The Pear Tree Monday Night Quiz – June 21st 1999

Round 1 – General Knowledge

1 For 4 points – who were the original four presenters on Multi-coloured Swap shop?  
2 If a tennis player won all his matches in straight sets at Wimbledon, how many sets would he have played when he won the Finals??  
3 Which American rock star has a band named ‘The Heartbreakers’?  
4 OBJURGATION – is it a) Swearing something is true when it isn’t, b) the act of telling someone off, c) the act of crawling around a church or holy place on one’s knees or d) a small skirmish around a main battlefield?  
5 Where sportingly could you win £1050 and £2100 at different times during the year?  
6 What was the punishment for attempted suicide in 19th Century England?  
7 What 500 year old fruit was found in a rubbish tip in on the banks of the Thames last week?  
8 Which famous car was driven by Professor Caractacus Potts?  
9 Which car firm makes the Saxo?  
10 Which country has the greatest number of Rugby clubs?  
11 In which country did spaghetti originate?  
12 Which Disney character sang ‘Some day my Prince will come’?  
13 What first appeared on British banknotes in 1963?  
14 How many England caps did footballer Bobby Moore get?  
15 What name is given to the small cubes of fried bread eaten with soup etc?  
16 In Typically Tropical’s song Barbados, what airline could you fly?  
17 In which country did Oliver Reed die?  
18 5 years either way – when was the first telephone directory printed in England?  
19 In which 3 types of sport do men and women compete against each other in the Olympic games?  
20 How many pins are there in the back row of a 10pin bowling alley?  
21 Who played Lex Luthor in the 70s and 80s Superman films?  
22 Who allegedly said last week "Why do all my sister’s children keep marrying all these people who are so common"?  
23 Who does Yosemite Sam unsuccessfully hunt in cartoons?  
24 What are raisins made from?  
25 What is the Queen’s birthsign?  

 

Round 2

Captains, Board Games, Song Lyrics, TV Soaps

1 Captain James T Kirk captained the Enterprise – what did the T stand for?  
2 Who had a successful album with Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy?  
3 Who was the captain of this weekend’s victorious Australian Cricket team?  
4 Who was Captain of the ill-fated Titanic?  
5 Who was the captain of the pirate ship in Peter Pan?  
6 Name the 6 weapons in a game of Cluedo.  
7 How many triple word score squares are there on a Scrabble board?  
8 In Monopoly, how much would you have to pay if you landed on the Water Works, and your opponent also had the Electric Company?  
9 How many wedges do you have to collect in Trivial Pursuit?  
10 What was the subject of the board game Totopoly?  
11 "Dream those dreams, scheme those schemes, you got to hit me, hit me, hit me with those laser beams."  
12 "The marching band came down along main street, the soldier blues fell in behind."  
13 "Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be."  
14 "Before she gets to saying goodbye, she ought to think right, she ought to do right my me."  
15 "You put the grey skies out of the way. You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day."  
16 What was the name of jail in Prisoner Cell Block H?  
17 In Dallas, what did JR stand for, as in JR Ewing?  
18 What’s the name of the supermarket that Curly works for in Coronation Street?  
19 In East Enders, what was the name of Den and Angie’s dog?  
20 In which police station is the Bill set?  
21 Which Coronation Street character is played by Bruce Jones?  
22 Which soap, which first appeared in 1986 in the UK is set in a cul-de-sac?  
23 Which current soap opera's very first episode started with the line "Cor, it stinks in 'ere!"?  
24 What was Brookside’s Peter Harrison once accused of?  
25 Which of these hobbies did Neighbour’s Hannah Martin not try?  

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