK in both 1975 and 1991?

10. The first line of Band Aid’s Do They Know Its Christmas has been sung by Paul Young, and Chris Martin and which other female singer on the 1989 Band Aid 2 version?

11. Who prevented Eminem’s song “Stan” keeping the number one spot in Christmas week 2000?

12. What misfortune had befallen Santa, according to the Spitting Image team in 1986?


Comedy
13. Which three destinations were emblazoned on the side of Del Boy’s van?

14. Which 90’s TV comedy series featured “The Man With The Stick”?

15. Paul and Barry Elliot are better known as which hilarious double act??

16. Which page three girl was created by Brenda Gilhooly?

17. Which comedian played Constable Kevin Goody in The Thin Blue Line and Tom Farrell in Gimme, Gimme, Gimme?

18. Who were Gary’s two work colleagues in Men Behaving Badly??

Round Four – Fastest Finger