Next Quiz – Wednesday 4th November

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

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 quiz is a no iPhone (& no Google Phone) zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this. Clay Shirky says so.

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

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 quiz is a no iPhone (& no Google Phone) zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this. Clay Shirky says so.

& the winners were…

Team Braeburn, with 86%, winning a tie break question with I own a deadly sword (a cunning pun on former B&R staffer Iona Dudley Ward) who also scored 86%, with Mice Ate My Cable coming third with 84%.

Very close!

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 7th October

Current Affairs

In which city will the 2016 olympics be held?

Who won last night’s Man Booker prize for fiction?

What happened at Great Ormond Street for the first time in 157 years?

How is Heston Blumenthal compensating diners who got food poisoning at his restaurant?

Who is the schools secretary?

Which TV show is Nick Griffin due to appear on in October?

Who became the oldest woman ever to have a UK no 1 album on September?

Name two presenters of Channel Five’s Live From Studio Five?

How much will the Evening Standard cost from next Monday?

Which political party has The Sun said it will support at the next election?

Picture Round

A very neat one – rock band T-shirts.  Easy for some teams, impossible for others.

Music Round

Quite a lazy one – bands with the work ‘The’ in their name – so The Rolling Stones, The While Stripes, The Verve, and so on.

Who am I?

Born in Hampstead in February 1932, she is a 2 times Oscar winning actress

Born in Homerton in February 1957, he is a film and TV actor and former amateur boxer

Born in July 1866, she is an English author, illustrator, botanist and conservationist, best known for her children’s books

Born in May 1820, she was popularly known as The Lady of the Lamp

Born in May 1769, he was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who came to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of Field Marshall

National foods

Which country are the biscuits TimTams made in?

Which region of France does Camenbert traditionally come from?

Is Rogan Josh traditionally from which Indian region – Punjab, Goa or Kashmir?

Which European country is most associated with Fondue?

Which American state is the home of Buffalo Wings?

General knowledge

Which band did Johnny Fingers play keyboards for?

On an OS map, what do the initials FB signify?

Who’s tallest out of Jeremy Clarkson, Jeremy Guscott and Jeremy Paxman?

Which two boxers contested the Rumble in the Jungle?

In which month does the Kentucky Derby horse racing event take place?

Where is the body would you find the proximal phalange?

What is the Latin word for left?

In British espionage, who was known as the Third Man?

In music, how many quavers are there in a crotchet?

The meat of which animal is usually used to make doner kebabs?

Current Affairs

In which city will the 2016 olympics be held?

Who won last night’s Man Booker prize for fiction?

What happened at Great Ormond Street for the first time in 157 years?

How is Heston Blumenthal compensating diners who got food poisoning at his restaurant?

Who is the schools secretary?

Which TV show is Nick Griffin due to appear on in October?

Who became the oldest woman ever to have a UK no 1 album on September?

Name two presenters of Channel Five’s Live From Studio Five?

How much will the Evening Standard cost from next Monday?

Which political party has The Sun said it will support at the next election?

Picture Round

A very neat one – rock band T-shirts.  Easy for some teams, impossible for others.

Music Round

Quite a lazy one – bands with the work ‘The’ in their name – so The Rolling Stones, The While Stripes, The Verve, and so on.

Who am I?

Born in Hampstead in February 1932, she is a 2 times Oscar winning actress

Born in Homerton in February 1957, he is a film and TV actor and former amateur boxer

Born in July 1866, she is an English author, illustrator, botanist and conservationist, best known for her children’s books

Born in May 1820, she was popularly known as The Lady of the Lamp

Born in May 1769, he was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman who came to prominence in the Napoleonic Wars, eventually reaching the rank of Field Marshall

National foods

Which country are the biscuits TimTams made in?

Which region of France does Camenbert traditionally come from?

Is Rogan Josh traditionally from which Indian region – Punjab, Goa or Kashmir?

Which European country is most associated with Fondue?

Which American state is the home of Buffalo Wings?

General knowledge

Which band did Johnny Fingers play keyboards for?

On an OS map, what do the initials FB signify?

Who’s tallest out of Jeremy Clarkson, Jeremy Guscott and Jeremy Paxman?

Which two boxers contested the Rumble in the Jungle?

In which month does the Kentucky Derby horse racing event take place?

Where is the body would you find the proximal phalange?

What is the Latin word for left?

In British espionage, who was known as the Third Man?

In music, how many quavers are there in a crotchet?

The meat of which animal is usually used to make doner kebabs?

Next Quiz – Wednesday 7th October

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

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 quiz is a no iPhone (& no Google Phone) zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this. Clay Shirky says so.

& the winners were…

Team Braeburn, with 78%, followed by Crubeans with 63%. Well done everyone who played!

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 2nd September 2009

Current Affairs

Which of the London free papers has announced that it will cease publication in September?

How many studio albums (not live, or compilations) have Oasis made?

For what crime is a woman in Sudan facing 40 lashes?

Which rap band has just had a street named after them in New York?

Which British born personality did American political commentators argue 0′would not have survived under a system like the NHS’?

What is the title of Titanic director James Cameron’s new film?

Where has philosopher Alain de Botton been spending the summer in order to write a book?

Which film character was Barack Obama compared to in un-complimentary posters in the US?

How many founder members of the football league are playing in this season’s Premier League?

According to the Office for national Statistics, what did the UK population reach at the end of 2008 (to the nearest whole million)?

Board games

On the British Monopoly board, which is the most expensive property square?

In Escape from Colditz, which vehicle can players steal to try to escape?

