The Pear Tree Monday Night Quiz - 22nd February 1999

For a rare occasion, I'm including tonight's starter question, as I was quite proud of it!

Starter for 10 – Name the film or TV series from these cryptic clues

Riot in the sugar fields.  
Celebrity battles.  
A dose of flu before the sabbath.  
Not for the young, these blacksmith’s tools.  
Beagles found by the lake.  
If you go near the magnet, it will kill you.  
Jiving in the mud  
They don’t start in the West  
If it wasn’t dark, it would be blue.  
He’s not a part time general.  

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs,

1 For 1 point – what were the names of the two old men who sat in the box during the Muppet show?  
2 Which famous musical was based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion?  
3 From which country do the group The Cardigans come?  
4 What would a doctor use an otoscope for?  
5 What’s the latest sport that Sky have taken from the BBC?  
6 What is the town of Honiton in Devon famous for?  
7 Today’s news – what have the British Army totally destroyed?  
8 Frinton is an exclusive, snobby little resort in Essex – what has it now got for the first time ever?  
9 If you flew to the USA and landed at Logan Airport, which city would you be visiting?  
10 Approximately, what is the speed of light in miles per second?  
11 Who is Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s cello playing brother?  
12 The word is MULCT is it a) to furnish with decaying vegetable matter, b) to mollycoddle, c) to rob, or d) to moisten?  
13 What was the name of the ship sank in the Solent in 1545, and refloated in the 1980’s?  
14 In last weeks Sea Kayaker magazine, they reviewd the Boombox – what was it?  
15 Who composed the Flight of the Bumble Bee?  
16 Which country had the first women MP?  
17 What is the main ingredient of coleslaw?  
18 Who is the dim-witted hunter who never catches Bugs Bunny?  
19 If Borneo is 3 and Madagascar 4, what are 1 and 2?  
20 How many people were on Noah’s Ark?  
21 What is the capital of New York State?  
22 In the rhyme about magpies,'One for sorrow, two for joy..', what are 6 magpies for?  
23 When Mumtaz died in childbirth, what did her husband do?  
24 How many sheets of paper in a Quire?  
25 In the Army, what is an SLR?  

 

Round 2

Sport, The Simpsons, Servants, Foreign Money

1 In which city were the 1984 Winter Olympics held?  
2 Which football team are top of Italy’s Serie A?  
3 In golf, a score of 3 under par is known as a what?  
4 Who was captain of Scotland’s Rugby Union team in Saturday’s match against England?  
5 What is unique about Saturday’s match between Oxford United and Sunderland?  
6 What’s Bart’s dog called?  
7 Who owns the Springfield Nuclear power plant?  
8 Who are Marge’s two sisters?  
9 What instrument does Lisa play?  
10 Rod and Todd are whose children?  
11 What job does Krusty the Clown’s father have?  
12 How does Bart always get home from school?  
13 Who is headmaster at Bart’s school?  
14 What’s the name of Apu’s shop?  
15 What colour is Homer’s car?  
16 Who was the butler in Upstairs Downstairs?  
17 Who was the butler in To the Manor Born?  
18 Who was Lady Penelope’s chauffeur?  
19 What was the name of Inspector Clouseau’s manservant?  
20 Who is the crew’s manservant/butler in Red Dwarf?  
21 In which country could you spend a Zloty?  
22 What is the currency of Portugal?  
23 True or False – the currency of Zaire is the Zaire?  
24 The Cruzado is the currency of which South American country?  
25 The Rupiah recently crashed in value – where could you spend it?  

Answers
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