Monday 8 November 2010

Next Quiz - Wednesday 1st December

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

Usual Ts and Cs:

Kick off at 8pm

£2 per player, maximum 5 to a team

The Bread and Roses is in Clapham Manor Street, off Clapham High Street
(Turn off the High Street when you get to the KFC)

The quiz is a no iPhone (& no Google Phone) zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this.

& the winners were...

Sheffield Wednesday with 83 points, followed by St Reatham Stranglers on 77 poins, and The B Team on 72 points

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 3rd November

Current affairs
How many Chilean miners were trapped down the mine?
Who won the Booker Prize?
Name both the teams in the current series of the Apprentice?
Whose funeral attracted thousands of mourners to the Isle of Man in October?
Which tube station is currently testing free wifi?
Which clothing company scrapped a new logo and reverted to the old one after widespread criticism?
Liverpool Football Club were recently bought by NESV - but what does NESV stand for?
Which beer is James May now advertising?
In which country did Russell Brand and Katy Perry get married?
Which relative of Tony Blair recently converted to Islam?

Picture Round
Celebs in Fancy Dress - A very opportunistic round, mainly using pics from Jonathan Ross' Halloween parties from the last couple of years.

Music Round
Intros - also pretty lazy - lots of intros from songs, although many did manage to fox people.

Celebrity books - which of these celebrities wrote the following 5 books?
7 Celebs – Lord Alan Sugar, Cheryl Cole, Chris Evans , Danny Dyer, Gok Wan, Judy Dench, Michael Cain
5 Books:
Memoirs of a Fruitcake
The Elephant to Hollywood
Through Thick & Thin
Through My Eyes
What you see is what you get

Years Ending in 0
In what year was John F Kennedy elected as US president?
In 1980, which Star Wars film was the highest grossing US movie?
Who challenged Margaret Thatcher for the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1990?
Who defeated Brazil to claim the 1950 (football) World Cup?
Who out of Buzz Aldrin, Ruth Rendell, Pope John Paul II or Steve McQueen was not born in 1930?

General Knowledge
Which character in Dad’s Army had the catchphrase “Doomed – we’re all Doomed” (surname only)?
Which food item has the marketing slogan ‘a hug in a mug’?
What colour plasters do people involved in food preparation have to wear if they cut themselves?
Which country does the word bungalow originate in?
What is the plural of mongoose?
Who is the only man to have played in 1,000 football league matches?
What newspaper column, blog and book (all sharing the same name) is Ben Goldacre famous for?
What are the only two chemical elements normally liquid at room temperature?
What was originally built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, then moved, and eventually destroyed in a fire in 1936?
On what day of the week do employees most frequently call in sick?

Monday 1 November 2010

Next Quiz - Wednesday 3rd November

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

Usual Ts and Cs:

Kick off at 8pm

£2 per player, maximum 5 to a team

The Bread and Roses is in Clapham Manor Street, off Clapham High Street
(Turn off the High Street when you get to the KFC)


The quiz is a no iPhone (& no Google Phone) zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this.

& the winners were...

Team Braeburn with 82%, followed by Say Something with 78% and Anonymous with 76%

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 6th October

Current affairs
How long, to the nearest hour, did it take the tickets for Glastonbury 2011 to sell out?
What was the final score in the Ryder Cup?
Which tube line was the least disrupted by Monday’s industrial action?
In which city is the Commonwealth Games taking place?
Which X Factor contestant has been revealed to already have a record contract in the US (first name only)?
In which city is the Tory party conference being held?
Who will play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming film about Queen?
Who won cricket's County Championship in the last hour's play of the 2010 season?
Which BBC drama series reappeared for its 9th series on 20th September 2010?
Which of the following words did Ed Miliband use most in his Labour conference speech: Generation, Country or Government?

Picture Round
The theme was Clapham Residents, past and present, and included Jack Dee, Leslie Ash, and Kingsley Amis

Music Round
The theme was songs or artists with foreign words in them, including Depeche Mode, Scritti Politti, and the song Living La Vida Loca.

British Foods
What Midlands town is associated more than any other with pork pies?
What name is given to a small, round cake filled with currants and made from flaky pastry?
What name is given to a bun made from yeast dough, mixed with eggs, fruit peel, sugar and currants and wrapped into a roll?
Arbroath Smokies are made from which kind of fish?
in which century did Britain's first fish & chip shops open?

Celebrity Perfumes
Match these 5 celebrities - Beyonce, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Paris Hilton, & Sarah Jessica Parker,
To these 5 scents - Can Can, Circus Fantasy, Heat, Glow, & NYC

General Knowledge
In which state is the city of Denver?
Which road connects Tottenham Court Road to Leicester Square?
What does the acronym Quantas stand for?
Which medical procedure did Dr Christian Barnard perform for the first time?
Who is a made up character out of: Captain Birdseye, maker of frozen food, Mr Kellogg, maker of breakfast cereal, and Mr Kipling, maker of baked goods?
Which superhero is the alter-ego of Little Eric (of 29 Acacia Road)?
Which of Canada and Australia has the greater land area?
Which tube line is the busiest, in terms of passenger journeys per year?
Which peninsula forms the southernmost point of England?
Paintings by which deceased criminal were sold at a London auction in August 2010?