Quiz Archive 2nd February

Round 1 General Knowledge

1. The flag of which country is plain green with no decoration? #twubquiz

2. Which pill popping doctor is played by Hugh Laurie? #twubquiz

3. A dodecahedron has 12 faces. What shape is each face? #twubquiz

4. In the movie Sideways what kind of wine does Miles Raymond refuse to drink? #twubquiz

5. What is the name of the part of a flower that makes pollen? #twubquiz

6. What's the name of the recently deceased author of Catcher in the Rye? #twubquiz

7. Anthropology the study of what? #twubquiz

8. What's the capital of Switzerland? #twubquiz

9. @mrsstephenfry has a first name. What is it? #twubquiz

10. How many signs of the zodia are there? #twubquiz

Round 2 Current Affairs

1. What device did Steve Jobs launch for Apple last week? #twubquiz

2. Who condemned UK equality laws this week saying that they "violate the natural law"#twubquiz

3. At the Iraq enquiry who claimed Blair's approach to the was was "done on a wing and a prayer"#twubquiz

4. What illness was Kay Gilderdale's daughter Lynn sufferring from for 17 years before her assisted suicide?#twubquiz

5. What track has Simon Cowell chosen for the all star Haiti charity record?#twubquiz

6. What firm is expected to take over Cadbury shortly and cut jobs?#twubquiz

7. The Lancet today issued a full retraction of a paper that wrongly linked what to autism?#twubquiz

8.How many Oscar nominations has Avatar received?#twubquiz

9. Who has volunteered to be a test case for a proposed assisted suicide tribunal?#twubquiz

10. What body of water has a teacher from Peterborough announced he will attempt to swim?#twubquiz

Round 3 Pictures

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Round 4 Communications

1. What communications system uses flags to denote letters? #twubquiz

2. What kind of messaging is described in Morse code as ... -- ... #twubquiz

3. ROTFLMAO stands for what? #twubquiz

4. The first message on which system was sent on March 21 2006? #twubquiz

5. What does the E stand for in E-Mail? #twubquiz

6. Hypertext Transfer Protocol is used in what medium? #twubquiz

7. In radio what does DAB stand for? #twubquiz

8. What was Alexander Graham Bell's preferred phrase for answering the phone? #twubquiz

9. In what decade was the first telex network developed? #twubquiz

10. Before 1967 what was BBC Radio 4 called? #twubquiz

Round 5 The Simpsons

1. What is Homer Simpson's middle name? #twubquiz

2. Who was the only person shouting out "Boo-urns" at the Springfield Film Festival? #twubquiz

3. What's the Simpson's cat called? #twubquiz

4. What two word phrase did Homer use repeatedly to pad out his first restaurant review? #twubquiz

5. What prompted Kent Brockman to swear live on air and lose his job? #twubquiz

6. How did Homer pollute the Springfield lake resulting in the town being sealed off by the EPA? #twubquiz

7. What was Bart's boy band called? #twubquiz

8. When Seymour Skinner was exposed as a fake, what did his real name turn out to be? #twubquiz

9. In what name was Bart's credit card registered? #twubquiz

10. Ralph Wiggum mispronounces Gary Chalmers' title as what? #twubquiz

Answers Round 1

1. Libya

2. Gregory House

3. A pentagon

4. Merlot

5. Anther

6. J D Salinger

7. Humanity

8. Bern

9. Edna

10. 12

Round 2 Answers

1. iPad

2. pope Benedict XVI

3. Clare Short

4. ME

5. Everybody Hurts

6. Kraft

7. MMR vaccine

8. Nine

9. Terry Pratchett

10. The Atlantic Ocean

Round 3 Pictures

1. Royal Albert Hall

2. Trafalgar Square (Nelson's Column)

3. The Gerkhin (30 St Mary Axe or Swiss Re Building)

4. Alexandra Palace

5. The Thames Barrier

6. Clapham Junction

7. O2 Arena (Former Millenium Dome)

8. Buckingham Palace

9. The London Eye

10. The Globe Theatre

Round 4 Answers

1. Semaphore

2. SMS

3. Rolling on the floor laughing my arse off

4. Twitter

5. Electronic

6. The world wide web

7. Digital Audio Broadcast

8. Ahoy hoy

9. 1930s

10. The BBC Home Service

Round 5 Answers

1. Jay

2. Hans Moleman

3. Snowball 2 (or 5 from episode "I, (annoyed grunt)-Bot)

4. Screw Flanders

5. Homer spilled hot coffee in his lap.

6. He dumped a silo of pig crap in the lake

7. The Party Posse

8. Armin Tamzarian

9. Santos L Halper

10. Super Nintendo