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? Royston Vasey
2 Which member of the Royal Family passed the HGV test 23 years ago? Princess Anne
3 What is the lowest score that you cannot obtain with 1 dart on a traditional dart board? 23
4 Which fictional detective lives in the village of St Mary Mead? Miss Marple
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? A
6 Whose voice sings the hit song by the Chef from South Park? Isaac Hayes
7 Whose album is called "Ladies and Gentlemen – The Best of" and is no 1 in the album charts? George Michael
8 Who was the Chelsea vice-chairman killed in a helicopter crash in 1996? Matthew Harding
9 What are Robson and Jerome’s surnames? Green and Flynn
10 Which car manufacturer makes a model called the Legacy? Subaru
11 What other animal, other than man, suffers from sunburn? Pig
12 Who played Liz McDonald in Coronation Street? Beverly Callard
13 With which sport would you associate Magic Johnson? Basketball
14 How much is a Euro worth to the nearest penny? 70
15 At what age does a filly become a mare? 5
16 In which year was the Derby first won? 1780
17 What is a young hare called? A leveret
18 Today’s Simpson’s question – What’s the name of the Police Chief? Chief Wiggum
19 What was the name of the TV series that was co-written by Terry Venables? Hazel
20 A snooker player makes a break of 8, using 3 different colours – which? Red, Yellow and Brown
21 What connects the poet Shelley, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and Natalie Wood? All drowned
22 What was John Denver’s only British No.1? Annie’s Song
23 Last week Tony Blair allegedly rescued a swimmer in trouble – what nationality was the swimmer? Danish
24 Which team is at the top of the Scottish First Division? Hibernian
25 What is the full name of what used to be Manchester’s Midland Hotel? Holiday Inn, Crown Plaza

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Round 2

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Geography, History, Maths, English and Domestic Science

1 What is the city of Saigon now called? Ho Chi Minh City
2 The Angel Falls are the highest waterfalls in the world – in which country are they? Venezuela
3 How many states are there in the United States? 50
4 In which country is the holiday resort of Sousse? Tunisia
5 If you travelled down the A5 from London, at which Ferry Port would you end up? Holyhead
6 Who was the monarch when Britain last hosted the Olympic games – extra point if you know the year? George VI – 1948
7 Last week Braveheart was on TV – who was known as Braveheart? William Wallace
8 Which King of England was almost blown up in the Gunpowder Plot? James I
9 During which war did Florence Nightingale nurse the wounded? Crimean
10 Name any year in which King John was alive. 1157 - 1216
11 What’s the square root of 64? 8
12 How many pounds in a kilogram – to the nearest 10th of a pound? 2.2(046)
13 The formula ½ the base * the height works out the area of what? A triangle
14 Which mathematician allegedly jumped naked out of his bath tub, shouted Eureka, and ran through the town after he had solved a problem? Archimedes
15 What area of maths concerns amongst others, sines, cosines and tangents? Trigonometry
16 Who wrote the book Frankenstein? Mary Shelley
17 What’s the name of a word that gives a name to something? Noun
18 In the sentence The Black cat sat contentedly on the mat, which word is the adjective? Black
19 What’s the name of a word that could be called a doing word? Verb
20 How many plays did Shakespeare write? 37
21 At which temperature does water boil in degrees Fahrenheit? 212
22 What acid is the main ingredient of Vinegar? Acetic
23 Which vegetable has the most calories per oz – potatoes, broad beans, parsnips or avocados? Avocados
24 Which has the higher alcohol content, Port or Bacardi? Bacardi
25 Mung beans are the source of which well know foreign food? Bean Sprouts

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