...and now Time for Quiz..... GOOD EVENING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND WELCOME TO LAST WEEK’S QUIZ ... THE QUIZ IS MOSTLY ABOUT QUIZ SUBJECTS SUGGESTED BY THINGS THAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK! EVERY TEAM - EXCEPT LAST’S WEEK’S CHAMPIONS – GETS A FREE ANSWER AT HALF TIME – YOU CAN’T HAVE THE 50/50 QUESTION AS YOUR FREE ANSWER! LET’S GO.. Q1 LAST WEEK’S NEWS – 4 STORIES WITH CHOICES OF ANSWER – CAN YOU REMEMBER? 1.1 WHICH SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE CELEBRATED ITS 10TH BIRTHDAY BY PRODUCING ONE MINUTE FILMS FOR ALL ITS USERS? FACEBOOK? OR TWITTER? 1.2 WHICH SIX FOOT LONG CREATURE WAS REPORTED TO BE “ON THE LOOSE” IN BRISTOL LAST WEEK? CROCODILE? OR WOLVERINE? 1.3 LIZ HURLEY DESCRIBED AS “LUDICROUSLY SILLY” ALLEGATIONS LAST WEEK THAT SHE HAD HAD AN AFFAIR WITH WHOM? BILL CLINTON? OR TONY BLAIR? 1.4 WHY WAS LINCOLNSHIRE BUILDER JORDAN BARRACK FINED MORE THAN £500 AFTER AN INTERVIEW WITH A POLICE OFFICER? HE DROPPED HIS TROUSERS AND PANTS IN THE OFFICER’S FACE? OR HE PHOTOGRAPHED THE OFFICER AND DREW PENISES ON HIS HEAD AND CHEST? Q2: WITH BORIS JOHNSON AND BOB CROWE CLASHING OVER THE TUBE STRIKES LAST WEEK (AND MAYBE THIS) – TONIGHT’S EITHER OR IS CROWE OR JOHNSON THERE’S AT LEAST ONE OF EACH... 2.1 CROWE OR JOHNSON? BASKETBALL LEGEND WITH A MAGIC NICKNAME? 2.2 CROWE OR JOHNSON? FILM DIRECTOR OF 2011 FILM “WE BOUGHT A ZOO”? 2.3 CROWE OR JOHNSON? WAS ONCE ENGAGED TO CYCLING DRUG CHEAT LANCE ARMSTRONG? 2.4 CROWE OR JOHNSON? WAS THE 36TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA? Q3: NUMBERS – LOOK AT THE NUMBERS WRITTEN ON YOUR SHEET AT THE TOP OF THE QUESTION – THEY WILL BE THE ANSWERS • 46 • 50 • 75 • 104 BUT WHICH NUMBER GOES WITH WHICH STORY? 3.1 WHICH IS THE NUMBER IN YEARS OF THE OLDEST CONTESTANT TO WIN A PRIZE IN THE HISTORY OF WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE UK? 3.2 WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF TESTS PLAYED FOR ENGLAND BY AXED BATSMAN KEVIN PETERSEN? 3.3 WHICH IS THE NUMBER OF METRES THAT THE JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER IN GREEN 3.4 AND WHICH THE NUMBER OF THOUSANDS OF PAIRS OF JEANS SOLD EACH WEEK BY TOP SHOP DOT COM ONLINE? Q4: THE SUBJECT IS JOE – ALL BECAUSE JOE MCELDERRY WON THE CHANNEL 4 SKIING CONTEST “JUMP”... HERE’S SOME OTHER JOE’S TO IDENTIFY.. 4.1 WHICH JOE IS THE UK SINGER WHO WON THE “X FACTOR” SERIES 6 IN 2009? 4.2 WHICH JOE IS THE ALL-TIME STAR BASEBALL LEGEND WHO WAS MARRIED TO MARILYN MONROE? 4.3 WHICH JOE IS THE SQUEAKY VOICED COMEDIAN WHO WON THE 4TH SERIES OF “I’M A CELEBRITY..GET ME OUT OF HERE!” IN 2004? 