The Pear Tree Quiz – 28 February 2000

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1

What’s the name of Oasis’ 4th album, released today?

 

2

In which newspaper could you read the adventures of Rupert the Bear?

 

3

Go is the low cost airline owned by BA, which airline owns the low cost airline Buzz?

 

4

If you saw a car with the International Registration CH, from where would it come?

 

5

In the 1940s what did the Manhattan Project develop?

 

6

What’s the most number of Sundays that can occur in December?

 

7

Who scored both of Leicester City’s goals in yesterday’s Worthington Cup Final?

 

8

Who had her first UK hit with Joe Le Taxi?

 

9

Is a Skelk a) A splinter, b) a careless typing mistake, c) a witch or d) a hang-glider – named after Otto Skelk, the inventor of the hang glider?

 

10

If it’s 12 noon GMT in London, what time is it in Helsinki?

 

11

Which British newsreader was the first to be knighted?

 

12

In which sport could you compete for the Tetley Bitter Cup?

 

13

What is the only English anagram of the word KITCHENS?

 

14

What is the main herb in a Pesto sauce?

 

15

What is the name of the Welsh version of Channel 4?

 

16

Which car has been named as this year’s European car of the year?

 

17

Who did Diana Ross play in Lady Sings The Blues?

 

18

Which country has the longest coastline?

 

19

In which country were paperclips invented?

 

20

How many children were there in the Partridge family?

 

21

What trade or profession would you have followed if you were a Webster?

 

22

What sportingly links Peking, Bangkok, Cairo, Havana, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur. Paris, Osaka, Seville and Toronto?

 

23

What is a Blenheim Orange?

 

24

From which country do Hyundai cars come?

 

25

What were Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough’s two old gossips called?

 

Round 2

Let’s Play Blockbusters….

A

Which A was a resurrected Victorian in a 60s adventure series?

 

B

Which B is a tropical disease?

 

C

Which C is a country which has Santiago as its capital?

 

D

What did the D stand for in the old L S D currency?

 

E

What E was Cathy’s surname in Wuthering Heights?

 

F

What F was John Kennedy’s middle name?

 

G

Which family in the Archer’s is being made bankrupt at the moment?

 

H

Which H was a hawk headed god of ancient Egypt?

 

I

What I is the first word of the beer IPA?

 

J

Which J was a biblical city whose walls were destroyed by trumpet playing?

 

K

What K is a dish of rice and fish, often eaten at breakfast?

 

L

Which L was the star of the first real porn movie, Deep Throat?

 

M

What M is the letters for the postcode for Bedford?

 

N

Which N was Noggin the Nog’s arch-enemy?

 

O

What O is a birdwatcher?

 

P

What P was described by a traveller as a Rose Red City, half as old as time?

 

Q

What Q was a Roman or Greek ship with 5 banks of oars?

 

R

Which R had a 1969 No 1 with ‘Dizzy’?

 

S

What S recorded an album called Abraxus?

 

T

What T is a Greek dish of soft cod’s roe?

 

U

What U is lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest?

 

V

Which V was a boy’s comic and a RAF bomber?

 

W

Which W had a No 2 in 1984 with ‘It’s Raining Men’’?

 

Y

Which Y is the town where Westland helicopters are made?

 

Z

What Z is a soft, gentle breeze?

 

Answers
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