Quiz Archive 23 March

Round 1 General Knowledge

1. Which London Tube line is coloured red on the map? #twubquiz
2. What are the three primary colours of light?#twubquiz
3. How many pairs of legs does an insect have?#twubquiz
4. Which artist appliqued names to a tent, calling it Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995?#twubquiz
5. What year did Queen Victoria ascend to the throne?#twubquiz
6. Which country's capital is Reykjavík?#twubquiz
7. Name one of the two main pioneers of Cubism?#twubquiz
8. Which dog breeds are crossed to make a labradoodle?#twubquiz
9. Braeburn, Empire and Russet are types of what?#twubquiz
10. Which US state does the San Andreas Fault run?#twubquiz

Round 2
Current affairs
1. In which country has Google stopped cewnsoring its search results? #twubquiz
2. How much per day did BA claim the recent three day strike cost it? #twubquiz?
3.Which political party leader's wife has announced her pregnancy this week #twubquiz?
4. By how many votes was the US healthcare bill passed in Congress #twubquiz?
5. Which famous boxing commentator died this week? #twubquiz
6. What relative of Roald Dahl started a cooking show today? #twubquiz
7. In what country did a volcano erupt after 200 years of dormancy this
week? #twubquiz
8. Abuse of which hashtag had a conservative web site redirected to porn yesterday?#twubquiz
9. Which former minister likened himself to a cab on hire?#twubquiz
10. How has Monkseaton High School reduced absenteeism since October?#twubquiz

Round 3

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Round 4 Fruit or Veg

In each case say whether the item is a fruit or a vegetable

1. Tomato #twubquiz
2. Celery #twubquiz
3. Lettuce #twubquiz
4. Runner bean#twubquiz
5. Kumquat #twubquiz
6. Beetroot #twubquiz
7. Cucumber #twubquiz
8. Leek #twubquiz
9. Pumpkin #twubquiz
10. Marrow #twubquiz

Round 5 Eggheads


1. Which of the eggheads was the first winner of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? #twubquiz
2. What is egghead Chris' surname? #twubquiz
3. Who was the host drafted in to cover when Dermot is away? #twubquiz
4. What's the name of the audition show spin off that selects new eggheads? #twubquiz
5. Daphne has won Brain of Britain, Going for Gold and what show final, twice?#twubquiz
6. What does CJ's assumed surname mean translated from Dutch to English? #twubquiz
7. Who won a bad losers' version of the Weakest Link?#twubquiz
8. Who is the most recent addition to the eggheads? #twubquiz
9. What was the first team to beat the eggheads?#twubquiz
10. Which three eggheads have played on their own in the final round as of 22/3/10? #twubquiz

Answers Round 1

1. The Central Line
2. Red, Blue & Green (not yellow, that's paint, not light!)
3. Three
4. Tracey Emin
5. 1837
6. Iceland
7. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
8. Labrador and Poodle
9. Apple
10. California

Round 2 Answers


1. China
2. £7m
3. David Cameron
4. 7
5. Harry Carpenter
6. Sophie Dahl
7. Iceland
8. #cashgordon
9. Stephen Byers
10. Started lessons an hour later.

Round 3 answers

1. David Schwimmer
2. Paul Rudd
3. Maggie Wheeler
4. Courtney Cox
5. Jennifer Aniston
6. Eliott Gould
7. Matthew Perry
8. James Michael Taylor
9. Lisa Kudrow
10. Matt Leblanc


Answers Round 4

1. Fruit
2. Veg
3. Veg
4. Fruit
5. Fruit
6. Veg
7. Fruit
8. Veg
9. Fruit
10. Fruit

Round 5 Answers

1. Judith Keppel
2. Hughes
3. Jeremy Vine
4. Are you and egghead?
5. Fifteen to One
6. Handsome Man or The Beautiful
7. CJ
8. Pat Gibson
9. The Unicorn Inn
10. Kevin, Daphne and Barry

Quiz Archive 16th March

Round 1 – General Knowledge

1) ‘The Last Shadow Puppets’ is a band consisting of the lead singers of ‘The Arctic Monkeys’ and which other band?

2) In what year was the ‘Natural History Museum’ in London opened?

3) What is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth’s crust?

4) What was the pseudonym of the famous British writer, Eric Arthur Blair?

