Week 2 - Picture Round - Movie Posters

Week 2 - Categories

Sport

1. Which team has recently created an unfortunate record of quickest relegation from Barclays Premier League? How many games have they won this season?

2. After serving his ban for drug taking, sprinter Dwain Chambers has chosen a new career in which sport? - and which team has he signed for?

3. Rebecca Romero recently claimed gold at the World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester. In which event did she win silver at the Athens Olympics in 2004?

4. Name the horse and jockey that won the 2008 Grand National last Saturday.

TV

1. Which two iconic characters have returned to Eastenders for the first time in five years?

2. In what police station is The Bill set?

3. On which two families did the original series of ‘Neighbours’ focus?

4. ‘Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem’ were the house band for show?

Food and drink

1. Which two drinks are used to make a ‘Black Velvet’?

2. According to the rhyme, Jack Sprat would eat no fat – what would his wife not eat?

3. Which food, not rationed during World War II was later rationed after it?

4. If you were eating escargots in a French restaurant what would you be eating?

Local Interest

1. What is the name of the local author who won the Wales Book of the Year 2007? - and what is the name of his latest book?

2. Who is reputed to have built Dolbadarn castle and near which town can it be found?

3. Who is the North Wales soul sensation, originally from Nefyn, who has released the chart topping album entitled Rockferry?

4. Prompted by an e-mail from a friend, Bangor born Matthew Dent (who studied art at Coleg Menai) entered and won a national competition. What has he designed?

Music

1. What word links Coldplay, Ringo Starr, Tony Orlando, Donovan and Elton John?

2. Who stands up when she plays the piano?

3. Which Verdi opera features the song ‘La donna è mobile’?

4. What do the bands Deacon Blue, The Kooks, The Sisters of Mercy, Judas Priest, The Rolling Stones and Shakespears Sister have in common?

Week 2 - Link Round - Runners

1. Who tries and (and always fails) to catch the Road Runner?

2. In the 2004 United States presidential election which ‘Dick’ did George W. Bush choose as his running mate and future vice-president?

3. In Poker, what is a run of playing cards of sequential rank called?

4. The marathon is named after the run of a Greek soldier delivering a message from the Battle of Marathon – what was his destination?

5. Founded in 1749 by the author Henry Fielding, they were regarded as London's first professional police force. By what name were they known?

6. What is the common name for the ‘injury’ suffered by runners that is caused by friction from repeated rubbing of a t-shirt or other upper body clothing?

7. Why did Logan run?

8. Which band had hits with ‘Geno’ and ‘Come on Eileen’?

9. Scarlet Runner, Case Knife and Painted Lady are varieties of what food that contains traces of poison and therfore must be thoroughly cooked before consumption?

10. Khaled Hosseini’s novel ‘The Kite Runner’ has recently been made into a film. In which war torn country is it set?

Week 2 - Drinks Round - Leading Ladies

1. The very much older man this ‘darling bud’ first chose to entrap was Sean Connery. She was ‘intolerably cruel’ to George Clooney and her relationship with Tom Hanks proved ‘terminal.’

2. The most requested wartime ‘pinup.’ As a dancer she starred opposite Fred Astaire in ‘You'll Never Get Rich’ & ‘You Were Never Lovelier.’ She is probably best remembered for her sensual performance in the 1946 film ‘Gilda’ and more recently she helped Tim Robbins escape in ‘The Shawshank Redemption.’

3. ‘Oh, no! It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.’
Who was ‘beauty’ in 1933 or in Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake?

4. Which cat licked the bat?

5. ‘Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "hello".’
In 1996 she stopped the Tom Cruise diatribe; later she was better known for her diaries.

6. Hugh Grant fell for her in a reality inspired movie, hopefully the character that Richard Gere fell for was less autobiographical.

7. She snatched romance in fleeting meetings with Trevor Howard.

8. There’s something about her – she’s an angel and an ogre.

9. Can this actress atone for her swashbuckling ways?

10. She was repeatedly wooed by Bill Murray but eventually married Hugh Grant at the fourth attempt.

11. Clark Gable didn’t give a damn about her.

12. Diamonds were her best friend in ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ and who were her two ‘lady’ friends in the film ‘Some Like It Hot’?

13. She was the cat in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and Velvet in ‘National Velvet.’

14. ‘Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?’
Who had designs on Dustin Hoffman?

15. Who walked into Humphrey Bogart’s gin joint?

16. It’s a good job Eliza learned to not to drop her ‘aitches or Holly would never have got her breakfast.