BreadAndRosesQuiz http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com Pub Quiz in London - First Wednesday of Every Month Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:26:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/e52af44dc466a80c17b49942df928e6d?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png BreadAndRosesQuiz http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com Next Quiz – Special Christmas Quiz – Wednesday 16th December http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/next-quiz-special-christmas-quiz-wednesday-16th-december/ http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/next-quiz-special-christmas-quiz-wednesday-16th-december/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:26:18 +0000 breadandrosesquiz http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/?p=138 ]]>

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.

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Paper Roses, with 85%, followed by Don’t Stop Believing with 79% and Quiz Team Bale with 76%

Team Braeburn were the best team of 2, with 70%

Well done everyone; some sections, especially the General Knowledge, were very hard.

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Current Affairs
Who is the new president of the European Council?
Who scored the final goal in the World Cup qualifying match between France and Ireland?
Who wrote the Best selling American book Going Rogue?
Which cult TV show is honoured in a new plaque unveiled at Festing Road, Putney?
What make of car did Tiger Woods crash?  (just the make, e.g. Ford, not the model)
Who is playing Holly Golightly in the London stage version of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
The recently launched ‘Glo’ is an online interactive version of which book?
The ‘Hayemaker’ and the ‘Beast from the East’ recently caused a stir in which sport?
Alan Bennett’s new play chronicles the relationship between which 20th Century British poet and composer: name them both?
Which explorer’s abandoned crates of Scotch whisky does a team plan to dig out from the Antarctic ice?
Picture Round
The theme this month was Olympic posters, with teams having to identify which Games 10 different posters were from
Music Round
Household objects, so Clocks, My Doorbell, Coffee and TV, Lipstick and more.
2009
Which writer won the 2009 Booker prize?
Who topped the charts in 2009 at the age of 92?
Spell the term ‘Inglourious Basterds’ in the manner of the Tarantino film.
Which international cricket team’s convoy was attacked by terrorists in March?
In which country was H1N1 Swine Flu first diagnosed in humans?
People named after other people
The rapper Calvin Broadus gets his stage name from which cartoon character?
Which American public figure is Christiano Ronaldo named after?
Who was Dennis Bergkamp named after?
Which singer wrote the song that Chelsea Clinton is named after?
Which pope took his name from his immediate predecessor?
General Knowledge
What does the word Nivea mean in Latin?
What does the word Rincon mean in Spanish?
Who wrote the children’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Which popular craft activity begins with ‘casting on’ and ends with ‘casting off’?
Which tube station is nearest to the ship The Golden Hind?
Which US city is nicknamed the Windy City?
The name ’sirloin’ comes from King James I knighting a particularly good steak dinner; true or false?
What is the total mass, in kg, of moon rock that has been brought back to earth (to within 10%)?
Who originally said that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes?
In the context of working abroad, what does the acronym FILTH stand for?
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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.

]]> http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/next-quiz-wednesday-2nd-december/feed/ 0 breadandrosesquiz & the winners were… http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-winners-were-16/ http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-winners-were-16/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:42:39 +0000 breadandrosesquiz http://breadandrosesquiz.wordpress.com/?p=128 ]]>

Team Braeburn with 83%, followed by Quiz Team Bail with 81%, and Stan’s Away with 78%.

 

Some pretty high scores!  Well done everyone.

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Current Affairs
What is the first name of Wayne & Colleen Rooney’s new son?
Which popular French fiction character celebrated his 50th birthday in October?
Which notorious dictator, it has recently emerged, had a spell as an MI5 agent in his earlier life?
Who recently became the first billionaire sportsman, according to Forbes magazine?
A picture of which actor was recently withdrawn from the Tate, following a controversy about nudity?
Lucy Prebble’s play, currently showing at the Royal Court theatre, chronicles the downfall of which company?
Production of which famous regional drink is to be moved to Tadcaster in Yorkshire?
Sunderland’s recent controversial goal against Liverpool took a deflection off what object?
Following the recent expose of fake celebrity stories in the tabloids, which of the following is true: MP Lembit Opik dating an underwear model; a spark setting Amy Winehouse’s beehive on fire; or Pixie Geldof padding out her bra with sweets?
Who is nicknamed the ‘Frome Flyer’?
Picture Round
Monsters from horror films, in honour of the Halloween
Music Round
The theme was Flora nad Fauna, so Lily Allen, Hothouse Flowers, & more
Presidential quotes
Which American president said…
“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?
“I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully”?
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”?
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
Formerly known as
What was the previous name of the Snickers chocolate bar?
What was the previous name of the O2 mobile phone network
What is the current name for Oil of Ulay?
What was the previous name of Absolute Radio
What was the previous name for GMTV, the ITV breakfast show?
General Knowledge
What is the nearest hospital to Waterloo station?
At which sport does Lee Briers compete?
How many legs does a wasp have?
In the comedy duo Derek and Clive, who played Derek?
In the US, which year old college is known as the sophomore year?
By what name is actor Carlos Estevez normally known?
Which poet published fictionalised autobiographies entitled ‘Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man’ and ‘Memoirs of an Infantry Officer’?
Who wrote ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ and ‘My Beautiful Launderette’?
What type of animal is a sidewinder?
What is the name of the US Presidential Plane?

 

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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.

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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!

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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?

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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.

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