In Risk, what device is used to determine who wins a battle between two opposing armies?

In Trivial Pursuit, what colour piece of pie do you get for correctly answering a sports & leisure question?

In Scrabble, what value is given to the letter Y?

Local newspapers

What is the main local newspaper in Manchester?

What is the main evening newspaper of Liverpool?

What is the main local newspaper in Nottingham?

What nickname does cricketer Jimmy Anderson share with a local newspaper?

The Yorkshire post newspaper is based in which city?

General knowledge

In Bingo calling, which number goes with the phrase one little duck?

Which band is made up of Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement?

In which American state is The Pentagon?

Into which country would you be flying if your luggage had the airport code CPH?

Which tree reaches a greater average heightz out of the oak, chestnut, or Douglas fir?

Which vegetable has a variety called the Portabello?

Methane is a major greenhouse gas but what is its chemical formula?

Which Steinbeck novel of 1939 chronicles the journey of the Joad family to California?

Which 19th Century war saw armoured warships used in battle for the first time?

In what role were Ether and Chloroform formerly used in medicine?

Current Affairs

Which of the London free papers has announced that it will cease publication in September?

How many studio albums (not live, or compilations) have Oasis made?

For what crime is a woman in Sudan facing 40 lashes?

Which rap band has just had a street named after them in New York?

Which British born personality did American political commentators argue 0′would not have survived under a system like the NHS’?

What is the title of Titanic director James Cameron’s new film?

Where has philosopher Alain de Botton been spending the summer in order to write a book?

Which film character was Barack Obama compared to in un-complimentary posters in the US?

How many founder members of the football league are playing in this season’s Premier League?

According to the Office for national Statistics, what did the UK population reach at the end of 2008 (to the nearest whole million)?

Picture Round

English Counties

Music Round

The theme this month was initials, so we had Run DMC, INXS, and JJ Cale, among others

Board games

On the British Monopoly board, which is the most expensive property square?

In Escape from Colditz, which vehicle can players steal to try to escape?

In Risk, what device is used to determine who wins a battle between two opposing armies?

In Trivial Pursuit, what colour piece of pie do you get for correctly answering a sports & leisure question?

In Scrabble, what value is given to the letter Y?

Local newspapers

What is the main local newspaper in Manchester?

What is the main evening newspaper of Liverpool?

What is the main local newspaper in Nottingham?

What nickname does cricketer Jimmy Anderson share with a local newspaper?

The Yorkshire post newspaper is based in which city?

General knowledge

In Bingo calling, which number goes with the phrase one little duck?

Which band is made up of Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement?

In which American state is The Pentagon?

Into which country would you be flying if your luggage had the airport code CPH?

Which tree reaches a greater average heightz out of the oak, chestnut, or Douglas fir?

Which vegetable has a variety called the Portabello?

Methane is a major greenhouse gas but what is its chemical formula?

Which Steinbeck novel of 1939 chronicles the journey of the Joad family to California?

Which 19th Century war saw armoured warships used in battle for the first time?

In what role were Ether and Chloroform formerly used in medicine?

Next Quiz – Wednesday 2nd September

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

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 quiz is a no iPhone (& no Google Phone) zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this. Clay Shirky says so.

& the winers were…

SW4Chan (great name!) with 78%, followed by Team Braeburn with 77%, and Quiz Team Aguilera with 73%.

Quiz Eubank was the top team of two players, with 67%.

Quiz questions from Wednesday 5th August

Current affairs
Which budget airline left 2,000 people stranded in Stansted last weekend?
The set of which British TV show now appears on Google Streetview?
Who is the father of film director Duncan Jones, whose debut film came out in July?
How many stages of TdF did Mark Cavendish win?
The immediate after effects of a huge impact were witnessed on which planet in July?
Which notorious gangster does Johnny Depp play in the film ‘Public Enemies’?
What was recently banned Harlequins wing Tom Williams alleged to have placed in his mouth, while feigning injury during a game?
In which year did the last global flu pandemic occur?
Prior to last month, in which year did England last beat Australia at Lords?
Sir John Chilcot is conducting an inquiry into what?

Picture Round
Coming soon!

Music Round
The theme was boys and girls names, so a packed pub was treated to popular favourites like Mandy, Mickey, and Ben.

Space Exploration
In what year did man first set foot on the moon?
What does NASA stand for?
Who was the first woman Astronaut in space?
Who was the first British Astronaut in space?
What is the planet third nearest the Sun?

World Facts
Which has the highest average life expectancy: Algeria, Antigua & Barbuda or Azerbaijan?
Which is largest denomination of christianity in Germany: Protestantism or Catholicism?
Which country is an archipelago of 17,508 islands?
Writers Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Wole Soyinka all hail from which country?
Which country has the largest population out of St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia or San Marino?

General knowledge
Who wrote the 1970s book Roots?
What sort of building would you be in if someone was shouting for you to do a grapevine?
What does the Latin word Bibendum mean?
What does ASBO stand for?
Who invented the jet engine?
What is the longest river in western Europe?
Who was the first emperor of Rome?
What does the abbreviation DNA stand for?
On the London Underground, what would you find between Angel and Old Street on the Northern Line, Holborn and Tottenham Court Road on the Central Line, and Green Park & Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line?
Which club has played more seasons of top-flight football than any other?

Next Quiz – Wednesday 5th August

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month

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 quiz is a no iPhone zone. It just spoils it for everyone. If you see someone on another team using their iPhone then take a picture of them with your phone. If we all work together we can beat this. Clay Shirky says so.