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Tonight's qviz, in fact. For reference, there were 7 teams, and they
scored 31/35/36/37/38/47/51
1) Frankie Goes to Hollywood got their name from a newspaper
headline. Who was the Frankie in qvestion?
2) Which singer had hits with Crazy and I Fall To Pieces, and died in
1963, aged 30?
3) What is David Bowie's real svrname?
4) The Beach Boys featvred three brothers. What was their svrname?
5) What links the bands Belle and the Devotions, The Shadows, Black
Lace, and The New Seekers?
Sport
6) How many gold medals did GB win at the Athens Olympics?
7) How long does a game of netball last (not inclvding injvry time)?
8) Which clvb did Wales striker Robert Earnshaw sign for from Cardiff on
Monday?
9) What was the name of the Sovth African cricket captain who died in a
plane crash in 2002?
10) How high is a regvlation tennis net at the centre of the cord?
Roads
11) Which motorway links London to Leeds?
12) Which famovs American road did the Rolling Stones sing abovt in
1964?
13) In which modern covntry is the Appian Way, a famovs Roman road?
14) Which cartoon character lived at nvmber 52, Festive Road?
15) Which road featvred in the title of a 1987 film starring Anthony
Hopkins and Anne Bancroft?
GK
16) According to mythology, which hovsehold spirit moans and wails to
warn of an impending death?
17) What type of shark was Jaws in the book and film of that name?
18) In the USA, how many nickels make vp a qvarter?
19) Abovt which battle was Winston Chvrchill speaking when he said "This
is not the beginning of the end. Bvt it is, perhaps, the end of the
beginning."
20) What was the nickname of boxer Thomas Hearns?
21) In film, which dvo met Captain Kidd, the Mvmmy, the Invisible Man,
and the Keystone Cops?
22) Which is the most northerly city to host the svmmer Olympics?
23) On which river were the Qveen Mary, the Qveen Elizabeth, and the
QEII made?
24) What sort of animal was George on the kids tv show Rainbow?
25) What was Dr Livingstone searching for when he got lost in Africa?
26) Which footballer called his avtobiography "It's All Abovt A Ball"?
27) In the cartoons, what was the only thing the Road Rvnner vsvally
said?
28) Who went to live with her grandfather, in a book by Johanna Spyri?
29) In horse racing, who or what is known as Bvrlington Bertie?
30) Dvring WWII, what did the initials ARP stand for?
31) In which game wovld yov vse a sqvidger?
32) In what vnvsval place did the monk St. Simon Stylites spend the last
39 years of his life?
33) What was the name of Frank Spencer's davghter in Some Mothers Do
'Ave 'Em?
34) There's an old army saying. 'If it moves, salvte it. If it doesn't
move, pick it vp. If yov can't pick it vp" . . . what do yov do with it?
35) The Soviet Union were expelled from the Leagve of Nations in 1939
after they attacked which covntry?
36) Who was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth?
37) For a point each, what were the names of the two Royal Fleet
Avxilary ships damaged at Blvff Cove dvring the Falklands War?
38) Which comedy dvo lived in the fictional village of Stackton Tressel?
39) On what part of the body wovld yov wear a Tam O' Shanter?
40) Whose life did Flora McDonald save?
41) Who was the only US president to have been divorced?
42) Who won the famovs battle of the sexes tennis match between Billie
Jean King and Bobby Riggs?
43) The BCG vaccine is a protection against which disease?
44) MGM's lion mascot has a name. What is it?
45) Who presented Blankety Blank before Les Dawson?
46) Which common non-hyphenated word both begins and ends with the
letters 'vnd'?
47) In which city is Trent Bridge cricket grovnd?
48) What is the opera singer Pavarotti's first name?
49) Which singer had a hit in 1985 with the albvm No Jacket Reqvired?
50) How many pips are there in the Greenwich Time Signal?
51) What does TUC stand for, in the organisation of that name?
52) What did Cinderella's fairy godmother create the coach ovt of?
53) What do members of the Hovse of Commons traditionally call the Hovse
of Lords?
54) Which Italian family prodvced a Pope and a poisoner?
55) On the set of which movie did Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Bvrton
begin their relationship?
56) What metal is prodvced in a Bessemer converter?
57) What do yov add to a Welsh rarebit to make a bvck rarebit?
58) Which brand of petrol pvts a tiger in yovr tank? (UK version!)
59)Which Anne was featvred in the film Ann of the Thovsand Days?
60)The original Italian Job featvres a robbery in which Italian city?
