Archive for November, 2008

Christmas Quiz – Wednesday 17th December 2008

November 20, 2008

The next quiz will be a special Christmas quiz, with festive questions, pictures and music.  It’ll be great fun – we guarantee it!

Usual Ts and Cs:

Kick off at 8pm

£2 per player, maximum 5 to a team

The Bread and Roses is in Clapham Manor Street, off Clapham High Street (Turn off the High Street when you get to the KFC)

Map here

& the winners were…

November 20, 2008

Wooly Bully with 78%, followed by Super Chiefs with 75%, and Sootie with 60%.  Well done to all teams who played!

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 12th November

November 19, 2008

Current Affairs

 

Who was the UK’s previous F1 champion?

Which African country declared a day’s holiday for Barack Obama’s election?

& why?

Whose new album, out later this month, is called Chinese Democracy?

How many separate firework displays did Lambeth Council hold on November 5th?

Laurent Nkunda has threatened to overthrow the government of which country?

Which gaffe-prone politician referred to Barack Obama’s supposed ’suntan’?

Who was man of the match on his England rugby union debut at the weekend?

By what percentage were UK interest rates cut last week?

Which musician’s work is to be removed from AQA’s music GCSE syllabus?

 

Picture Round

Music Round

Pushing the music round into the 21st century we treated players to a selection of mashups; teams had to identify both the artists mashed up in each case 

Accents

 

Please draw:

An acute accent

A grave accent

An umlaut

A circumflex accent

A cedilla

 

Chocolate

 

Which chocolate bar did Cadburys finally relaunch in 2008, due to popular demand?

‘Pleasure you can’t measure’ is an advertising slogan for which chocolate bar?

Which contains the most calories out of a 4-finger Kit Kat, a Creme Egg or a Toffee Crisp?

What is the name of the sequel to ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

What colour and shape is the ‘chocolate noisette pate’ sweet in the Quality Street collection?

 

General knowledge

 

Which city in America is known as the Second City?

What is a literal translation of the French festival Mardi Gras?

What military decoration is commemorated on the 2006 50p piece?

What TV comedy series was set in Walmington-on-Sea?

Which Kurt Vonnegut novel hinges around the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1944?

Which suburb of London is Eel Pie Island connected to (by footbridge)?

In which English county would you find the Dukeries?

In what year did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?

In which shop would you buy a ‘Billy’ bookcase?

Which British film director made the famous ‘Hovis’ ad, featuring a boy pushing a bike up a hill?

Next Quiz – Wednesday 12th November

November 7, 2008

Kick off at 8pm

£2 per player, maximum 5 to a team

Lots of prizes!

The Bread and Roses is in Clapham Manor Street, off Clapham High Street (Turn off the High Street when you get to the KFC)

Map here

Quiz Questions from Thursday 16th October

November 7, 2008

Current Affairs

 

Personal UK savings are guaranteed up to what amount per institution?

Which football manager gave a press interview in early October in which he swore over 50 times at journalists

What do OJ Simpson’s first two initials stand for?

Who is the new chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority?

What is the name of the new Oasis album?

Which company is John Lydon advertising in a new TV campaign?

What is Peter Mandelson’s new job in government?

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Picture Round

Music – Caught by the Fuzz – bands that have been in trouble with the Police

Including songs by Babyshambles, Hole, & Guns ‘n’ Roses.

 

James Bond (in honour of the new film)

 

In which decade did Ian Fleming write the first James Bond novel?

What is the name of the microlight flown by James bond in You Only Live Twice?

Which band played the theme tune to Live and Let Die?

What unusual physical feature did Scaramanga have in The Man With The Golden Gun?

Which comedian writes the ‘Young James Bond’ series of books?

 

Barriers

 

Which dyke partially follows the Anglo-Welsh border?

The 38th parallel separates which two previously warring Asian countries?

What barried did Winston Churchill say had descended across Europe in a speech of 1946 at Fulton, Missouri.

Checkpoint Charlie was a feature of which infamous barrier?

Which Pink Floyd album of 1979 extensively explores themes of isolation?

 

General Knowledge

 

Who succeeded Richard Nixon as US president?

Cornwall was famous for the mining of which metal?

The process of saponification is used in making what common household substance?

Which mountain range in Russia marks the eastern boundary of Europe?

What does the “http” at the start web of a web address stand for?

The island of Mauritius is named after the sovereign of which country?

What connects the battles of Jutland, Actium and the Nile?

Which writer is responsible for the superheroes Iron Man and Spider Man?

What is the English equivalent of the Spanish festival Semana Santa?

What are the two main ingredients of the Australian bread damper?