Round 1
7 days around the world:
Questions:
1. Who joined dance act Orbital live on stage at Glastonbury?
2. David Cameron watched England get knocked out of the world cup with which other World Leader?
3. More than 170 artists have criticised Tate Britain for accepting sponsorship from who?
4. Name the General dismissed last week as head of the US military in Afghanistan
5. What Marilyn Monroe memorabilia has just sold for $45,000 in Las Vegas?
6. What will be completely banned in prisons in New Zealand from July 2011?
7. Cabin crew from which airline have appeared in court over charges of smuggling 3kg of cocaine into UK?
8. In which City did the Cabinet hold their first regional meeting this week ?
9. The deputy editor of which magazine is in trouble for calling breastfeeding "creepy"?
10. Who has been just named the most powerful celebrity in the world by Forbes magazine.
round 2 questions
Wimbledon
1. Name one of the players involved in this year's longest tennis match in history.
2. Name the schoolmistress womble.
3. In what year was a wooden racket last used at Wimbledon ?
4. Who played the up-and-coming tennis star Lizzie Bradbury in the 2004 film Wimbledon?
5. Why is the Wat Buddhapadipa buddist temple in Wimbledon particularly significant?
6. Who wrote The Wimbledon Trilogy (The Wimbledon Poisoner;They Came from SW19&East of Wimbledon)?
7. What would the word Wimbledon score in scrabble?
8. In 1988 who did Wimbledon football club beat to win the FA Cup?
9. Which famous sporting venue would you find in Plough Lane, Wimbledon?
10. At the end of which tube line is Wimbledon station?
Round 3
Name the Aussie show
Round 4
Questions
1. According to the International Ice Cream Association what is the most
popular flavour of ice cream?
2. Lovin' Spoonful sang which 1960's summer anthem?
3. The higest temp measured on Earth was in El Azizia - which country is
it in?
4. In A Midsummer Night's Dream how is Robin Goodfellow better known?
5. Blackpool Sands is a blue flag beach. True or false?
6. In 2009 was the top international tourist destination (a) France (b)
UK (c) US (d) Mexico?
7. Summer Phoenix is married to which fellow US actor?
8. According to Gershwin's Summertime who is good lookin?
9. "Litha" is another name for what?
10. In 'Summer Holiday' in which city are Cliff Richard and his friends
arrested for 'kidnapping'?
Round 5
1. Name this old computer game (see twitpic)
2. Which state was the last to join the Confederacy and first to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the American civil war?
3. ***** Arcade is the famous web comic about gamers started in 1998 (fill in the blank)
4. Name Canada's largest city.
5. Who played the character of Doralee Rhodes in a 1980 classic American film?
6. Which drink is advertised as "seriously easy going"?
7. How many syllables are there in a Haiku?
8. Mull of Kintyre was a hit for which band?
9. Which US state's official animal is the grizzly bear and is known as "The Treasure State"
10. What is the connection?
Answers
round 1
1. Matt Smith
2. Angela Merkl
3. BP
4. Gen Stanley McChrystal
5. chest xrays
6. smoking
7. South African Airways
8. Bradford
9. Mother & Baby
10. Oprah Winfrey
round 2
1. Nicolas Mahut or John Isner
2. Miss Adelaide
3. 1987
4. Kirsten Dunst
5. First Buddhist temple in the United Kingdom
6. Nigel Williams
7. 0 - it is a proper noun.
8. Liverpool
9. Wimbledon stadium (dog track)
10. District
round 3
1. H2O: Just add water
2. Sons and daughters
3. Home and Away
4. Summer Heights High
5. Return to Eden
6. Underbelly
7. The Young Doctors
8. A Country Practice
9. Sullivans
10. Out of the Blue
round 4
1. Vanilla
2. Summer in the City
3. Libya
4. Puck
5. True
6. France
7. Casey Affleck
8. Your mamma
9. Midsummer
10. Athens
round 5
1. Breakout
2. Tennessee
3. Penny
4. Toronto.
5. Dolly Parton
6. Malibu
7. 17
8. Wings
9. Montana
10. Miley Cyrus / Hnnah Montana
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