Lets Get Quizzical with the Brand New(ish) Format... WELCOME TO THE WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY/ QUIZ! IT’S A QUIZ ABOUT ALL SORTS OF SEEMINGLY RANDOM STUFF, THOUGH THERE IS IN FACT A CONNECTION BETWEEN MOST OF THE SUBJECTS... EVERY TEAM GETS A FREE ANSWER AT HALF TIME WHEN I COME ROUND TO MARK YOUR CREATIVE QUESTION... EXCEPTIONAL ANSWERS MAY BE READ OUT...! IN ROUND ONE ALL THE QUESTIONS ARE WORTH ONE POINT EACH - LETS START.. Q1 WHICH...? (I KNOW!) IT’S CALLED HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ON YOUR SHEET ARE THE AGES OF FOUR CELEBRITIES WHO HAVE A BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK (READ) – BUT WHICH PERSON IS WHICH AGE – WRITE THE NAME NEXT TO THE AGE 1.1 MONDAY 5TH IS/WAS THE BIRTHDAY OF “MAD MEN” ACTRESS JANUARY JONES? 1.2 TUESDAY 6TH IS/WAS THE BIRTHDAY OF “MR BEAN” AND “BLACKADDER” COMIC ACTOR ROWAN ATKINSON? 1.3 WEDNESDAY 7TH SEES/SAW COMEDIAN AND BROADCASTER MARK LAMARR CELEBRATING? 1.4 AND THURSDAY 8TH JANUARY WILL BE/IS THEORETICAL PHYSICIST STEPHEN HAWKING’S BIRTHDAY? • 37 • 48 • 60 • 73 Q2 WHAT...? IS CALLED “MOTHER”... 2.1 WHAT “MOTHER” IS THE TITLE CHARACTER OF THIS YEAR’S HACKNEY EMPIRE PANTOMIME, PLAYED BY CLIVE ROWE? 2.2 WHAT “MOTHER” IS THE COMMON NAME FOR A COMPOSITE MATERIAL PRODUCED BY SOME MOLLUSCS AS AN INNER SHELL LAYER - CALLED “NACRE”? 2.3 AND WHAT “MOTHER” IS A LARGE VEHICLE THAT LEADS, SERVES, OR CARRIES OTHER SMALLER VEHICLES? 2.4 WHAT “MOTHER” APPEARS IN THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF BERTHOLT BRECHT’S PLAY WHICH ENDS.. “AND HER CHILDREN”? Q3 WHO? THE SUBJECT IS CATS – CATS THE MUSICAL 3.1 WHO WAS THE POET WHO WROTE “OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS” ON WHICH THE MUSICAL IS BASED? 3.2 WHO IS THE COMPOSER WHO WROTE THE MUSIC FOR “CATS”? 3.3 FOR WHOM WAS THE IVOR NOVELLO AWARD WINNING SONG ”MEMORY” A UK NO.6 HIT IN 1981? 3.4 IN WHICH DECADE OF THE C20TH DID THE SHOW MAKE ITS WEST END DEBUT? Q4 (IN) WHICH...? (IN) WHICH LANGUAGE ARE THE FOLLOWING EXPRESSIONS WHICH ALL MEAN “GOD BLESS YOU”? 4.1 DIEU VOUS BENISSE (DYA VOO BENEES)? 4.2 DEUS TE ABENCOE – (DAYOOS TAY AH-BEN-SOY)? 4.3 GUD VELSIGNE DEG? (GUUD VEL-SEE-G-NE - DAI) 4.4 DIOS TE BENDIGA? (DEE-OSS TEH BEN-DEE-GAH) Q5 WHAT? THE SUBJECT IS GALAPAGOS – THERE ARE PICTURE CLUES ON THE FRONT PAGE... 5.1 WHAT IS THE IMAGINARY LINE THAT RUNS ? HORIZONTALLY THROUGH THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS 5.2 WHAT IS THE MAIN AND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS? 5.3 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF CHARLES DARWIN’S SHIP WHICH BROUGHT HIM TO THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS TO STUDY? 