& the winners were…

Quiz on my face and tell me that you love me, with 78%, followed by Team Braeburn with 77%. Crubeans came third (& were simultaneously the best team of two people, with 70%

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 1st July

Current Affairs
Which bone did Mrs Thatcher break in June?
Describe the art installation that will be appearing on the 4th plinth at Trafalgar square
Which cause was Greta Scaachi promoting by posing naked with a fish?
Which cause were artists promoting by painting their faces blue at Glastonbury?
What is the official name for Swine Flu?
What is unusual about Banksy’s new art exhibition?
Who is the new speaker of the House of Commons?
Which Michael Jackson album topped the charts at the weekend?
How many Grand Slam tennis titles has Roger Federer won?
How many deputy mayors has Boris Johnson now lost?

Picture Round
The picture round featured country outlines – teams had to identify the ten countries shown.

Music Round
The theme of the music round was siblings, featuring bands with more than one member of the same country, and proving that just as close relations shouldn’t make babies with each other, in many cases they shouldn’t make music together either.

Weather
What food-related name was given to old-style London smogs?
What name was given to the extreme UK winter of 1963?
Who, perhaps unfairly, took most criticism for the forecasting of the great storm of 1987?
The Met Office recently published its most detailed projections of what in the UK?
What number of categories are there on the scale which rates hurricane strength?

Beer
In which town in Germany is Becks beer brewed?
Which country produces Singha beer?
Which state in Australia produces Swan and Emu beer?
Which African country has it’s own Guinness brewery?
In which English county is the Black Sheep Brewery?

General Knowledge
The nickname ‘Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’ is given to what?
With which successful business would you associate Ingvar Kamprad?
What amount of money is represented by the rhyming slang term a ‘lady’?
General William Westmoreland commanded US forces in which war?
What was the terrorist Ted Kaczinsky better know as?
Who wrote the nursery rhyme The Owl and the Pussycat
Who’s tallest out of Nicholas Lindhurst, Nicholas Cage, and Nikolas Anelka?
In degrees C, what is the normal temperature of the human body?
What is the name for the mythical process of turning other metals into Gold?
How many prime numbers are there between ten and twenty?

Next Quiz – Wednesday 1st July

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.

& the winners were…

…Devilfish with 86%, followed by Crubeans with 73%. There was a tie for 3rd with two teams on 71%; Je Ne Sais Quoi managed to beat l33t in the tie breaker question to claim third.

Di & Nick were the best team of two, on 69%.

All teams won prizes, with all the others getting a free T shirt.

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 3rd June

Current Affairs
Which country won Eurovision?
Which British school was closed last week as a result of Swine Flu?
What role does Simon Pegg play in the Star Trek film?
Which high street shop is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year?
Who has been named as the new chief scout?
Which shop is replacing Woolworths on Clapham High Street
By what name is the militant group LTTE better known?
Which former England cricketer has been jailed for 13 years for drug smuggling?
The genome of which creature was revealed in May?
According to a recent court case, what % of a Pringles snack is made of potato (to the nearest 10%?)

Picture Round

Music Round
The theme was ‘modes of transport’, so tracks like Drive by the Cars, National Express by Divine Comedy and Jump by Van Halen (Van – geddit?)

Band Names
Which film gave the band McFly their name?
What are the Kaiser Chiefs (original meaning)?
A song by which band gave Radiohead their name?
What is Pearl Jam?
In medical terms, what does REM stand for?

Brand names
What organisation rebranded itself as ‘Consignia’, before swiftly reversing the decision?
What did PricewaterhouseCooper’s consulting arm rebrand itself as, before also reversing their decision?
What did Arthur Andersen rebrand as, after becoming tainted by the Enron scandal?
What was the well-known cleaner Cif previously called?
What is the TV channel UKTV G2 now known as?

General knowledge
Which branch of the northern line has the most stations – Charing Cross or Bank?
Which film led to a sudden increase in the sales of Pinot Noir wine?
Which is the largest body in the US – the Senate, or the House of
Representatives?
What is the official currency of Montenegro
Which cricket team has the nickname the Spitfires?
Who wrote the book The Motorcycle Diaries?
Which acid is found in vinegar?
What is the name of the pagoda in Battersea Park?
Which great Spanish artist painted the Rokeby Venus?
The world’s first passenger railway linked which two UK cities?

Next quiz – Wednesday 3rd June

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.

& the winners were…

Information is not Knowledge with an astonishing 94%, followed by Pigs Might Flu at 77% and We no longer wanna hit that on 76%

Quiz Questions from Wednesday 6th May

Current Affairs
Which celebrity chef was recently found to have been using some ready-made meals at his gastropubs?
Which two teams will contest the 2009 FA Cup final?
How much can MPs currently claim as their second home allowance per year (to the nearest £3,000)
What new architectural feature will spectators see at Wimbledon this year?
Which newspaper got into controversy for a tasteless cartoon of Stephen Hawking?
What is the title of the next Dan Brown thriller, due out later this year?
Who has just been elected President of South Africa?
…and which major country’s election is still taking place, with results announced on 16th May?
The new 50% rate of income tax will apply to annual earnings over what amount?
Who has made controversial public criticisms of the planned new Chelsea Barracks development?

Picture Round

Music Round
This month’s theme was Animals, and featured tracks by Atomic Kitten, the Boomtown Rats, and the Seahorses

Inventors
Which inventor is most associated with the first electric light bulbs and sound recordings?
What technology was Guglielmo Marconi most famous for inventing?
Trevor Baylis invented what kind of radio?
Which inventor is most associated with the cyclone vacuum cleaner?
Charles Babbage’s ‘difference engines’ of the 19th century were early mechanical versions of what?

Citizenship Test
In which part of the country are Geordie dialects most commonly spoken?
In what year were women given to right to vote, to the nearest 5 years?
In what year will the next national census be carried out?
What item is traditionally carried into neighbour’s houses in Scotland on New Year’s Day as part of first footing?
In which year was the voting age in Great Britain lowered to 18, to the nearest five years?

General Knowledge
The RPI and CPI are government measures of what?
The film ‘The Damned United’ and Channel 4’s recent ‘Red Riding’ trilogy are based on the work of which writer?
It’s possible for your eye to pop out when you sneeze: true or false?
What French name is given to the device which switches gears on a bicycle?
John Steinbeck won the 1940 Pulitzer prize for which novel?
Which festival opened on the South Bank on 3rd May 1951?
Which British institution was given independence from political control on 6th May 1997?
What is the German equivalent of the Footsie Index of share prices?
Who was the US president at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbour?
What is the morse code symbol for the letter T?

Next quiz – Wednesday 6th May

The quiz is on the first Wednesday of the month, so the next one will be Wednesday 1st April.

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.

& the winners were…

Consumerism Sucks (it was the first day of the G20 protests) with 90% (!), followed by Happy Families with 77%, and Cool Crew with 75%.

Postuns were the best team of two, with 72%.

Well done everyone!