The Pear Tree Quiz – 06 March 2000

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1

How much does a TV licence cost currently?

£101

2

Where in your body would you find your uvula?

Back of mouth – it’s the dangly bit!

3

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

Michael Palin

4

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

John Major

5

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

Bruce Jones/Les Battersby

6

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

6th

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??

Philip & Arthur

8

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

1600

9

What National holiday was first celebrated in England in 1974?

January 1st

10

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

Moscow Dynamo

11

What do Americans call what we call braces?

Suspenders

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?

B

13

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

50 pence piece

14

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

Sean Connery

15

What is Africa’s largest lake?

Lake Victoria

16

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

Eddie Irvine and Johnny Herbert

17

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

A tidal wave

18

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

Manchester United

19

How many holes are there in a tenpin bowling ball?

3

20

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

Pan’s People

21

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

Ho Chi Minh City

22

In which century was Christopher Columbus born?

15th

23

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

Alta Vista

24

By which river does Blackburn’s Ewood Park stand?

Darwen

25

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

Juventus


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?

Botany Bay

2

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

The Arndale Centre, Manchester

3

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

Innovations

4

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

Dumplington

5

In which local town is the Spindles shopping centre?

Oldham

6

Maddy Magellan assists which offbeat television detective?

Jonathan Creek

7

What was Callan’s first name?

David

8

How many Angels did Charlie have?

3

9

Who played the detective Bob Louis?

Jasper Carrot

10

In which city was Columbo set?

Los Angeles

11

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

Jane Tennison

12

In which detective series did Detective Isbecki appear?

Cagney and Lacey

13

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

Hamish Macbeth

14

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

Paul Drake

15

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

Dixon of Dock Green

16

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

I Believe

17

Which group had the 1996 Christmas No 1?

The Spice Girls

18

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

Lady Marmalade

19

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

Fairground

20

What was Jamiroquai’s first UK Top Ten hit?

Too young to die

21

What is the more politically correct term for Eskimos?

Inuit

22

Which of the Great Lakes is wholly inside the USA?

Michigan

23

In which island group could you find Las Palmas?

Canaries

24

What’s the capital of Indonesia?

Djakarta

25

What’s the largest country on the Iberian peninsular?

Spain

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