Download 28 What colour is umber? A shade of BROWN

1. Which Disney film does the song ‘When You Wish Upon a Star’ come from?
PINOCCHIO
2. How many Earp brothers were there at the Gunfight at the OK Corral? THREE
3. Which Roman road ran across England from Exeter to Lincoln? FOSSE WAY
4. Which two disciplines make up the Nordic Combined winter sports event? (2 parts)
CROSS-COUNTRY SKI-ING and SKI-JUMPING
5. Where would a Scottish fishing boat be registered if it had BF on its side? BANFF
6. Adding which liqueur turns a Screwdriver into a Wallbanger? GALLIANO
7. What is the highest-grossing stage show ever (over $7 billion in 15 years)?
‘THE LION KING’
8. What is added to steel to make it ‘stainless steel’? CHROMIUM
9. What was first published in Edinburgh in 1768, moved to Chicago over 100 years
ago and now won’t be published again? ‘ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA’
10 What is the SI unit of force/weight? NEWTON
11 In which country did the word ‘ketchup’ originate? CHINA
12 Which film would have been called ‘Dar-el-Beida’ in its native language?
‘CASABLANCA’
13 How would a court case held ‘in camera’ be conducted? IN PRIVATE
14 In which Anglo-Saxon poem is the monster Grendel killed? ‘BEOWULF’
15 James Bond’s family motto is ‘Orbis non suficit’ What’s that in English?
‘THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH’
16 What is surrounded by amniotic fluid? A BABY IN THE WOMB
17 Which dog accumulated over 550 hours of airtime on BBC TV? PETRA
18 Exactly 50 years ago, ‘Yeah Yeah’ was number 1 in the charts. Who sang it?
GEORGIE FAME (and the Blue Flames)
19 What astronomical term was coined in 1967 for the site of a collapsed giant star?
A BLACK HOLE
20 When it calls, which bird is said to ‘boom’? A BITTERN
KIRKCALDY QUIZ LEAGUE
ROUND 2 QUESTIONS
21 What is the name of Dennis the Menace’s pet pig? RASHER
22 Which 2 countries joined briefly to form the United Arab Republic? (2-parts)
EGYPT and SYRIA (self-corrected)
23 Who has been the only F1 racer to become world champion driving a car that he
had designed? JACK BRABHAM
24 When King William of Orange died, his opponents toasted ‘The little man in the
black velvet waistcoat’ Who or what was that? A MOLE (his horse stumbled in a
mole’s burrowing, he fell and died from his injuries)
25 How many boys made up The Pet Shop Boys? TWO
26 What took place in a garage in Clark Street, Chicago in 1929?
THE ST VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE
27 In modern Iraq, the old region of Mesopotamia means ‘between the rivers’.
Which rivers? (2-part question) TIGRIS and EUPHRATES
28 What colour is umber? A shade of BROWN
29 Where in the human body is a bone that is not attached to any other?
In the NECK (the hyoid bone)
30 Which country does the brew Steinlager come from? NEW ZEALAND
31 Which creatures are described as leporine? HARES
32 Which English Championship football team, nicknamed ‘The Bees’, play at
Griffin Park? BRENTFORD
33 Which musical does the song ‘Somewhere’... (there’s a place for us’) come from?
‘WEST SIDE STORY’
34 In which decade was the first widely-accepted credit card issued? 1950s (1958 –
AmeriCard…. later to become Visa)
35 What English river is the surname of Little Nell in Dickens’ ‘Old Curiosity Shop’
TRENT
36 Which historic battle took place on October 25th (St Crispin’s Day)? AGINCOURT
37 Most of the UK’s production of what edible herbaceous perennial is grown in a
small
area between Leeds and Wakefield? RHUBARB
38 ‘My mistake; four coffins’ What’s the Western? ‘A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS’
39 If 2015 is the sesqui-centennial anniversary of something, when did it happen?
1865 … (150 years ago)
40 Complete this quotation from The Ancient Mariner: ‘Water, water everywhere
and
all the boards did shrink, Water, water everywhere ………….. ‘
‘Nor any drop to drink’