The Pear Tree Quiz - Monday May 3rd 1999
Round 1 General Knowledge/Current Affairs
1 | Where could you meet Stan, Kenny, Cartman and Kyle? | South Park |
2 | How many different films are showing at Manchester's Showcase cinema at the moment? | 17 |
3 | Whose hairy armpits made the news last week? | Julia Roberts |
4 | Which London football ground shares its name with a battlefield? | Stamford Bridge |
5 | Which of these people did NOT appear as a contestant on University Challenge - David Mellor, Clive James, Stephen Fry or Jeremy Paxman? | Jeremy Paxman |
6 | With which group do you associate the singer Kurt Cobain? | Nirvana |
7 | What colour is an aircraft's black box flight recorder? | Orange |
8 | What's the name of the owner of the bar in the Simpsons? | Moe Syslak |
9 | The word is HEDDLU - is it a) Welsh for Gents, b) Welsh for Police, c) Welsh for the county of Cheshire or d) Welsh for Telephone | B |
10 | Which company makes the Wonderbra? | Gossard |
11 | How many stripes are there on the American Flag? | 13 |
12 | Which Soho pub was blown up at the weekend with a nail bomb? | Admiral Duncan |
13 | Which football club does Tony Blair support? | Newcastle United |
14 | Who was in charge of the Trumpton Fire Brigade? | Captain Flack |
15 | How is businessman Peter Llewellyn hoping to raise £62 million in sponsorship to build a hospital in Moscow? | Going on a space holiday to Mir |
16 | What was the name of Frankie Lymon's backing group? | The Teenagers |
17 | How is Catholic priest Mother Bernadette Maria better known? | Sinead O'Connor who has been ordained a priest. |
18 | According to a Cosmopolitan survey in 1997, the women of which nation are the best kissers in Europe? | Italy |
19 | Which car manufacturer makes a model called the Yaris? | Toyota |
20 | Which comedian is famous for his trade-mark oversized shirt collars? | Harry Hills |
21 | With which town in Germany is Glossop twinned? | Bad Vilbel |
22 | What was St Petersburg in Russia called during the Communist years? | Leningrad |
23 | What was the maiden name of Princess Diana? | Spencer |
24 | Which animal lives in a form? | Hare |
25 | What is the odd name for the bank owned by the Prudential? | Egg |
Round 2
X Marks the Spot, Blackadder, Sporting Villains, TV Cops
1 | What was the title of the number one single by the Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John? | Xanadu |
2 | What important medical discovery was made by the German scientist Wilhelm Rontgen? | X-Rays |
3 | Which film or films featured X-wing fighters? | The Star Wars Series |
4 | What is the more correct medical term for an irrational fear of strangers or foreigners? | Xenophobia |
5 | Which inert gas has the chemical symbol Xe? | Xenon |
6 | Which punk band was fronted by the singer Polly Styrene? | X-Ray Specs |
7 | The xylophone gets its name from the Greek word for the material it is traditionally made from, what is it? | Wood |
8 | Which number is represented by the Roman numeral X? | 10 |
9 | Which Persian general was defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC? | Xerxes |
10 | In what year was the film classification system which first included the X-rating introduced in Britain? | 1948 |
11 | Which actress played Queen Elizabeth in series two, a highwaywoman in series three and a nurse in series four? | Miranda Richardson |
12 | With which vegetable is Baldric strangely obsessed? | Turnip |
13 | Who has not appeared in any series of "Blackadder", Rik Mayall, Chris Barrie, Robbie Coltrane or Alexei Sayle? | Alexei Sayle |
14 | Who wrote the Blackadder series? | Ben Elton/Richard Curtis |
15 | Who played the inept General Melchett in Blackadder goes Forth? | Stephen Fry |
16 | Which Manchester United player was sent off three times in 1995, including once for punching a Middlesbrough player? | Roy Keane |
17 | At which ground did Eric Cantona launch his infamous kung fu attack? | Selhurst Park/ |
18 | Which England cricket captain had an on-field altercation with the umpire in a Test match in Pakistan? | Mike Gatting |
19 | Which footballer was sent off in only his second game for Wales in 1995? | Vinny Jones |
20 | Which English cricketer was sacked by Queensland after fighting with a passenger on a plane? | Ian Botham |
21 | Who was the host of the long-running "Police 5"? | Shaw Taylor |
22 | What rank was Frank Burnside when he left "The Bill"? | Detective Inspector |
23 | Which wheelchair-bound cop was played by Raymond Burr? | Ironside |
24 | What nationality was detective Hercule Poirot? | Belgian |
25 | What was the name of Inspector Morse's assistant? | Robbie Lewis |