The 2005 quiz was won by Robert Ellis and Ian Featherstone. They received a bottle of bubbly each for their efforts. It was a very very close thing this year as remarkably at the end of the quiz there were two teams tying on 561/2, the other team being Greg Rudkin and Peter Cambridge. The tie-break was to name the actors in the Magnificent Seven - they both got 3 of them! A final tie-break was to say whether rheumatic fever was caused by a bacteria or a virus - the answer of bacteria won Ian and Robert the bubbly.

 

If you want to know the questions - read on.

 

 

 

Thames Valley Austin Healey Club Quiz

October 4th 2005

 

                                             

 

 

Good evening, and welcome to the 5th 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)                 Pot Pourri

3)                 Round, round get around, I get around

4)                 Bees

5)                 Natural World

6)                 Boys make cars

 

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

 

1) Celluloid

 

1)                  ‘The Aviator’ had more Oscar nominations than any other film this year. It stared Leonardo di Caprio and tells the story of Howard Hughes.  Who directed ‘The Aviator’

Ans: Martin SCORSESE

 

2)                  Clint Eastwood won the Best Director for ‘Million Dollar Baby’ at this year’s Oscars. But for which film did he previously get a Best Director Oscar?

Ans: The UNFORGIVEN

 

3)                  JM Barrie’s story of Peter Pan has recently been put to celluloid, “Finding  Neverland”.  This version stars Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp. But who plays Kate Winslet’s mother?

Ans: Julie CHRISTIE

 

4)                  Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 12 both star George Clooney as Ocean. But what is his first name?

Ans: DANNY

 

5)                  Dustin Hoffman is one of the stars of the comedy ‘Meet the Fockers’. But which film first saw Dustin shoot to stardom?

Ans: THE GRADUATE

 

6)                  Which film provided the theme for last year’s Christmas decorations on Regent Street?

Ans: The INCREDIBLES

 

7)                  An estimated 35 million people have attended UK’s most popular film. What is it?

Ans: GONE WITH THE WIND

 

8)                  Hilary Swank is also nominated for an Oscar for her performance in ‘Million Dollar Baby’. Like its director Clint Eastwood, she is also a previous Oscar winner for her heart rending performance in what film.

Ans: BOYS DON’T CRY

 

9)                  Carnforth station is the setting for which tear jerker of bygone years. Which film?

Ans:- BRIEF ENCOUNTER

 

10)       What will be the name of the next James Bond film; the 21st Bond Movie?

            Ans: CASINO ROYALE

 

2) Pot Pourri

 

1)                  Which member of the camel family has no hump?

Ans LLAMA: 

 

2)                  What do you call a word opposite in meaning to another?

Ans: An ANTONYM 

 

3)                  What does a Banyan tree have lots of?

Ans: TRUNKS

 

4)                  Which is the world’s largest island?

Ans: GREENLAND  

 

5)                  What does the male figure stand on, on the Oscar statuette?

Ans: A roll of film       

 

6)                  What is Dorothy’s dog called in the Wizard of Oz?

Ans: TOTO

 

7)                  What was the Beatles last single?

Ans: LET IT BE (1970)         

 

8)                  In which graveyard is Jim Morrison buried?

Ans: PERE LA CHAISE in Paris       

 

9)                  180 degrees centigrade is the electric oven equivalent of which gas mark?

Ans: 4 

 

10)              Which deceased doyenne of Mills and Boon romance authors (over 700 books) was also a Brooklands motor racing driver?

Ans: Barbara CARTLAND

 

3) Geography

 

 

1)                  Where did Billy Butlin open his first holiday camp in 1936?

Ans: SKEGNESS       

 

2)                  Sellafield (is famous for its nuclear reactor) but what county is it in?

Ans: CUMBRIA        

 

3)                  Whose official residence is Lambeth Palace?

Ans:     ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

 

4)                  Which Surrey town is famous for its mineral deposits?

Ans:     EPSOM

 

5)                  In which city was Dick Turpin hanged?

Ans:     YORK

 

6)                  Which famous dyke separates England from Wales?

Ans: OFFA’S DYKE 

 

7)                  The Antilles are a group of islands in which Sea or ocean?

Ans:The CARRIBEAN          

 

8)                  Which is the largest lake on the U K mainland?

Ans: LOCH LOMOND           

 

9)                  Which European capital city lies on the River Spree?

Ans:     BERLIN

 

10)              Which country has the longest coastline in Europe?

Ans: NORWAY

 

 

4) 'B'

 

 

1)         Which London football club won all 21 league home matches in a season back in 1929-30?

            Remember all the answers have 'Bees' in them!

