General Knowledge
1. The Ethmoid bone can be found on which part of the body? |
Skull (accept head) |
2. Barci the cockerel features in the logo of which restaurant chain? |
Nandos |
3. King Letsie III is the current monarch of which landlocked African nation? |
Lesotho |
4. Which musical tells the tale of Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham on a trip to Uganda? |
The Book of Mormon |
5. In which city is The High Roller, the largest Ferris Wheel in the world? |
Las Vegas |
TV
1. In which TV series did Lee Majors play a character called Colt Seavers? |
The Fall Guy |
2. What kind of animal was Quick Draw McGraw? |
Horse |
3. Who won the series of “Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here” which first featured Jordan and Peter Andre? |
Kerry Katona |
4. What is the first name of Mrs Barnaby in the TV drama series Midsomer Murders? |
Joyce |
5. Which Hollywood A Lister appeared in the last ever episode of The Fast Show? |
Johnny Depp |
Music
1. Formed in 1991, which chart-topping pop group named themselves after the postcode of their hometown of Walthamstow? |
East 17 |
2. Going straight to No.1 in the UK albums chart when it was released in 1995, It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah was the debut album of which group? |
Black Grape |
3. In October 2017, which singer reached number one in the UK album charts with Now, her first studio album since 2002? |
Shania Twain |
4. Word Gets Around was the debut album of which welsh band? |
Stereophonics |
5. How many times does Kylie Mingoue say the word “Lucky” in her number one hit single “I Should be So lucky” – Is it more or less than 50? |
Less….its 48 |
Geography and Places
1. Which of these Italian cities has a coastline on the Ligurian Sea – Milan, Naples, Genoa or Turin? |
Genoa |
2. What is the name of the strait of water that separates Australia and New Guinea? |
Torres Strait |
3. What famous volcano would you find on Ross Island? |
Mount Erebus |
4. The city of Hue was the capital of which country between 1902 and 1945? |
Vietnam |
5. Lying 2,000km from St Helena and 2,400km from South Africa, which Archipelago is the most remote in the world? |
Trista Da Cunha |
Sport
1. In 2015, who became the first player to have scored a hat trick in the English Premier League, La Liga and Serie A? |
Alexis Sanchez |
2. In 2017, Wayne Bennett coached the England team in which sport to the World Cup Final, only to be defeated by Australia? |
Rugby League |
3. Which cricket ground is home to Surrey Cricket Club? |
The Oval |
4. In what year did Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania next send Athletes to the Summer Olympics after 1936? |
1992 |
5. Which boxer, born in Liverpool in 1982, featured in the movie “Creed” in his acting debut? |
Tony Bellew |
Film
1. Born in 1941, which actor links the films Barry Lyndon, Whats Up Doc, Paper Moon and Love Story? |
Ryan O Neal |
2. Who played Scrooge in “The Muppets Christmas Carol”? |
Michael Caine |
3. Currently showing in UK cinemas, what sport features in the movie “Battle of the Sexes”? |
Tennis |
4. Which Stanley Kubrick film is based on a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray and tells the tale of a fictional 18th Century Irish Rogue? |
Barry Lyndon |
5. Played by Dan Stevens who is the subject of the 2017 film “The Man Who Invented Christmas”? |
Charles Dickens |
1 Question 5 Answers…
Q: Not including “Merry Xmas Everybody”, Can you name the five number 1 singles for Slade in the UK in the 1970s?
Coz I Love You |
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Take me Back Home |
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Mamma We’re All Crazy Now |
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Come On Feel the Noise |
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Squeeze Me Please Me |
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Connection
1. Which striker move from Liverpool to Chelsea in 2011 for a fee of £50 million? |
Fernando Torres |
2. What is the name of the fictional TV chat show disastrously hosted on BBC by Alan Partridge? |
Knowing Me Knowing You |
3. Which Battle was fought on Sunday 18th June 1815 at a site that is in present Day Belguim? |
Waterloo |
4. In Morse code….what three letters are represented by “Dot Dot Dot, Dash Dash Dash, Dot Dot Dot”? |
SOS |
5. What is the connection in the above answers ? |
Abba Songs – Fernando, |