Quiz 38 - freequiz4000

1 A CALM COMMAND DOLL is an anagram of which former English football International - Malcolm Macdonald
2 In The Banana Splits, what sort of animal was Drooper - Lion
3 Hercule Poirot claims he has the finest what in London - Moustache
4 Which was the first nation to scrap milk bottles in favour of plastic cartons - Sweden
5 In which city were the group Athlete formed - London
6 Hellen was the mythological patriarch of which European country - Greece
7 The fingerprints of which animal are almost exactly the same as those for human beings - Koala bears
8 Which darts player was known as Barney Rubble - Raymond van Barneveld
9 In what year was the big ball made compulsory in the Open Golf Championship - Nineteen seventy four
10 Who was the first billionaire among African-American women - Oprah Winfrey
11 What is the capital of Sicily - Palermo
12 What product was advertised with the slogan Dick and Jane is dead - Encyclopaedia Britannica
13 In 1974 who did Ian Ball try to kidnap in London's Mall - Princess Anne
14 Where in 1901 was Britain's first submarine built - Barrow-in-Furness
15 What is de-ionised water - Distilled water
16 In weaponry what is an ATGW - Anti Tank Guided Weapon
17 Who wrote the sitcom A Fine Romance - Bob Larbey
18 Aircraft from which country display the marking HK - Colombia
19 In which century did The Renaissance begin - Fifteenth
20 In which sport might you see a point guard - Basketball
21 In what year did Oh What A Circus by David Essex get into the top ten - Nineteen seventy eight
22 What do the initials MI stand for in MI6 - Military Intelligence
23 Which television island gave well-heeled guests the chance to live out their dreams in the 1970's - Fantasy Island
24 In so-called text speak what does TMI mean - Too much information
25 What is the collective noun for Sea fowl - Cloud
26 Which English midlands town did Slade originate from - Wolverhampton
27 How many wooden blocks are in a traditional game of Jenga - Fifty four
28 Bison is the slang term for which betting odds - Five to two
29 What position in politics was held by Jimmy Carter before he became president - Governor of Georgia
30 An Australian would call it a bottle shop what would we know it as - Off Licence
31 Unst, and Vaila are part of which Scottish island group - Shetlands
32 Which stately home in Derbyshire is the seat of the Curzon family - Kedleston Hall
33 In which county is Aldershot barracks - Hampshire
34 Who was the pilot of the first space shuttle mission to go into orbit - John Young
35 Which British aircraft manufacturer built the World War Two torpedo bomber the Swordfish - Fairey
36 What is the largest land-locked country in Africa - Chad
37 What is the technical term for raining - Precipitation
38 The town of Pisa is in which Italian region - Tuscany
39 What is the crouched position in downhill ski racing on smooth straight slopes called - The egg position
40 What were golf balls filled with before elastic thread - Gutta percha
41 Which criminal featured on The Sex Pistols No One is Innocent - Ronnie Biggs
42 What type of cheese is traditionally made in the Yorkshire Dales villages of Hawes and Aysgarth - Wensleydale
43 In The Flowerpot Men who was the voice of Weed - Gladys Whitred
44 In which American TV sitcom did the Tanner family appear in the eighties - ALF
45 In which ocean are the Seychelles - Indian
46 In rugby union which nation has a silver fern emblem on their strip - New Zealand
47 Complete the proverb, discretion is the better part of - Valour
48 What grain is used to make semolina - Wheat
49 At which English port were all four of Captain Cook's ships built - Whitby
50 What is the emblem of the Rainforest Alliance, which promotes and certifies sustainable rainforest business globally - A green frog
51 In which sitcom did the character Gary Strang appear - Men Behaving Badly
52 From which song do these lyrics come "I never thought that it would happen with me and my girl from Clapham" - Up The Junction (Squeeze)
53 At what sport has the footballing Neville brothers sister been capped by England - Netball
54 What office staple was invented by Ralph Wedgewood in 1806 - Carbon paper
55 What is a male honeybee called - Drone
56 Bandar Seri Begawan International airport is in which country - Brunei
57 Fantasia, Firesweet, Le Grand, and Nectar Babe, are varieties of which fruit - Nectarines
58 In place names such as Harrogate what does gate mean - Road
59 Who won the award for the Best Actor at the 2015 BAFTA film awards - Eddie Redmayne
60 Which cartoon character is stalked by Doctor Von Goosewing - Count Duckula
61 What was the best-selling single in Britain in the year 1961 - Runaway (Del Shannon)
62 What do leatherjackets turn into - Craneflies
63 What player scored the first live televised hat-trick in a Football League game - Ian Rush
64 On which motor racing circuit would you encounter Clarke Kurve - Hockenheim
65 What are ring roads called in the United States - Beltways
66 Who was ousted in Nasser's 1954 coup - General Neguib
67 An advert for which product appeared in the middle of Monica Lewinsky's only British TV interview over the Clinton affair - Vanish Stain Remover
68 How many people were killed in the infamous Peterloo massacre - Eleven
69 Who would use a flensing knife in his job - Fisherman
70 Which European country was invaded by Russian tanks and troops in 1956 - Hungary
71 Who designed the Vickers Wellington bomber - Barnes Wallis
72 What in the world of public transport is a Routemaster - Double decker bus
73 Which film used the tag line "What you call hell, he calls home" - Rambo
74 Which pop group contains the sons of fifties and sixties folk singer Ian Campbell - UB 40
75 What is the Z worth in Polish Scrabble - One point
76 What is the name of the woollen fabric that covers a billiard table - Baize
77 The ancient land of Thrace would be in which modern country - Bulgaria
78 How old was Ronald Reagan when he became US President - Sixty nine
79 In how many Bond films did Lois Maxwell play Miss Moneypenny - Fourteen
80 What colour are Smurfs - Blue
81 In film making what does a Blimp do - Covers camera to reduce noise
82 Sagres beer is a premium beer brand from which country - Portugal
83 Which band started life as 'Feedback' and then became 'The Hype' before settling on their current name - U2
84 To which woman is The Beatles song 'Something' dedicated - Patti Boyd
85 Who in 1985 was the second European to win the US Masters golf tournament - Bernhard Langer
86 What is the correct nautical name for the upper edge of a ship's side - Gunwale
87 Which former president formally nominated Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the Democratic Party candidates in the US 2012 general election - Bill Clinton
88 Which Spanish province is known as the Garden of Spain - Andalusia
89 What is the wrong with the famous painting Washington Crossing the Delaware - It shows the American flag which had not even been designed then
90 What Spartan king led a small army of 300 Spartans against a vastly superior Persian force in the Battle of Thermopylae - Leonidas
91 What would a noseconologist study - Hospital Administration
92 Which known unit used to measure weight is based on beans - Carat
93 Which treaty was signed by twelve Western Nations on the April 4, 1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty which led to the creation of NATO
94 What sport is played by Peel Thunder - Australian rules football
95 What is a gastropod - Snail
96 What radio programme used Berceuse from Faure's Dolly Suite as its signature tune - Listen with Mother
97 Who wrote the musical Whistle Down The Wind - Andrew Lloyd Webber
98 What was the name of the Ooh you are awful girl in the Dick Emery show - Mandy
99 In which TV series does a nightclub called the Bada Bing feature - The Sopranos
100 Name Rex Harrison's wife who died from leukaemia in 1959 - Kay Kendall