£20 CASH CHALLENGE QUESTION
Paul Fleming chose Envelope No. 13 and was asked:
Which team defeated England in the quarter finals of the 1954 FIFA World Cup?
Paul answered Italy, which unfortunately was not correct
NEXT WEEK'S CASH CHALLENGE £30
Answer: Uruguay (4-2, finals held in Switzerland with West Germany the eventual winners)
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1/ Which two vegetables are used in the making of champ?
2/ Which English naval hero is famed for having only one eye and one arm?
3/ According to the proverb, which animal cannot change its spots?
4/ The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by which artist?
5/ Who is the patron saint of lovers?
6/ The letter ‘D’ is the international vehicle registration letter for cars from which country?
7/ Which former world snooker champion was nicknamed ‘The Hurricane’?
8/ How much money would you gamble if you were to bet a brace of ponies?
9/ Family Fortunes Question: Name a 20th century president of the USA?
10/ Which English band were originally called Seymour?
ANSWERS
1/ Potatoes & scallions
2/ Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson
3/ Leopard
4/ Leonardo da Vinci
5/ St. Valentine
6/ Germany
7/ Alex Higgins
8/ £50 (a pony is slang for £25)
9/ John F. Kennedy (5 pts), Richard Nixon (4 pts), Theodore Roosevelt (3 pts), Ronald Reagan (2 pts), Jimmy Carter (1 pt)
10/ Blur
FILMS & FILM STARS
1/ In which 1939 classic film did Judy Garland play the character Dorothy Gale?
2/ Which Hollywood great starred in the 1960’s films The Flight of the Phoenix and Shenandoah?
3/ Which 1992 courtroom thriller starred Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, and Jack Nicholson?
4/ The 1984 Oscar winning film The Killing Fields was set in which war-torn country?
5/ In which 1981 film set during World War II did the footballers Bobby Moore, John Wark, and Pele star alongside Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine?
6/ Which two actresses played leading roles in the 1992 comedy Death Becomes Her?
7/ Sandra Bullock starred in which 1994 film where most of the action took place on a bus?
8/ Played by the actor Bob Gunton, what is the name of the prison warden in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption?
9/ In which 1997 comedy film does Jack Nicholson play the character Melvin Udall?
10/ Which actress played the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
ANSWERS
1/ The Wizard of Oz
2/ James Stewart
3/ A Few Good Men
4/ Cambodia
5/ Escape To Victory
6/ Meryl Streep & Goldie Hawn
7/ Speed
8/ Warden Samuel Norton
9/ As Good As It Gets
10/ Olivia Hussey
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1/ Which famous TV chef died last month at the age of 65?
2/ Who was the Roman god of love?
3/ What is the largest musical instrument in a string quartet?
4/ By what three-word name is the illness BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) better known?
5/ What is the name of the eldest of the Duke of Cornwall’s sons?
6/ Taphephobia is a fear of what: being buried alive, losing your teeth, or someone from Wales?
7/ Used for measuring the height of a horse, how many inches are there in a hand?
8/ Born This Day: Which singer/songwriter, whose biggest UK hits were Un-Break My Heart, and Breathe Again, was born in Severn, Maryland, USA on this day in 1968?
9/ The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure was discovered recently in which English county?
10/ Who was on the English throne at the time of the American War of Independence?
ANSWERS
1/ Keith Floyd (d.14/09/2009)
2/ Cupid
3/ Cello
4/ Mad Cow Disease
5/ William
6/ Being buried alive
7/ 4
8/ Toni Braxton
9/ Staffordshire
10/ George III
TRUE OR FALSE
1/ A Swedish Mauser is a breed of dog: true or false?
2/ Oxfordshire is nicknamed ‘The County of Spires and Squires’: true or false?
3/ When ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo in Brighton the UK jury gave them no points: true or false?
4/ The anticoagulant found in a vampire bat’s saliva is called draculin: true or false?
5/ A young hedgehog is called a kitten: true or false?
6/ There are no women depicted on the famous Bayeux Tapestry: true or false?
7/ An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain: true or false?
8/ Tupperware was invented by a Mr. Tupper: true or false?
9/ Minnie Higginbottom appeared in The Last Of The Summer Wine: true or false?
10/ Windsor Castle is sometimes known as ‘The Key to England’: true or false?
ANSWERS
1/ False (a bolt action rifle)
2/ False (Northamptonshire is)
3/ True
4/ True
5/ False (since 1990 hoglet or hedgehoglet came into use)
6/ False (3 are)
7/ True (now you know what affliction a bird with big eyes and long legs has!)