5) Caladan, Kobol, Beaumonde and Mondas are all fictional what?

6) Who painted ‘Whistlejacket’?

7) Which is the only city in the world to lie in two continents?

8) Which comedian’s catchphrase was ‘Just like that!’?

9) What does a notaphilist collect?

10) What is the maximum score possible in ten pin bowling?

Round 2 – The Natural World

1) Spider, Squirrel and Colobus are all species of what?

2) Unlike most other fish, sharks have no, what?

3) What is the tallest and thickest type of grass?

4) ‘Buteo, Buteo’ is the scientific name for what?

5) What is a baby eel called?

6) Where can the oldest pot plant in the world be found?

7) What is the fastest animal on Earth?

8) What do insects do through their spiracles?

9) Oology is the study of what?

10) There were originally eight subspecies of tiger, how many are now extinct?

Round 3


Round 4 – English Premier League (Football/Soccer)

1) What year was the English Premier League established?

2) Other than Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea, who has also won the league?

3) Who is the only player to have scored in every Premier League season to date?

4) With 260 goals, who holds the record for the most Premier League goals?

5) What was Manchester united originally known as?

6) How many clubs have played in the Premier League all together?

7) Who scored the first ever Premier League goal?

8) How many goalkeepers have scored in the Premier League?

9) With 566 caps, who holds the record for the most Premier League appearances?

10) Since its start, how many managers have won the Premier League?

Round 5 – Middle Earth

1) Finish the rhyme: ‘One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to...’

2) In what ‘age’ is ‘The Lord of the Rings’ set?

3) In ‘The Silmarillion’, Luthien fell in love with whom?

4) Where is ‘The Golden Hall’?

5) Name TWO of the three Elven rings.

6) Who is known also as ‘Wingfoot’, ‘Telcontar’ and ‘Elessar’?

7) In ‘The Hobbit’, what colour was Bard the Bowman’s arrow that killed Smaug?

8) Who did Tolkien supposedly base the character Treebeard on?

9) In the film version of ‘Fellowship of the Ring’, Arwen helps Frodo reach Rivendell but which BOOK character does she replace?

10) In the films, who says; ‘Your love of the halflings’ leaf has clearly slowed your mind’; and to whom?

Answers
Round 1:

1) The Rascals

2) 1881

3) Aluminium

4) George Orwell

5) Planets

6) George Stubbs

7) Istanbul

8) Tommy Cooper

9) Bank notes

10) 300 (12 strikes)



Round 2

1) Monkey

2) Bones

3) Bamboo

4) Common Buzzard

5) Elver

6) Kew Gardens

7) Peregrine Falcon

8) Breathe

9) Eggs

10) Three (Bali, Javan and Caspian)



Round 3

1) K-9 / Doctor Who

2) Marvin / Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

3) Robby / Forbidden Planet

4) Johnny 5 / Short Circuit (also will accept No.5)

5) Muffit II / Battlestar Galactica

6) Bender / Futurama

7) C-3PO & R2-D2 / Star Wars

8) Ash / Alien

9) T-800 / Terminator

10) The Fix-Its / Batteries Not Included (also will accept ‘The Little Guys’)


Round 4

1) 1992

2) Blackburn Rovers

3) Ryan Giggs

4) Alan Shearer

5) Newton Heath L&YR FC

6) 43

7) Brian Deane

8) 3 (Peter Schmeichel; Brad Friedal and Paul Robinson)

9) David James

10) 4 (Alex Ferguson; Kenny Dalglish; Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho)



Round 5

1) ...bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.

2) Third

3) Beren

4) Edoras (will accept Rohan)

5) Narya, Nenya and Vilya

6) Aragorn

7) Black

8) C.S. Lewis

9) Glorfindel

10) Saruman to Gandalf

Quiz Archive 2nd March

Round 1 General Knowledge

1. Which adult comic is home to Buster Gonad and his unfeasibly large testicles? #twubquiz
2. In a sudoku what is the total of the even numbers in a completed row?#twubquiz
3. Which film was George Lucas' first as a director?#twubquiz
4. A toucan crossing enables pedestrians and what else to cross a road?#twubquiz
5. Anne of Cleves was which number wife of Henry VIII?#twubquiz
6. In which park is London Zoo?#twubquiz
7. What does the five-O refer to in Hawaii Five O?#twubquiz
8. What is the age of consent in Vatican City?#twubquiz
9. How many gold medals did Canada win in the Winter Olympics?#twubquiz
10. What is Dmitri Mendeleev's most celebrated achievement?#twubquiz

