Quiz 20 - freequiz4000

1 ATHLETICS WAR (anagram of a musician) - Charlie Watts
2 Who signed Mark Wright for Liverpool - Graeme Souness
3 Which international charity is registered at John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford - OXFAM
4 What type of creature is a souslik - Squirrel
5 In the cartoons about Heckle and Jeckle what type of birds were they - Magpies
6 What was the name of the bison on American nickels from 1913 to 1938 (it was known as a buffalo nickel) - Black Diamond
7 As of 2015, what is the minimum age you have to be to open a Facebook account - Thirteen
8 In the Bond film The Man With The Golden Gun, what is the name of Scaramanga's tiny assistant - Nick Nack
9 What is the state capital of Montana - Helena
10 What was the name of Audrey Eyton's best selling diet book of the eighties - F Plan Diet (now available in all charity shops)
11 Moneymaker, Slim Jim, and Long Purple are varieties of which vegetable - Aubergine
12 Why is the robin often depicted on Christmas cards - Legend has it that a robin tried to ease the crown of thorns from Christ's forehead
13 On which English railway station did Paul Simon allegedly write Homeward Bound - Widnes
14 What three words complete the proverb, hell hath no fury like - A woman scorned
15 What type of creature is a tuatara - Lizard
16 What were drove roads used for originally - Driving cattle to markets or fairs
17 What is the national animal of Greenland - Polar Bear
18 What product was said to lift you when you were one degree under - Aspro
19 Which 18th Century painter, most renowned for his pictures of horses, created the work 'Whistlejacket' - George Stubbs
20 Atlantic city was the original city used in Monopoly, which city was used in the Portuguese version - Lisbon
21 In 1926 the first British Grand Prix was raced at which track - Brooklands
22 What nationality were the duo Desire who had a hit with Sweet Lullaby - French
23 What is the common name for the chemical process by which glue, varnish, filler, etc, hardens when polymer chains become linked following UV radiation, mixing, heat, etc. - Curing
24 How many Apollo Moon missions were there - Seventeen
25 Norman King, Amstel, Autumn King and Kundulus are varieties of which vegetable - Carrots
26 How often do hebdomadal events happen - Weekly
27 In the Bible, who is the father of Moses and Aaron - Amram
28 Who created Desperate Dan - Dudley Watkins
29 What do the Americans call a C.V. - Resume
30 What type of wheat is used in the Italian dish gnocchi - Semolina
31 Which famous Halloween party game originated from a custom to establish who would get married first - Bobbing for apples
32 What type of music is a capella - Vocal with no musical accompaniment
33 Which deciduous tree is sometimes known as Scots mahogany - Alder
34 From which country do cars come from with the international mark YV - Venezuela
35 On which country’s flag would you find a golden lion holding a sword - Sri Lanka
36 What does Amstrad stand for - Alan Michael Sugar Trading
37 In Britain, the Education Act of March 1944 provided free what in schools to all children in the UK under the age of 18 - Milk (a third of a pint a day)
38 Complete the following lyric "Watch out where the huskies go and" - Don't Eat The Yellow Snow
39 What is the name of the victim in the American version of Cluedo - Mr John Boddy
40 Which country's parliament is called the Eduskunta - Finland
41 Which university did Prince Charles attend - Cambridge
42 Often served with chicken what is the name given to a sauce made from white wine mushrooms and shallotts or onions - Chasseur
43 Which fashion house made the perfume Poison - Christian Dior
44 Edward (Ned) Maddrell was the last Briton in the twentieth century to have which language as his native tongue - Manx
45 In Australian slang what are Manchesters - Household linen
46 Puerto Ricans popularized what kind of dancing in New York in the 1980s - Salsa dancing
47 What is the collective noun for apes - Shrewdness
48 In Alice in Wonderland what price was on the Mad Hatter’s hat - Ten shillings and sixpence
49 In which state was George Bush Senior born - Massachusetts
50 Who was shot as he left the Washington Hilton in 1981 - Ronald Reagan
51 What is a pre prandial drink - An aperitif (usually before dinner)
52 Discounting The Beatles what was the first recording to top the charts in England and America at the same time - House Of The Rising Sun (Animals)
53 What colour is an octopus's blood - Pale bluish-green
54 What is the more common name of the Gravelly Hill Interchange - Spaghetti Junction
55 What civil war was fought between 1936 and 1939 - Spanish Civil War
56 Which fashion house designed the famous Kelly bag back in the fifties - Hermes
57 What nationality was the explorer Abel Tasman - Dutch
58 Kwaito is a music genre which originated in which country - South Africa
59 Which country stages the motor rally of a Thousand Lakes - Finland
60 Which German president appointed Hitler Chancellor - Hindenberg
61 Which satellite of Jupiter, home to lakes of molten sulphur and calderas several kilometres deep, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system - Io
62 The name of which English musician, who has had number one hits on both sides of the Atlantic, can be cockney rhyming slang for an all day drinking session - Leo Sayer (all dayer)
63 What is a nymphomaniac obsessed by - Sex
64 Who played the Prime Minister’s tea lady in Love Actually - Martine McCutcheon
65 Which educational establishment in Utah is known as BYU - Brigham Young University
66 The Spread Eagle is a common pub name but which country's arms does it represent - Germany
67 Kylie Minogue produced a 2012 fragrance what was it called - Music Box
68 The San Remo Music Festival, held in Italy, was the inspiration for which song contest - Eurovision Song Contest
69 Surviving all dangers how long can a cobra expect to live - Twenty years
70 What type of ship is a reefer - Refrigerated cargo ship
71 In which country is there a town called Bell End - England
72 Which company did the Piper Alpha oil rig which was destroyed in 1988 belong to - US, Occidental Petroleum corporation
73 Who nailed ninety five theses to the church door at Wittenburg - Martin Luther
74 Which poet's family home was at Newstead Abbey - Lord Byron
75 Which tennis player was dubbed Superbrat by the British press - John McEnroe
76 What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang - The Hole in the Wall Gang
77 What was the name of He-Man's legless, wizard friend - Orco
78 According to the nursery rhyme who stole a pig and away he ran - Tom the Piper's Son
79 What was the name of the Cadbury's chocolate bar that Anthea Turner and her second husband advertised at their wedding - Cadbury's Snowflake
80 Who had a number one in 2006 with The Rose - Westlife
81 What is a male jellyfish called - Boar
82 Under which British river does the Blackwall Tunnel run - Thames
83 On which former French banknote would you have found the composer Debussy - Twenty franc note
84 What is a boater made from - Straw
85 In which English city is Gas Street Basin, a holiday centre for canal boats - Birmingham
86 What pet related product was invented by Ed Lowe - Cat litter
87 What colour flag is flown to denote danger area unsafe in skiing - Yellow
88 What is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet - Zeta
89 What colour paper is The Financial Times printed on - Pink
90 Directed by Don Siegel and shot at Folsom State prison, which 1954 prison drama was banned in the UK upon its initial release - Riot In Cell Block 11
91 Who wrote Octopusses Garden - Ringo Starr
92 What would a fromologist collect - Cheese labels
93 What is a female tree feller called - Lumberjill
94 Who wrote the original book Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
95 How long is a postal order valid for - Six months from the last date of the month in which it was bought
96 What is the administrative centre of Dyfed - Carmarthen
97 What type of music is associated with Mahalia Jackson - Gospel singing
98 In which of the United States would you find The Grand Canyon - Arizona
99 What is the alcohol in the French colbert sauce - Madeira
100 In tug of war what is the name given to the man at the back of the rope in each team - Anchorman