Quiz 34 - freequiz4000

1 MY ONE SOUTHERN IGLOO TEA (anagram of a sixties hit song although written in the twenties) - Are You Lonesome Tonight
2 What colour is carnelian - Red
3 Donald Baxter McMillan compiled the first dictionary to translate which language into English - Eskimo (Inuit)
4 Which British model was named The Face of ´66' by the Daily Express newspaper - Twiggy
5 Chariot is a magazine aimed at which part of the community - Disabled
6 What type of entertainer was Grock - Clown
7 Which cheese is usually grated over pasta dishes - Parmesan
8 Why do Fools Fall in Love, Goody Goody and I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent were all hits for which singer, who died aged just 25 - Frankie Lymon
9 What modern habit do some people carry out which harks back to the pagan habit of thanking tree dwelling spirits for favours received - Touch wood
10 Who won the Olympic gold for the women's javelin at the 1984 Olympics - Tessa Sanderson
11 Restormel, Erewhon, Cupani and Romeo are all varieties of which garden flower - Sweet pea
12 Which member of England's 1966 football World Cup winning team ended up by playing the most league games in their careers - Alan Ball (743)
13 The Aire Gap is an important route by rail, road and canal through which range of hills in Britain - Pennines
14 Which neighbourhood in Manhattan, New York is also known as Clinton and Midtown West - Hell's Kitchen
15 Under what name did champion boxer William Harrison fight - Jack Dempsey
16 What two colours are on the flag of Portugal - Green and red
17 The colour of what in China indicated a mandarin's rank - Button on his hat
18 Which multi-coloured diamond pattern, frequently seen on knitted socks and sometimes on jumpers is named after a Scottish clan - Argyle
19 In American football what does WR stand for - Wide Receiver
20 What colour are the spots on a blue tit's eggs - Red
21 What was the first UK number one for Wizzard - See My Baby Jive
22 What part of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner is called the merrythought - Turkey wishbone
23 Stuebenville was an American pilot of which British TV comedy series - The Likely Lads
24 In Einstein's famous equation E = M C squared what does the C stand for - Speed of light
25 Who won the 2014 Strictly Come Dancing final - Caroline Flack
26 Who was Time Magazine's 'person of the year' for 1952 - Queen Elizabeth 11
27 Bora, Helenor, Magres, and Marian are varieties of which vegetables - Swede
28 What was the address of the Beatles Apple Studio - 3 Savile Row
29 The stories of which legendary American cowboy were probably invented by Edward O'Reilly in 1923 and are now considered 'fakelore' - Pecos Bill
30 A Beijing Black is a breed of which animal - Pig
31 Complete the proverb curiosity killed the cat - Satisfaction brought it back
32 How many minutes does a hockey match last - Seventy
33 What was British Leyland's first version of the Honda called, it came out in 1979 - Triumph Acclaim
34 What word has appeared on every coin struck in the US since1792 - Liberty
35 Laconia is a southern region of which European country - Greece
36 Who killed Spencer Percival the only British prime minister to have been assassinated - John Bellingham
37 In which county does Kinder Scout, the highest peak in the Peak District, lie - Derbyshire
38 In Edinburgh what are wynds - Narrow lanes or alleys
39 What has Fort Lamy the capital of Chad now become - N'djamena
40 What was the only UK hit for Tammy Jones - Let Me Try Again
41 By what name is lactobacillus bulgaris more commonly known - Yoghurt
42 Who was the voice of the toy lion in The Teletubbies - Eric Sykes
43 A calendar usually with astronomical data is usually called what - Almanac
44 What word can be linked to Collector, Parking and Return - Ticket
45 Lexicology is the study of what - Words
46 Fowler's Vacola, Mason, and Weck are brands/designs of what - Glass jars
47 In which Bond film can an AMC Hornet Hatchback Special car spread wings and fly - The Man With the Golden Gun
48 At which profession was Vaslav Nijinski well known - Ballet dancer
