Tie Breakers
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Tie Break Questions - The player/team closest to the correct answers is the winner!
Here's a handy selection of Tie Breakers from Bill Turnbull:
Quiz4FREE Tie Breakers below.
When two or more teams get the same winning score, a tie breaker is the easiest way to determine the winner. The winner is the team (or individual) who guesses the nearest answer. Second place goes to the next nearest answer and so on.
The record number of on-screen killings by one film character in a single film is held by Christian Bale, playing John Preston in the 2002 film Equilibrium. How many characters does he slay? - 118
How many films did Brigitte Bardot appear in before her premature retirement? - 48
How many real pigs were used in filming Babe? - 48
How many '58 Plymouth Fury's were used to make the film "Christine"? - 9
How many films did John Wayne appear in? - 153
How many short comedies did the Three Stooges appear in? - 192
How many films did Laurel and Hardy make? - 117
How many confirmed kills does Rambo have in Rambo part 111? - 78
How many actors that have appeared in the Sopranos also took part in Martin Scorsese gangster film, Goodfellas? - 27
How many people has Rambo liquidated in all four Rambo films? - 220
In the sixties Batman TV series how many episodes were made? - 120
How many words are there in the Shakespeare plays? - 814,780
How many words did Shakespeare write including the sonnets? - 884,647
How many episodes of the radio programme Down Your Way were there? - 733
How many episodes of Crossroads did Noelle Gordon appear in? - 3521
In Coronation Street how many boyfriends did Elsie Tanner have? - 23
How many films did Frank Sinatra make? - 58
How many dog spots did Disney artists draw for the 1961 cartoon, One Hundred and One Dalmatians? - 6,469,952
How many costume changes did Liz Taylor make in Cleopatra? - 65
How many editions of University Challenge did Bamber Gascoigne preside over? - 973
How many days did it Take Michael Palin to go from Pole to Pole? - 141
How many miles is one light year? - 5,865,696,000,000 miles
How many shops are there in Oxford Street, also known as Europe's busiest shopping street? - 548
The biggest temperature variation in one day occurred in Montana, USA when the temperature fell from 7 degrees centigrade to what? - Minus 46C
How many times does the word "love" appear in the Bible? - 733
In square miles, how big is Lake Ontario? - 7550
How many islands and islets surround the British mainland? - 6228
The largest ever teddy bears picnic was held in Dublin in 1995. How many bears were there? - 33,73
How many steps are there to the top of the Eiffel tower? - 1007
How many steps are there up the leaning tower of Pisa? - 296
The average bra is designed to last for how many days use? - 180
How many pairs of shoes did Imelda Marcos possess in her Philippine palace? - 1060
How many entries were there in London's first phone book in 1880? - 255
How many years in prison was Son of Sam David Berkowitz the mass murderer sentenced to? - 547
In England in 1810 how many capital crimes were on the statute books? - 222
How many people survived the sinking of RMS Titanic? - 706 (492 passengers and 214 crew)
How many people were lost when the Titanic sank? - 1513 (1403 were passengers)
How many islands of the British isles are specifically identified? - 803
How many towns in Great Britain are called Newport? - 11
The British Isles, how many isles exactly? - 6289
How many steps are there up to Big Ben? - 374
How many German bomber planes were shot down in the Battle of Britain in WW2? - 1014
How many British fighter planes were shot down during the Battle of Britain in WW2? - 1023
How many British merchant ships were sunk in WW1? - 2038
How many men were got back from Dunkirk? - 338226
How many British merchant ships were sunk in WW2? - 4786
For how many days did the Vietnam war last? - 7382
And here's some of my own:
Longest river: Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_rivers
1. The worlds longest river according to our source is the Nile. How long is it in miles? - 4157 miles.
2. The worlds longest river according to our source is the Nile. How long is it in km? - 6690 km.
3. In 1990 what was the population of Tanzania? - 24,518,000
4. If you take 1 pound (lb) of cobwebs and spread them out in 1 straight line, how long will they be in miles? - 48.000 (Or twice round the world!)
5. What is the distance between London, England and Paris, France, as the crow flies? - 213 miles (343km) (185 nautical miles)
Note: We have given 3 possible answers. Adjust question for each answer.
6. The World's second largest desert is the Australian Desert. How many square miles does it occupy? - 598,455
7. What is the Earth's mean distance from the Sun in Miles? - 92,960,000 (149,600,000 km)
8. What is the maximum depth of the Atlantic Ocean in feet? - 36,197
9. Queensland is the second largest state in Australia, how many square kilometres is it? - 1,727,200 Square Kilometres.
10. How tall in feet is Salisbury Cathedral's spire from ground to tip? - 404 feet
11. On what date was Queen Bodicea's grave found under platform 8 of Kings Cross Station? - 21st February 1988