bB5 Quiz - Questions and Answers

[kinboshi]

Round 1

1.   According to Genesis in the bible, who was Adam and Eve's 3rd son?
Seth

2.   What is the speed limit for a car towing a caravan on a UK motorway?
60 mph

3.   Which 'rogue trader' lost $1.4 billion speculating on futures and options for Barings Bank, leading to the company's collapse after 230 years of trading?
Nick Leeson

4.   Which children's engineering construction kit was patented by Frank Hornby in 1893?
Meccano

5.   Which organisation founded in 1946 in Oxford by two barristers, has a name that is Latin for "table"?
Mensa

6.   Currently, what is the most expensive production car available to buy new in the UK?
Bugatti Veyron

7.   Anyone fitting a gas cooker or fireplace must be CORGI registered.  What does CORGI  stand for?
Council for Registered Gas Installers

8.   Which Ghanaian replaced Boutros Boutros-Ghali as Secretary General of the United Nations in 1997?
Kofi Annan

9.   In the Bible, who according to Acts, purchased a plot of land known as Potters Field?
Judas Iscariot

10.   Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world.  What is the second most expensive?
Vanilla

11.   How old is Gordon Brown – 52, 56, 58 or 62?
56

12.   Who is the current Home Secretary?
Jacqui Smith

13.   How many possible variations (positions) are there in chess after both players have moved once?
400

14.   How many states in the US don’t sanction the death penalty?
12

15.   We have all used Google, some of use it many times a day.  But in the Google logo, what are the colours of each of the 6 letters?
Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Red

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Round 2

16.   What is the chemical symbol for mercury?
Hg

17.   What percentage of an iceberg is visible above the surface of the water? 9%, 11%, 15% or 19%?
11%

18.   You have a 900W fridge.  What size fuse do you put in the plug?
5 amp

19.   Ultravox's Vienna was kept off the number one spot in the UK charts by which song?
Joe Dolce's "Shaddap You Face"

20.   "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" was the first album for which group?
Pink Floyd

21.   What was Dr Hook’s only UK no. 1 single?
When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman

22.   Who wrote, “I Will Always Love You”?
Dolly Parton

23.   Which Blondie hit was featured in the film "American Gigolo"?
Call Me

24.   Who are these singers better known as:
 a.   Orville Richard Burrill
Shaggy
 b.   David Robert Jones
David Bowie
 c.   Paul David Hewson
Bono
 d.   Farrokh Bulsara
Freddie Mercury
 e.   Arnold George Dorsey
Englebert Humperdink

25.   In what 1971 song (also won a Grammy for Best R&B Song in 1972) are the words "I Know" repeated consecutively 26 times?
"Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers

26.   In November of 1987, which rock star married Lisa Bonet, who played Denise Huxtible on The Cosby Show?
Lenny Kravitz

27.   In what two cities did the 1985 Live Aid concerts take place?
London & Philadelphia

28.   Which band took their name from a Tolkien book and originally featured Derek William Dick on lead vocals?
Marillion

29.   In which year did Robbie Williams leave Take That ?
1995

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Round 3

30.   Football - can you name the three English clubs with the largest stadia outside the Premiership?
Leeds - Elland Road (40,242), Sheffield Wednesday - Hillsborough (39,814), Southampton - St Mary's (32,689)

31.   Who was the first Scot to make 100 football appearances for his country?
Kenny Dalglish

32.   Battledore was a 19th century primitive form of which sport?
Badminton

33.   Which fence is the highest jump in the Grand National?
The Chair

34.   Who knocked 29 seconds off the Men’s Marathon World record at the end of September with a time of 2hours 4m 26s?
Haile Gebrselassie

35.   Scottish TV presenter Paul Coia was the first voice to be heard on where?
Channel 4

36.   What was the first record to be played on Radio 1 when it was launched in 1967?
Flowers in the Rain by The Move

37.   What role did Leslie Phillips play in the Harry Potter films?
The sorting hat

38.   Which famous sketch ends with John Cleese saying "It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible"?
The dead parrot sketch

39.   Which 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick, was based on a novel by Anthony Burgess?
A Clockwork Orange

40.   What did Del Boy and Rodney find and auction for £6,000,000, in Only Fools and Horses?
A watch

41.   Who starred in both An Officer and a Gentleman and Shadowlands?
Debra Winger

42.   Which television sitcom starred Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph?
Birds of a Feather

43.   Floccinaucinihilipilification is a fairly long word, how many letters does it have (3 points for getting it spot on, 2 points for one either way, and 1 point if you're within 3)?
30

