Friday, March 24, 2006

Quiz Time!!

Hello folks!

OK - so it's been a while and yes, this is most definitely a cop-out but it's the most I've written in a while, so I thought I'd throw it up on the website.

I organised a pub quiz last night and here are the questions. Frankly I think it's a piece of piss. How well would you have done?

Question Round 1
1. General Knowledge: Name the multi-national corporation founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975 by Bill Gates
Music: Who was the front man of 90’s grunge rock band, Nirvana?
3. What newspaper feature, now used in newspapers throughout the world, first appeared in the "New York World" - in 1896?
4. Current Affairs: Paul Gatt, currently in a Vietnam prison for allegedly having sex with under age girls, is better known with what stage name?
Pop Music: Name the fit and horny all-girl band that recently had a chart success with the song “Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me”?
6. Musicals: Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1978 musical ‘Evita’ was based on the life of which famous Argentinean?
Belgium: Outside us here in Antwerp’s beautiful Grote Mark, we have a fantastic fountain of flowing fluid, depicting a brave young hero throwing the hand that he cut off the evil giant Antigoon into the River Schelde. Name him.
8. The surname of Frank & Jesse - the infamous Wild West bank robbers - what was it?
9. Hitler’s book was called "Mein Kamp". But what is the English translation of the title?
10. Current Affairs: Name the footballing legend, originally from Belfast, who died last year after losing his battle against alcoholism.

Question Round 2
1. Belgium: Which musical instrument, first demonstrated in 1841 was invented by a Belgian? 2. Entertainment: Name the TV family that has a dog called Santa’s Little Helper.
3. General Knowledge: If someone has scurvy, which vitamin are they lacking in?
4. Antwerp: What is the height in metres of the taller of the two spires on Antwerp’s cathedral – 113m, 123m or 133m.
5. Serial Killers: Between 1962 and 1964, Albert Desalvo killed at least eleven women in the US, how is he better known as?
6.Holland: Which of the following is a Dutch invention? [long-life milk, the compact disc, beer, walking around Antwerp shouting at the top of their voices on a Friday night]
7.Music: What was the only No 1 hit in the UK that was originally sung in German but translated into English for the English market?
8.Animals & Nature: To which hemisphere do Penguins belong - the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere?
9. Geography: What is the capital city of Canada called?
10. Football: Which football team are the current champions of Europe? [Liverpool – and don’t you forget it]

Question Round 3
1. Rugby: Which country won the Triple Crown by defeating England on Saturday evening? 2. Tennis: Which female tennis star, ranked 134 in March of last year, finished last season ranked 2nd in the world?
In Snow white and The 7 dwarves, which dwarf wore GLASSES?
4. General Knowledge: What was the first word spoken on the moon?
5. WHAT ARE THE ONLY SURVIVORS OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD?
6. WHO PLAYED THE BLIND MUSIC SHOP OWNER IN THE Movie The BLUES BROTHERS?
7. Literature: Name the famous American author who wrote books such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row
8.IN WHICH COUNTRY would you find the city of MAASTRICHT?
9. Football: Which country qualified for this year’s world cup by defeating Uruguay in a penalty shoot-out?
Mythology: Which A (A=apple) was the Greek goddess of love?

Question Round 4
1. History: On the 23 February 1836, the army of which country, laid siege to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas?
2. Current Affairs: Name the person who recently became the first female to become the Chancellor of Germany
3. Showbiz: Name the TV series currently being broadcast on VT4, telling the story of survivors of a plane crash who end up on a remote desert island in the Pacific Ocean
4. Geography: In which country would you find the city Timbuktu?
5. Pop Music: DJ dance meister Fatboy Slim, has the real name of what?
6. Current Affairs: Dating 2500 years old, the world’s oldest what? Was discovered last year by a Belgian archeologist?
7. Entertainment: Name the movie, that starts off in Antwerp and stars Brad Pitt as a gypsy bare knuckled boxer
8. Literature: Name the author, who after being inspired by reading The Lord of The Rings, wrote a 7 book epic series himself, known as The Dark Tower series?
9. Music: Which solo artist announced two concerts in Brussels next June with both of them selling out this week?
10. WHO DIRECTED THE cult movie 'CLOCKWORK ORANGE'?