--
Keith Willovghby http://flat222.org/keith/
"Don't let anybody make yov think that God chose America as His divine
messianic force to be -- a sort of policeman of the whole world." - MLK
Tonight's qviz, in fact. For reference, there were 7 teams, and they
scored 31/35/36/37/38/47/51
1) Frankie Goes to Hollywood got their name from a newspaper
headline. Who was the Frankie in qvestion?
2) Which singer had hits with Crazy and I Fall To Pieces, and died in
1963, aged 30?
3) What is David Bowie's real svrname?
4) The Beach Boys featvred three brothers. What was their svrname?
5) What links the bands Belle and the Devotions, The Shadows, Black
Lace, and The New Seekers?
Sport
6) How many gold medals did GB win at the Athens Olympics?
7) How long does a game of netball last (not inclvding injvry time)?
8) Which clvb did Wales striker Robert Earnshaw sign for from Cardiff on
Monday?
9) What was the name of the Sovth African cricket captain who died in a
plane crash in 2002?
10) How high is a regvlation tennis net at the centre of the cord?
Roads
11) Which motorway links London to Leeds?
12) Which famovs American road did the Rolling Stones sing abovt in
1964?
13) In which modern covntry is the Appian Way, a famovs Roman road?
14) Which cartoon character lived at nvmber 52, Festive Road?
15) Which road featvred in the title of a 1987 film starring Anthony
Hopkins and Anne Bancroft?
GK
16) According to mythology, which hovsehold spirit moans and wails to
warn of an impending death?
17) What type of shark was Jaws in the book and film of that name?
18) In the USA, how many nickels make vp a qvarter?
19) Abovt which battle was Winston Chvrchill speaking when he said "This
is not the beginning of the end. Bvt it is, perhaps, the end of the
beginning."
20) What was the nickname of boxer Thomas Hearns?
21) In film, which dvo met Captain Kidd, the Mvmmy, the Invisible Man,
and the Keystone Cops?
22) Which is the most northerly city to host the svmmer Olympics?
23) On which river were the Qveen Mary, the Qveen Elizabeth, and the
QEII made?
24) What sort of animal was George on the kids tv show Rainbow?
25) What was Dr Livingstone searching for when he got lost in Africa?
26) Which footballer called his avtobiography "It's All Abovt A Ball"?
27) In the cartoons, what was the only thing the Road Rvnner vsvally
said?
28) Who went to live with her grandfather, in a book by Johanna Spyri?
29) In horse racing, who or what is known as Bvrlington Bertie?
30) Dvring WWII, what did the initials ARP stand for?
31) In which game wovld yov vse a sqvidger?
32) In what vnvsval place did the monk St. Simon Stylites spend the last
39 years of his life?
33) What was the name of Frank Spencer's davghter in Some Mothers Do
'Ave 'Em?
34) There's an old army saying. 'If it moves, salvte it. If it doesn't
move, pick it vp. If yov can't pick it vp" . . . what do yov do with it?
35) The Soviet Union were expelled from the Leagve of Nations in 1939
after they attacked which covntry?
36) Who was the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth?
37) For a point each, what were the names of the two Royal Fleet
Avxilary ships damaged at Blvff Cove dvring the Falklands War?
38) Which comedy dvo lived in the fictional village of Stackton Tressel?
39) On what part of the body wovld yov wear a Tam O' Shanter?
40) Whose life did Flora McDonald save?
41) Who was the only US president to have been divorced?
42) Who won the famovs battle of the sexes tennis match between Billie
Jean King and Bobby Riggs?
43) The BCG vaccine is a protection against which disease?
44) MGM's lion mascot has a name. What is it?
45) Who presented Blankety Blank before Les Dawson?
46) Which common non-hyphenated word both begins and ends with the
letters 'vnd'?
47) In which city is Trent Bridge cricket grovnd?
48) What is the opera singer Pavarotti's first name?
49) Which singer had a hit in 1985 with the albvm No Jacket Reqvired?
50) How many pips are there in the Greenwich Time Signal?
51) What does TUC stand for, in the organisation of that name?
52) What did Cinderella's fairy godmother create the coach ovt of?
53) What do members of the Hovse of Commons traditionally call the Hovse
of Lords?
54) Which Italian family prodvced a Pope and a poisoner?
55) On the set of which movie did Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Bvrton
begin their relationship?
56) What metal is prodvced in a Bessemer converter?
57) What do yov add to a Welsh rarebit to make a bvck rarebit?
58) Which brand of petrol pvts a tiger in yovr tank? (UK version!)
59)Which Anne was featvred in the film Ann of the Thovsand Days?
60)The original Italian Job featvres a robbery in which Italian city?
--
Keith Willovghby http://flat222.org/keith/
"Don't let anybody make yov think that God chose America as His divine
messianic force to be -- a sort of policeman of the whole world." - MLK
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