Monday 8 November 2010

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?

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