Question Round 5
1. The Belgian judiciary recently accused which airline of forgery and fiscal fraud?
2. Current Affairs: Which terrorist organization yesterday announced a permanent ceasefire
3. FILMS. WHAT WAS THE 1986 SEQUEL TO THE HUSTLER, starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise?
4. TRUE OR FALSE? BRAILLE, the system enabling blind people to read, was named after it’s inventor LOUIS BRAILLE but was he BLIND?
5. The setting for many a mafia story, what is the CAPITAL OF SICILY?
6. Sport: How many players are there in a netball team?
7. IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE ORIGINAL LIVE AID CONCERT?
8. WITH WHICH ATHLETIC EVENT WOULD YOU ASSOCIATE SERGEY BUBKA?
9. WHICH FAMOUS BAND WAS ONCE CALLED THE QUARRYMEN?
10. Which word is both the state capital city of New Hampshire in the US and a type of plane?

Question Round 6
1. TRUE OR FALSE.CHERIE BLAIR IS BLIND IN 1 EYE?
2. HOW MANY PIECES DOES EACH PERSON HAVE AT THE START OF A GAME OF DRAUGHTS?
3. The shortest sea crossing between England and mainland Europe is between Calais and which English Port? Folkestone or Dover
4. ON WHICH Spanish ISLAND IS THE VOLCANO 'TIEDE PEAK'?
5. IF YOU WERE BORN ON 24TH MAY WHICH STARSIGN WOULD YOU BE?
6. WHO'S FILMS INCLUDE BANANAS, SLEEPER AND LOVE AND DEATH?
7. MT RUSHMORE IN AMERICA HAS 4 PRESIDENTS HEADS CARVED INTO IT. NAME THEM
8. IN THE RAMBO FILMS WHAT WAS RAMBO'S FIRST NAME?
9. Which Rock band had hits with such titles as Run to the Hills, The Number of the Beast and BRING YOUR DAUGHTER TO THE SLAUGHTER
10. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PROSTITUTE CAUGHT WITH HUGH GRANT?

Question Round 7

1. Adam West and Burt Ward played which crime-fighting duo in the 60'S TV SERIES?
2. WHICH CHARACTER DID MR T PLAY IN THE A-TEAM?
3. FLEMISH GIANT, COTTONTAIL AND HAVANA ARE TYPES OF WHICH CREATURE?
4. HOW MANY VON TRAPP CHILDREN WERE THERE IN THE SOUND OF MUSIC?
5. HOW IS LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE BETTER KNOWN?
6. FROM WHICH CREATURE IS EDAM CHEESE DERIVED?
7. IF YOU SAW A CAR WITH THE LETTERS CH ON IT WHICH COUNTRY WOULD IT COME FROM?
8. DOES A GIRRAFFE HAVE A TAIL?
9. WHAT IS THE CAPITAL CITY OF LEBANON?
10. Mathematics: if i drink 3 pintjes, a half litre of Guinness, 2 bottles of corona and 5 bollekes, how many centilitres will I have drunk?

STING IN THE TALE
Clue 1
I was born on June 1, 1926
Clue 2
I spent most of my childhood and teen years in foster homes or an orphanage because my father abandoned me and my mum was in a mental hospital
Clue 3
In 1942 I married an aircraft factory worker and when he went to sea with the merchant marines I went to work in a target airplane factory.
Clue 4
During this time, I was asked to model in Yank magazine and decided to become a full time model.
Clue 5
In 1946, after divorcing my husband I went to Hollywood to try and become an actress.
I was signed by Twentieth-Century Fox, and changed my name, but for the next few years I had only minor roles in several movies; during one period of unemployment I posed nude for a pin-up calendar that would later become a collector's item.
Clue 6
It was not until my small roles in two 1950 movies--The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve--did my career take off, and, promoted as a slightly ditzy blonde exuding a breathless sexuality, I became a star and celebrity.
Clue 7
Determined to shed my image as a sex symbol, I began to study at Lee and Paula Strasberg's Actors Studio in New York City. During this time I gave two of my more sophisticated performances--in Bus Stop (1956) and Some Like It Hot (1959)
Clue 8
In 1956 I married the playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) and starred in a movie he wrote for me, The Misfits (1961).
Clue 9
On August 5, 1962, I was was found dead of an overdose of barbiturates in my home in Los Angeles.
Clue 10
My name begins with M and ends in arilyn Monroe.

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