ROUND 1 – ONLY TWO MORE MONDAY NIGHTS
This quiz uses the letters from the above phrase to supply the first letter of each answer, i.e. Q1=O, Q2=N, Q3=L etc.
The letters are given instead of a question number to avoid any confusion.
O – Which –ology is the study of birds?
N – Which English actor came to prominence opposite Hugh Grant in the film, ‘About A Boy’?
L – What Chinese native tree bears yellow/orange fruit and was originally called the Japanese Medlar?
Y – What can be a long rambling story or a type of spun thread?
T – What name is given to the huge areas of moveable Earth’s crust and its uppermost mantle?
W – An anemometer is used to measure what?
O – What word can be an ancient Greek fortune teller, or the name of a database software system?
M – What was the name of the 20 m long shark like dinosaur, whose name means Big Tooth in English?
O – What was the name of the computer aboard the Liberator spaceship in Blake’s 7?
R – In mathematics, what name is given to an angle having an axis perpendicular to its base?
E – In the 1935 film, Captain Blood, who played the pirate captain?
M – Jim Henson is famous for creating which TV characters which first appeared on TV in 1955?
O – What was Roy Orbison’s first major hit, released in 1960?
N – Which inventor and engineer discovered that a rotating magnetic field produced A.C. electricity?
D – In the 90’s Superman TV show starring Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, who played Superman?
A – In Shakespeare’s, Henry V, what name does Montjoy give to the castle that overlooks the battlefield?
Y – What single celled fungi is revered for the way it eats carbohydrates and converts it to carbon dioxide and alcohol?
N – Which now defunct US communications company designed the modern method of using the internet with a simple point and click interface in 1994?
I – What is found in the oxygen carrying protein, haemoglobin, which makes blood red?
G – Which icon of the film industry made their debut in ’14 Hours’ about a man on a ledge in 1951?
H – What type of magical flying creature is Sleipnir in Norse mythology, which also has eight legs?
T – Ferroequinology is the study of what mode of transport?
S – On April 10 1912, the Titanic left which port to start its first, and last, voyage?
ROUND 2 – DISNEY SONGS – Given the title of the song, name the film
1. Circle of Life
2. A Whole New World
3. Let It Go
4. When You Wish Upon A Star
5. You’re Welcome
ROUND 3 – WHICH HEMISPHERE IS THE COUNTRY IN: NORTH OR SOUTH?
1. Vietnam
2. Japan
3. East Timor
4. Angola
5. Mauritania
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ROUND 1 – ONLY TWO MORE MONDAY NIGHTS
This quiz uses the letters from the above phrase to supply the first letter of each answer, i.e. Q1=O, Q2=N, Q3=L etc.
The letters are given instead of a question number to avoid any confusion.
O – Which –ology is the study of birds?
ORNITHOLOGY
N – Which English actor came to prominence opposite Hugh Grant in the film, ‘About A Boy’?
NICHOLAS HOULT
L – What Chinese native tree bears yellow/orange fruit and was originally called the Japanese Medlar?
LOQUAT
Y – What can be a long rambling story or a type of spun thread?
YARN
T – What name is given to the huge areas of moveable Earth’s crust and its uppermost mantle?
TECTONIC PLATES
W – An anemometer is used to measure what?
WIND SPEED
O – What word can be an ancient Greek fortune teller, or the name of a database software system?
ORACLE
M – What was the name of the 20 m long shark like dinosaur, whose name means Big Tooth in English?
MEGALODON
O – What was the name of the computer aboard the Liberator spaceship in Blake’s 7?
ORAC
R – In mathematics, what name is given to an angle having an axis perpendicular to its base?
RIGHT ANGLE
E – In the 1935 film, Captain Blood, who played the pirate captain?
ERROL FLYNN
M – Jim Henson is famous for creating which TV characters which first appeared on TV in 1955?
MUPPETS
O – What was Roy Orbison’s first major hit, released in 1960?
ONLY THE LONELY
N – Which inventor and engineer discovered that a rotating magnetic field produced A.C. electricity?
NIKOLA TESLA
D – In the 90’s Superman TV show starring Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, who played Superman?
DEAN CAIN
A – In Shakespeare’s, Henry V, what name does Montjoy give to the castle that overlooks the battlefield?
AGINCOURT
Y – What single celled fungi is revered for the way it eats carbohydrates and converts it to carbon dioxide and alcohol?
YEAST
N – Which now defunct US communications company designed the modern method of using the internet with a simple point and click interface in 1994?
NETSCAPE
I – What is found in the oxygen carrying protein, haemoglobin, which makes blood red?
IRON
G – Which icon of the film industry made their debut in ’14 Hours’ about a man on a ledge in 1951?
GRACE KELLY
H – What type of magical flying creature is Sleipnir in Norse mythology, which also has eight legs?
HORSE
T – Ferroequinology is the study of what mode of transport?
TRAINS
S – On April 10 1912, the Titanic left which port to start its first, and last, voyage?
SOUTHAMPTON
ROUND 2 – DISNEY SONGS – Given the title of the song, name the film
1. Circle of Life
THE LION KING
2. A Whole New World
ALADDIN
3. Let It Go
FROZEN
4. When You Wish Upon A Star
PINOCCHIO
5. You’re Welcome
MOANA
ROUND 3 – WHICH HEMISPHERE IS THE COUNTRY IN: NORTH OR SOUTH?
1. Vietnam
NORTH
2. Japan
NORTH
3. East Timor
SOUTH
4. Angola
SOUTH
5. Mauritania
NORTH