Quiz Number #584

Round 1

1. Spelling: CHAUFFEUR & LIMOUSINE

2. Tech: A CSV is a text file format that stores data in a table structure. What does it stand for?
Comma-Separated Values

3. Who is the government-approved regulatory for Royal Mail under the Postal Services Act 2011?
Ofcom

4. It’s __insert date__. In how many of these places has it not reached 8pm yet? New York | Aukland | Faroe Islands | Lanzarote
Answer Varies (1)

5. “I Know Him So Well” is a song from which musical?
Chess

6. Which M is a mixture of diced vegetables cooked with butter on low heat without colouring or browning?
Mirepoix

7. Which actor played Eddie Felson in a 1961 film, then again in a 1986 sequel film?
Paul Newman

8. In London, if people talk about the “apples and pears”, they are talking about what?
Stairs

9. In competitive swimming, which stroke is considered the slowest of the 4 strokes?
Breaststroke

10. Which of these was the first to be a victim of a shooting? Tupac Shakur | Gianni Versace | Osama bin Laden | Frank Warren
Frank Warren

11. In the 1990’s “Panayiotou and others v Sony Music Entertainment” was a High Court case involving which celebrity?
George Michael (real name Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou)

12. Excluding maritime boundaries, how many land borders does the USA have?
2 (Canada & Mexico)

Final Round

Blockbusters

1. Which DC performed songs on the soundtrack to the film Charlie’s Angels in 2000?
Destinys Child

2. In 1983, which PS opened the Hippodrome, London. Known as the “World’s Greatest Disco”?
Peter Stringfellow

3. Which TS was the location of what is known within China as the “June Fourth Incident”?
Tiananmen Square

4. Which SN was a rodent created by Beatrix Potter?
Squirrel Nutkin

5. Which GV spans 21 arches over the River Finnan?
Glenfinnan Viaduct

Final 5

6. Which of these books was published first?
On the Origin of Species | Dracula | Nineteen Eighty-Four | Finnegans Wake

7. Which D, is a word considered to be the opposite of Evergreen?
Deciduous

8. Oxford Road Station is a major train station in the centre of which city?
Manchester

9. Jason Banks is a three-times world champion in what? Fly Fishing | Indoor Bowls | Mixed Martial Arts | Scrabble
Indoor Bowls

10. 15 people on the planet are centibillionaires (according to Bloomberg). To be a centibillionaire, you have to have how many billion dollars?
100

Additional

Countdown

ANSWER: ADJECTIVE

Letters: Jet Advice

Clue: Words like enormous, doglike, silly, green, fun, and fast.

Bonus / Tie Break

1% Club Question:

You see me once in June, once in October, twice in November, and none in March. What am I?
E (the letter)

The Royal Navy has 4 SSBN’s (Ballistic Missile Submarines) and all of their names start with a V. What are they called?
Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance

Ferry Aid was a charity single to raise money for a disaster that happened on which date?
6 March 1987

Bonus Round

Masterchef

Which of these is included in a classic mirepoix?
Carrots <
Custard
Corned Beef

What is the biggest selling spice in the world?
Salt
Pepper <
Safron

What did Ruth Wakefield accidentally invent in 1930?
Chocolate Chip Cookies <
Ice Cream
Fried Rice

How many seeds does the average strawberry have?
2
20
200 <

Which one of these is made from bones rather than from meat?
Stock <
Broth
Silverside