4.4 WHICH JOE IS THE CURRENT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE USA? Q5: THE WINTER OLYMPICS STARTED IN SOCHI, RUSSIA LAST WEEK – HERE’S THE RUSSIA QUESTIONS 5.1 WHAT IS THE CURRENT OFFICIAL NAME OF RUSSIA? 5.2 THE CAPITAL MOSCOW HAS THE LARGEST POPULATION WITH 11.5 MILLION – WHICH CITY COMES 2ND WITH AROUND 4.8 MILLION PEOPLE? 5.3 ST PETERSBURG HAS CHANGED ITS NAME SEVERAL TIMES IN HISTORY – WHAT WAS IT CALLED PRIOR TO BECOMING ST PETERSBURG AGAIN IN 1991? 5.4 RUSSIA CONTAINS THE LONGEST RIVER IN EUROPE AT 2,294 MILES – WHAT IS ITS NAME? Q6 IS THE MINI KILLER PICTURE ROUND - TAKE A LOOK AT THE FRONT SHEET - IF YOU GET TWO WRONG YOUR SCORE WILL BECOME ZERO! BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER ALL OF THE QUESTIONS “WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE” UK RECORDED ITS FINAL SHOW LAST WEEK – SO LET’S PLAY THE GAME – YOU CAN SEE THE OPTIONS ON THE SHEET. 6.1 WHAT IS THE PROFESSION OF ONE WHO TREATS THE DISEASES AND INJURIES OF ANIMALS? 6.2 WHAT NAME IS GIVEN TO A PERSON WHO IS AGAINST 6.3 THE EXPRESSION WHICH MEANS “EVERYTHING IMAGINABLE HAS BEEN INCLUDED” IS “EVERYTHING BUT...” WHAT? 6.4 WHICH OF THESE CHILDREN’S CHARACTERS WAS CREATED BY HELEN CRESSWELL? 50/50! 6.5 WHO IS JIMMY WALES? 6.6 IF ONE REPLACED THE SANDWICH’S NAME WITH TWO OF ITS KEY INGREDIENTS, WHAT MIGHT BE AN ALTERNATIVE TITLE FOR “THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO”? 6.7 WHO WAS NEVER “TIME” MAGAZINE’S “MAN OF THE YEAR”? 6.8 JUDITH KEPPEL’S £1M QUESTION – WHICH KING WAS MARRIED TO ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE? STARTER FOR 10 – 50/50 QUESTION: In the History of First Class Cricket - How have most batsmen got out? BOWLED or CAUGHT MORE THAN 50% OF ALL BATSMEN HAVE BEEN.... WE START THE SECOND HALF WITH THE PSC GAME - PHRASES, SAYINGS AND CLICHÉS – A SIMPLE IDEA – TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES – YOU TAKE SOMETHING FROM EACH PICTURE AND PUT IT TOGETHER WITH PARTS OF OTHER PICTURES TO FIND THE FOUR PHRASES, SAYINGS OR CLICHÉS – THE SMALL WORDS OCCUR AS INDICATED – EACH PICTURE IS USED ONLY ONCE - THERE’S EVEN AN EXTRA DEFINITION CLUE TO HELP YOU – 4 POINTS EACH – BONUS 4 POINTS IF YOU FIND ALL FOUR! TONIGHT WE ARE LOOKING FOR PHRASES, SAYINGS OR CLICHÉS OF 2 WORDS; 3 WORDS, 4 WORDS AND 5 WORDS AND TO FIND THEM WE HAVE L1: 3.141 ETC; DREAM WORKS FILM 2006; MUSICAL MNEMONIC; CLUEDO CHARACTER – WHICH ONE?; ONLY ONE OF THESE; USUAL WORD – NOT THE BIG ONE L2: TV HAIRDRESSING DRAMA; CALM DOWN MADONNA; NOT THE TWERKER; 3 CLUES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE; COMEDIAN WITH LETTERS I’LL GIVE YOU SOME DEDICATED TIME NOW