Sample Quiz 2

Sample Quiz 2

1 What colour is vermilion
Scarlet
2 In place names such as Barnstaple what does staple mean
Post
3 What was the name of The Lone Ranger's horse
Silver
4 Four out of five Indian restaurant owners are from which country
Bangladesh
5 What does the musical term dolente mean
Sadly
6 Who was the Norse god of the sky and thunder
Thor
7 What colour is a white rhino
Dirty brownish grey it comes from the Afrikaans word for wide in this case the lips
8 What is Arachnaphobia the irrational fear of
Spiders
9 From which country do basketball team Honka Espoo hail
Finland
10 What happens in the game of Monopoly when you throw three successive doubles
Go to Jail
11 What was Europe's first wide bodied airliner
Airbus A300
12 Which car company manufacture the Nubira
Daewoo
13 What is the state capital of New York
Albany
14 What colour is the cross on the flag of the Dominican republic
White
15 What Part of France did the Romans call Vasconia
Gascony
16 In American slang how much is a sawbuck
Ten dollars
17 In which English city is Temple Meads railway station
Bristol
18 What is the penalty in golf for lifting your balls out of casual water
No penalty
19 What is a white ant better known as
Termite
20 FIDE is the governing body of which game
Chess
21 What spirit is added to red wine to create port
Brandy
22 Who wrote Shirley Valentine
Willy Russell
23 What activity is featured in the magazine Winkers World
Tiddlywinks
24 Who starred with John Travolta in the film "Broken Arrow"
Christian Slater
25 What is the collective noun for Caterpillars
Army
26 Which office other than Pope does the Pope automatically hold
Bishop of Rome
27 I is the chemical symbol for which element
Iodine
28 Who succeeded Matthew Kelly on You Bet
Darren Day
29 What is said to be the UK's loudest bird
Bittern
30 What colour flag in motor racing means an ambulance is on the track
White
31 What is New Mexico's state flower
Yucca
32 Which author lived in a house called Chawton
Jane Austen
33 What would have been your job in times gone by if your surname was Hind
Farm labourer
34 In the early 2000's The Birds Eye brand had a make-over, losing its famous logo in favour of the now familiar 'red eye' logo. What was the old logo
Albatross
35 How many seconds are there in an hour
Three thousand six hundred
36 If you were put on Allopurinol what illness would you be likely to be suffering from
Gout
37 What was former Labour Party leader Michael Foot's middle name
Mackintosh
38 What is the motto of the Stock Exchange
My Word is my Bond
39 Where are the European headquarters of the International Monetary Fund
Geneva
40 'Earth has not anything to show more fair' is the first line of a poem by whom
William Wordsworth
41 Which Law of Physics states that the extension or compression of a spring is directly proportional to the force applied to it
Hookes Law
42 How many times a year does the moon go round the sun
Once
43 What is the ancient counting frame using wires and beads called
Abacus
44 What is a yurt
Mongol tent
45 The Waterloo Cup is contested in which two sports
Bowls and Greyhound Racing
46 Which Hollywood actress was paid 2,000,000 for saying one word in a Simpson cartoon
Liz Taylor
47 With which sport would you associate David Broome
Show jumping
48 What landmark marks the eastern end of the South Downs
Beachy Head
49 What was the name of the cruise ship seized by hijackers in the Mediterranean in 1985
Achille Lauro
50 What is the nickname of the Royal Signals Motorcycle Display team
The White Helmets

Sample Quiz 1

Sample Quiz 1.

