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• Quiz Number #64320th June 2026

  Round 1
  

  1. Spelling – VINAIGRETTE. A dressing put on salad.

  2. How many of the four majors in golf are held at the same place every year?

  1

  3. What was the name of the most recent 100/1 outside winner of the Grand national (in 2009)?

  Mon Mome < | Minella Times | Don't Push It

  4. Which spacecraft developed by Lockheed Martin shares its name with a former Ford Motor Company car model?

  Orion

  5. True or False, the Italian word for butter is the same as the Spanish word for donkey?

  TRUE – Burro

  6. Simple Sums –

  Number of feet in a yard? (3) + Number of ¼ gill measures in a pint? (16)

  19

  7. Errol Brown was the lead singer of which band?

  Hot Chocolate

  8. TV: Ben Collins & Perry McCarthy were both revealed to have been which anonymous TV character?

  The Stig

  9. What EH is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?

  Event Horizon

  10. Price Is Right 50/50  – Which is more expensive? (quizprep – check data on day)

  A. 1 Litre Diesel at Tesco Silverburn at 12pm today? 188p

  B. Copy of Financial Times newspaper at Tesco today? 270p<

  11. What F is a type of passerine that is most famous example of Darwin’s findings?

  Finch

  12. Who was the British Prime Minister during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

  Harold Macmillan

  Final Rounds

  Wheel – Pop Punk Music

  1. Green Day asked to be woken up after the end of what?
  September

  2. Audio clip : Motown version of Avril Lavigne – “Sk8er Boi”. Name song title?
  Sk8er Boi

  3. Add together the missing numbers at the end of these band names. Blink + Sum?
  223 (182 + 41)

  4. Catchphrase – Clue – High Hopes
  Panic! At The Disco

  5. Captain Sensible co-founded which punk rock band in 1976?
  The Damned
  
  Double Up
  1. In standard poker rankings, which TWO hands are stronger than three of a kind but weaker than a full house?
  Straight | Flush

  2. GAA is a popular sport in Ireland. What do the A’s stand for?
  Athletic | Association (Gaelic Athletic Association)

  3. What are Norway’s 2 largest cities by population?
  Oslo | Bergen

  4. Trumpets are typically made from an alloy of which two metals?
  Copper | Zinc

  5. Aldi “lookalike” chocolate names for Mars & Twix?
  Titan | Jive

   Additional

  Countdown

  Answer: Waterline

  Letters: NEWRETAIL

  Hint: Often painted on the side of a ship.

  ##

  Tie Break

  Boxing record combined losses of Tyson Fury & Anthony Joshua?

  6

  Fury – 2 | AJ – 4

  Tie Break 2

  What is the narrowest width of the Strait of Hormuz? (in km)

  33km

  Tie Break 3

  What is the entire course length in yards of The Masters (golf)?

  7,555 yards

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These are my 2 go-to websites. Firstly find a 9 letter word by using www.crosswordsolver.org. Next head to wordsmith.org/anagram and find some interesting combinations of the letters.

Music Rounds

1 minute clip (play twice during presentation) with 5 songs from 5 different decades.

Format 1: Pull the first letter from each artist and it will spell out which 5 letter word?

Format 2: Give the teams the 5 letter word first, then play the clip and have them name each artist.

Here is a sample of our music round which can be used as a full round or just bonus points during a music question round.