The Pear Tree Quiz –12th October 98

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1 What is an eagle’s nest called?  
2 How many bones are there in the human body?  
3 Which snooker player explained last week why there were so few women in the sport by saying it was perhaps because they have big breasts?  
4 In Poker what is the better hand – a flush or a full house?  
5 What are dominators, luminators and butterflies?  
6 Which pharoah is credited with building the Great Pyramid?  
7 Who has decided that she is too tired to get up for breakfast?  
8 How many games make up a match in Squash?  
9 In what war was the battle of Spion Kop?  
10 Is LUNTING a) Flashing your eyes at someone, b) Embroidery on the front of a blouse, c) A small two-seater horse drawn carriage or d) A Jamaican flat fish?  
11 Which British King was nicknamed The Merry Monarch?  
12 From which part of the plant does Ginger come from?  
13 Which well known company was founded in 1943 by pro-Nazi Ingvar Kamprad?  
14 In which novel does the heroine marry Mr. Rochester?  
15 What is a young eel called?  
16 From which language does the word Yo-Yo come?  
17 And what was the original usage for a yo-yo?  
18 Whose live album of a controversial 1966 concert in Manchester is released this week?  
19 Which footballer was accidentally headed in the foot by a team mate last week?  
20 This week the Nobel Prizes are announced – which ex-prime minister of Britain won the Nobel prize for literature?  
21 Which of the following were not genuine research papers published recently?a) Homosexual behaviour in the common leech, b) A study of why toast always falls on its buttered side, c) Farting as a defence against unspeakable dread, d) The transmission of gonorrhea through an inflatable doll.  
22 How many hurdles are there in the 110 metre hurdles?  
23 Who is third in line for the throne of Britain?  
24 Name either of the films for which Marlon Brando won an Oscar?  
25 What is the filling of a Banbury cake?  

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Round 2

Let’s Play Blockbusters! (Blockbusters is a TV quiz where competitors pick a letter)

A Which A is the mountain that Noah’s Ark landed on?  
B Which B is an European country that has 3 official languages?  
C Which C is the French word for a hat?  
D Which D is a town in France famous for mustard?  
E Which E had a hit called Did You Ever in 1996?  
F What did the F stand for in John F Kennedy?  
G What G was the Scottish school which Prince Charles went to as a boy?  
H Which H was a famous Battle of Britain fighter?  
I Which I is a deep blue colour?  
J Which J was the world’s first black heavyweight champion?  
K Which K is Mike Tyson’s manager?  
L What L is the Egyptian town where the temple of Karnak can be found?  
M What M goes from London to Oxford?  
N What N is a type of toad?  
O What O is Britain’s largest cruise liner?  
P Which P is a word that reads the same backwards as forwards?  
Q Which Q is the capital of Ecuador?  
R What R was Cliff Bennet’s backing group?  
S What S is another name for the N.American mythical creature Bigfoot?  
T What T is the capital of Libya?  
U Which U was a character from Dickens and a 70’s pop group?  
V Which V was nicknamed a Doodlebug?  
W Which W caused the downfall of President Nixon?  
Y Which Y was a wartime conference of the Allied leaders?  
Z Which Z is the American version of a courgette?  

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