5.4 WHAT IS THE COUNTRY OF WHICH THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS ARE A PART? PERU? ECUADOR? OR CHILE? Q6 MINI WIPEOUT GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – YOU MUST NOT GET MORE THAN ONE WRONG OR IT’S ZERO – BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS 6.1 FOR WHICH OF THE SEASONS IS THE ADJECTIVE “VERNAL” USED? 6.2 WHICH BRITISH COIN, WORTH A QUARTER OF A PENNY, CEASED TO BE LEGAL TENDER IN 1960? 6.3 WHAT COLOUR IS NODDY’S HAT? 6.4 WHICH OF JOAN COLLINS’S FORMER HUSBANDS PLAYED VINCE WATSON IN “EASTENDERS”? 6.5 MARZIPAN IS USUALLY MADE WITH SUGAR OR HONEY AND GROUND UP FLOUR FROM WHICH SEED (NOT A NUT)? 6.6 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE RANGE OF HILLS ON THE ANGLO SCOTTISH BORDER? THE CREATIVE QUESTION THE LETTERS ON YOUR SHEET HNYE STAND FOR HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! WRITE DOWN A NEW VERSION FOR WHAT THEY STAND AT THE BOTTOM OF ANSWER SHEET ONE IT CAN BE TOPICAL, AMUSING, NAUGHTY, CLEVER, OR EVEN FUNNY...! YOU NOW HAVE YOUR SECOND PICTURE ROUND – FIRSTLY YOU HAVE TO FIND THE TITLES OF FOUR FILMS. THIS WEEK THEY ARE TITLES OF 4 WORDS, 3 WORDS, 5 WORDS AND 6 WORDS FROM THE 70’S, 80’S 90’S AND 2000’S. THE SMALL WORDS ON THE SHEET ARE FROM THE ACTUAL POSTERS FROM THE FILMS! AS IT SAYS ON YOUR CLAPPERBOARD - YOU HAVE 18 WORDS AND 17 PICTURES, WITH FOUR GIVEN SMALL WORDS – MEANING THAT THREE OF THE WORDS ARE MADE UP FROM TWO PICTURES EACH. EACH PICTURE IS USED ONLY ONCE AND WE HAVE L1: ORIGINAL LINE-UP, WITH LOUISE; FAMOUS QUOTATION; PHRENOLOGY; TEX AVERY 40’S CHARACTER L2: MUSIC; IT’S ON THERE; C15TH VERSION; CHILDREN’S FAVOURITE; COLLECTION L3: MAP/FLAG; MARKED AREA; EDITOR ALTERED; SUPERHERO TEAM L4 : MATHEMATICAL SIGN; AS GOOD AS SHE GETS; BIKE PART; RADIO 4 IMPRESSIONS TEAM WITH JOHN CULSHAW ROUND TWO Q7 WHICH...? IS WHICH DICK! ON YOUR SHEET ARE THE SURNAMES OF 4 PEOPLE, BORN AS RICHARD, BUT WHO WERE KNOWN AS DICK – WHICH IS WHICH? WRITE THE KEY WORD ALONGSIDE EACH • WHICH DICK? IS THE ATHLETE WHO REVOLUTIONISED THE EVENT OF HIGH JUMP? • WHICH DICK? IS BEST REMEMBERED FOR HIS ROLE AS THE FIRST DARRIN STEPHENS IN “BEWITCHED”? • WHICH DICK? WAS THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE TWICE BETWEEN 1987 AND THE YEAR 2000? • WHICH DICK? IS THE FORMER NATIONAL FOOTBALL MANAGER OF THE NETHERLANDS? 7.1 ADVOCAAT? 7.2 FOSBURY? 7.3 POUND? 7.4 YORK? Q8 WHERE/WHAT...? IS ALL ABOUT THE NUMBER FIVE 8.1 WHERE ARE THE FIVE BOROUGHS? 8.2 WHAT SORT OF CREATURE IS A FIVER-FINGERED SKINK? 8.3 WHERE WOULD YOU FIND A FIVE COLOURED BARBET? IN A FOREST (BIRD)? OR IN A LAKE (FISH)? 8.4 WHERE IN CENTRAL AMERICA WOULD YOU FIND A HOME FLAG WITH FIVE, FIVE-POINTED BLUE STARS ON A WHITE CENTRAL HORIZONTAL STRIPE? Q9 WHAT...? THE SUBJECT IS BLUEBEARD ETC.., AND IS ABOUT 4 CHARACTERS KNOWN BY THE COLOUR OF THEIR BEARD...? 9.1 BLUEBEARD – A TALE ABOUT A VIOLENT NOBLEMAN WHO MURDERS HIS WIVES, WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN WHICH COUNTRY? 