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Here we go then. 15 Questions to a Quiz.     QUIZ 1

  1. Which legenday King rode a horse named Lemri?
  2. To which fish family do Anchovies belong?
  3. Who played Mama Rose in the 1993 remake of the film Gypsy ?
  4. which war did Rip Van Winkle sleep through?
  5. Which Pete Seeger song did Marlene Dietrich record in 1962?
  6. What does a fatiloquest do?
  7. Which two colours are usualy confused in Daltonism?
  8. True or False: Harmartiology is the study of sin
  9. Who married Clementine Hozier in 1908?
  10. What is the male equivalent of a bimbo ?
  11. Who was the first American Postmaster General?
  12. What is the exact name for the ceremony of conferring an knighthood?
  13. What do Americans call a lovebite ?
  14. Deep Purple is a variety of which vegetable?
  15. In Dr Who and Torchwood who plays Captain Jack?

 

 

QUIZ 2  Three questions , fifteen answers.

  1. Name the seven deadly sins.
  2. Name the six plays by William Shakespear that contain a geographical location in their title.
  3. Name the two of Snow White's dwarfs whose names begin with the letter S

 

 

QUIZ 3   From which musical shows do the following songs come?

  1. On The Street Where You Live
  2. The Farmer and the Cowhand
  3. Climb Every Mountain
  4. Shall We Dance
  5. America!
  6. Don't Cry For Me, Argentina
  7. The Lambeth Walk
  8. You'll Never Walk Alone
  9. Close Every Door
  10. Journey Of A Lifetime
  11. The Music Of The Night
  12. Memory
  13. There's No Business Like Show Business
  14. Sandy
  15. Summertime

 

DICTIONARY CORNER Quiz 4
 
 
The questions are all based on definitions given to the words in the Ladybird Dictionary aimed at children of six years and older.
 
            DEFINITION.                                                                        WORD BEGINS WITH
1.       The part of the day between midday and evening.                 A
2.       Hair on the face mostly beneath the mouth                              B
3.       An early stage in the life of a butterfly or moth,
          which is like a small worm with short legs                       C
4.       A large bag filled with soft material,such as feathers,
          used on a bed to take the place of all other coverings.          D
5.       A way out of a place                                                  E
6.          Money paid as a punishment                                        F
7.       A narrow opening                                                                 G
8.       A small insect-eating mammal which comes out only at
          night. It rolls itself into a ball and sticks up sharp
          spines when afraid.                                                 H
9.          Coloured liquid used for writing.                                     I
10.     The sixth month of the year.                                        J
11.     A smoked salted herring often eaten for breakfast.               K
12.     One of two soft pink edges to the mouth.                             L
13.     An animal that is a cross between a horse and a donkey.          M
14.     A wild plant covered with stinging hairs.                     N
15.     A bird with large eyes that flies at night.                     O
Science & Technology Quiz 5
  1. In a bucket of pure water, which would be the heaviest in total --- the hydrogen atoms or the oxygen atoms?
  2. Which form of carbon is most likely to be found in a led pencil?
  3. How many of the planets in the solar system are bigger than Earth?
  4. Which unit is defined as a the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Centigrade?
  5. To where did the Royal Observatory move in 1990?
  6. Who invented the ZX80 computer?
  7. The sun’s heat is derived from the fusion of hydrogen into which other element?
  8. Which organ of the human body is affected by Bright’s disease?
  9. Which engineer constructed the Stockton and Darlington railway, and provided the first locomotives?
  10. Which scientist was charged with heresy in 1633 for his view that the earth orbits the sun?
  11. Which element is found in all acids?
  12. Which common substance did the scientist Henry Cavendish prove was a compound of ‘inflammable air and dephlogisticated air’ in the eighteenth century?
  13. Which metal is the best conductor of both heat and electricity?
  14. Which gas, often referred to as marsh gas, has the chemical formula CH4?
  15. Aeroplane speed is often referred to by Mach numbers, what Mach number represents the speed of sound?
Musical Instruments   Quiz 6
  1. What is the smallest size of grand piano?
  2. What is the full name of the instrument usually called a ‘cello?
  3. With what musical instrument do you associate Larry Adler?
  4. What is the name of guitar of Tartar origin very popular among Russian peasantry?
  5. What is the name of the ancient Greek stringed instrument which resembles a small harp, but which is played with a plectrum?
  6. Name the principle instrument in a brass band.
  7. Name the four instruments in the brass section of the orchestra.
  8. Which instrument do you associate with the musician Julian Lloyd Webber?
  9. Which musical instrument does this describe? A large brass wind instrument having a tube, which is adjusted in length for different notes.
  10. Name the largest member of the violin family.
  11. To which section of the orchestra does the piccolo belong?
  12. How many keys are there on a standard piano keyboard?
  13. With which musical instrument do you associate Dizzy Gillespie?
  14. With which instrument is the musician James Galway associated?
  15. Name the low-pitched brass instrument with four valves, used in brass bands.
    Quiz 7
    1. Who played the lead in the films The Square Peg, A Stitch in Time and The Man of the Moment?
    2. Baron Temple of Mount Temple was British Prime Minister under which name?
    3. Which bird is also known as the windhover?
    4. What was the name of Charles Lindbergh’s plane?
    5. Who was the first golfer to win the US Masters four times?
    6. Which African river was first explored by Scottish surgeon Mungo Park?
    7. Who founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903?
    8. What do Spaniards traditionally eat as the New Year begins?
    9. Crested, Jackass, Fairy and Black-Footed are all species of what?
    10. Who became Prime Minister of France in 1940 at the age of 84?
    11. Which alloy contains 90% tin, 8% copper and 2% antimony?
    12. Which is the only kingdom in Africa?
    13. What is the cast-off skin of a snake called?
    14. Where would you find the Mount of Venus, the Mount of Mercury and the Mount of the Sun?
    15. In which 1930s musical, successfully revived in recent years, is Bill Snibson the central character?
     
