Questionmaster: @Captain_Razzle
Round 1 – Current Affairs
Round 2 – General Knowledge
Round 3 – Picture Round
Round 4 – Music
Round 5 – Law
ROUND ONE – CURRENT AFFAIRS
Questions:
1. Which high profile prisoner has had parole refused by the Justice Secretary?
2. What does QUANGO mean?
3. Which MPs have had their house taken over by squatters?
4. Who will Captain England’s Ashes test squad?
5. Which company has just had its rail franchise nationalised?
6. Name the actress who plays Gwen Cooper in Torchwood?
7.For how many years has America been independent of the UK?
8.Why has Marco Polo been in the news this week?
9.Which state-run radio station has just started broadcasting commercials?
10.David Tennant will join which girl band singer in the new St Trinians film?
Answers
1.Ronnie Biggs
2. Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation
3.Anne & Alan Keen
4.Andrew Strauss
5.National Express
6.Eve Myles
7.233 years
8.Cruise Liner with Novovirus outbreak on board
9.Vatican Radio
10.Sarah Harding
ROUND TWO – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Questions
1. What is the name of the fictional barrister created by real-life barrister John Mortimer?
2. What BASIC command would be input by pressing the [A] key on a ZX Spectrum?
3.The “People’s Palace” forms part of which University College?
4. Name the former member of the band The Communards who is now a CofE Reverend?
5.How many METRES in a MILE?
6. Name the current presenter of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs?
7. Who will play the 11th Doctor’s first assistant?
8. What is the Karman Line?
9. What was the name of the British designed competitor to the Space Shuttle canned in 1988?
10. What item received the first £1M valuation on Antiques Roadshow?
Answers
1. Horace Rumpole
2.New
3. Queen Mary College (& Westfield)
4. Richard COLES
5.1609.334
6.Kirsty Young
7.Karen Gillen
8. The recognised Earth/Outer Space boundary at an altitude of 100km
9.HOTOL
10. Model of the Angel of the North by Anthony Gormley
Round 3
Right click the pictures and choose Open in new tab to see them full size.
Answers
1. Winston Churchill
2. David Beckham
3. Christine Aguilera
4. Marilyn Monroe
5. Kelly Brook
6.The Hoff !
7. Beyonze
8. Freddie Mercury
9. Demi Moore
10. Stephen Hawking (child on left)
ROUND 4 – MUSIC
Questions: Please give the next line to the following lyrics...
1.I know its out of fashion, and a trifle uncool...
2.You’re built like a car...
3.We’re no strangers to love, You know the rules and so do I...
4.We Watch the shows, we watch the Stars on Video for hours and hours...
5.Its on America’s tortured brow, that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow...
6.You know that I’ve been drunk a thousand times...
7.I want a Doctor to take your picture...
8.When I’m Stuck in a day, That’s grey, And Lonely...
9.Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair...
10.Every night I’m there, I’m always there, She knows I’m there...
Answers
1.But I can’t help it I’m a romantic fool (Echo Beach – Martha and the Muffins)
2.You’ve got a hub-cap-diamond-star-halo (Get It On – T-Rex)
3.A full commitment’s what i’m thinking of (Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley)
4.He hardly need to use our ears, how music changes thru the years (Radio Ga Ga – Queen)
5.Now the workers have struck for fame cos Lennon’s on sale again (Life on Mars – David Bowie)
6.And these should be the best days of my life (The Size of a Cow – The Wonderstuff)
7.So I can look at you from inside aswell (Turning Japanese – The Vapors)
8.I just stick out my chin and grin and say, Oh (Tomorrow –from Annie)
9.With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green (Jolene – Dolly Parton)
10.And heaven knows, I hope she goes (Eloise – The Damned)`1
ROUND FIVE – LAW
Questions
1.Article Six of the Human Rights Act 1998 enshrines what?
2.Stephen Fry served a custodial sentence for what offence?
3.What is the longest custodial sentence that can be passed by magistrates when conditions allow?
4.In what year was the guillotine last used for legal execution in France?
5.Name two of the four Inns of Court.
6.”De minimis non curat lex” translates as what legal principle?
7.The Dangerous Dogs Act was enacted in which year?
8.What is the official name of the Crown Court knows as the Old Bailey?
9.By what title does one address a DISTRICT JUDGE in Court?
10.What is the name of the current Lord Chancellor?
Answers
1.The right to a fair trial.
2.Fraud (credit card fraud).
3.12 months (where two indictable offences are being sentenced together).
4.1977
5.Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln’s Inn, Gray’s Inn.
6.The law does not concern itself with trifles.
7.1991
8.The Central Criminal Court.
9.Sir or Madam
10.Jack Straw
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