The Pear Tree Monday Night Quiz - 26th April 99

General Knowledge, Current Affairs

1 In Last of the Summer Wine, what is Compo’s surname?  
2 Which building society today decided to turn itself into a bank?  
3 In Einstein’s famous equation e=mc2, what does C stand for?  
4 Which dog is named after a region in the former Yugoslavia?  
5 In a pack of cards, which king has only one eye showing?  
6 Which drink when translated into English means Auntie Mary?  
7 After Saturday’s football matches, which team is now at the bottom of Division 3, staring relegation in the face?  
8 Who shot Abraham Lincoln?  
9 Who played Batman and Rovbin in the TV series?  
10 The word is SHAGANAPPI – is it a) An unspeakable perversion, b) trivia, c) yak dandruff, or d) thongs of rawhide?  
11 Where was Margaret Thatcher born?  
12 With which sport do you associate Kenny Roberts?  
13 Who did the Sun describe last week as He may be French, He may be dead, but he’s our favourite Frenchman since Eric Cantona"?  
14 Who is going to be the new face of Max Factor?  
15 What turns ordinary gin into pink gin?  
16 How many players are there in a Gaelic Football team?  
17 Which composer wrote The Ride of the Valkyries?  
18 If you were a prestidigitator, what would you be?  
19 How did Mike Gambrill and Barbara Cole make athletic history last Sunday?  
20 If you left London on the M4, in which direction would you be travelling?  
21 What was the original name of Sellafield?  
22 How many players are allowed on the ice at any one time per team in a game of ice hockey?  
23 In which city are the Royal Armouries?  
24 Where is Grolsch beer brewed?  
25 Where did Ken Dodd’s Diddymen come from?  

 

In this second round, to which I'm grateful to Garry from Newcastle, we're trying something different. The fiirst letter of the first nine answers will be an anagram of question 10. In the next five, all answers rhyme, and in the third round, there is one word that can link all of the answers - we did this for an extra 10 points!

Anagram Round, Rhymes, Connection Round

1 What does the E stand for as in E-Mail?  
2 From which musical does the song that begins "Oh what a Circus, Oh what a show" come?  
3 Which Premier League team are sometimes known as "The Irons"?  
4 Which was the first James Dean film to be shown after his death?  
5 Which creatures make an annual trip to the Sargasso Sea?  
6 From the wood of which tree were Longbows made?  
7 Which word is shared by a semi-precious stone, and the better known first name of a comedian whose real name is Bob Davies?  
8 Which line is coloured black on a London Underground map?  
9 In which town is The Simpsons set?  
10 Anagram: State of the USA where Madonna was born.  
11 Into which body of water does the River Loire run?  
12 Which variety of tea is flavoured with Oil of Bergamot?  
13 In English mythology, who was King Arthur’s sister?  
14 Which English physicist invented the first dynamo?  
15 Where does a squirrel live?  
16 Which creature did Alice follow first in Alice in Wonderland?  
17 What is the better known name for the Epidermis?  
18 Which late cowboy star was married to Dale Evans?  
19 Which word links a weapon with a billiards shot?  
20 What can be Canine or Incisor?  
21 What was Musical Youth’s only UK No 1?  
22 With which old TV show would you associate Anne Aston and Bernie?  
23 What type of fish has a large bony horn with sharp teeth protruding from its head?  
24 Who had a No 3 hit in 1970 with"Give me just a little more time"?  
25 In which direction do stalagmites grow?  

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