Round 2
Current affairs
1. Which two BBC radio channels are slated for closure in Mark Thompson's proposals? #twubquiz
2. Who was the presenter of To Buy or Not To Buy who died last night aged 32 #twubquiz?
3.Ashley Roberts and Kimberly Wyatt left which band today #twubquiz?
4. What's the name of the Conservative Party's largest non domiciled donor #twubquiz?
5. Who is the sponsor of the maligned Digital Britain bill currently being discussed in the Lords? #twubquiz
6. Welsh rugby player Andy Powell has been banned after admitting driving what vehicle while drunk?#twubquiz
7. Saturday's earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude caused massive destruction in which country? #twubquiz
8. Over 5000 people got naked for artist Spencer Tunick on the steps of what iconic building on Monday?#twubquiz
9. What Quentin Tarantino film has nearly as many Oscar nominations as Avatar and The Hurt Locker?#twubquiz
10. Ian Paisley is standing down at the next election. What is his constituency?#twubquiz

Round 3

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Round 4 Railways
1. British Railways was formed on 1st January of what year? #twubquiz
2. Which line was recently renationalised after its private operator (National Express) gave it up?#twubquiz
3. What year were the last steam engines used on Britain's rail network?#twubquiz
4. What's the name of the intercity passenger railroad operator in the US?#twubquiz
5. Where's the current London terminal for the Eurostar?#twubquiz
6. In French railways, what does TGV stand for?#twubquiz
7. Which of the following isn't a current British rail card: Senior, Disabled, Family & Friends, Student?#twubquiz
8. Which of the channel islands has a railway?#twubquiz
9. What is the railway between Darwin and Adelaide in Australia called?#twubquiz
10. To the nearest 10%, what percentage of the world's railways are electrified?#twubquiz

Round 5 Only Connect

1-4 What's the connection? Say what connects the four items. #twubquiz

1. Drashig, Quark, Krynoid, Wirrn?#twubquiz
2. Sue Lawley, Peter Sissons, Robin Day, David Dimbleby?#twubquiz
3. Ambridge, Weatherfield, Walford, Erinsborough?#twubquiz
4. Insurers, gamblers, booksellers and Archers Admirers?#twubquiz

5-8 What comes next? The next item in the sequence #twubquiz
5. Fly, spider, bird?#twubquiz
6. The One Show, Eastenders, News & Regional News?#twubquiz
7. Wilson, Calaghan, Thatcher?#twubquiz
8. 386, 486, Pentium #twubquiz

9-10 missing vowels: Name the novels with missing vowels and respaced consonants. #twubquiz

9. J NYR #twubquiz
10. TLF TW CTS #twubquiz

Answers Round 1

1. Viz
2. 20
3. THX 1138
4. Cyclists
5. Fourth
6. Regent's Park
7. The 50th state of the US
8. 12
9. 14
10. The periodic table of elements

Round 2 Answers


1. BBC6 Music & Asian Network
2. Kristian Digby
3. Pussycat Dolls
4. Lord Ashcroft
5. Lord Peter Mandleson
6. A golf buggy
7. Chile
8. The Sydney Opera House
9. Inglourious Basterds
10.North Antrim

Round 3 answers
1. Starfruit
2. Jackfruit
3. African horned cucumber
4. Dragon fruit
5. Durian
6. Kumquat
7. Mangosteen
8. Lychee
9. Rambutan
10. Passion fruit

Answers Round 4
1. 1948
2. The East coast main line.
3. 1968
4. Amtrak
5. St Pancras
6. Train à Grande Vitesse
7. Student (It became Young Persons and then 16-25)
8. Alderney
9. The Ghan
10. 25% by length, accept 20% or 30%

Round 5 Answers

1. Doctor Who monsters
2. Have all presented the BBC's Question Time
3.Settings for soaps
4. Teams on Only Connect
5. Cat (the old lady who swallowed a fly)
6. Holby City (BBC1'a schedule tonight)
7. Major (Prime ministers from 74)
8. Pentium II (intel processors)
9. Jane Eyre
10. A tale of two cities