The Pear Tree Quiz – 06 March 2000

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1

How much does a TV licence cost currently?

 

2

Where in your body would you find your uvula?

 

3

Which ex-Monty Python star seems to spend much of his time presenting travel series?

 

4

Which British ex-Prime Minister is about to be made a Knight of the Garter?

 

5

Who is the latest Coronation Street star to be admitted to the Priory Clinic to get over drink-related problems?

 

6

According to the Old Testament, on which day was man created?

 

7

Prince Charles has let it be known that he would prefer to be George VII to Charles III if he becomes king – point each for the other names he could have chosen??

 

8

Before last week, when was the last leap year ending with 00?

 

9

What National holiday was first celebrated in England in 1974?

 

10

Which Russian football team was the first to reach a European Final?

 

11

What do Americans call what we call braces?

 

12

Is a WEEDGIE a) a small unit of gravitational attraction, b) what someone from Edinburgh calls someone from Glasgow, c) a canary or d) a washing-up sponge?

 

13

What was the first decimal coin to be issued in Britain?

 

14

Which James Bond actor used to cover his tattoos with make-up during filming?

 

15

What is Africa’s largest lake?

 

16

Point each – who will be driving for Jaguar in this season’s Formula 1 races?

 

17

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank, but what hit the Poseidon?

 

18

Stockport County transferred Hughie McLenahan in 1927 for the magnificent sum of three freezers full of ice-cream to which other local club?

 

19

How many holes are there in a tenpin bowling ball?

 

20

In the seventies, who or what were replaced by Ruby Flipper?

 

21

After the Vietnam war, how was Saigon re-named?

 

22

In which century was Christopher Columbus born?

 

23

Which Internet company is offering free Internet phone calls for a £10 service fee?

 

24

By which river does Blackburn’s Ewood Park stand?

 

25

Which soccer team is currently top of Italy’s Serie A?

 

Round 2

Shopping, TV Cops and Robbers, 90’s Pop Music, Geography

1

What’s the name of the craft/antique market located in an old mill near Chorley on the M61?

 

2

In which local shopping mall could you be walking down Barbirolli Mall?

 

3

Which mail-order company specialises in trivial things like nose-hair trimmers and electric mole scarers?

 

4

What was the less romantic name of the part of Greater Manchester where the Trafford centre was built?

 

5

In which local town is the Spindles shopping centre?

 

6

Maddy Magellan assists which offbeat television detective?

 

7

What was Callan’s first name?

 

8

How many Angels did Charlie have?

 

9

Who played the detective Bob Louis?

 

10

In which city was Columbo set?

 

11

What was Helen Mirren’s character called in Prime Suspect?

 

12

In which detective series did Detective Isbecki appear?

 

13

Who was the police officer in the fictional town of Lochdubh?

 

14

What was the name of the private detective often employed by Perry Mason?

 

15

Which policeman was brought back from the dead and given a TV series?

 

16

What was on the other side of Robson and Jerome’s Up on the roof?

 

17

Which group had the 1996 Christmas No 1?

 

18

Which All Saints No 1 was a remake of a 70s hit for Labelle?

 

19

What was Simply Red’s first No 1 of 1995?

 

20

What was Jamiroquai’s first UK Top Ten hit?

 

21

What is the more politically correct term for Eskimos?

 

22

Which of the Great Lakes is wholly inside the USA?

 

23

In which island group could you find Las Palmas?

 

24

What’s the capital of Indonesia?

 

25

What’s the largest country on the Iberian peninsular?

 

Answers
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