Quiz Number #503
Round 1
1. Spelling: necessities
Bare Necessities
2. Shannon Airport is situated closest to which city? Cork | Limerick < | Galway
Limerick
3. If you have a million pennies how many pounds have you got?
£10,000
4. Cadbury, Argos, Harveys Furniture & Comparethemarket.com have all been “proud sponsors” of what?
Coronation Street
5. What nickname was given to the Beijing National Stadium during the 2018 Olympics?
Birds Nest
6. Which S can be New Years eve in Germany, a cartoon cat or a famous disco singer from the late 70’s?
Sylvester
7. Which S can be a small valley, a fictional TV prison or a rock band formed in the 60s?
Slade
8. David Beckham was playing for which club when he finally retired in 2013?
Paris Saint-Germain
9. In professional competition, which is longer? Snooker Table < | Oche in Darts | Table Tennis Table
Snooker Table
10. The road sign called “Queues Likely” shows how many cars?
3
Round 2
Entertainment
1. From which of the home nations is the TV presenter Huw Edwards from?
Wales
2. Audio clip – Shawshank Redemption
3. The Connells were a band who have only had one hit in UK. Which 2 numbers made up the name of their hit
’74-’75
4. Charlie Brooker, the writer & TV presenter who created Black Mirror is married to which TV personality?
Konnie Huq
5. Razzle Dazzle is a song in which musical?
Chicago
BLOCKBUSTERS
1. Which TS is the location of the New Year “ball drop” in America?
Times Square
2. Which PC was made to get Cinderella to the ball?
Pumpkin Coach
3. Which BJ was the name of Katie Price’s first autobiography?
Being Jordan
4. Widely used in WW2, the M4 is commonly known as what ST?
Sherman Tank
5. Which DS is a range of Cantonese brunch dishes meaning “touch the heart”?
Dim Sum
Final Round
1. Which Belgian tennis player won Wimbledon & the French Open in 2003?
Kim Clijsters
2 .The core section of West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Glasgow Central is how long? 399 miles < | 1,229 miles | 3006 miles
399 miles
3. Travelling to which island, do you have the coice of Paphos or Larnaca airports?
Cyprus
4. Which 2 airlines were the 2 main user operators of Concorde?
British Airways & Air France
5. Which device on a plane measures the distance of it’s point above sea level?
Altimeter
6. An iron cross is a gymnastics skill on which peice of equipment?
Rings
7. Which unit, calculated as the reciprocal of the focal length, is used to measure the power of a lens?
The dioptre
8. In the opening line of “The Waste Land”, what is the cruellest month?
April
Countdown
Answer: DEPRIVING
Letters: Driven Pig
Clue: Keeping you from having it.
Tie Break – In which year did Concorde make its final commercial flight?
2003
