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