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Round 1 – General knowledge
1. What were the first two words to be broadcast live from the House of Commons? #twubquiz
2. In 1998, what was God, according to 'Faithless'? #twubquiz
3. What Brazilian was fined for his bad acting in the 2002 World Cup? #twubquiz
4. What scientist's actual finger is mounted, pointed skyward, in the Florence Museum of The History of Science? #twubquiz
5. Who was the only actor to be 1 of 'The Magnificent Seven', 1 of the escapees in 'The Great Escape' and 1 of 'The Dirty Dozen? #twubquiz
6. Why did Genghis Khan's cavalry usually prefer a female mount (as in horse)? #twubquiz
7. The four steps of what, are often informally referred to as 'suck, squash, bang, blow'? #twubquiz
8. In what sport do 80,000 of its participants go missing every year? #twubquiz
9. What two popular fruits, each with five letters are anagrams of one another? #twubquiz
10. What hits what, when the disastrous consequences become known? #twubquiz
Round 2 – Current affairs
1. What minister didn't like being treated as "window dressing"? #twubquiz
2. Who said "This is my first show where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off"? #twubquiz
3. What new MEP was pelted with eggs? #twubquiz
4. What colour has been given to the Iranian election protests? #twubquiz
5. What was President Obama referring to when he said "That was impressive wasn't it? I got the sucker."? #twubquiz
6. Which team knocked England out of the Super 8's of the ICC World Twenty 20 tournament? #twubquiz
7. What accent did David Cameron adopt to underline his opposition to ID cards? #twubquiz
8. Who described his estranged wife as a “caged animal that’s been let out”? #twubquiz
9. What actress is the fictional Royle who received an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list? #twubquiz
Round 3 - Pictures
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Round 4 – “TV Ads” and “What am I?”
1. What product launched an advertising campaign with a man being slapped on the ears by an orange person? #twubquiz
2. According to Henry Cooper, what should you do with Brut? #twubquiz
3. What do they drink “in the Congo”? #twubquiz
4. What slogan? The ads begin with an embarrassing situation, followed by Bach's 'Air on the G String', and a match being struck? #twubquiz
5. What beer was advertised by an acrobatic Jack Russell? #twubquiz
6. What am i? I was built by soldiers, I'm 1,884 years old, 73½ miles long and I mark the edge of an empire #twubquiz
7. What am i? 34% of young Brits don't believe I exist, 66% consider me a mythical place but I am a city in Mali, West Africa #twubquiz
8. What am I? I am a rocky island in the Channel, I have an Abbey and my church is crowned by a gold leaf statue of St Michael #twubquiz
9. What am I?-I am 88½ km around & 346m high, I appear to change colour & the local Pitjantjatjara's don't like people climbing me#twubquiz
Round 5 – Its summer-time!
1. What song by The Lovin' Spoonful' featured a Volkswagen Beetle's horn and a pneumatic drill? #twubquiz
2. What French word meaning holiday or festival, has become associated with village greens in the summer? #twubquiz
3. In the film, what crime does a hook-wielding killer-fisherman know a group of 4 teenagers did last summer? #twubquiz
4. True or False: Eating tomatoes, ketchup or tomato puree can protect you from sunburn. #twubquiz
5. In the height of the summer season, how many days does it take for this cycle to complete; Egg, maggot, pupa, house-fly? #twubquiz
6. What waterside Scottish festival headlined this year with Flaming Lips, The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, Dizzee Rascal, & Placebo? #twubquiz
7. What was the name of The Young Ones final episode? #twubquiz
8. What cocktail was introduced by the army of the British East India Company, to combat malaria? #twubquiz
9. What idea did William Willett conceive during his early morning horse-ride through a 'sleepy' summer London in 1905? #twubquiz
Answers
Round 1 – General knowledge
1. Order, Order - Television coverage began on the 21st Nov 1989
2. A DJ - 'God is a DJ' was the 1998 hit for hip hop dance band 'Faithless' / The song featured on their second album 'Sunday 8pm' which led to the band's BRIT Award for Best British Act in 1999
3. Rivaldo - In the closing stages of the match against Turkey, with the ball out of play, Turkish defender Hakan Unsal kicked a ball towards Rivaldo, who was waiting at the corner flag. The ball struck his thigh, but Rivaldo fell to the ground clutching his face. The referee sent the Turkish player off with a second yellow card. After a video review, Rivaldo was fined 11,670 Swiss Francs
4. Galileo's - Galileo Galilei, also known as 'The father of modern observational astronomy' / Allegedly the finger was stolen by Antonio Francesco Gori from Galileo's tomb at Santa Croce, when Galileo's remains were transferred in 1737 / The finger was originally kept in a bottle in the Biblioteca Medicea library & shown to visitors
5. Charles Bronson - Bronson was Bernado in 'The Magnificent Seven' in 1960 / He played Danny Velinski, 'The Tunnel King in 'The Great Escape' in 1963 / He was 'Joseph T Wladislaw in 'The Dirty Dozen' in 1967
6. For it's milk - One commander is recorded as saying 'If the horse dies, I die, if it lives, I survive' / They also used to cut its veins & drink the blood!
