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Question Paper for 23/01/02 set by Brains of Oak (bingo quiz)

(table of answers follow the table of questions)

 

Questions

         
   
Photo A   Photo B   Photo C
         

     
Photo D   Photo E   Photo F   Photo G
             

 
  Photo H  

               Photo I

      Photo J

1.

Photograph A.  Name the bird.

2.

Which 3 consecutive words in the dictionary mean:

  • A sharp reprimand

  • A picture riddle or puzzle

  • To refute, to offer opposing evidence?

3.

Traf-o-data was the original name of which company?

4.

What is the correct name for the Daddy Longlegs?

5.

The Province of Munster has 6 counties.  Name 4 of them.

6.

What are ‘No Way Sis’, ‘Achtung Baby’ and ‘Nearly Dan’?

7.

In the new intermediate exams what do the initials A/S stand for?

8.

Why were Gary King and Jeff King popular with sports media recently?

9.

Photograph C. Name the actor/writer/director.

10.

According to the song who lived in the land called Honalee?

11.

The Lion of Judah is featured on the flag of which country?

12.

Name the organ: leaf-shaped it is found in the abdomen below the stomach and is surrounded on 3 sides by the duodenum.  It produces digestive enzymes.

13.

Which actor’s starring roles include ‘The Conversation’ (1974), ‘Absolute Power’ (1997), and ‘The Heist’ (2001)?

14.

What historical first was achieved by David Dinkins in 1989?

15.

How is Marie Christine von Reibnitz better known?

16.

What is the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder?

17.

In transport Americans call them ties.  What do we call them?

18.

What type of a fruit is a Morello?

19.

12 capital cities embraced the euro on 01/01/02; of these name the most northerly, southerly, easterly and westerly.

20.

Who plays the part of Spiderman in the soon to be released film?

21.

In which classic novel would you meet Miss Matty, Miss Jessie, Miss Mathilda and Captain Brown?

22.

Photograph H: Name the tormented sportsman.

23.

Who was MP for East Manchester when he became Prime Minister in 1902?

24.

If you board the 45A bus in the City Centre and stay on to the terminus where will you be?

25.

C12H22O11 is better known as what?

26.

Which King created a revolutionary blade 101 years ago?

27.

Photograph B: Name the bird.

28.

Photograph D: Name the British Film Director.

29.

When were the Winter Olympics held just 2 years apart (give both years)?

30.

The world’s longest running radio show is dedicated to Country & Western music.  Name it.

31.

Which mythical king of Crete was the son of Zeus and the father of Ariadne?

32.

Who was the first Spaniard to win the Wimbledon’s Woman’s Singles title?

33.

Ulverston, Cumbria (1890) and Milledgeville, Georgia (1892).  What is the connection?

34.

Who is the fictional Venetian detective created by Michael Dibden?

35.

Name the year: Eastenders makes its TV debut, ‘Last Suspects’ wins the Grand National, Chernenko dies.

36.

The towns of Spennymoor and Bishop Auckland are in which county?

37.

In which century did Pythagoras propose his theorem?

38.

Most of Japan’s home produced beer is produced in which city?

39.

Now a popular museum, what is the name of the building that can be found at Left bank, Bridge St., Manchester 3?

40.

Who is known as the Diva of Doncaster?

41.

What name is given to the egg of a louse?

42.

Which 2 airlines went bankrupt in 2001 in the aftermath of September 11th?

43.

In geography a Mesa is a tableland with steep sides – what is a small mesa called?

44.

Which composer’s last unfinished work was ‘The Art of the Fugue’?

45.

‘In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan,

 In the wilds of Borneo and the vineyards of Bordeaux’

What does the 1970s singer of these lyrics urge the listener to do?

46.

4 US States begin and end with same letter.  Name 3 of them.

47.

Photograph F.  Name the film.

48.

Which is the largest European owl?

49.

What in the religious life of a Muslim is a Hadj?

50.

Which theme park would you find at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?

51.

Which Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for Manchester’s Central Reference Library?

52.

Hatha, Iyengar, and Astanga are different types of what?

53.

In which town would you find Wadsworth’s brewery?

54.

Photograph E: Name the British actor.

55.

What is Asia’s only predominantly Christian country?

56.

Photograph J: Name the pensive guy.

57.

‘How are things in Glockamara?’ is a song from which musical?

58.

Who painted ‘Milkwoman’ and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’?

59.

