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Question Paper for 27/02/02 set by Albert

(table of answers follow the table of questions)

 

Questions

ROUND 1

1.

Whose song advised Mrs Worthington not to put her daughter on the stage?

2.

By what name is actor Bernard Schwartz better known?

3.

In which film did Elvis Presley play a boxer?

4.

Name the only film to be directed by Marlon Brando

5.

Name one of the three doctors regularly featured in the “Simpsons"?

6.

Who lived at Railway Cuttings, East Cheam?

7.

Who is the new voice of Tetley Teabags?

8.

Which member of the Monty Python team was a doctor?

ROUND 2

1.

Which Nationwide football team plays at Priestfield?

2.

Who was the first foreign manager to win the FA Cup?

3.

Orology is the study of what?

4.

Which singer's real name is Sandra Goodrich?

5.

Who wrote the opera “A Midsummer Night's Dream'?

6.

Who were Chris, Vin, Chico, O'Reilly, Lee, Brit & Harry Luck?

7.

Who replied when asked to name her previous husbands "What is this a memory test?"?

8.

Which Pope comes next in this sequence - Pius X, Pius XI, Plus XII, John XXIII?

ROUND 3

1.

What was the name of the Inn from which Chaucer's pilgrims set out in the Canterbury Tales?

2.

Which Shakespeare play is subtitled "What you will”?

3.

Whose autobiography is entitled "Is that it"?

4.

Which flower takes its name from the Turkish for turban?

5.

Who wrote the novel "The Shipping News"?

6.

Who was the first director of Britain's National Theatre?

7.

Which road has been named as the most dangerous in Britain?

8.

What is the shipping area Finisterre to be renamed?

ROUND 4

1.

In which year was Malcolm X assassinated?

2.

In which year did Robert Maxwell die?

3.

What sweet can be made from the sap of the South American sapodilla tree?

4.

What is the main ingredient of Guacamole?

5.

What is the world's highest capital city?

6.

Where is the world's longest Fjord?

7.

Who killed Jesse James?

8.

What was the name of the murdered Kansas family in Truman Capote's novel "In Cold Blood"?

ROUND 5

1.

By what name is actor John Carter better known?

2.

What was Steve McQueen's last film?

3.

Who played the brutal killer Max Cady in the original version of Cape Fear?

4.

Which actor appeared in both the original & remake of the film Cape Fear?

5.

In the "Simpsons", who is the Principal of Springfield Elementary School?

6.

What is the name of the football team in the TV series "Footballer's Wives'?

7.

Which female group is to be the new face of Avon cosmetics?

8.

Which of the Goodies was a doctor?

ROUND 6

1.

Which Nationwide football team plays at the Bescot Stadium?

2.

Which two countries contested the final of the African Nations Cup?

3.

Nephology is the study of what?

4.

Which comedian's real name is David O'Mahoney?

5.

Which police force arrested James Earl Ray?

6.

What is meant by the term Ochlocracy?

7.

Who is said to have lived by the motto "Live fast, die young, have a beautiful corpse"?

8.

In which country were the 1940 Olympic games scheduled to be held?

ROUND 7

1.

What was the name of the host at the Inn from which Chaucer’s pilgrims set out in the Canterbury Tales?

2.

Which was Shakespeare's shortest play?

3.

"A clown too many" is the autobiography of which British comedian?

4.

Which plant takes its name from the Italian phrase for "beautiful woman'?

5.

Under the Dewey Library system of book classification what subject area is classified in the 940's?

6.

The current Chinese year is the year of the .....?

7.

What has recently been voted the funniest line of dialogue from a film?

8.

Which famous musician has recently drawn a range of new postage stamps for the Isle of Man?

ROUND 8

1.

In which year was Earl Mountbatten assassinated?

2.

In which year did the Three Mile Island disaster take place?

3.

What food has a name that means "baked twice”?

4.

What is the Italian name for Squid?

5.

What is the world's most southerly capital city?

6.

What country is home to the highest waterfall?

7.

In 1952 Derek Bentley was hanged for the murder of a British Policeman but the man who actually shot the policeman was too young to hang. What was his name?

8.

What was the real name of The Boston Strangler?

SPARES

1.

What is the county town of Kent?

2.

What is the county town of Hertfordshire?

3.

Which two countries joined the EEC at the same time as Britain?

4.

Of what illness is St. Valentine the patron saint?

5.

In the New Testament who said "What is truth"?

6.

Which country was attacked by Russia in 1939?

7.

Dubris is the Roman name for which English town?

8.

Camulodunum is the Roman name for which English town?

9.

Which was the first US city to host the Olympic Games?

 

Answers

ROUND 1

1.

Noel Coward

2.

Tony Curtis

3.

Kid Galahad

4.

One Eyed Jacks

5.

Dr Julius Hibbert or Dr Nick Riviera or Dr Marvin Monroe

6.

Tony Hancock

7.

Ewan McGregor

8.

Graham Chapman

ROUND 2

1.

Gillingham

2.

Ruud Gullit (1997)

3.

Mountains

4.

Sandie Shaw

5.

Benjamin Britten

6.

The Magnificent Seven

7.

Elizabeth Taylor

8.

Paul VI

ROUND 3

1.

The Tabard at Southwark

2.

Twelfth Night

3.

Bob Geldorf

4.

Tulip

5.

Annie Proulx

6.

Peter Hall

7.

A889

8.

Fitzroy

ROUND 4

1.

1965

2.

1991

3.

Chewing Gum

4.

Avocado pears

5.

La Paz (Bolivia)

6.

Greenland

7.

Bob Ford

8.

The Clutter family

ROUND 5

1.

Chariton Heston

2.

The Hunter

3.

Robert Mitchum

4.

Gregory Peck

5.

Seymour Skinner

6.

Earls Park

7.

Atomic Kitten

8.

Graeme Garden

ROUND 6

1.

Walsall

2.

Cameroon & Senegal

3.

Clouds

4.

Dave Allen

5.

The Metropolitan Police Force

6.

Rule by a mob

7.

James Dean

8.

Japan

ROUND 7

1.

Harry Bailey

2.

The Comedy of Errors

3.

Les Dawson

4.

Belladonna

5.

History

6.

Horse

7.

“He's not the Messiah; he's a very naughty boy!” (Life of Brian)

8.

Sir Paul McCartney

ROUND 8

1.

1979

2.

1979

3.

Biscuit

4.

Calamari

5.

Wellington (New Zealand)

6.

Venezuela

7.

Christopher Craig

8.

Albert De Salvo

SPARES

1.

Maidstone

2.

Ware

3.

Denmark & Eire

4.

Epilepsy

5.

Pontius Pilate

6.

Finland

7.

Dover

8.

Colchester

9.

St Louis (1904)

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