The Pear Tree Quiz – 08 May 2000

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1

Which other team will definitely be joining Manchester City in the Premier League next season?

Charlton Athletic

2

Pokemon is short for what?

Pocket Monsters

3

What’s the name of the family in the American comedy show Married with Children?

The Bundys

4

Radio 1’s Sara Cox has just broken off her engagement to who, because she’s working too hard to see him?

Leroy Thornhill of Prodigy

5

What does the ASDA in the supermarket name, stand for?

Associated Dairies

6

What’s the name of Margaret Thatcher’s elder sister?

Muriel

7

What part of the Horseradish plant is used to make horseradish sauce?

Root

8

Sierra Leone is in the news at the moment – what’s its capital?

Freetown

9

How many countries took part in World War II?

57

10

On which island was Napoleon exiled when he died?

St Helena

11

Who, when he died, left his wife his second-best bed?

Shakespeare

12

what does the MI stand for in front of MI5 and MI6?

Military Intelligence

13

Where were the Olympic games, when 11 Israeli athletes were murdered?

Munich

14

Who has a new chat show on BBC Choice, using her husband as chauffeur, and interviewing notorious people such as James Hewitt?

Christine Hamilton

15

Who was the first female singer to have a No 1, while wearing an eyepatch?

Gabrielle

16

Does BRINDLED mean a) reddish brown, b) tawny with other coloured streaks, c) crispy – well done or d) nibbled around the edges?

B

17

How many moons has the planet Mars?

2

18

In which sport could you play Lightnings, Spitfires, Phoenix and  Steelbacks?

Cricket – Lancashire, Kent, Yorkshire and Northants

19

J.K.Rowling writes which children’s books?

Harry Potter stories.

20

What is the county town of Essex?

Chelmsford

21

Which actress in her time has been married to Alvin Stardust and Colin Baker?

Liza Goddard

22

What’s the name of Blackpool’s airport?

Squires Gate

23

What’s the top hand in a game of poker?

Royal Flush

24

Which was the first album to be released on the Virgin label?

Tubular Bells

25

The illness pertussis is commonly known as what?

Whooping cough

Round 2

Sport,  Books, Film People, TV Game Shows`

1

Which of the following clubs have NOT lost to Manchester United at home or away this season – Arsenal, Newcastle or Wimbledon?

Wimbledon

2

What have football referees and their assistants been issued with for the first time this season?

Radios

3

In which London postcode area are the Wimbledon Tennis championships held?

SW19

4

In which sport can you be penalised for travelling?

Basketball

5

What is the first event in the Heptathlon?

100m hurdles

6

In which university city is the Bodleian Library?

Oxford

7

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was an early novel by which crime writer?

Agatha Christie

8

What is Mario Puzo’s most famous novel, published in 1969 and made into an Oscar winning movie?

The Godfather

9

What, according to the book title, “.are not the only fruit”?

Oranges

10

Whose autobiography was called “The Greatest”?

Muhammed Ali

11

Which actor is the son of a Poet Laureate?

Daniel Day-Lewis

12

In Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, which famous comedian did he cast as Yorick?

Ken Dodd

13

Who directed, scripted, composed and starred in the film Yentl?

Barbra Streisand

14

Which British actor married the former Miss Guyana in 1973?

Michael Caine

15

Who was the first Bond girl?

Ursula Andress

16

Which blonde actress is (or was!) Mrs Alec Baldwin?

Kim Bassinger

17

Which Glaswegian played a gangster in Goldeneye?

Robbie Coltrane

18

Which British pop-star wife played with Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby at the age of 4?

Patsy Kensit

19

Which surname was shared by actors John, Lionel and Ethel?

Barrymore

20

Who played Cruella de Ville’s sidekick Jasper in the recent film of 101 Dalmations?

Hugh Laurie

21

Who asked the questions in Ask the Family?

Robert Robinson

22

What’s the top prize for the ultimate winner of Countdown?

Set of Oxford English Dictionary

23

Which sportswoman was on Emlyn Hughe’s team for the 200th edition of A Question of Sport?

Princess Anne

24

Who is the regular female captain on Call My Bluff?

Sandi Toskvig

25

How long do the chefs have to cook a meal in Ready Steady Cook?

20 minutes

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