A Bunch of Fives- The Sequel
TV
1 Who played the role of Ronnie Corbett’s mother in Sorry?
2 Which product was advertised on TV by Julian Clary and the Tranmere Ladies football team?
3 Which actor narrated the TV series Walking With Dinosaurs?
4 What was the first name of the character played by John Thaw in Kavanagh QC?
5 In Birds of a Feather what is the name of Dorien’s husband?
SPORT
1 Who were the first foreign football team to beat England at Wembley?
2 Who once quipped, “I’ve had more clubs than Jack Nicklaus”?
3 The Leander Club is the oldest club in which sport?
4 What is the home country of Boavista FC?
5 Which English rugby union team named themselves after the historical enemies of the Crusaders?
HISTORY
1 Which state was Bill Clinton governor of prior to becoming President?
2 Whose statue was removed from Red Square in Moscow in 1991?
3 Which saint is depicted on the Pope’s signet ring?
4 Who was Prime Minister when Edward VIII abdicated?
5 Which US President is depicted on a $20 bill?
POP
1 Which pop star of yesteryear was backed by the Roulettes?
2 Under what name do Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons record?
3 Legend was the title of the best selling posthumous album of which music legend?
4 Which was the first Australian group to have a number one hit in the UK?
5 Who was the first Danish solo artist to
have a number one hit in the UK?
FOOD & DRINK
1 What is the name of the syrup left over when sugar is made?
2 Found on an Indian restaurant menu, which dish has a name that means bucket in English?
3 Big Boy, Tiny Tim and Red Alert are all varieties of what?
4 What A is the technical term for the white of an egg?
5 Bulls Blood wine originated in which country?
FILMS
1 In which 1997 film did Pierce Brosnan play a vulcanologist?
2 In which Bond movie did the Bond girl Mayday feature?
3 Who played the estranged wife of Robin Williams in Mrs Doubtfire?
4 Who provides the voice of Princess Fiona in Shrek?
5 Who did Laurence Olivier portray in the film Clash of the Titans?
PEOPLE
1 What was the name of the faith healer employed by Glen Hoddle in the 1998 World Cup?
2 In 1867, who founded the East End Mission for Destitute Children?
3 Who married Yasmin Parvenah in 1986?
4 What nationality was the spy Mata Hari?
5 Who penned the autobiography From Drags to Riches?
LITERATURE
1 In which country is the Shakespeare play Hamlet set?
2 Which novel opens with the line, “Call me Ishmael”?
3 In which country was Rudyard Kipling born?
4 Prince Edward Island provides the setting for which novel by LM Montgomery?
5 To date who is the only living American
playwright that has a theatre named after him on Broadway?
AROUND THE WORLD
1 The name of which Australian city means, meeting place?
2 Hayling Island is part of which English county?
3 What is the world’s oldest republic?
4 By what four letter name is French Sudan now known?
5 In which desert does Las Vegas lie?
THREE OF A KIND
1 In which three years of the 20th century did Germany/West Germany win the football World Cup?
2 What are the surnames of the rock trio Cream?
3 What three years in the Chinese calendar are represented by animals with three letter names?
4 Who were the three female members of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven?
5 What name is given to the male, female and
young of a swan?
ANSWERS TO A BUNCH OF FIVES
TV
1 Barbara Lott
2 Daz
3 Kenneth Branagh
4 James
5 Marcus
SPORT
1 Hungary
2 Tommy Docherty
3 Rowing
4 Portugal
5 Saracens
HISTORY
1 Arkansas
2 Lenin
3 St Peter
4 Stanley Baldwin
5 Andrew Jackson
POP
1 Adam Faith
2 The Chemical Brothers
3 Bob Marley
4 The Seekers
5 Whigfield
FOOD & DRINK
1 Molasses
2 Balti
3 Tomatoes
4 Albumen
5 Hungary
FILMS
1 Dante’s Peak
2 A View to a Kill
3 Sally Field
4 Cameron Diaz
5 Zeus
PEOPLE
1 Eileen Drewery
2 Dr Thomas Barnardo
3 Simon Le Bon
4 Dutch
5 Danny La Rue
LITERATURE
1 Denmark
2 Moby Dick
3 India
4 Anne of Green Gables
5 Neil Simon
AROUND THE WORLD
1 Canberra
2 Hampshire
3 San Marino
4 Mali
5 Mojave Desert
THREE OF A KIND
1 1954, 1974, 1990
2 Baker, Clapton, Bruce
3 Dog, pig, rat
4 Pamela, Janet, Barbara
5 Cob, pen, cygnet