Week 3 - Categories Round
Sport
1. ‘The Citizens’ is a nickname used by both a local and a Premier League football team. - Name them both.
2. Which 35 year old WBO super middleweight champion was born in
3. Who is currently the Barclays Football Premier League Top Scorer?
4. American Danica Patrick has just made history as the first female winner in which sport?
5. ‘To win a major while Tiger's playing, and he's told us he's playing at his peak, it's an achievement.’ - Who is talking?
TV
1. Before beginning his ‘Fall and Rise,’ Reggie Perrin was an employee of which company?
2. From which BBC series was ‘
3. Who are the three judges on ‘
4. Gavin & Stacey has just won the Programme of the Year at the 2008 Bafta TV Awards. - Which two characters do the creators, Ruth Jones and James Corden play?
5. In the 1970s what was advertised with the following catchphrase?
‘Watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about’
Music
1. Which famous musician was credited as ‘Dr Winston O'Boogie’ when playing on other records?
2. Which artist has had
3. What nationality was the virtuoso pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin?
4. The popular ‘Irish’ drinking song ‘Dirty Old Town’ was written by Ewan MColl (father of Kirsty McColl and the son of Scottish parents) - about which town was he singing?
5. Can you identify the original bands from the names of their tribute acts?
The Bohemians, The Blue Meanies, One Step Behind, Björn Again
World War I and II
1. Who was British Secretary of State for War at the beginning of World War I who declared ‘Your country needs you’?
2. What was the name of the artificial harbour that had to be created for the incoming Allied ships at the D-Day landings?
3. An organization of women encouraging World War I volunteers gave men what symbolic item?
4. What did the movie actress Hedy Lamarr do to help towards the American war effort?
a) Entertained most troops
b) Co-Invented a torpedo guidance system
c) Sold the most war bonds
5. What type of weapon was first introduced at the battle of the
Fashion
1. What did the word ‘stiletto’ originally mean?
2. What is the French word for ‘Ready-To-Wear’?
3. What is a tricorne?
4. What name was given to Christian Dior’s famous 1947 post war fashion collection? – (now the name of a high street chain of shops)
5. What was the caged piece of clothing fashionable in the mid nineteenth century?
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Sport
1. Bangor City, Manchester City
2. Joe Calzaghe – the nicknames refer to his parentage
3. Cristiano Ronaldo of Man Utd with 28
4. IndyCar racing - With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300,
5. South African Trevor Immelman won the 72nd Masters at Augusta National
TV
1. Sunshine Desserts
2. Casualty
3. Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Piers Morgan
4. Neil ‘Smithy’ Smith and Vanessa Shanessa ‘Nessa’ Jenkins
5. Unigate Dairy (Milk)
Music
1. John Lennon
2. David Bowie 1981 Under Pressure with Queen (No 1)
1982 Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy with Bing Crosby (No 3)
1985 Dancing in the Street with Mick Jagger (No 1)
3. Polish
4. Salford (Manchester)
5. Queen, The Beatles, Madness, ABBA
World War I and II
1. Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (a.k.a. Lord Kitchener)
2. Mulberry
3. White feather (from cockfighting - a cockerel sporting a white feather in its tail was believed to be a poor fighter)
4. She invented and patented a torpedo guidance system
(She however did sell $7,000,000 of war bonds at one event – Nobody entertained the troops more than Bob Hope)
She developed a technical interest when her first husband tried to keep from pursuing a career in films.
In 2003, the Boeing corporation ran a series of recruitment ads featuring Hedy Lamarr as a woman of science
5. Tanks
Historical costume
1. Dagger (originally form stylus)
2. Pret-a-Porter
3. A three cornered hat popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
4. New Look
5. Crinoline
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