Quiz Number #450

Round 1 

1. Spelling: sherbet:  sweet dry powder that tastes fizzy and is eaten as a sweet.

2. In the world of transferring money, what do the letters BACS stand for, as in, BACS transfer?
Bankers’ Automated Clearing System

3. What is Kathmandu? A city | A mountain | religous cult
City

4. Who was the Scottish-born journalist, famous for founding the New York Herald, gives his name to a hot air balloon race cup & who’s name is often used in place of a swear word?
Gordon Bennett

5. What is the denomination of banknote issued in Scotland?
£100

6. Which is oldest: Channel Tunnel | Euro Disney | Ed Sheeran? (date opened or born)
Ed Sheeran

7. Which country gives it’s name to a 2005 film made by DreamWorks Animation?
Madagascar

8. Which one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shares his name with the guy that painted the Sistine Madonna?
Raphael

9. TF: The term Bonsai was created by the writers of the film Karate Kid?
FALSE

10. The Golden Girls was a show about four older women who share a home in Miami, Florida. Starring Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan & Estelle Getty. How many are still alive?
NONE 

Round 2

Entertainment

1. Which day of the week is the Glastonbury Legend set performed. When a veteran entertainer such as Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie or Kylie Minogue go on and perform their greatest hits?
Sunday

2. AUDIO CLIP

3. Which 1979 Hip Hop song opens with the words” I said-a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie, To the hip hip hop-a you don’t stop the rock, It to the bang-bang boogie, say up jump the boogie, To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
Rappers Delight

4. Patricia Routledge is most famous for her TV role as Hyacinth Bucket. She also starred as the title character in which crime drama in the 90s?
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

5. There were 5 crime families in the Godfather: Tattaglia, Barzini, Cuneo, Stracci …
Corleone

Blockbusters

1. Which CT is levied by local authorities to cover the cost of local amenities and services?
Council Tax

2. Dogs: Which AT is the largest of all terrier breeds?
Airedale Terrier

3. Which SB was one of the leaders of the Native Americans in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Sitting Bull

4. The phrase ‘Abandon all hope ye who enter here’ is found in which DC?
Divine Comedy

5. Which SA was a latext rubber doll dressed as a wrestler with expandable limbs?
Stretch Armstrong

Final Round 

1. Sort these inventions into order, earliest 1st. dates that patents were submitted.  Radio | Light Bulb | Telephone
Telephone > Light Bulb > Radio

2. What was the name of the giant robot dog vehicles in Empire Strikes Back?
AT-AT Walkers (All Terrain Armored Transport)

3. Red Kite, Buzzard, Hobby, Peninj mandible. Which one of these is not a bird of prey
Peninj Mandible

4. Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of what? Heights | Pain | Birds
Heights

5. The Future of an Illusion, On Aphasia & Beyond the Pleasure Principle are all books by who?
Sigmund Freud

6. Which holiday destination is often to refferred to as George Cross Island?
Malta

7. The largest olympic bobsleigh carries how many?
4

8. Football rules: Are goalkeepers permitted to handle the ball when received directly from a team-mate’s throw in?
No (back-pass rule) 

Tie break:  

How many British Prime Ministers were educated at the University of Oxford?
28 

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Countdown

 

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