1 AIM AT NUISANCES (anagram of a sixties TV series)
Man in a Suitcase
2 The title of which 1961 Joseph Heller novel has passed into common usage as a phrase meaning a no-win situation
Catch-22
3 What is the nickname given to older internet enthusiasts
Silver Surfers
4 How many years do you have to be married to celebrate a diamond wedding
Sixty
5 Who was the voice of Danger Mouse
David Jason
6 What kind of nuts are used in a bar of Cadbury's Fruit And Nut
Almonds
7 Who had a number one in the eighties with True
Spandau Ballet
8 What is the main diet of grass snakes
Frogs
9 What is Selenology the study of
The Moon
10 Who was Shakespeare's gloomy Dane
Hamlet
11 Which architectural term is defined as 'an ornamental building or structure built purely for decoration'
Folly
12 What was Wild Bill Hickock's middle name
Butler (and his first name was James not Bill)
13 What were kept in ossuaries
Bones
14 To which battle was Churchill referring when he said we never won a battle before and never lost one after it
El Alamein
15 For what type of crimes was Tom Keating jailed
Art forgery
16 What was Papa Doc's real name (former president of Haiti)
Dr Francois Duvalier
17 What is the longest race in the heptathlon
Eight hundred metres
18 What is the fastest running creature on two legs
Ostrich
19 Which member of the Monkees had a successful country music career afterwards
Mike Nesmith
20 What are a karezza, a pavane, the black bottom, a cotillion and a quadrille
Dances
21 What does the abbreviation SOGAT stand for
Society of Graphical and Allied Trades
22 John, Lionel and Ethel were part of which early twentieth century acting family
Barrymore
23 What is the name of the crispbread traditionally eaten by Jews at Passover
Matzo
24 In which board game do players take turns placing disks on an 8x8 board.
Othello
25 Which product advertised itself as "A little dab'll do ya"
Brylcreme
26 Whom did film star Grace Kelly marry in 1956
Prince Rainier of Monaco
27 In which country was the first ever floodlit cricket match played
Australia
28 If a car was displaying the international registration plate TR from which country would it have come
Turkey
29 What type of hand held device was used to put out incendiary bombs in WW2
Stirrup pump
30 What is the society EXIT concerned with
Euthanasia (mercy killing)
31 What is the earliest known device for telling the time
Sundial
32 What was the name of the first storm officially given by the Met Office in 2015
Abigail
33 Used in torture what were pilliwinks for
Crushing fingers
34 What do the letters PC mean on an Ordnance Survey map
Public convenience
35 In which English county is Rugby
Warwickshire
36 Which of Picasso's paintings painted in 1937 depicts an event from the Spanish Civil War
Guernica
37 What do Foyles of London sell
Books
38 As a hobby what would a pucillovist collect (we all probably have at least one)
Egg cups
39 What name is given to a male lobster
Cock
40 From which song do these lyric come: My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies, fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die
The Show Must Go On by Queen
41 Early Market, Perfect Gem and Scarlet Intermediate are all types of which vegetable
Carrots
42 Who joined the Monty Python team for The Secret Policeman's Ball in 1979
Rowan Atkinson
43 The 18th Amendment introduced Prohibition in the United States, but which amendment abolished it
21st Amendment
44 What animal is on the badge of Rome
Wolf (female)
45 Lake Eyre is the largest lake in which country
Australia
46 Which island did Christopher Columbus actually reach on his first voyage to the new world
Guanahani island in the Bahamas on October 12. He renamed it San Salvador.
47 What name is given to a long low chair with a back and a single armrest
Chaise longue
48 What is a rabbit's tail called
A scut
49 Which actress was born Adrianne Munker
Jodie Foster
50 Which duo call their style of music Rockney
Chas n' Dave

Blog – Site Update 1

Blog - 1 Site Update

Blog - Site Update 1

Welcome to the updated version of this website. I hope you like the new look

Search engines such as Google and others are constantly changing their algorithms. Meaning we website owners are forever having to update our websites to meet their requirements.

This update is the first step in this journey. The next step is to get the 's' added to 'http' which appears in front of our domain name. This apparently helps to make our website more secure.

It also means that websites with 'https' may appear above websites that only display 'http'. I know, it's boring!

However,  many websites will ask for your 'card details' (We don't) and the added 's' means that your transactions are encrypted making them much safer to use. So it's not all a waste of time.

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