7. A four stroke combustion engine - Otherwise known as intake, compression, combustion and exhaust
8. Greyhound racing - Sadly, of the 10,000 greyhounds that either retire each year, or are young dogs that have been bred for racing but fail to make the grade, 80% of them effectively 'vanish' because there is a lack of shelter or new homes / Many are dispatched with a bullet to the head, drowned or found abandoned with their ears cut off to prevent identification from their tattoos (Statistics according to the UK's 'League Against Cruel Sports' est.. 1924)
9. Lemon and Melon
Round 2 – Current affairs
1. Caroline Flint - The former Europe Minister who was not promoted in the recent cabinet reshuffle / She said in her resignation letter that Gordon Brown treated women in the cabinet as "Female window dressing" / She didn't state whether this referred to Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears who also resigned
2. Banksky - The Graffiti artists, who's true name is still not known, negotiated in secret with the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery to stage his biggest ever exhibition / Bristol has had a love/hate relationship with Banksky since he started stencilling on the city's walls in the 90's / His work grew to become hugely collectable, attracting buyers such as Brad Pitt & Robbie Williams
3. Nick Griffin - While trying to hold a press conference, the head of the BNP who was elected for the North West Region, was pelted with eggs by members of Unite Against Fascism
4. Green - It is the campaign colour of Mir Hussein Mousavi and the Persian Awakening, the main opposition party, which lost the election to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
5. A Fly - He swatted the unfortunate fly that landed on his hand during a TV interview on CNBC / It has enraged PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals)
6. West Indies - England were beaten by 5 wickets in the rain-affected knockout game
7. German - He used the accent to say "Vhere are your papers"
8. Peter Andre – Quote according to The Sunday Mirror / In reference to his party loving wife Katie Price aka Jordan
9. Sue Johnston - The actress received an OBE for services to drama and charity / One of her most famous roles was as Barbara Royle in the sitcom "The Royle family"
Round 3 – Picture quiz
1. Ta-Dah - The 'Scissor Sisters' second album released in Sep 06 featuring the hit 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing'
2. A surfboard - It is rubbed on the deck of the board to allow traction & grip for the surfer / Mr Zog's Sex Wax was first produced by Frederick Herzog & chemist Nate Skinner in 1972
3. Life of Pi - By Canadian author Yann Martel / The book won the Man Booker Prize the year after it was published in 2001
4. Make Poverty History - Marchers in Edinburgh on the 2nd July / A UK & Irish coalition to increase awareness & pressure governments in the lead up to the UK's EU Presidency & G8 summit in Scotland / The 3 demands were 1) Trade justice 2) Drop the debt & 3) More & better aid / Image source: Wikipedia 'Make Poverty History' page uploaded by wiki user Ricjl
5. Distillation / Fractional distillation - A method of separating mixed chemical substances using the different boiling points of each substance / Using this method, crude oil is distilled into petrol, diesel etc, sea water into fresh water, and it is used to increase the alcohol content in fermented solutions / Diagram drawn by Theresa Knott
6. Asteroids - One of the most popular games of the Golden Age of Arcade Games / Released in 1979 by Atari Inc. / Very basic compared to today's standards / The player controls a spaceship in an asteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers / The player has to shoot, avoid collision & dodge the saucers counter-fire
7. Total Recall - The 1990 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid a construction worker & secret agent sent to Mars to battle the bad guy, Vilos Cohaagen seen here suffering decompression on Mars
8. Tomatina - 'La Tomatina' is a annual food fight festival in August in Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain / 20,000 to 40,000 tourists join in the battle where more than 100 metric tonnes of over ripe tomatoes are lobbed about / No one is sure how it began but a popular theory is that in 1944, disgruntled townspeople attacked city councillors with tomatoes, and this was good fun! / It was banned during Francisco Franco's time because it had no religious significance but the red squishy mayhem returned to the streets after Franco's demise in the 1970s / Photo by Aaron Corey
9. Tally marks - The top one used by Europe, Australia & North America / The middle one is the equivalent in China, Japan & Korea & the bottom one, the equivalent in Argentina & Brazil
Round 4 – “TV Ads” and “What am I?”
