From now on the quiz will be on the first Wednesday of the month, so the next one will be Wednesday 4th February.
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)
LBI Allstars, with 82%, followed by The Remarkables with 80%. There was a 2 way tie for third, but Karen’s Kickers won out against Team Braeburn in the tie break; both teams had scored 74%.
Double Date won the prize for the best team of two, with 57%
Here’s the source for the number of books that George Bush read in 2006 & 2007. Who knew he was such a bookworm?
Current affairs
What TV programme was fronted by Tony Hart from 1984-1993?
Name the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, who died recently?
Food standards officers recently found “shocking” levels of fat and salt, inaccurate labelling of meat and, on average, enough calories to provide half a woman’s recommended daily intake” in a survey of what popular food?
Sir Paul Stephenson has been named the new chief of which organisation?
Name the special flavour of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream named in honour of Barack Obama
How many books did George W Bush claim that he read in 2007 (to the nearest 5 books)?
What is the name of the new website used by celebrities including Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross & Andy Murray?
Where is Davos (i.e. which country), scene of the world economic forum?
Which team won the Superbowl? (1 point for city only)
& who sang the national anthem at the game?
Picture Round
Music Round
The theme was ‘America’ so tracks with American states or town names in either the title or the name of the artist – Whitney Houston, Dinah Washington, Viva Las Vegas… you get the picture.
Colours
What colour are crystals and solutions of potassium permanganate?
How many colours of the rainbow are there?
Which eye disorder is said to have influenced the colours used in Monet’s paintings?
Manual workers are sometimes described as having what colour collar?
What colour is generally associated with envy?
The human body
How many pairs of ribs does the average man have?
How many chambers are there in the heart?
What is the common name for the tibia?
What are white blood cells called?
Where are the deltoid muscles?
General knowledge
Whose face is on the US $100 bill?
In which city is the statue Mannekin Pis?
How many ounces are there in a pound?
What is the nickname of the Nigerian football team?
What is the name given to the principle where workers rise to the level of their own incompetence?
Which career have actor Patrick McGoohan, Nazi Heinrich Himmler and Zimbabwean cricketer Eddo Brandes all undertaken at some point in their lives?
Which has the larger land area out of India and Australia?
Oh average how many Friday the 13ths are there each year?
Who wrote a collection of Poetry called The Whitsun Weddings?
In Alexander Dumas’ book the Three Musketeers, who is the third musketeer after Athos and Portos?
