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Question Paper for 20/11/02 (Bingo quiz) set by Brains of Oak

(table of answers follow the table of questions)

 

Questions

 

Picture A

Picture B

Picture C

Picture D

Picture E

Picture F

Picture G

Picture H

Cover Image

Picture J

Picture K

1.

What is the capital of Slovakia?

2.

(Picture H) Name the film star.

3.

In which English city is the National Museum of Photography?

4.

Who writes the series of crime novels featuring Alex Cross?

5.

What were painted yellow in Northern Ireland last Wednesday?

6.

What does a fellmonger sell?

7.

(Picture A) Name the TV character.

8.

Now a city, the old colonial town of Savannah is in which U.S. state?

9.

The Tea plant is a member of which flower family?

10.

Who wrote the poem painted on the wall of the Hardy’s Well pub in Rusholme?

11.

According to 1066 and All That, who were "wrong but wromantic"?

12.

During December 2001 and January 2002 which country had 5 different Presidents in 3 weeks?

13.

Who was stripped of his knighthood 23 years ago today?

14.

Who was the first Prince of Wales?

15.

Who painted The Raft of the Medusa?

16.

In the U.S. what is Megan's law?

17.

(Picture F) Name this footballer.

18.

Who is the General Secretary of the Fire Brigade Union?

19.

In Medieval Germany they were called Minnesinger, what were they called in Medieval France?

20.

(Picture B) Name the TV personality.

21.

Badfinger, Nielson, Mariah Carey. Which song connects them?

22.

Which tree is commonly known as the May tree?

23.

Which city has football clubs called Bohemians and Shelbourne?

24.

(Picture J) Name the recent album.

25.

Who is leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party?

26.

What is Manzanilla?

27.

In the U.S. if you were Mirandized what would have happened to you?

28.

Who wrote The Sculptress and The Ice House?

29.

(Picture G) Name the Film Star.

30.

To date only one President of the U.S. has been born in the state of California – name him.

31.

Name the two English first division clubs involved in a 6-5 thriller 3weeks ago.

32.

Who painted the Ancient of Days?

33.

Who according to a Daily Mirror headline in October was Killed by his own wake?

34.

One wrong turn deserves another is the advertising slogan for which recently released film starring Ben Aff1eck and Samuel L. Jackson?

35.

What is the title of Donna Tart's second eagerly awaited novel?

36.

Who playing his first game in Europe scored the only goal in the 1979 European Cup Final?

37.

(Picture E) Name the Footballer.

38.

(Picture D) Name the Popstar.

39.

Who is the Secretary of State for transport?

40.

What is the name of the quiz presented on BBC1 by John McEnroe?

41.

Toby Stephens is currently playing the latest Bond baddie - who is his famous mother?

42.

In which country would you find the cities of Adana, Bursa, and Mersin?

43.

Give any year in the life of the Scottish king Macbeth.

44.

What is the common name for the condition Urticaria?

45.

What surname is shared by the following:

a. US actor who starred in the 1945 film Farewell my Lovely

b. Britain's most respected film critic until her death in 1995

c. Controversial Birmingham born politician?

46.

(Picture K) Name the Album.

47.

Who painted the 1586 picture The Burial of Count Orgaz?

48.

Who is the film star father of Angelina Jolie?

49.

Have you fed the fish is the latest album by which Manchester act?

50.

What game was originally known as Minnonette?

51.

From what material are Millefiore ornaments made?

52.

What does a Philographist collect?

53.

The island of Nantucket lies off the coast of which U.S. state?

54.

Which Rock Classic has the following chorus:

Hello hello hello hello

Hello hello hello hello

Hello hello hello hello

Hello hello hello hello

55.

Who in 2001 said I'm leaving parliament to take a more active role in politics?

56.

In which city would you find the tomb of Saladin?

57.

In the saying Buy a pig in a poke what is a poke ?

58.

(Picture C) Name the Actor.

59.

Who was the third and favourite son of King David ?

60.

On which road in Belfast does Sinn Fein have its headquarters?

61.

Which groups only hit single was a French version of the Bob Dylan song If you gotta go, go now?

62.

What is the name of Luton Town Football Club’s ground?

63.

If you were to translate Rose Tree literally into Greek what evergreen shrub would you get?

64.

What is the name for an oblique equilateral parallelogram?

65.

On which river does Matlock stand?

66.

Who was the first director general of the BBC?

67.

To whom was Anne Widdecombe referring when she said He has something of the night about him?

68.

Name the novelist who was seriously injured and whose husband was killed in the Potters Bar train crash in May 2002.

69.

In which English city would you find the Mathematical Bridge?

70.

When Manchester United played Bayer Leverkausen in the semi-final of the Champions League a player on each side had the same surname.  What was it?

71.

What do Abigail Adams and Barbara Bush have in common?

 

Answers

1.

Bratislava

2.

Chris Rock

3.

Bradford

4.

James Patterson

5.

Green Goddess fire engines (for neutrality)

6.

Pelts, animal skins

7.

Little Mo Slater (Eastenders)

8.

Georgia

9.

Camellia

10.

Lemm Sissay

11.

The Cavaliers

12.

Argentina

13.

Anthony Blunt

14.

Llywelyn Ap Gryffud

15.

Theodore Gericault (pronounced Jericho)

16.

The outing or naming of paedophiles.

17.

David Beckham

18.

Andy Gilchrist

19.

Troubadours

20.

Ainsley Harriott

21.

Without You

(written by two members of the first, sung by the other two)

22.

Hawthorne

23.

Dublin

24.

A Rush of Blood to the Head ( by Coldplay)

25.

John Swinney

26.

Spanish Sherry (pale dry)

27.

You would have been read your rights by the Police

28.

Minette Walters

29.

Ben Stiller

30.

Richard Nixon

31.

Grimsby and Burnley

32.

William Blake

33.

Donald Campbell

34.

Changing Lanes

35.

The Little Friend

36.

Trevor Francis (Nottingham Forest)

37.

Steven Gerrard

38.

Noel Gallagher

39.

Alistair Darling

40.

The Chair

41.

Maggie Smith

42.

Turkey

43.

1040-1057

44.

Hives

45.

Powell (Dick, Dilys, and Enoch)

46.

All that you can’t leave behind

47.

El Greco

48.

John Voight

49.

Badly Drawn Boy

50.

Volleyball

51.

Glass

52.

Autographs

53.

Massachussets

54.

Smells like teen spirit (by Nirvana)

55.

Tony Benn

56.

Damascus

57.

A sack or bag

58.

Hugh Grant

59.

Absalom

60.

The Falls Road

61.

Fairport Convention (Si to dois partir)

62.

Kenilworth Road

63.

Rhododendron

64.

Rhombus

65.

Derwent

66.

Lord John Reith

67.

Michael Howard

68.

Nina Bawden

69.

Cambridge

70.

Butt

71.

Both were wife and mother to U.S. Presidents

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