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Quiz Answers
– 12th October 2008 |
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Which brand of
butter is advertised on TV by dancing cows |
Anchor Butter |
2 |
What colour
was the owl & pussycats boat |
Pea Green |
3 |
What is the
name for undertakers in the USA |
Morticians |
4 |
Las Vegas lies
in which US state |
Nevada |
5 |
What is Baldric’s
favourite vegetable in Blackadder |
Turnip |
6 |
Which soccer
club did Wayne Rooney join Manchester United from |
Everton |
7 |
What was the
name of the backing band of Kid Creole |
The Coconuts |
8 |
Who was the
Lord Protector of England from 1653 to 1658 |
Oliver
Cromwell |
9 |
Who is the new
Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise |
Peter
Mandleson |
10 |
Who played 006
in Goldeneye |
Sean Bean |
11 |
What title is
given to the wife of a Sultan |
Sultana |
12 |
Which cocktail
contains Dark Rum, Coconut Milk and Crushed Pineapple |
Pina Colada |
13 |
Which British
soap was first broadcast in 1972 |
Emmerdale Farm |
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 |
Cage Fighters |
15 |
Who was the
youngest man to have won all four of Golf's major championships |
Tiger Woods |
16 |
Who was Hitler’s
Deputy Leader until 1941 |
Rudolf Hess |
17 |
Which English
county has exactly the same name as its county town |
Durham |
18 |
Which crab,
having no hard shell of its own, protects its soft body by taking over shells
of dead molluscs |
Hermit Crab |
19 |
Which record
label was founded by The Beatles in 1968 |
Apple |
20 |
What name is
given to the Art of fine writing to write decoratively |
Calligraphy |
21 |
What do the
initials of the HSBC stand for |
Hong Kong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation |
22 |
Which English
county is sometimes referred to as Constable County |
Suffolk |
23 |
Where did
Wallace Hartley and his orchestra give their final performance |
On the Titanic |
24 |
Who last
hosted ITV-1's The Price Is Right |
Joe Pasquale |
25 |
Which band had
a hit with Banana Republic in 1980 |
The Boomtown
Rats |
26 |
Which comic
strip character was a member of the Smellyfoot Tribe |
Little Plum |
27 |
What is the
meaning of the French culinary term brouillé |
Scrambled |
28 |
Who Became the
New Housing Minister in the Cabinet Reshuffle last week |
Margaret
Beckett |
29 |
Who, in
Football, is the new manager of Jamaica |
John Barnes |
30 |
Name the three
main male stars of the film Tropic Thunder |
Ben Stiller,
Robert Downey Jr, Jack Black |
31 |
Bodrum is a
holiday resort in which country? |
Turkey |
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 |
Paul O'Grady |
33 |
Name the
girlfriend of actress Lindsay Lohan |
Samantha
Ronson |
34 |
Which daytime
TV programme was reprimanded by Ofcom last week for showing excessive
violence |
Taggart |
35 |
Which famous
historical figure and adventurer had a horse called Bucephalus |
Alexander the
Great |
36 |
How is the
home of the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury now better known |
Alton Towers |
37 |
Which Swedish
born pop star had a hit with the song, “Manchild” |
Neneh Cherry |
38 |
Who Beat world
champion Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-8 to win the Shanghai Masters in China last
weekend |
Ricky Walden |
39 |
Which Scottish
mathematician invented logarithms |
John Napier |
40 |
The chemical
product Digitalis is obtained from which plant |
Foxglove |
Tie |
According to
Golf Digest, Tiger Woods made how many dollars from 1996 to 2007 |
$769,440,709 |
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