Quiz 27 – Series 4 – Great for a Pub Quiz




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Quiz 27 – Series 4 – Great for a Pub Quiz

1 OH PLANNED TORMENT (sporting anagram) - Modern Pentathlon
2 How did Pete Ham of Badfinger die - Hanged himself
3 Which glam rock group released an album called Sweet Fanny Adams - Sweet
4 What are the only self-cleaning organs on both men and women - Eyes
5 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with Love and Marriage - Frank Sinatra
6 In which town did the super hero Powerpuff Girls live in the children's TV series of the nineties - Townsville
7 What flavour is the liqueur Triple Sec - Orange
8 What did WC Fields say he was looking for when discovered reading the Bible on his deathbed - A loophole
9 Which is the lowest rank in the ministry of the Christian Church - Deacon
10 What is the name of the series in which Robbie Coltrane played a character called Fitz - Cracker
11 Relating to mobile phones, what is the area covered by a base station (or aerial) called - A cell
12 Which Jules Verne character is also known as Prince Dakkar, son of the Hindu Raja of Bundelkind - Captain Nemo
13 Which large Canadian actor died during the filming of the 1994 film Wagon's East - John Candy
14 There is a memorial plaque at the Brighton Centre comemorating which actor/singer gave his last public appearance there in 1977 - Bing Crosby
15 What is the only British national daily newspaper not to carry a sport section - Financial Times
16 What does the abbreviation ASTMS stand for - Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
17 Who coined the term Beat Generation - Jack Kerouac
18 What do Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt and Philippa Carr have in common - All the same person (Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert)
19 February is the shortest month in the year, but which is the longest October - (because the clocks go back so it lasts 31 days and 1 hour)
20 Which writer was sacked by a Sunday newspaper over allegations that he had taken drugs on John Major's 1997 campaign tour - Will Self

Quiz 26 – Series 4 – Great for a Pub Quiz




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Quiz 26 – Series 4 – Great for a Pub Quiz

1 ASS OR VANDAL (anagram of a capital city) - San Salvador
2 According to the novel in what part of New York did the Great Gatsby live - West Egg
3 What does the 'E' in E-Bay‚ stand for - Echo
4 In military terms what is a dustoff - An evacuation by helicopter
5 A 'brelfie' photo is a portmanteau of self and what activity - Breastfeeding
6 What are Cora, Ruth, and Bray - North Sea oilfields
7 Americans buy their bottles of whisky in fifths, fifths of what - US gallons
8 In Cornish myth where would you find two legged knockers - In tin mines they are goblins
9 Which capital city has no Catholic cathedral despite 95% of the population being Catholics - Dublin (Note: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. - A pro-cathedral is a parish church that is temporarily serving as the cathedral or co-cathedral of a diocese or has the same function in a Catholic missionary jurisdiction that is not yet entitled to a proper cathedral, such as an apostolic prefecture or apostolic administration. )
10 In the children's TV series what was Grottbags mode of transport - Vacuum cleaner
11 Who played Candice Stowe in TV's Coronation Street - Nikki Sanderson
12 What modern country was Julius Caesar referring to when he uttered the immortal Veni Vidi Vicci ( I came, I saw, I conquered) - Turkey
13 In the theatre who were groundlings - Those standing in the cheap section
14 What disability did songwriter Cole Porter suffer from - He had one leg
15 In which American state is the Angoon Seaplane Base - Alaska
16 Which sitcom gave Richard Briers his first regular starring role in a TV sitcom - Brothers in Law playing Roger Thursby
17 Xenophobia is the fear of what or who - Foreigners
18 What is the nickname of the Portuguese national rugby league team - Roosters
19 Which Lib Dem politician represented Great Britain in the 200 metres at the 1964 Olympics - Menzies Campbell
20 What is the more common name of myeloid tissue - Bone marrow

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