Week 5 - Picture Quiz - Name the Film or TV Program
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Thursday 22 May 2008
Week 5 - The Link Round
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2. Who was co-presenter of the TV game show Big Break?
3. What name was given to Columbian goalkeeper Rene Higuita's spectacular clearance against
4. In 2002 Monica and Gabriela invited us to touch their bum. What is their relationship?
5. What are north and south of the equator and mark the most northern and southern latitudes that the sun can appear overhead at noon?
6. What are Phil, Jill, Kenton, David, Ruth, Pip, Josh and Ben?
7. Which song from the musical ‘Hair’ contains the lyrics:
When the moon is in the Seventh House / and Jupiter aligns with Mars
8. The Statue on top of the Old Bailey has a sword in one hand – what does it have in the other?
9. What kind of shares market is associated with increasing investor confidence, motivating investors to buy in anticipation of further capital gains?
10. Which ones are missing?
Week 5 - Categories
Round 1 - End of Season Football Special
Tell me who and what I’m talking about in the following football related statements.
Example: Q. The pensioners pay the penalty as one-time kids triumph in
1. In February the Gunners had their sights set on three but miss their target again for third year running
2. the Red Devils win it and the Red Dragons slip out of it.
3. The Villans tried to pinch it but the Toffees stuck to it.
4. The Rams and the Royals go down with the Blues
5. The Seasiders and the Saints are safe on the last day but the high riding Potters hunt the Foxes down
Round 2 - Name the Children’s TV characters and the programme
1. A talking dog, a hungry hippy and a precocious puppy in the ‘Mystery Machine.’
2. A postman, his cat and a postmistress in
3. A dog, a snail and a cow on a roundabout
4. A frog, a bear and a couple of old hecklers at a theatre show
5. A sleepy cat, a little girl, and a wooden woodpecker in a shop
Round 3 - What’s In A Name?
1. By what name is Cherilyn Sakasian La Pierre better known?
2. What famous person has the real name of Eldrick Woods?
3. Her publishers fear that boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author led J. K. Rowling to use two initials instead – What does the ‘J’ Stand for?
4. How are Edwin Eugene Aldrin and Harry Lillis Crosby more commonly known?
5. Which author has the forenames John Ronald Reuel?
Round 4 - Banned
1. The 1970 Kinks hit ‘Lola’ was banned from BBC as the lyrics were deemed to be advertising which product?
2. Which book, by Alice Walker was banned by the American Library Association for racism, but was later turned into a successful movie directed by Steven Spielberg?
3. Which book, written in 1987 by former MI5 operative Peter Wright was banned by the government?
4. Released in 1972, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ was withdrawn from
5. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was famously banned for breaking obscenity laws – who was the author?
Week 5 - Drinks Round
Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE
1. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.
2. A ‘Slime’ is the collective noun for a group of slugs.
3. If the rider of a commemorative statue is on a horse with all four legs off the ground then it indicates that the body of the ‘hero’ was never found.
4. A year before starring in ‘Terms of Endearment,’ Deborah Winger was the voice of E.T.
5. In the film ‘Silent Movie,’ mime artist Marcel Marceau is the only person who has a speaking role.
6. Charles Manson was short listed to star in the American TV show ‘The Monkees’
7. James Joyce wrote his first draft of ‘Ulysses’ sitting in the bar of ‘The Zoo’ - a public house in
8. Radio and TV presenter Terry Wogan holds the record for the longest holed golf putt to be televised
9. Ronald Reagan began his career touring the American mid-west entering and winning dozens of Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contests.
10. Petula Clark had a No 1 hit with 'This is My Song' – it was written and given to her by her next door neighbour - Charlie Chaplin,
11. The ‘tea cosy’ was invented by French soldiers at the Russian Front.
12. The Art Garfunkel hit ‘Bright Eyes’ was written by Mike Batt about the effects of opiates
13. The Disney film ‘Finding Nemo’ has a higher body count than Sylvester Stallone’s first Rambo film.
14. Tom Hanks and Kate Bush are related by a common ancestor called Ezekiel Franklin Polk
15. The most prolific writers of UK No1 hits were Lennon and McCartney, the next most successful is Mel C.
16. ‘Peter Pan’ was the first instance the name Wendy – it was made up for the book.
17. The origin of poles and circular stairways in fire stations is to stop horses from walking up the stairs.
18. The second moon landing in Apollo 12 was nearly aborted when a toy dinosaur (a mascot given by the daughter of lunar module pilot Al Bean) became lodged behind a control panel
19. WD-40 stands for Water Displacement at the 40th attempt.
20. The character of Ensign Chekov was added to the television series ‘Star Trek’ because an editorial in Pravda had criticized the lack of a Soviet crewman on board the U.S.S. Enterprise.
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