TO WORK ON IT – PLUS THE ENTIRE 2ND HALF WHICH BEGINS IN 5 MINUTES ROUND TWO Q7: CHOICES – THE SUBJECT IS KEVIN – THIS IS DUE TO THE AXING OF ENGLAND CRICKETER KEVIN PETERSEN – IT’S ACTUALLY A FILM QUESTION – ON YOUR SHEET YOU CAN SEE THE TITLES OF FOUR FILMS (READ) – THESE ARE THE FIRST FILMS MADE IN THE YEAR 2000 BY FOUR ACTORS CALLED KEVIN. THEY ARE KEVIN BACON; KEVIN COSTNER; KEVIN KLINE; & KEVIN SPACEY THEY WILL BE THE ANSWERS – I WILL NOW GO THROUGH THE TITLES AGAIN AND TELL YOU THE CHARACTER THAT THE KEVIN’S PLAYED – ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WRITE DOWN THE CORRECT KEVIN! 7.1 MY DOG SKIP – CHARACTER: JACK MORRIS? 7.2 ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL – CHARACTER: MICHAEL LYNCH? 7.3 THE ROAD TO EL DORADO – CHARACTER: TULIO – VOICE (ANIMATED)? 7.4 THIRTEEN DAYS – CHARACTER: KENNY O’DONNELL? Q8: THE WINTER OLYMPICS STARTED LAST WEEK IN SOCHI – THIS QUESTION IS ABOUT THE WORD “WINTER” 8.1 ON WHICH DATE IN 2014 WILL BE THE WINTER SOLSTICE? 8.2 WHICH SHAKESPEARE PLAY OF 1594 OPENS WITH THE LINE “NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT”? 8.3 ANOTHER SHAKESPEARE PLAY “A WINTER’S TALE” WAS THE TITLE OF A 1980’S UK NUMBER 2 HIT FOR WHICH SOLO SINGER, WHOSE SURNAME IS AN ENGLISH COUNTY? 8.4 HOW MUCH IS THE ANNUAL WINTER FUEL PAYMENT FOR A SINGLE PERSON OVER 80 IN THE UK? £200? £300? OR £400? Q9: THE SUBJECT IS NORFOLK – WITH THE NEWS THAT SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF HUMAN FOOTPRINTS OUTSIDE OF AFRICA, ON THE NORFOLK COAST WHICH ARE MORE THAN 800,000 YEARS OLD – HERE’S SOME NORFOLK QUESTIONS 9.1 WHAT IS THE COUNTY TOWN OF NORFOLK IN EAST ANGLIA? 9.2 IN WHICH U.S. STATE IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST NAVAL STATION IN THE CITY OF NORFOLK? 9.3 WHICH PRIVATELY OWNED ROYAL RESIDENCE IS SITUATED IN NORFOLK UK? 9.4 WHAT SORT OF CREATURE IS A NORFOLK BLACK? Q10: LONDON UNDERGROUND – WITH THE TUBE STRIKE LAST WEEK IT’S ANOTHER EXCUSE TO PLAY CRYPTIC STATIONS ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND MAP – SO – NAME THE STATIONS FROM THESE CRYPTIC CLUES... 10.1 BETRAND, KURT, JANE AND MR CROWE ARE SO OUT OF TOUCH DADDY-O? 10.2 SO THAT’S HOW THE TITLE OF THE PRIME MINISTER AFTER WHOM THE TEA MADE FROM THE BERGAMOT ORANGE RIND WAS NAMED, WAS OUT BY THE MOST COMMON METHOD IN CRICKET? 10.3 THE COCKNEY FEMALE CHICKENS, EACH DRESSED AS A GRENADIER, HAD TO WAIT IN LINE – BACKWARDS? 