            Ans: BRENTFORD

 

2)         Which element in the periodic table has the symbol ‘B’?

            Ans: BORON

 

3)         Who invented frozen food?

            Ans: Clarence BIRDSEYE

 

4)         The works of Mrs. Darrell Waters have been translated into 128 languages - who was she?

            Ans: ENID BLYTON

 

5)         The jury in Michael Jackson’s child abuse trial was shown the televised interview that caused the initial outcry. Who interviewed Jackson on that occasion?

            Ans: Martin BASHIR

 

6)         What is the name of the tropical disease caused by a parasitic trematode which affects the blood vessels of the liver, spleen and bladder, and is also known as schistosomiasis?

            Ans: BILHARZIA

 

7)         Name the German statesman who was the Chief Minister of Prussia between 1862 and 1890, but whose name was feared by British sailors during the second World War

            Ans: BISMARCK

 

8)         Which Englishman wrote 'The Ring and the Book' in 1868/69 and was married to Elizabeth, another famous author.

            Ans: Robert BROWNING

 

9)         Born ‘William F. Cody in 1846 and founder of the ‘Wild West Show’ in 1883?

            Ans: BUFFOLO BILL

 

10)       What is the capital of Slovakia?

            Ans: BRATISLAVA

 

 

5)  Natural World

 

1)                  How many tentacles has a squid got?

Ans: 10

 

2)                  In computing terms, what does the ‘R’ in RAM stand for (not exactly natural world - sorry !!!)

Ans: RANDOM

 

3)                  What is the chemical formula for ozone?

Ans: O3

 

4)                  Which seedless orange is named after a former Province in China?

Ans:  SATSUMA

 

5)                  What colour is malachite

Ans: GREEN

 

6)                  The Aardvark is native to which continent?

Ans: AFRICA

 

7)                  What is the most common blood group?

Ans: O

 

8)                  Which gas constitutes approximately 78% of the earth’s atmosphere?

Ans: NITROGEN

 

9)                  What is the name of the whale which has a twisted tusk?

Ans: NARWHAL

 

10)       Saltpetre, the main ingredient of gun-powder, is the nitrate of which metal?

Ans  POTASSIUM (K)

6)   Boys Make Cars (BMC)

 

1)      What were the first names (Christian names) of Mr Austin and Mr Morris (1/2 each)?

Ans: HERBERT & WILLIAM

 

2)      Mr Austin began work at the age of 17 in Australia. He joined the then Sydney based company Wolseley in the 1880’s.  In those days, what did Wolseley make. Was it:

a)      bicycles

b)      tractors

c)      sheep sheering machines?

Ans: c) sheep sheering machines

 

3)      In 1882, Mr Morris started his career by making what

a)      bicycles

b)      combined harvesters

c)      hackney carriages?

Ans: a) bicycles

 

4)      In 1900, Wolseley car production started.  The company was then bought out by an engineering & armaments company which later made aircraft. Which company am I referring to?

Ans:  VICKERS

 

5)      In 1934 Mr Morris was enobled. What title did he assume?

Ans: LORD NUFFIELD

 

6)      In 1952, BMC was founded by the enobled Mr Morris and which other man of noble name?

Ans: LEONARD LORD

 

7)      In 1956, the “A” series engine was enlarged to 948cc. But until then, what capacity was it?

Ans: 803cc

 

8)      When BMC folded in 1966, British Motor Holdings briefly came into existence with Sir George Harriman as Chairman. In Jan 1968, BMH was taken over by Leyland to become British Leyland and Harriman retired. Which “Sir” took his place as Chairman?

Ans: Sir Donald STOKES

 

9)      In 1979, BL formed an alliance with another car company. Which was it?

Ans: HONDA

 

10)       In 1982, the car making side of the company became the Austin Rover Group and in 1988 The Rover Group was sold for £150 million to which company?

Ans  BRITISH AEROSPACE

 

 

MARATHON ANSWERS

 

1)         Chris de Burgh

2)         Vanessa Redgrave

3)         Alistair Campbell

4)         Natasha Kaplinsky

5)         Michael Palin

6)         Honor Blackman

7)         Jeremy Clarkson

8)         Bill Clinton

9)         Rupert Murdoch

10)       Kevin Maxwell

11)       Guatemala

12)       Afghanistan

13)       Algeria

14)       Palestine

15)       Poland

16)       The Gambia

17)       Andorra

18)              Ghana

19)              Pakistan

20)              Guyana

21)              Betty Blue

22)              Two Weeks Notice (Sandra Bullock & Hugh Grant)

23)              The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Rebecca de Mornay)

24)              Splash

25)              About a boy (Hugh Grant)

26)              Annie Hall