Thames Valley Austin Healey Club Quiz

October 5th 2004

 

                                             

 

 

Good evening, and welcome to the 4th Annual Thames Valley Austin Healey Club Quiz.

 

·        Before you start, I suggest you form yourselves into teams of 2

·        Tonight there will be 6 rounds of questions and a Marathon.

·        Before we start each round, there will be an opportunity to play your Joker. You can only play it once and you have to play it before I start to ask the questions for your chosen round.  The joker doubles your score for that round. You cannot play the joker on the marathon.

·        The rounds this quiz will be:

 

1)                 Celluloid

2)                 Natural World

3)                 Pot Pourri

4)                 Head ‘em up, move ‘em out

5)                 Ludo

6)                 The Box

 

All a bit cryptic…but for you to decide what they’re all about.

 

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1) Celluloid (film)

 

1)                  In which film do we find the Banks family living at 17 Cherry Tree Lane?

            Ans: MARY POPPINS

 

2)                  In which film did Charlie Chaplin’s little tramp last appear?

            Ans: THE GREAT DICTATOR

 

3)                  What is the surname of the character that said “'I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky?

            Ans: Harry CALLAHAN

 

4)                  The lost island of “Naboombu” features in which Disney production?

            Ans: BEDKNOBS & BROOMSTICKS

 

5)                  Which actor connects the ‘Magnificent Seven’ with ‘The Man from UNCLE’?

            Ans: ROBERT VAUGHN

 

6)                  What was the name of the character played by John Travolta in ‘Pulp Fiction’?

            Ans: VINCE VEGA

 

7)                  Which actress married both Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra

            Ans: AVA GARDNER

 

8)                  Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson were both in ‘Zoolanders’, released in 2001, about narcissistic prima donna fashion designers in New York. But which film did they both recently star in, which was a remake of a successful 70’s TV series?

            Ans:- STARSKY AND HUTCH

 

9)                  Who played the train robber Buster Edwards in the film ‘Buster’?

            Ans: PHIL COLLINS

 

10)              Which British actor was once known as BK 4454813 OG 2795 whilst living in Los Angeles?

            Ans:- HUGH GRANT

 

2) Natural World

 

1)                  What laughable name is given to a collection of hyenas? Is it a chuckle, a giggle or a snigger?

Ans: GIGGLE

 

2)                  In the wild, what colour are budgerigars? Blue, Green or Yellow

Ans:GREEN

 

3)                  Where do adders lay their eggs?

Ans: They don’t, they give birth to live babies, the eggs hatching internally.

 

4)                  If you were infected with a virus of serotype H3N2, what would you have?

Ans FLU

 

5)                  What is a female swan called?

Ans: PEN

 

6)                  Is the begonia an annual, biennial or perennial plant?

Ans: PERENNIAL

 

7)                  The lack of which vitamin causes rickets?

Ans: Vitamin D

 

8)                  Which fish, if caught in the rivers of Britain, legally must be given to the Queen?

            Ans: STURGEON

 

9)                  Crabs, lobsters and shrimps all have the same number of legs – how many?

Ans: 10

 

10)              What is the slang word for £500

            Ans: MONKEY

 

3) Pot Pourri

 

1)                  What are the ingredients with E numbers 200 229 used for in food?

Ans: PRESERVATIVES

 

2)                  Where in England was Mystic Meg born?

Ans: ACCRINGTON

 

3)                  Astraphobia is the fear of what?

Ans: LIGHTNING

 

4)                  What did John Lennon share with Gary Lineacre

Ans WINSTON as a MIDDLE NAME

 

5)                  What is the largest species of bird

Ans: OSTRICH

 

6)                  Which Swede invented dynamite?

Ans: Alfred NOBEL

 

7)                  Which queen of England had an extra finger?

Ans: Anne BOLEYN

 

8)                  What is the name of the princess in ‘Sleeping Beauty’?

            Ans: AURORA

 

9)                  Which capital city has a name meaning “I see the mountain”?

            Ans: MONTEVIDEO

 

10)              Which Dr Seuss character stole Christmas?

            Ans: THE GRINCH

 

4) Head ‘em up, move ‘em out

 

1)            Her real name was Phoebe Moses, but she appeared with Sitting Bull in Colonel Cody's       Wild West Show not as Phoebe Moses but as "Little Sure Shot” – Who was she better       known as?

Ans: ANNIE OAKLEY

 

2)                  Who was the female star in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’?

Ans: CATHERINE ROSS

 

3)                  What was the character name for Dustin Hoffman in ‘Midnight Cowboy’?

