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? | Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, Maggie Philbin, John Craven |
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?? | 21 |
3 | Which American rock star has a band named The Heartbreakers? | Tom Petty |
4 | OBJURGATION is it a) Swearing something is true when it isnt, b) the act of telling someone off, c) the act of crawling around a church or holy place on ones knees or d) a small skirmish around a main battlefield? | B |
5 | Where sportingly could you win £1050 and £2100 at different times during the year? | Newmarket |
6 | What was the punishment for attempted suicide in 19th Century England? | Death by hanging |
7 | What 500 year old fruit was found in a rubbish tip in on the banks of the Thames last week? | A banana |
8 | Which famous car was driven by Professor Caractacus Potts? | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
9 | Which car firm makes the Saxo? | Citroen |
10 | Which country has the greatest number of Rugby clubs? | Japan |
11 | In which country did spaghetti originate? | China |
12 | Which Disney character sang Some day my Prince will come? | Snow White |
13 | What first appeared on British banknotes in 1963? | Queens head |
14 | How many England caps did footballer Bobby Moore get? | 108 |
15 | What name is given to the small cubes of fried bread eaten with soup etc? | Croutons |
16 | In Typically Tropicals song Barbados, what airline could you fly? | Coconut Airways |
17 | In which country did Oliver Reed die? | Malta |
18 | 5 years either way when was the first telephone directory printed in England? | 1880 |
19 | In which 3 types of sport do men and women compete against each other in the Olympic games? | Yachting, Shooting and Equestrianism |
20 | How many pins are there in the back row of a 10pin bowling alley? | 4 |
21 | Who played Lex Luthor in the 70s and 80s Superman films? | Gene Hackman |
22 | Who allegedly said last week "Why do all my sisters children keep marrying all these people who are so common"? | Princess Margaret |
23 | Who does Yosemite Sam unsuccessfully hunt in cartoons? | Bugs Bunny |
24 | What are raisins made from? | Dried Grapes |
25 | What is the Queens birthsign? | Taurus |
Round 2
Captains, Board Games, Song Lyrics, TV Soaps
1 | Captain James T Kirk captained the Enterprise what did the T stand for? | Tiberius |
2 | Who had a successful album with Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy? | Elton John |
3 | Who was the captain of this weekends victorious Australian Cricket team? | Steve Waugh |
4 | Who was Captain of the ill-fated Titanic? | Edward Smith |
5 | Who was the captain of the pirate ship in Peter Pan? | Captain Hook |
6 | Name the 6 weapons in a game of Cluedo. | Spanner, Rope, Dagger, Revolver, Candlestick, Lead Pipe |
7 | How many triple word score squares are there on a Scrabble board? | 8 |
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? | 10x the roll of the Dice |
9 | How many wedges do you have to collect in Trivial Pursuit? | 6 |
10 | What was the subject of the board game Totopoly? | Horse Racing |
11 | "Dream those dreams, scheme those schemes, you got to hit me, hit me, hit me with those laser beams." | Relax Frankie goes to Hollywood |
12 | "The marching band came down along main street, the soldier blues fell in behind." | Billy dont be a hero Paper Lace |
13 | "Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be." | Suicide is Painless theme from M*A*S*H |
14 | "Before she gets to saying goodbye, she ought to think right, she ought to do right my me." | Ticket to Ride - Beatles |
15 | "You put the grey skies out of the way. You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day." | Wake me up before you Go Go. |
16 | What was the name of jail in Prisoner Cell Block H? | Wentworth |
17 | In Dallas, what did JR stand for, as in JR Ewing? | John Ross |
18 | Whats the name of the supermarket that Curly works for in Coronation Street? | Freshco |
19 | In East Enders, what was the name of Den and Angies dog? | Rowley |
20 | In which police station is the Bill set? | Sun Hill |
21 | Which Coronation Street character is played by Bruce Jones? | Les Battersby |
22 | Which soap, which first appeared in 1986 in the UK is set in a cul-de-sac? | Neighbours |
23 | Which current soap opera's very first episode started with the line "Cor, it stinks in 'ere!"? | East Enders |
24 | What was Brooksides Peter Harrison once accused of? | Date Rape |
25 | Which of these hobbies did Neighbours Hannah Martin not try? | Gymnastics, Astrology, Skateboarding or Horse Riding |