49 Which company opened the first burger restaurant in the UK in 1954 - Wimpy, on Coventry Street London
50 Which musician founded the Aldeburgh Festival - Benjamin Britten
51 Where do pelagic creatures live - In the sea
52 What is the food-shaped nickname of the London 2012 Olympics velodrome stadium - The Pringle
53 What is the largest city in New Mexico - Albuquerque
54 'All pull together' is the motto of which African country - Kenya
55 At which prison was the wartime traitor Lord Haw Haw hanged - Wandsworth
56 Who wrote Bitter Sweet and Private Lives - Noel Coward
57 What is the first name of Gordon Brown's wife - Sarah
58 In what school game does furking occur (that's right furking) - Eton Wall Game
59 The country name for which bird is the 'rud' or ruddock - Robin
60 Which musical term literally means a joke in Italian - Scherzo
61 What foodstuff is the basis for Quorn - Mushrooms
62 What was the name of the horse ridden by Lucas McCain in the TV western series The Rifleman - Razor
63 In which animated series is Hank Hill married to Peggy Hill - King of the Hill
64 What is the meaning of the suffix sex on some town names - Saxon
65 What prop must gurners use in competition - Horse collar
66 What does the cockney rhyming slang Johnnie Horner mean - Corner
67 If in the NATO Alphabet Alpha stands for A what word stands for X - X-Ray
68 Who are the creators of Spitting Image - Peter Fluck and Roger Law
69 According to Roger Hargreaves, who wrote The Mister Men: which is his favourite - Mister Silly
70 Mekong is a popular drink in Thailand what is it made from - Rice (it is a type of rice whiskey)
71 What was the Oscar winning song from Working Girl - Let The River Run
72 What is the only day of the week named after a goddess - Friday
73 In which sport is the Harry Sunderland Trophy awarded - Rugby League
74 Where is the Cutty Sark on show - Greenwich
75 Which American state is nicknamed the Palmetto state - South Carolina
76 Where in New Hampshire were the World Bank and the IMF conceived towards the end of WW2 - Bretton Woods
77 What product was advertised with the strap line 'Babies love it' - Cow and Gate Milk Food
78 Who sent Stanley to look for Livingstone - Gordon Bennett
79 What would a fusilatelist be a collector of - Phone cards
80 In which sport would you find positions called driver, bucket, hole, and point - Water Polo
81 What ailment kills the most fruit flies - Constipation
82 Which board game was invented by Anthony E Pratt in 1943 - Cluedo
83 Which Beatles Track includes the lyrics 'You say yes, I say no, you say stop and I say go, go, go' - Hello Goodbye
84 If you were eating brochan in Scotland what would you be dining on - Porridge
85 Which company launched Game Boy the hand held computer games console in 1990 - Nintendo
86 Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch brought which fictional village and RAF station to radio - Much Binding in the Marsh
87 Which cricket pundit was heard to say, The Queen's Park Oval, 'exactly as its name suggests - absolutely round.' - Tony Crozier
88 In a calendar year how many months have exactly thirty days - Four
89 What is the collective noun for Conies - Bury
90 Discontinued in 2000, the UK tax relief scheme for housebuying mortgage interest was known by what abbreviation - MIRAS (Mortgage Interest Relief At Source)
91 Lye is an old English word for what - Caustic soda
92 If your surname is Martin what nickname would you be likely to have - Pincher
93 According to Australian slang what is underground mutton - Plate of rabbit
94 Which actress to be was crowned Miss Sweden (1951) - Anita Ekberg
95 In Blazing Saddles who played the Governor - Mel Brooks
96 Who did Kate Bush duet with on the 1986 top ten hit Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel
97 At birth what colour is a white whale - Black
98 What are the names of the two mascots for the 2012 Olympics - Wenlock and Mandeville
99 What did the ancient Greeks use instead of soap - Olive oil
100 In 1979 what did President Carter apologise to Australia about - Skylab falling on their country