Ans: RATZO (Rizzo)

 

4)                  Who shot Billy the Kid, but did not shoot the deputy? (not Bob Marley or Eric Clapton)

Ans PAT GARRETT

 

5)                  Like Tonto was to the lone ranger, who was to the Cisco Kid?

Ans: PANCHO

 

6)                  Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn were four of the Seven.  Can you name one of the other three?

            BRAD DEXTER or ROBERT VAUGHN or HORST BUCHHOLZ.

Ans:

 

7)                  Who directed all the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns

Ans: Sergio LEONE

 

8)                  What is the name of the cowboy in ‘Toy Story’?

            Ans: WOODY

 

9)                  Martha Jane Canary was born in Princeton, Missouri in 1848.  This hard drinking woman wore men's clothing, used their bawdy language, chewed tobacco and was handy with a gun.  She is famous for saving the lives of six passengers on the Deadwood stage.

Ans: CALAMITY JANE

 

10)              What was the name of the Lone Ranger’s horse?

            Ans: SILVER

 

5) Ludo (Sport)

 

1)                  In which city does the Australian Tennis Open take part every year?

Ans: MELBOURNE

 

2)                  In which sport do the contestants compete for the Twenty20 cup?

            Ans: CRICKET

 

3)                  James Toseland became the youngest in the World to win a Championship in which sport?

            Ans: SUPERBIKES (1/2 for MOTORCYCLING)

 

4)                  The Grand Prix in Snooker took place recently.  In which town?

            Ans:     PRESTON

 

5)                  Who won this year’s Tour de France for a record 6th time?

            Ans: Lance ARMSTRONG

 

6)                  Kelly Holmes brought back double gold from this year’s Olympics. But which two events did she win gold?

            Ans: 1500 and 800 metres (no half marks)

 

7)                  Which crew won the 150th boat race between Oxford and Cambridge (2004).

            Ans: CAMBRIDGE

 

8)                  On 21st June 2004 Wimbledon FC ceased to exist under that name. What name do they now play under?

            Ans: MILTON KEYNES DONS FC or MK Dons

 

9)                  Who won this year’s women’s singles tennis final at Wimbledon?

            Ans: Maria SHARAPOVA

 

10)              Who was the World Snooker Champion in from 1927 – 1946?

            Ans: JOE DAVIS

6) The Box (TV)

 

1)                  What number do the Kumars live at?

Ans:     42

 

2)                  Which family had a pet dragon called ‘Spot’?

Ans:     The MUNSTERS

 

3)                  What was Geoffrey Palmers occupation in ‘Butterflies’?

Ans:     DENTIST

 

4)                  Which suburb did the ‘Birds of a Feather’ live?

            Ans:     CHIGWELL (Essex)

 

5)                  How was Patrick McGoohan known in ‘The Prisoner’?

Ans:     NUMBER 6

 

6)                  What do the following all have in common: Terry Wogan, Les Dawson and Lilly Savage?

Ans: The all hosted BLANKETY BLANK

 

7)                  What car did Emma Peel drive in ‘The Avengers’?

Ans:     LOTUS ELAN

 

8)                  Jack and Beth were doctors in which 90’s drama?

Ans:     PEAK PRACTICE

 

9)                  What was Terry’s previous profession in ‘Minder’?

Ans:     BOXER

 

10)              In which series was there a female detective named ‘Penhaligon’?

            Ans: CRACKER

 

 

MARATHON

 

The marathon questions were pictures and so the questions don’t appear here except for:

 

21)  Which mathematical symbols

          complete this equation ….

            33  ?  11  ?  3  ?  6 = 115

 

22) What’s the next number in this sequence:

          18 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 30 ?

 

Marathon Answers

 

 

1)         Martin Johnson

2)         Frank Zappa

3)         Stephen Tompkinson

4)         Terry Thomas

5)         Debbie Harry

6)         Melvyn Bragg

7)         Johnny Depp

8)         Cold Mountain

9)         Little Voice

10)       As good as it gets

11)       Josh(ua)

12)       Atlanta

13)       Helsinki

14)       Seoul

15)       Munich

16)       West Bromwich Albion

17)       Doncaster Rovers

18)       Charlton Athletic

19)       Plymouth Argyle

20)       Kidderminster Harriers

21)       33 x 11 / 3 – 6 = 115

22)       32 (sequence of non prime numbers)

23)       WESTLAND Roadster

24)       ELLIOTT saloon

25)       DUNCAN

26)       SPORTSMOBILE

27)       TICKFORD

28)       ABBOTT

29)       SPORTS CONVERTIBLE

30)       NASH