44.   What is the official language of South American country, Guyana?
English

45.   What does the word 'karaoke' mean in Japanese?
Empty orchestra

46.   Which Joseph Heller book describes a ‘no win’ situation?
Catch 22

47.   What does the French expression "cordon bleu" literally translate to in English?
Blue Ribbon

48.   Which Indian term literally means “clay oven”?
Tandoori

49.   Which musical instrument means ‘jumping flea’ in Hawaiian?
Ukelele

50.   Name the only English city that begins with the letter T.
Truro

51.   Which railway station in London, designed by Edward Wilson and opened in 1874, serves East Anglia?
Liverpool Street

52.   In 2006, which country produced more than a billion metric tons of cement and is the largest producer of cement in the world?
China

53.   Where in England was the first designated New Town in 1946?
Stevenage

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY

CITIES

From the list of 30 cities below, pick out the 10 that are marked on the map (A-J).

Adelaide
Barcelona
Beijing
Brasilia
Canberra
Freetown
Kolkata
Kursk
Lagos
Madrid
Mecca
Melbourne
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New Delhi
New York
Osaka
Philadelphia
Rio de Janeiro
Riyadh
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Shanghai
St Petersburg
Tabuk
Timbuktu
Valencia
Washington DC
Xi’an

COUNTRIES

Name the countries numbered from 1-10 on the map.

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WORLD GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS

Name the countries numbered from 1-10 on the map.

1.   Paraguay

2.   Sudan

3.   Senegal

4.   Kazakhstan

5.   Iraq

6.   Honduras

7.   Austria

8.   Papa New Guinea

9.   Ukraine

10.   Cambodia

From the list of 30 cities below, pick out the 10 that are marked on the map (A-J)

Adelaide = J
Barcelona = G
Beijing
Brasilia = C
Canberra
Freetown
Kolkata = I
Kursk
Lagos
Madrid
Mecca = B
Melbourne
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New Delhi
New York = A
Osaka
Philadelphia
Rio de Janeiro
Riyadh
Sao Paulo
Sapporo = D
Shanghai
St Petersburg = H
Tabuk
Timbuktu = E
Valencia
Washington DC
Xi’an = F

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Round 4

(the one we didn't have time for!)


14 October…On this Day

54.   On this day in 1947 what did Chuck Yeager become the first person to do?
Fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight (in a Bell X-1)

55.   On this day In 1963, a term was coined by the British press after the previous night’s performance by a British group on Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium.  What was the term?
Beatlemania

56.   Which James Bond actor was born on this day in 1927?
Roger Moore

57.   Which King of England famously died on this day in history?
King Harold Godwinson, 1066

58.   Which coin received a mixed reception when it was put into circulation on this day in 1969?
50p

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59.   As of 2nd October, how many days (to the nearest whole day) has TightEnd spent on the blonde forum, according to the site stats – 96 days, 101 days, 175 days, 265 days or 395 days?  He joined on 31 January 2005 if that helps…
175 days

60.   When will DTD open its doors for the first time?
29 November

61.   Who started the ‘2 word poker story’ on August 30 this year?
thetank

62.   12 May 2007 was a momentous day on blonde.  What happened?
Colchester Kev started his healthy living regime!

63.   Mr & Mrs Red-Dog celebrated a wedding anniversary this year.  What would the traditional gift have been to mark this special anniversary?
Pearl (30th)

64.   Who started a thread in June entitled “I’ve had it with this country”
Sofa-King

65.   blonde members Stuart Fox and Jon Kalmar both reached final tables in this year’s WSOP.  What were their combined winnings from these two events?  One point if you’re within $100,000, 2 points if you’re within $50,000, and 3 points if you’re within $10.
$448,892 + $1,255,069 = $1,703,961

66.   On 7 July, Tikay started a thread called “Vegas & the Aftermath – Diary”.  When I wrote this question (on 2 October), how many times had it been read?  7,429, 8,362, 13,333, 16,882, or 19,131?
19,131

[kinboshi]

I will also post up Monkey Matt's answers when I've scanned them in.  Very good, including one he accidentally got correct!

[turny]

what a bloody fiddle! i knew the answers to every one of the missing round so would have won it!

its a conspiracy lol

[matt674]

I will also post up Monkey Matt's answers when I've scanned them in.  Very good, including one he accidentally got correct!

I was part of the team "to boldie go where no monkey has gone before"

[Robert HM]

what a bloody fiddle! i knew the answers to every one of the missing round so would have won it!

its a conspiracy lol

 

[matt674]

what a bloody fiddle! i knew the answers to every one of the missing round so would have won it!

its a conspiracy lol

 

Blue, red, yellow, blue, green and red - yeah i think we got that question right!!