1.      Which character has Barbara Knox played for over 45 years?

Answer - Rita Fairclough

1.     Jerk chicken is often a street food associated with which country?

Answer - JAMAICA

1.      What animal is on Levi’s logo?
Answer - Horse

1.      London surgeon Robert Wilson supposedly took a photo of what in 1934?

Answer - The Loch Ness Monster

1.     Which actress is the daughter of Goldie Hawn?

Answer - KATE HUDSON

1.     What was the name of Doctor Dolittle's parrot?

Answer - POLYNESIA

Questions on Film and TV

Tio Pepe is a famous brand of what type of alcoholic drink?
Answer - SHERRY

Which Disney film features the song 'The Bear Necessities'?
Answer - The Jungle Book

Haggis is a national delicacy of which country?
Answer - Scotland

1.     Can you name the only English king to be executed in England?

Answer - King Charles I (in 1649)

1.   Which country won the first contest back in 1956?

Answer - SWITZERLAND

1.      Name the capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina?

Answer - SARAJEVO

1.    What is the most easterly island country in the Mediterranean?
Answer - CYPRUS

1.      Who owns a company known as Syco?

Answer - SIMON COWELL

What is the name of Quint's shark-hunting boat in Jaws?
Answer - The Orca

In which country were the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies filmed?
Answer - NEW ZEALAND

Former Mr Universe Lou Ferrigno Played Which Famous Tv Character

Answer - The Incredible Hulk

1.      WHATS BEN HARPERS PROFESSION IN MY FAMILY?

Answer - DENTIST

What title was given to Arthur Wellesley ?

    Answer -  Duke of Wellington

Who did all his detecting sitting down?

Answer - Robert Ironside.

1.     Who made world headlines by sadly dying the day before Princess Diana’s funeral?

Answer - MOTHER TERESA

Do You Know Your Dragons???

Mulder and Scully were the main characters in which TV show?
Answer - The X Files

In 1918 Finland declared its independence from which country?

Answer - Russia

What is the ancient Persian word for nation or land?

Answer - Stan

1.   What is the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet?

 Answer - Delta

Name the country the beers are from

Penny Lane by the Beatles refers to a real person True or False?
Answer - False (it is a street in Liverpool)

1.         T/F Only female duck’s quack.

Answer - True

Name the place from the clues

All About TV Crime Dramas

1.      Which TV duo were played by Robin Williams and Pam Dawber?

Answer - Mork & Mindy

Well known catchphrases

1.     What colour is Winnie-the-Pooh's T-shirt?
Answer - RED

All the peoples names have a colour in them

Which chocolate bar has a frog as its logo?
Answer - Freddo

1.      Who created Noddy?

Answer - ENID BLYTON

1.      Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
Answer - Horse

1.      Which pork pie is named after a town in Leicestershire?

Answer - MELTON MOWBRAY

The 1997 film The Full Monty was set in which city?

Answer - Sheffield

1.     What is quizzer and television personality Mark Labbett's nickname?

Answer - THE BEAST

1.   What is the name of the lion in "The Chronicles of Narnia"?

     Answer - Aslan

Books with numbers in the title

1.    What was Bram Stoker's most famous creation?

Answer - Dracula.

All the answers are titles of books

4        In August 1979, which seaside resort opened Britain's first nudist beach?

Answer - BRIGHTON

Who dedicated his life to killing Moby Dick?

Answer - Captain Ahab.

Fun Out of the norm questions

It all happenned in April

1.      What name is given to the small hammer used by an auctioneer?

GAVEL

What is the distinguishing feature of a manx cat?
Answer - It has no tail

1.      The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, they adopt.

Answer - BORN FREE

All the answers begin with the same letter

ie The first answer starts with E the next answer starts with F and so on

ie The first answer starts with E the next answer starts with F and so on

ie The first answer starts with E the next starts with F and so on

All the answers begin with the same letter

ie The first answer starts with E the next starts with F and so on

ie First answer starts with E the next starts with F and so on

ie First answer starts with E the next starts with F and so on.

The first letter of the answers follow on

ie question one answer starts with a C question 2 starts with a D and so on

All the answers start with the same letter

1.    Who won two BAFTA Awards for her sitcom role as Patsy Stone?

JOANNA LUMLEY

1.      What colour is the Duracell bunny?

Pink

1.    Who played the title role in the film Shirley Valentine?

Pauline Collins

1.            British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's yacht sank off the coast of which island?

SICILLY

Questions about 2024

. In which city was ‘Cheers’ set?
BOSTON

Handout for teams to do whilst quiz is going

. Steve Wozniak co-founded which computer company in 1976?
APPLE INC. (The other co-founder was of course, Steve Jobs)

1.     Which football team became the first in the 20th century to win the English League and the FA cup in the same season?

Tottenham Hotspur (1961)

1.    The famous explorer, John Cabot came from which country, Italy or Portugal?
ITALY

Who is the Brummie father of actress Lucy Davis?

Answer - JASPER CARROT

Which newspaper started in 1821 as the New Observer?

Answer - Sunday Times

What person looks after sheep?

Answer - SHEPHERD (TIPPING POINT)

WHAT DID MARGARET ROBERTS BECOME IN 1979?

Answer - PRIME MINISTER

What was Alfred Hitchcock's first colour movie?

Answer - "Rope"

Who did Gordon Kaye play in “Allo, Allo”?

Answer - Rene (her husband)

What was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour in 1972?

Answer - LINER QUEEN ELIZABETH

Who starred in the title role in the 1968 Film the Boston Strangler?

Answer - Tony Curtis

Sue Brown was the first woman to be what in the Boat Race?

Answer - Cox

ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU EVENTHOUGH I HAVENT MET YOU YET?

Answer - MICHAEL BUBLE (BURNABY)

Nine questions, where the answers have a link, question 10 is what is the connection.

"I think I can make it now, the pain is gone

Answer - I Can See Clearly Now

Can you name the coastal town which is the third largest town in Tyneside?

Answer - SOUTH SHIELDS

Example:- Boudicca was queen of which historic tribe of eastern Britain?

Answer - Iceni (or Eceni)