Only 25 Questions this week as we had a music round for Round 2

The Pear Tree Quiz – 24 July 2000

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1

Who won this year’s Tour de France?

Lance Armstrong

2

How many edges are there on a cube?

12

3

On which river does Sheffield stand?

The Don

4

On which planet was Superman born?

Krypton

5

A courgette is a young version of which vegetable?

Marrow

6

What is the highest winning hand in normal poker?

Royal Flush

7

Astronomers have discovered a new moon going around which planet?

Jupiter

8

Is LENTIGO a) an Italian board game, b) a disease of hippies, c) a freckle, or d) conjunctivitis?

D

9

Where are you phalanges?

Fingers

10

Which instrument was played by Ravi Shankar?

Sitar

11

Which British sportsman has earned the most from sport ever?

Lennox Lewis

12

Blanket and honeycomb are the two main varieties of what?

Tripe

13

In which TV police series could you see Captain Dobey and Huggy Bear?

Starsky & Hutch

14

2 years either way – when was the Panama Canal completed?

1914

15

What’s the chemical formula for ice?

H2O!

16

Who played Queen Guinevere to Richard Harris’s King Arthur in the film Camelot?

Vanessa Redgrave

17

Into which ocean does the Zambesi flow?

Indian

18

4 members of the Royal family are to appear on postage stamps released on August 4th – one is the Queen- who are the other 3?

Queen Mother, obviously and Princes Charles and William

19

Only one American state begins with the letter L – which one?

Louisiana

20

In which county is Stonehenge?

Wiltshire

21

Which breed of dog is named after a German postman?

Doberman

22

How many lines are in a sonnet?

14

23

Who played Sergeant Bilko on TV for many years?

Phil Silvers

24

What’s the capital of Turkey?

Ankara

25

OK – So Tiger Woods won this year’s British Open, but for a point each, who came second?

Ernie Els/Thomas Bjorn

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