The Pear Tree Monday Night Quiz – 11th January 1999

Round 1 – General Knowledge/Current Affairs,

1 Tonight, the League of Gentlemen, filmed in Hadfield begins. What is the name of the village in which it is set?  
2 Which member of the Royal Family passed the HGV test 23 years ago?  
3 What is the lowest score that you cannot obtain with 1 dart on a traditional dart board?  
4 Which fictional detective lives in the village of St Mary Mead?  
5 Does the word NUNCUPATE mean a) State something orally, and not in writing, b) to chop and change one’s mind, c) to burst into spontaneous applause, or d) to remove dead heads from roses?  
6 Whose voice sings the hit song by the Chef from South Park?  
7 Whose album is called "Ladies and Gentlemen – The Best of" and is no 1 in the album charts?  
8 Who was the Chelsea vice-chairman killed in a helicopter crash in 1996?  
9 What are Robson and Jerome’s surnames?  
10 Which car manufacturer makes a model called the Legacy?  
11 What other animal, other than man, suffers from sunburn?  
12 Who played Liz McDonald in Coronation Street?  
13 With which sport would you associate Magic Johnson?  
14 How much is a Euro worth to the nearest penny?  
15 At what age does a filly become a mare?  
16 In which year was the Derby first won?  
17 What is a young hare called?  
18 Today’s Simpson’s question – What’s the name of the Police Chief?  
19 What was the name of the TV series that was co-written by Terry Venables?  
20 A snooker player makes a break of 8, using 3 different colours – which?  
21 What connects the poet Shelley, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and Natalie Wood?  
22 What was John Denver’s only British No.1?  
23 Last week Tony Blair allegedly rescued a swimmer in trouble – what nationality was the swimmer?  
24 Which team is at the top of the Scottish First Division?  
25 What is the full name of what used to be Manchester’s Midland Hotel?  

 

 

Round 2

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Geography, History, Maths, English and Domestic Science

1 What is the city of Saigon now called?  
2 The Angel Falls are the highest waterfalls in the world – in which country are they?  
3 How many states are there in the United States?  
4 In which country is the holiday resort of Sousse?  
5 If you travelled down the A5 from London, at which Ferry Port would you end up?  
6 Who was the monarch when Britain last hosted the Olympic games – extra point if you know the year?  
7 Last week Braveheart was on TV – who was known as Braveheart?  
8 Which King of England was almost blown up in the Gunpowder Plot?  
9 During which war did Florence Nightingale nurse the wounded?  
10 Name any year in which King John was alive.  
11 What’s the square root of 64?  
12 How many pounds in a kilogram – to the nearest 10th of a pound?  
13 The formula ½ the base * the height works out the area of what?  
14 Which mathematician allegedly jumped naked out of his bath tub, shouted Eureka, and ran through the town after he had solved a problem?  
15 What area of maths concerns amongst others, sines, cosines and tangents?  
16 Who wrote the book Frankenstein?  
17 What’s the name of a word that gives a name to something?  
18 In the sentence The Black cat sat contentedly on the mat, which word is the adjective?  
19 What’s the name of a word that could be called a doing word?  
20 How many plays did Shakespeare write?  
21 At which temperature does water boil in degrees Fahrenheit?  
22 What acid is the main ingredient of Vinegar?  
23 Which vegetable has the most calories per oz – potatoes, broad beans, parsnips or avocados?  
24 Which has the higher alcohol content, Port or Bacardi?  
25 Mung beans are the source of which well know foreign food?  

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