10.4 MR DISNEY IS ABLE TO NEATLY STORE HIS PIG MEAT IN THE MIDDLE? WALT + STOW + HAM + CENTRAL = Q11: THE CONNECTION – 8 POINTS – OR 16 IF YOU CORRECTLY PLAY YOUR JOKER WHAT CONNECTS: *CALORIE OR JOULE *HOLDING APPLIANCE *FLIPPER & JONES *BAD BOY DR BEAT YOUR EXTRA CLUE IS: *FIRST BIBLE MURDERER THERE’S A UNIT CLUE; A DEVICE CLUE; A NAMES CLUE; A MUSICAL CLUE; AND A BIBLE CLUE Q 12: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – THE KILLER! IF YOU ANSWER A SINGLE QUESTION INCORRECTLY – YOUR SCORE WILL BE ZERO –CHOICES ON FIRST AND LAST QUESTIONS 12.1 CHOICES: KIM CAMPBELL WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER OF WHICH COUNTRY IN 1993? AUSTRALIA? CANADA? NEW ZEALAND? OR ZIMBABWE? 12.2 ON WHICH ISLAND OF THE UK IS PARKHURST PRISON? 12.3 WHO RESIGNED AS LEADER OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN 2006? 12.4 MR AND MRS WORMWOOD MISS HONEY AND MISS TRUNCHBULL ARE ALL CHARACTERS IN WHICH ROALD DAHL STORY? 12.5 IN AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE 32 LONDON BOROUGHS, WITH WHICH LETTER DOES THE LARGEST GROUP OF BOROUGHS – SEVEN – BEGIN? 12.6 WHAT IS THE JAPANESE ART FORM OF GROWING MINIATURE TREES? 12.7 THE TV DETECTIVE DRAMA “ENDEAVOUR” IS SET IN WHICH ENGLISH CITY? 12.8 CHOICES: IN WHICH COUNTRY IS THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE OF THE TOKAJ (SPELL) (PRONOUNCED TOKE-EYE) WINE REGION? BULGARIA? CHILE? HUNGARY? OR JAPAN? TIEBREAKER ONLY USED IF TEAMS ARE LEVEL IN A PRIZE POSITION ALWAYS A NUMBER: ACCORDING TO SCIENTISTS LAST WEEK JACKDAWS CONSPICUOUS BRIGHT EYES FRIGHTEN OFF THEIR COMPETITORS.. HOW MANY BREEDING PAIRS OF JACKDAWS ARE THERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM? THE LWQ BIG JACKPOT QUESTION 1 IS CALLED “JENNY” – WITH JENNY JONES WINNING GB’S FIRST EVER MEDAL ON SNOW – 3 Q - 45s – GL 1. WHICH JENNY IS THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYS SISTER JULIENNE IN “CALL THE MIDWIFE”? 2. WHO INVENTED “THE SPINNING JENNY”, A MULTI-SPINDLE SPINNING FRAME IN 1764? 3. JENNY POWELL WAS THE HOSTESS OF THE ITV GAME SHOW “WHEEL OF FORTUNE” – WITH WHICH MALE HOST DID SHE WORK ON THE SHOW FOR LONGEST? THE LWQ BIG JACKPOT QUESTION 2 IS CALLED “BAILEY” – WITH DAVID BAILEY’S “STARDUST” EXHIBITION OPENING AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY LAST WEEK – 3 Q - 45s – GL 1. IN 1985 SINGER PHILIP BAILEY SCORED A UK NO.1 HIT WITH “EASY LOVER” IN A DUET WITH PHIL COLLINS – FOR WHICH BAND WAS BAILEY A LEAD VOCALIST AT THE TIME? 2. THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT IN LONDON IS KNOWN AS THE OLD BAILEY – IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE STREET IN WHICH IT WAS BUILT – BUT WHAT IS A “BAILEY”? 3. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE COMEDY DOUBLE ACT WHICH FEATURED BILL BAILEY IN HIS EARLY COMEDY CAREER?
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