Quiz 21 - freequiz4000

1 GET REPORT TRANSLATED (place in London) - Great Portland Street
2 Take it to the hole, bump the cutter and I got back, are heard in which sport - Basketball
3 What colour is the pigment lycopene - Red
4 What word can be linked to eclipse, grand and running - Total
5 Who played the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl - Helen Slater
6 Complete the proverb a new net won't catch - An old bird
7 What are young elks called - Calves
8 What is the official residence of the French President - Elysee Palace
9 Which film star's name is the only one defined in the Oxford dictionary - Mae West
10 In which city is the Nobel Prize Foundation - Stockholm
11 How many gross are there in a great gross - Twelve
12 Which guitarist guested on The Levellers 1995 single Just The One - Joe Strummer
13 What is the name given to the home of a racoon - Den
14 Spectrophobia is the irrational fear of what - Ghosts
15 At what age are female athletes classed as veterans - Thirty five
16 What was the first English town to have yellow no parking lines painted on its roads - Slough
17 Which U.S. President wrote a foreign policy doctrine regarding European countries in 1823 - James Monroe
18 There has only been one Olympic gold medal for cricket (it was in 1900), who won it, India, Great Britain or Australia - Great Britain
19 Co is the symbol for which chemical element - Cobalt
20 Dan Dare's arch enemy The Mekon was the ruler of which alien race - The Treens
21 According to legend who slew the dragon Fafnir - Siegfried
22 Francis Barraud painted which very famous musical trademark - The bull terrier on the H.M.V. label
23 Which South American country was called Banda Oriental before independence - Uruguay
24 Which fictional detective has a manservant called Magersfontein Lugg - Campion
25 What is the name given to a subterranean cemetery - Catacomb
26 In the 1930 RAF version of the phonetic alphabet what word represented the letter N - Nuts
27 Where was Joanna Lumley born - Kashmir (town of Srinigar)
28 What is the name of the drink that consists of Vodka, Apple schnapps, Cointreau - Appletini (Apple Martini)
29 What was Joe Loss's signature tune - In The Mood
30 Once upon a time (15th and 16th centuries) it was widely accepted in Ireland that rats could be destroyed by what - Rhyming verse
31 What do we call what the Scots call a plane tree - Sycamore
32 In the modern pentathlon how long is the cross country course - 3,000 metres (changed from 4,000 in the year 2,000)
33 In which European city would you be most likely to travel in a vaporetto - Venice
34 The name of which New York thoroughfare takes its name from a barrier aimed at keeping the native Americans out - Wall Street
35 Located on the Atlantic coast, what is the largest city of the Maghreb (the 5 countries constituting North Africa) - Casablanca
36 Which Devon town is famous for carpets - Axminster
37 What did Batley rugby league side add to their name in the nineties - Bulldogs
38 In the 1930 RAF version of the phonetic alphabet what word represented the letter W - William
39 What does the Latin phrase 'Tempus neminem manet' translate to in English - Time waits for no one
40 Which religion calls outsiders 'The English' - Amish
41 What was the nickname of Charles Heidsick, the 19th Century French wine producer - Champagne Charlie
42 Who became the first president of free Croatia - Franjo Tudjman
43 Where would you be incarcerated if you were in Parkhurst Prison - Isle of Wight
44 What is 'Maglev' an abbreviation for - Magnetic levitation
45 What are the only two words in English ending in GRY - Angry and hungry
46 Which comedian used to say 'Ooh you are awful but I like you' - Dick Emery
47 In which American city is Samuel Adams beer brewed - Boston
48 Which musical instrument is associated with jazz musician Coleman Hawkins - Saxophone
49 In French legend who is the lover of Abelard - Heloise
50 What is the UK's rarest amphibian - Great crested newt
51 Which boxer is nicknamed Pretty Boy - Floyd Mayweather
52 What type of bus began operating in London in 1931 - Trolley bus
53 In which city are the headquarters of the American Legion - Indianapolis
54 The city of Dubrovnik is in which European country - Croatia
55 What was reputedly the last word spoken by William Wallace - Freedom
56 What woman's name means happiness - Felicity
57 What children's favourite was created by Keith Chapman in 1999 - Bob the Builder
58 Which colour of Smartie replaced the blue Smartie in the UK between 2006 and 2008 - White
59 Which evergreen flowering climbing plant is said to be associated with Jesus Christ - Passion Flower
60 In which New Zealand city is the Eden Park cricket ground - Auckland
61 Which Japanese motor manufacturer made the Outback - Subaru
62 American states all have their own state bird what is the state bird of Michigan - Robin
63 In ancient Rome, it was considered a sign of leadership to be born with a crooked what - Nose
64 In which European city is the Belvedere Palace - Vienna
65 Which Fleet Street barber allegedly turned some of his customers into veal pies - Sweeney Todd
66 What is a native of Dundee known as - Dundonian
67 Who first argued that the world was not flat - Aristotle
68 Who wrote Death In The Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway
69 Handmade Films was formed to produce which film - Life of Brian
70 Tartarology is the study of what - Hell
71 'Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain' is a mnemonic for what - Colours of the rainbow
72 What is the more common name for a Monolithic Silicon chip - Integrated Circuit
73 How many James Bond films did Pierce Brosnan make - Four
74 Petit gris and bourgogne are types of what foodstuff - Edible snails
75 What was the first record played on Radio One - Flowers in the Rain (Move)
76 Leonard Slye became much better known by what stage name - Roy Rogers
77 What is the collective noun for cougars - Schoolyard
78 Which annual world championship has been held in the Cheshire village of Willaston since 1980 - Worm charming
79 What does pelican stand for in Pelican crossing - Pedestrian light controlled
80 What state volunteered to drop the name Hog and Hominy State - Tennessee
81 What is the former name of Burkina Faso - Upper Volta
82 Which company used the slogan Acquire, Manage and Listen - Apple Computers
83 What is the name given to the loin cloth as worn by male Hindus - Dhoti
84 Who actually discovered Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the mainland of North America in 1497 - John Cabot
85 What do we call the upper reach of a river - Headstream
86 What is the administrative HQ of Leicestershire - Leicester
87 In the film National Velvet what was the name of the horse that Velvet Brown rode to victory in the Grand National - The Pie
88 Which fish is known in the British fishing industry as 'Silver Darlings' - Herrings
89 Which English King is credited with composing Greensleeves - Henry V111
90 What on an insect is its forfax - Pincers
91 Who was the first English footballer to have played over 100 league games for four different clubs - Alan Ball
92 What unusual mode of transport did Ryan Tripp in 1997 use to travel from Salt Lake City to Washington - Lawnmower
93 What was Dwight Eisenhower's campaign slogan - I Like Ike
94 What is the national animal of Romania - Lynx
95 Which Dutch city is the home to electrical giants Philips - Eindhoven
96 What was the name of the 200-year-old pub in Summerseat that collapsed in 2015 when the River Irell flooded - The Waterside
97 What would have been your job in times gone by if you were called Keeler - Bargeman/Bargee
98 The English town name suffix 'wich' (as in Nantwich and Northwich) derives from the mining of what mineral - Salt
99 From which country's language to we get the word caviar - Turkey
100 What is the top award at the Cannes Film Festival - The Palme d'Or