     Quiz 8
    1. Who was the first signatory of the American Declaration of Independence?
    2. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
    3. Chaka, Dingaan and Cetewayo were leaders of which people?
    4. Who wrote the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
    5. In what country is the Algarve?
    6. In which film did Bob Hoskins play a black prostitutes minder?
    7. Who, in 1941, designed and made the first viable helicopter?
    8. Which country’s forces were defeated at Poltava by Russia in 1709?
    9. In what country is the port of Archangel?
    10. To which saint is Westminster Abbey dedicated?
    11. What is the setting for the opera Billy Budd?
    12. What is the name of the boy in the Winnie the Pooh books?
    13. In which film does the character Oddjob appear?
    14. One which circuit is motor racing’s Grand Prix d’Endurance run?
    15. Where in the human body would you find the fontanelle?
      Quiz 9                                  FISH
      Of the fifteen names listed here ten (10) are fish found in the sea around the coast of the UK.
      Five (5) are the real names of other types of UK creatures.
      On the answer page you will be told what the five non-fish actually are.
      1. Rock Goby.
      2. Lulworth Skipper.
      3. Five-Bearded Rockling.
      4. Pollock.
      5. Goosander
      6. Thick-Lipped Grey Mullet.
      7. Common Sea Snail.
      8. Grey Gurnard.
      9. Shag.
      10. Corkwing Wrasse.
      11. Cornish Sucker..
      12. Broad-Bodied Chaser.
      13. Father Lasher.
      14. The Cinnabar,
      15. Lumpsucker.
       
       
       
      Quiz 10                           FUNGI
      Of the fifteen names listed ten (10) are of fungi found in the UK.
      Four (4) are of creatures, and the other a wild flower, all found in the UK.
      On the answer page you will be told what the non-fungi actually are.
      1. Charcoal Burner.
      2. Shaggy Inkcap.
      3. True Lover’s Knot.
      4. Cep.
      5. Common Piddock.
      6. Tawny Grisette.
      7. Downy Emerald.
      8. Common Puffball.
      9. Fairy-Ring Champignon.
      10. Amethyst Deceiver.
      11. Common Bithynia.
      12. Stinkhorn.
      13. Sticky Mouse Ear.
      14. Fly Agaric.
      15. Wood Blewit.
        Quiz 11                        General Knowledge
        1. What would be collected by an arctophilist?
        2. Which battle of 1066 shares it’s name with a football league ground?
        3. How many squares are there on a Scrabble board?
        4. What letter of the alphabet is used to represent 500 in Roman numerals?
        5. Which English county had the longest coastline?
        6. How many dominoes are there in a set?
        7. If five equals wood, and ten equals tin, what does twenty-five equal?
        8. What is otalgia?
        9. Which character in fiction wrote a monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of tobacco?
        10. Which alcoholic drink was first made by a French monk from Hautivilliers?
        11. What is studied by a vexiliologist?
        12. In the Royal Navy, how many bells are sounded at the end of a dog watch?
        13. What name is given to the iron plates which hold the rails together on a railway track?
        14. If a piece of silver is hallmarked with an anchor, from which British city would if have come?
        15. Which country’s postage stamp bear in the inscription Soumi ?
         
        Quiz 12                         Number Ones
        Name the artist or group who were the first to have a UK number one hit single with the following songs.
        1. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
        2. Mamma Mia.
        3. Secret Love.
        4. Unchained Melody.
        5. Stand and Deliver.
        6. Clair.
        7. Shaddup You Face.
        8. Dance On.
        9. Puppy Love.
        10. Video Killed The Radio Star.
        11. She.
        12. Only You.
        13. Silver Lady.
        14. Billy Don’t Be A Hero.
        15. West End Girls.
          MUSIC Quiz 13
          1. Which Led Zeppelin song did Rolf Harris have a hit with in 1993?
          2. Which Bill played with The Comets?
          3. What was the title of the theme music to the tv series Van Der Valk?
          4. Which Jimmy wrote and sang the theme to the tv series Spender?
          5. In which country is the Sound Of Music set?
          6. Which Ivor wrote Keep The Home Fires Burning?
          7. What is the correct response to “See you later, alligator”?
          8. Which was the first Spice Girl to leave the group?
          9. Which group’s music featured in the film Pricilla, Queen of the Desert?
          10. In the Twelve Days of Christmas home many drummers were drumming?
          11. Vincent Furnier became better known under what name?
          12. What was the first UK number one for Queen?
          13. Which female vocalist was a member of the group Eurythmics?
          14. In which Aussie soap did Jason Donovan make his name?
          15. Who was the British member of The Monkees?
           
           
          MORE MUSIC Quiz 14
          1. Which part of his body did Keith Richards have insured for one million pounds?
          2. What was the first UK hit for Kate Bush?
          3. Which musical features the song Food Glorious Food?
          4. Which band included Phil Collins and Peter Gabrielle?
          5. Which band recorded the album The Joshua Tree?
          6. Which song starts with the line It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside?
          7. Which Frank was known as old blue eyes?
          8. Which pop star married Linda Eastman in the 1960s?
          9. Morten Harket was a member of which 80s group?
          10. Which pop star played Adrian’s mother in The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole?
          11. Which Disney animated film had the theme A Whole New World?
          12. Which singer recorded the album Immaculate Collection?
          13. Which song from the film A Woman In Red won an oscar?
          14. Noted for it’s contribution to American music, which city is the state capital of Tennessee?
          15. Who was the fatest milkman in the west?
           
           

 

 

 
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