Quiz Archive 7th September 2010

Round 1

1. Where in the body would you find phalanges?
2. For which 1980's comic hit song was Joe Dolce responsible for?
3. Which of these places is not on New Zealand's north island - Mount Cook, Wellington, Rotorua?
4. Who directed the Birtish Film "In the loop"
5. Which character is the narrator in Harper Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
6. Name two candidates in the Labour Leadership contest (full names please).
7. What is the more common name for the plant toxicodendron radicans?
8. Which of these is no longer a Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavour: Bohemian Raspberry, Fairly Nuts, Cookie Dough?
9. Brian Sewell is famous in which field?
10. What was the name of France's first space satellite launched in 1965? Asterix, De Gualle or Explorateur?

Answers

1. Feet / hands
2. Shaddap You Face
3. Mount Cook
4. Armando Iannucci
5. Scout Finch
6. David miliband, ed miliband, ed balls, andy burnham, diane abbott
7. Poison Ivy
8. Bohemian Raspberry
9. Art critic
10. Asterix

Round 2 Flight

1. What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?
2. What was Churchill reffering to when he said: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
3. Which Frenchman completed the first flight across the English Channel?
4. Name the airline ...
5. Who played Tom Cruise's nemesis "Iceman" in the film Top Gun?
6. What year was concorde reitred from service?
7. Can you carry a hockey stick onto a flight (i.e take it as hand luggage) ?
8. Name the main airport used for deploying UK troops worldwide.
9. Who holds the rank of Marshal of the Royal Air Force in the United Kingdom?
10. Name this man and his position (1/2 point for this) ...

Answers

1. Orange
2. Battle of Britain
3. Louis Blériot
4. Lufthansa
5.Val Kilmer
6. 2003
7. No
8. RAF Brize Norton
9.The Duke of Edinburgh
10. Willie Walsh - BA Chief Executive

Round 3 Little Misses and Mr Men

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Round 3 answers
1. little miss sunshine
2. mr topsy-turvey
3. mr muddle
4. little miss naughty
5. mr birthday
6. little miss scatterbrain
7. mr slow
8. mr rush
9. little miss magic
10. mr daydream

round 4 musicals
1. Springtime for Hitler
2. The Lambeth Walk
3. Defying Gravity
4. The Song That Goes Like This
5. Luck be a lady
6. So in Love
7. One Night in Bangkok
8. I Don't Know How to Love Him
9. Oh What a Circus
10. Sweet Transvestite


Answers
1. The Producers
2. Me and My Girl
3. Wicked
4. Spamalot
5. Guys and Dolls
6. Kiss me Kate
7. Chess
8. Jesus Christ Superstar
9. Evita
10. Rocky Horror Show


round 5 - connection
Questions

1. Which year did the following happen: 1st test tube baby born; John Paul 11 new pope; actress Eve Myles born

2. Which singer released an album entitled 'Rockferry' ?

3. Name the character

4. What one word follows these to create another phrase/word: meteor; power; baby

5. Austin is the capital of which US state?

6. A colloquial term for a male athlete or a scot ?

7. What is the common nickname of actor Sylvester Stallone ?

8. How is the computer animated character 'the annoying thing' better known?

9. What word is this picture illustrating?

10. Connection ?

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Answers

1. 1978
2. duffy
3. charlene
4. shower
5. texas
6. jock
7. sly
8. crazy frog
9. southfork
10. Dallas