January, 2022 |

Quiz 43 – Series 4 – Great for a Pub Quiz

1. OH MY MAN HIT NET (anagram of a British sportsman) -- Timothy Henman
2. Kent Walton commentated on which sport on World of Sport -- Wrestling
3. What culinary delicacy misleadingly suggests a North British gamebird -- Scotch woodcock
4. What is scotopic vision -- Ability to see in the dark
5. Which ferocious carnivore is the largest member of the weasel family -- Wolverine
6. How many Euro coin denominations are there -- Eight
7. Why is the Heaviside layer in the atmosphere so called -- Discovered by Oliver Heaviside
8. In the nineteenth century what was the punishment for a failed suicide bid -- Hanging
9. Which former World Champion athlete played a senior football match for the West Coast Mariners in Australia in 2018 -- Usain Bolt
10. What do the initials WB stand for in writer WB Yeats' name -- William Butler
11. What was the first all colour film made by Alfred Hitchcock in 1948 starring James Stewart -- Rope
12. Complete the proverb what's the good of home -- If you are never in it
13. What did the RRS mean on Captain Robert Scott's ship RRS Discovery -- Royal Research Ship
14. From which song are these lyrics taken “Snowdrops and daffodils, butterflies and bees” -- All Kinds Of Everything
15. What was the nickname of the Manchester Bell Vue speedway team -- The Aces
16. Which group of fans are the only ones to be mentioned in the Oxford English Dictionary -- rekkies
17. Which actor said, I'd rather go mad than see a psychiatrist -- Michael Caine
18. What did the first issue of Playboy in 1953 not have -- The date - unsure if it would continue
19. What all-girl group are made up of daughters of the Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas -- Wilson Phillips (daughters of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and John and Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas)
20. What is the second largest city in England -- Birmingham

Quiz 42 – Series 4 – Great for a Pub Quiz

1 Where did Anita Roddick open her first Body Shop -- Brighton
2 Which religion calls outsiders The English -- The Amish
3 An advert for which product appeared in the middle of Monica Lewinsky's only British TV interview over the Clinton affair -- Vanish Stain Remover
4 Who were the first three who went to Widecombe Fair -- Bill Brewer, Jan Frewer and Peter Gurney
5 In which Dickens novel would we read about Blimber Academy -- Dombey and Son
6 Ten Tall Men starring Burt Lancaster was about which military organization -- Foreign Legion
7 Which country has Mozart on their one Euro coins -- Austria
8 Poor whites in Florida and Georgia are called crackers because of the name of their principal staple food which is what -- Cracked corn
9 Which marque of Rolls Royce replaced the Silver Ghost in 1926 -- Phantom
10 What was the first soap in the UK to be on five times a week -- Crossroads
11 After whom was the cocktail Bloody Mary allegedly named -- Queen Mary Tudor
12 The Palatine Glands are more commonly known as what -- Tonsils
13 What are SAS officers nicknamed by their men -- Ruperts
14 Tracy Turnblad, and Edna Turnblad are characters in which musical -- Hairspray
15 What does a Pangram contain -- All the letters in the alphabet
16 Which animal has three eyelids on each eye -- Camel
17 What daily newspaper used the advertising slogan Forward with the People -- Daily Mirror
18 Which man who has walked on the moon was never in any of the armed forces -- Harrison Schmitt (he was a geologist)
19 Complete the proverb: Better to drink the milk -- Than to eat the cow
20 A RADAR CUB (anagram of a creature) -- Barracuda

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