9.2 YELLOWBEARD - WHICH MEMBER OF THE MONTY PYTHON TEAM PLAYED THE PART OF CAPTAIN YELLOWBEARD IN THE 1980’S COMEDY “YELLOWBEARD” WHICH MARKED MARTY FELDMAN’S LAST FILM APPEARANCE? 9.3 BLACKBEARD - EDWARD TEACH WAS KNOWN AS BLACKBEARD – WHAT WAS HIS “OCCUPATION” IN THE LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY? 9.4 REDBEARD – THE 10TH HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR WAS NAMED BARBAROSSA – REDBEARD – WHAT WAS HIS NAME? FREDERICK 1ST? OTTO 4TH? OR HENRY 6TH? Q10 WHO? (MUSIC) BREAKFAST – WHO ARE THE ARTISTE/S OF THESE “BREAKFAST” SONGS? 10.1 WHO SANG “BREAKFAST IN AMERICA”? 10.2 WHICH BAND SANG “BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S” IN 1995? 10.3 WHOSE SONG “BED AND BREAKFAST MAN” WAS ON THEIR FIRST ALBUM IN 1979? 10.4 AND WHO HAD “BREAKFAST IN BED” WITH CHRISSIE HYNDE AT NO.6 IN 1988? Q11 THE MATHEMATICS CHALLENGE THE QUESTION IS ALREADY ON YOUR SHEET... KIERAN, JERMAINE AND CHRIS PLAY FOOTBALL. KIERAN HAS SCORED 8 MORE GOALS THAN CHRIS. JERMAINE HAS SCORED 5 MORE GOALS THAN KIERAN. ALTOGETHER THEY HAVE SCORED 72 GOALS. HOW MANY GOALS DID JERMAINE SCORE? THE CONNECTION – 5 POINTS WHILE YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE PICTURE SHEET, YOU WILL SEE THAT YOU CAN GET AN EXTRA FIVE POINTS FOR SPOTTING THE CONNECTION. SO WHAT IS IT THAT CONNECTS THE SUBJECTS OF ALL TONIGHT’S QUESTIONS, EXCLUDING BOTH WIPEOUTS 6 &12, THE CREATIVE QUESTION, AND THE MATHS? THE SUBJECTS OF THE QUESTIONS WERE HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOTHER, CATS, GOD BLESS YOU, GALAPAGOS, DICK, FIVE, BLUEBEARD (ETC), BREAKFAST, AND THE TIEBREAKER IS JAILBIRD Q12 WIPEOUT – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE – ONE WRONG = WIPEOUT/ZERO – BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO ANSWER THEM... 12.1 HOW MANY LEGS IN TOTAL HAD ENID BLYTON’S “FAMOUS FIVE”? 12.2 WHO PLAYED THE PART OF LORNE MALVO THE CONTRACT KILLER IN THE 2014 TV SERIES “FARGO”? 12.3 WHICH TOWN CONTAINS THE MAIN SORTING OFFICE FOR THE HP POST CODE AREA? 12.4 WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF “AESTIVATION” (ESTIVATION)? 12.5 WHICH AMERICAN CITY OF HER BIRTH WAS USED AS A SURNAME BY THE SINGER WHO FORMED THE DUO SHAKESPEARE’S SISTER WITH SIOBHAN FAHEY OF BANANARAMA? 12.6 THE FOOTBALL TEAM ASTON VILLA BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE SAME LETTER – BUT WHICH IS THE ONLY ONE OF THE 92 ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE TEAMS, WHOSE SECOND NAME STARTS AND ENDS WITH THE SAME LETTER? TIEBREAKER ONLY USED IF TEAMS ARE LEVEL IN A PRIZE POSITION ALWAYS A NUMBER: JAILBIRD: HOW MANY JAILBIRDS, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE MADE UP THE UK PRISON POPULATION AT THE LAST COUNT OF 2014 - ON 19TH DECEMBER 2014?
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