Week 3 - Picture Round - When they were young

Can you identify the Actors, musicians, sports people, world leaders and talentless celebs shown below?

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 London, Hammersmith and is known both as the ‘Pride of Wales’ and also the ‘Italian Dragon’?

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 ‘Holby City’ a spin off?

3. Who are the three judges on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’?

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 UK top five hits with Queen, Bing Crosby and Mick Jagger?

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 Somme in 1916?

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?

Week 3 - General Knowledge

1. Who is the only player in history to have scored in the Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool football derbies?

2. What links the four leaders King David, Alexander, Caesar and King Charlemagne?

3. The American Samuel Langhorne Clemens was fascinated by new technology and in 1876 wrote the first novel ever written on a typewriter – What was his pen name and what was the novel called?

4. Which TV show, which is still running today, began in 1963 with a girl called Susan Foreman living with her grandfather in a junkyard?

5. How many are in a myriad?

6. What useful material is derived from a combination of velour and crochet

7. ‘Love apple’ is an old name for which fruit?

8. What is the name of the building that houses the National Assembly for Wales?

9. Nelson Mandela was one of two men who were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Who was the other one?

10. Name the three major islands that make up the Balearics.

Week 3 - Drinks Round

All these events happened around today’s date, but in what year?

1. Bill Haley and the Comets record ‘Rock Around the Clock.’

2. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to enter outer space.

3. Barbra Streisand is born.

4. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as the Pope Benedict XVI.

5. Bernadette Devlin is elected youngest-ever woman MP.

6. Adolf Hitler is born.

7. Federal inspectors declare that the unicorns of the Barnum & Bailey Circus were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.

8. Henry VIII becomes King of England.

9. Pierre and Marie Curie isolate radium, a radioactive chemical element.

10. Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

11. Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries film actress Grace Kelly in Monaco

12. The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.

These are the years in question:

1509 1889 1902 1942 1954 1956 1961 1969 1983 1985 1990 2005