Quiz Number #521

Round 1

1. Spelling: TWELFTHS

2. “Youngs” is a brand that specialize in what type of frozen food? Seafood < | Ice Lollys | Waffles
Seafood

3. Crossword clue: Bad-tempered, uncooperative or argumentative.
CANTANKEROUS

4. A female Bear, Pig & Badger are all called what?
Sow

5. At the Olympics, long jumper has a runway track of how long to run and build up speed before jumping? 10m | 20m | 40m < | 80m
40m

6. Benidorm is located within which of the Spanish “costas”?
Costa Blanca

7. History: Which of these famous people from the 20th century was alive most recently?
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso <
Marilyn Monroe

8. What was the Virgin Atlantic Flyer?
Balloon

9. If you buy a bottle of still wine (12% abv) at the supermarket, how much tax (excise duty exc VAT) is paid?
£0.89
£2.67 <
£3.21
£6.40

10. Daniel Ek is a Swedish billionaire who founded what? Ikeazon  | Spotify < | SAABA | Hurdy-Gurdy Meatballs?
Spotify 

Round 2 

Entertainment

1. Who played the title role in the 2023 film Oppenheimer?
Cillian Murphy

2. Which Netflix drama series is based on the life of a self-made millionaire from Burnley called Mr Fishwick?
Bank Of Dave

3. Song Title (audio clip slowed down)
Gimme Gimme Gimme

4. Actor Link : Robert Carlyle
The World Is Not Enough
28 Weeks Later
Trainspotting
The Full Monty

5. Which HL is a video game, part of the Wizarding World franchise that is one of this years top selling video games?
Hogwarts Legacy

CONNECT 4 (4X QUIZ QUESTIONS & FOR NUMBER 5 FIND THE CONNECTION) 

1. In Spanish, which word can be translated as “vacaciones”?
Holiday

2. Who wrote & directed the film Snatch?
Guy Ritchie

3. Which song Webber / Rice song chronicling the life of Eva Perón includes the line “The truth is, I never left you”?
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

4. Which monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine began in 1892, the british version launching in 1916?
VOGUE

5. Link : MADONNA 

Final Round 

1. There are 6 pieces on a chess board. using their proper names, give me the 1st and last in alphabetical order?
Bishop – Rook

2. What type of Ford car, that was discontinued in 1993, features in the NATO phonetic alphabet?
Sierra

3. There are 2 countries beginning with A that have borders with Georia to the north and Iran to the south. 1 point for each? (clue capitals Yerevan & Baku)
Armenia | Azerbaijan

4. Which MM was Secret Squirrel’s sidekick?
Morocco Mole

5. Which Scottish football club’s name derives from the Roman name for Ireland?
Hibs

6. What 2 words (first beginning with F) are engraved onto the Victoria Cross?
For Valour

7. The Moon’s smaller mass and radius combine to produce a gravitational field at its surface only what approx. fraction of that on Earth?
(The Moon’s smaller mass and radius combine to produce a gravitational field at its surface only what approx. fraction of that on Earth?)
1/3 (one third)
1/6 (one sixth) <
1/11 (one-eleventh)

8. Rugby Union postions: There are 3 forwards, the hooker in the middle and 2 props either side. What are the names of these prop position       s. (Usually wearing 1 & 3 shirts)
Loosehead & Tighthead 

Countdown 

Countdown:
Answer: GATHERING
Letters: GINGER HAT
Clue: A get together.

Tie Break: How many full days have passed since David Cameron was Prime Minister?
2679 days (quizprep – calculate date from today minus 13 July 2016)