8/ True (in 1946 by Earl Silas Tupper)
9/ True (Minnie Higginbottom was the real name of Kathy Staff who played Nora Batty)
10/ False (Dover Castle is)
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1/ According to The Bible, who committed the world’s first murder?
2/ How would you write the number 1155 using Roman numerals?
3/ How were the pop duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley better known?
4/ According to a TV advert in the 1970’s, what did a million housewives say every day?
5/ Which three-letter word is used to describe a long scarf made from feathers?
6/ Catgut is traditionally made from the intestines of which animal?
7/ How many strings are there on a modern mandolin?
8/ Husqvarna Motorcycles are manufactured in which country?
9/ The area called ‘The Burren’ in Co. Clare is mainly composed of which type of rock?
10/ How were the female singers Mayte Mateos and Maria Mendiola better known?
ANSWERS
1/ Cain (Genesis chap 4 v 8)
2/ MCLV
3/ Wham!
4/ Beanz Meanz Heinz
5/ Bao
6/ Sheep
7/ 8 (4 pairs)
8/ Italy (originally made in Sweden)
9/ Limestone
10/ Baccara
THE WRITTEN WORD
1/ Which fictional barrister was created by the former barrister Sir John Mortimer?
2/ Which newspaper was first printed in 1737 in Joy’s Entry, Belfast?
3/ 221b Baker Street, London was the home address of which famous literary character?
4/ In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim is the son of which character?
5/ Which language did St. Patrick use to write letters that became a sort of autobiography?
6/ Which famous book opens with the line, “Call me Ishmael”?
7/ Which fictional footballer played for Melchester Rovers?
8/ The Human Factor, Our Man In Havana, and The Quiet American are novels by which author?
9/ In The Bible, Leah is the wife of which Old Testament patriarch?
10/ Which famous literary person turned down a peerage and the Order of Merit, but accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature?
ANSWERS
1/ Horace Rumpole
2/ The News Letter
3/ Sherlock Holmes
4/ Bob Cratchitt
5/ Latin
6/ Moby-Dick (by Herman Melville)
7/ Roy Race
8/ Graham Greene
9/ Jacob (Genesis chap 29)
10/ George Bernard Shaw
WHERE IN THE WORLD?
1/ Lizard Point the most southerly tip of England is in which county?
2/ The Spanish Steps is a tourist attraction in which of the world’s capital cities?
3/ If the counties in the province of Ulster were listed alphabetically, which would come third?
4/ Trowbridge is the county town of which English county?
5/ The delta of the world’s longest river is in which country?
6/ Which American city is nicknamed ‘The Windy City’?
7/ Over half of the 3,700km (2,300 ml) long Yukon River flows through which American state?
8/ At 109 square miles, which is the largest of New York’s five boroughs?
9/ As of 2007, which of the 50 states of the USA has the smallest population?
10/ Fingal’s Cave is a famous sea cave on which uninhabited Scottish island?
ANSWERS
1/ Cornwall
2/ Rome
3/ Cavan (Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Monaghan, & Tyrone)
4/ Wiltshire
5/ Egypt (River Nile)
6/ Chicago
7/ Alaska
8/ Queens
9/ Wyoming
10/ Staffa (Inner Hebrides)
THE LAST ROUND
1/ Which planet is seventh from The Sun?
2/ By what name is iron oxide more commonly called?
3/ Which two pop stars died in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly?
4/ Who in 1966 was famous for saying, “Some people are on the pitch! They think it’s all over. It is now, it’s four!”?
5/ In which country in 1923 was the operatic soprano Maria Callas born?
6/ Which poison is obtained from the seeds of the southeast Asian Nux Vomica tree?
7/ In 1967, which band featured on the first record to be played on Radio One?
8/ A Landseer is a black and white variety of which breed of dog?
9/ Lady Honoria Dedlock is one of the characters in which Charles Dickens’ novel?
10/ In which year did the following events all occur: Ken Livingstone became the Leader of the Greater London Council, 8 members of the RNLI were lost in what became known as the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster, and best known for playing Young Mr. Grace in the sitcom Are You Being Served?, the actor Harold Bennett died?
ANSWERS
1/ Uranus
2/ Rust
3/ Ritchie Valens & J. P. Richardson aka The Big Bopper
4/ Kenneth Wolstenholme (BBC TV commentator at World Cup final)
5/ USA (b. 02/12/1923 – Manhattan, New York)
6/ Strychnine
7/ The Move (song: Flowers In The Rain)
8/ Newfoundland
9/ Bleak House
10/ 1981