How did South London burglar, Harry Jackson, make legal history in 1902?

60.

In which city would you find the Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground?

61.

‘It wasn’t me’ was Britain’s best selling single of 2001.  Who sang it?

62.

Photograph G: Name the less than photogenic footballer.

63.

Who in 1835 wrote the opera ‘I Puritani’ (The Puritans)

64.

Solve this cryptic equation: 28th President of the USA + First British TV Quiz Millionairess + Michelle Dotrice role = Eccentric dancing Music Hall act

65.

Who won the 1999 Booker Prize for his novel ‘Disgrace’?

66.

Name the recently released film starring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini?

67.

What is the common term for the uncomfortable condition Decubitus Ulcers?

68.

The French word Boulevard is used in many languages but what word do the Italians use to describe a broad tree-lined street?

69.

Photograph I: Name the adult in the middle.

70.

VICAP is the FBI’s computer system for dealing with major crime.  What is the British equivalent?

71.

Who was the star of the TV Western ‘Wanted - Dead or Alive’?

72.

Who had chart success in 1970 with ‘Nothing Rhymed’?

73.

In the poem 'The Patriot' who wrote the line:

'It was Roses, Roses all the way' (not Jitka!)?

74.

Who was British Foreign Secretary when the Berlin Wall came down in 1989?

75.

Which band was the subject of Jonathan Demme's "Rockumentary" 'Stop Making Sense'?

76.

What do Dilithium Crystals power? (could be Jitka)

77.

What are connected by a band of nerve tissues called the Corpus Callosum?

78.

In which city would you find Arlanda airport?

79.

Which writer has recently published "Public confessions of a middle-aged woman aged 55¾?

80.

Who knocked Glasgow Rangers out of the Scottish Cup in 1967?

 

Answers

1.

Chaffinch

2.

Rebuke; rebus; rebut

3.

Microsoft

4.

The Cranefly

5.

Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Tipperary and Waterford

6.

Tribute Bands

7.

Advanced/Supplementary

8.

Managers of the last 2 non-League clubs in this year’s FA Cup (Canvey Island and Dagenham & Redbridge)

9.

Billy Bob Thornton

10.

Puff the Magic Dragon

11.

Ethiopia

12.

Pancreas

13.

Gene Hackman

14.

First black Mayor of New York

15.

Princess Michael of Kent

16.

Πr2h

17.

(Railway) Sleepers

18.

Cherry

19.

(N) Helsinki, (S) Athens, (E) Athens, (W) Lisbon

20.

Toby Maguire

21.

Cranford (by Mrs Gaskell)

22.

Frank Le Boeuf

23.

Lord James Balfour

24.

Manchester Airport

25.

Sucrose (or Sugar)

26.

King Gillette (safety razor)

27.

The Jay

28.

Ridley Scott

29.

1992 & 1994

30.

Grand Old Oprey

31.

Minos

32.

Conchita Martinez

33.

Birthplaces of Laurel and Hardy

34.

Aurelio Zen

35.

1985

36.

Durham

37.

6th century BC

38.

Saporo

39.

The Pump House

40.

Lesley Garratt

41.

Nit

42.

Swiss Air and Sabena (Belgium)

43.

A Butte

44.

J.S. Bach

45.

Hit me with your Rhythm Stick (Ian Drury)

46.

Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, and Ohio

47.

‘The Producers’

48.

The Eagle Owl

49.

A pilgrimage to Mecca during Ramadan

50.

Dollywood

51.

Ramsay MacDonald

52.

Yoga

53.

Devizes (Wiltshire)

54.

Ray Winstone

55.

The Phillipines

56.

Stanley Matthews

57.

Finian’s Rainbow

58.

Vermeer

59.

First criminal convicted on fingerprint evidence

60.

Cardiff

61.

Shaggy

62.

Mikael Silvestre

63.

(Vincenzo) Bellini

64.

Wilson, Kepler and Betty

65.

J.M. Coetzee

66.

The Last Castle

67.

Bedsores

68.

Corso

69.

Terry Venables (in Dagenham 1965 with Ken Brown on his left)

70.

H.O.L.M.E.S.

71.

Steve McQueen

72.

Gibert O’Sullivan

73.

Robert Browning

74.

Douglas Hurd

75.

Talking Heads

76.

The Starship Enterprise

77.

The left and right hemispheres of the brain

78.

Stockholm

79.

Sue Townsend

80.

Berwick Rangers

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