Quiz Number #549
Round 1
1. Spelling: CONSENSUS
2. History Timeline: Which of these WW2 episodes happened first? Rudolf Hess captured in Eaglesham | Germany surrenders at Stalingrad | Germany invades Denmark
Germany Invades Denmark
3. What is / was Derek Chisora’s occupation? Psychic Medium | Boxer < | Politician
Boxer
4. Who runs the annual convention called the Met Gala? Met Office | Metropolitan Police | Vogue magazine <
Vogue magazine
5. Which group performed the official song for Euro 96? New Order | Lightning Seeds | Simply Red <
Simply Red
6. Which Mary Poppins song includes lines: Kick your knees up, Round the chimney & Flap like a birdie?
Step In Time
6. Which E has the chemical formula CH3CH2OH and is present on the majority of your tables in this pub?
Ethanol (alcohol)
8. Which educational institution takes its name from an inventor and a goldsmith?
Heriot-Watt
9. Mystery year: Cameron & Salmond sign the Edinburgh Agreement. Man City win the league in dramatic style. AGUEROOOOOO! McIlroy wins the US PGA & for HM Queen it’s the big Diamond year.
2012
10. What P is the smallest and most common type of bat that is found nativley in the UK?
Pipistrelle
11. Which British racing driver won the Miami F1 Grand Prix in 2024 and has featured several times on the podium so far this season?
Lando Norris
12. Johnny Marr first achieved fame as the guitarist and co-songwriter of which band?
The Smiths
Final Round
Connect 4. (4 quiz questions, for question 5, for number 5, find the connection. This week one of the answers is a phonetic misspell)
1. The Manx cat is unusual because it has no… what?
Tail
2. Which R means put (the profit on a previous stake) back into the same scheme.
Reinvest (*PHONETIC MISPELL)
3. Which 2004 film starring Sandra Bullock, tells interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption?
Crash
4. Which 2010 Take That song (about God wiping out the earth) was the first to feature Robbie Williams after he briefly rejoined the group?
Flood
5. CONNECTION –
GATE
TAIL | REINVEST * | CRASH | FLOOD
TAILGATE, REINVESTIGATE*, GATECRASH, FLOODGATE
Final 5
6. Languages: If someone related to you is la prima (in Spanish), what relation are they to you?
Cousin
7. What is the French name of the annual ultramarathon held in Morocco, in the Sahara Desert. Described as the “Toughest Footrace on Earth”?
Marathon des Sables
8. With the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2010, who was made Secretary of State for Education?
Michael Gove
9. What is the base number in the Binary system?
2 (definition notes: The base of a number system refers to the total number of digits that are actually used in the given number system)
10. Which Disney film had scenes of mice travelling by air on an albatross called Orville?
The Rescuers
Additional
Countdown
Answer: HYGIENIST
Letters: Eight Yins
Clue: Someone who offers a professional teeth cleaning service.
Tie Break: Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of INXS. What age was he when he died?
37