Ads
1. Tango - With the slogan 'You've been tango'd' / This sparked a playground craze known as 'Tangoing', for which the ad was condemned & changed to said man being kissed instead
2. Splash it all over - The heavyweight boxer was the original 'face' of Brut / It was one of the first products to use a celebrity endorsement to persuade men that grooming wasn't for sissy's / Paul Gascoigne also advertised it until his wife made allegations of domestic violence & the media put an 'e' on the end of Brut / This reflected badly on Brut but Gascoigne's remark that the product gave him a rash probably didn't help much either!
3. Um Bongo – The mixed tropical fruit juice was advertised with the song that went 'I know, we'll call it Um Bongo, Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo'
4. Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet - The slogan & campaign began in 1966 & ran for over 20 years
5. John Smiths – In the early 80s Gordon Rollings played the dour Yorkshireman ‘Arkwright’ with his Jack Russell Terrier called Tonto
What am I?
6. Hadrian's Wall - probably started in 122AD, taking 10 years to be larely complete
7. Timbuktu - was a key intellectual, cultural and trading centre & head of Islamic teachings in Africa through the 15th & 16th Century's, with a long history as a trading outpost, a distant land, hence the Western metaphor 'from here to Timbuktu'
8. Mont St Michel - pronounced 'Mont San Michelle' / In Normandy / St Michaels Mount in Cornwall has a chapel and a castle but no abbey or specified statue
9. Uluru / Ayers Rock - Named in 1973 after Sir Henry Ayers, the Chief Secretary of Southern Australia / Dual naming policy adopted in 1993 to give offcial recognition to the Aboriginal name
Round 5 – Its summer-time!
1. Summer in the city - The sound effects were added to the 1966 hit to give it that city feeling
2. Fete - The word passed into English to describe the outdoor shows popular in England and Australia
3. Hit and run - Friends Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr & Jennifer Love Hewitt are pursued by the almost dead body of their hit and run victim in the film 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'
4. True - Tomatoes and some other fruits are rich in Bata-Carotene and lycopene which help the skin to resist the effects of UV light / As can very rich dark chocolate
5. 12-14 days - 12, 13 or 14 days
6. RockNess - The first Rockness Festival took place in 2006 and it continues to grow in size / Sited at Clune Farm on the banks of Loch Ness, it is known as "the most beautiful festival in the world" and "the only festival to have its own monster"
7. Summer Holiday - The quartet come 'bottom in the whole world' in their final exams, rob a bank, escape in a double decker bus which they crash into a Cliff Richard billboard advertising 'The Young Ones Summer Vacation Tour' / They then plunge over the cliff behind the billboard & explode into flames
8. Gin & tonic - Tonic water contains quinine, which is the preventative ingredient / In the 18th century however, it was extremely bitter, so gin was added to make it more palatable / The bitter flavour of quinine turned out to complement the green notes of gin, and the drink has remained a firm refreshing favourite in summer months
9. Daylight Saving Time - The prominent builder was horrified that everyone was in bed and not enjoying the day / He was also a keen golfer and was annoyed at having to cut short his games at dusk / He lobbied for the changes of the clock to be law / The policy was not introduced until 1916
