Quiz 12th October 2008

 

1

Which brand of butter is advertised on TV by dancing cows

2

What colour was the owl & pussycats boat

3

What is the name for undertakers in the USA

4

Las Vegas lies in which US state

5

What is Baldric’s favourite vegetable in Blackadder

6

Which soccer club did Wayne Rooney join Manchester United from

7

What was the name of the backing band of Kid Creole

8

Who was the Lord Protector of England from 1653 to 1658

9

Who is the new Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise

10

Who played 006 in Goldeneye

11

What title is given to the wife of a Sultan

12

Which cocktail contains Dark Rum, Coconut Milk and Crushed Pineapple

13

Which British soap was first broadcast in 1972

14

What was the Occupation of Paul Allen and Lee Murray the two people who masterminded the £53m raid on a Securitas depot in Kent and then fled to Morocco

15

Who was the youngest man to have won all four of Golf's major championships

16

Who was Hitler’s Deputy Leader until 1941

17

Which English county has exactly the same name as its county town

18

Which crab, having no hard shell of its own, protects its soft body by taking over shells of dead molluscs

19

Which record label was founded by The Beatles in 1968

20

What name is given to the Art of fine writing to write decoratively

 


 

21

What do the initials of the HSBC stand for

22

Which English county is sometimes referred to as Constable County

23

Where did Wallace Hartley and his orchestra give their final performance

24

Who last hosted ITV-1's The Price Is Right

25

Which band had a hit with Banana Republic in 1980

26

Which comic strip character was a member of the Smellyfoot Tribe

27

What is the meaning of the French culinary term brouillé

28

Who Became the New Housing Minister in the Cabinet Reshuffle last week

29

Who, in Football, is the new manager of Jamaica

30

Name the three main male stars of the film Tropic Thunder

31

Bodrum is a holiday resort in which country?

32

Known as one of Britain's best loved entertainers, who's autobiography 'At My Mothers Knee' is currently topping the General book bestsellers list

33

Name the girlfriend of actress Lindsay Lohan

34

Which daytime TV programme was reprimanded by Ofcom last week for showing excessive violence

35

Which famous historical figure and adventurer had a horse called Bucephalus

36

How is the home of the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury now better known

37

Which Swedish born pop star had a hit with the song, “Manchild”

38

Who Beat world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-8 to win the Shanghai Masters in China last weekend

39

Which Scottish mathematician invented logarithms

40

The chemical product Digitalis is obtained from which plant

Tie

According to Golf Digest, Tiger Woods made how many dollars from 1996 to 2007

 

 

 

 

 

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