The Pear Tree Quiz - Monday May 3rd 1999

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs

1 Where could you meet Stan, Kenny, Cartman and Kyle?  
2 How many different films are showing at Manchester's Showcase cinema at the moment?  
3 Whose hairy armpits made the news last week?  
4 Which London football ground shares its name with a battlefield?  
5 Which of these people did NOT appear as a contestant on University Challenge - David Mellor, Clive James, Stephen Fry or Jeremy Paxman?  
6 With which group do you associate the singer Kurt Cobain?  
7 What colour is an aircraft's black box flight recorder?  
8 What's the name of the owner of the bar in the Simpsons?  
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  
10 Which company makes the Wonderbra?  
11 How many stripes are there on the American Flag?  
12 Which Soho pub was blown up at the weekend with a nail bomb?  
13 Which football club does Tony Blair support?  
14 Who was in charge of the Trumpton Fire Brigade?  
15 How is businessman Peter Llewellyn hoping to raise £62 million in sponsorship to build a hospital in Moscow?  
16 What was the name of Frankie Lymon's backing group?  
17 How is Catholic priest Mother Bernadette Maria better known?  
18 According to a Cosmopolitan survey in 1997, the women of which nation are the best kissers in Europe?  
19 Which car manufacturer makes a model called the Yaris?  
20 Which comedian is famous for his trade-mark oversized shirt collars?  
21 With which town in Germany is Glossop twinned?  
22 What was St Petersburg in Russia called during the Communist years?  
23 What was the maiden name of Princess Diana?  
24 Which animal lives in a form?  
25 What is the odd name for the bank owned by the Prudential?  

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?  
2 What important medical discovery was made by the German scientist Wilhelm Rontgen?  
3 Which film or films featured X-wing fighters?  
4 What is the more correct medical term for an irrational fear of strangers or foreigners?  
5 Which inert gas has the chemical symbol Xe?  
6 Which punk band was fronted by the singer Polly Styrene?  
7 The xylophone gets its name from the Greek word for the material it is traditionally made from, what is it?  
8 Which number is represented by the Roman numeral ‘X’?  
9 Which Persian general was defeated by the Athenians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC?  
10 In what year was the film classification system which first included the X-rating introduced in Britain?  
11 Which actress played Queen Elizabeth in series two, a highwaywoman in series three and a nurse in series four?  
12 With which vegetable is Baldric strangely obsessed?  
13 Who has not appeared in any series of "Blackadder", Rik Mayall, Chris Barrie, Robbie Coltrane or Alexei Sayle?  
14 Who wrote the Blackadder series?  
15 Who played the inept General Melchett in Blackadder goes Forth?  
16 Which Manchester United player was sent off three times in 1995, including once for punching a Middlesbrough player?  
17 At which ground did Eric Cantona launch his infamous kung fu attack?  
18 Which England cricket captain had an on-field altercation with the umpire in a Test match in Pakistan?  
19 Which footballer was sent off in only his second game for Wales in 1995?  
20 Which English cricketer was sacked by Queensland after fighting with a passenger on a plane?  
21 Who was the host of the long-running "Police 5"?  
22 What rank was Frank Burnside when he left "The Bill"?  
23 Which wheelchair-bound cop was played by Raymond Burr?  
24 What nationality was detective Hercule Poirot?  
25 What was the name of Inspector Morse's assistant?  

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