Bits & Pieces Part 6

QUIZ ONE

FIRST IMPRESSIONS – A quiz on firsts with the questions getting progressively more difficult

1 What is the first letter of the Greek alphabet?

2 Who was the first man to swim the English Channel?

3 Who wrote the novel First Amongst Equals?

4 What was the first No 1 hit for Tom Jones?

5 Which was the first ever football club to win the European Cup?

6 “You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar”, is the first line of which pop hit?

7 In what decade was the first Miss World contest held?

8 What was the name of Britain’s first Prime Minister?

9 Which king was the subject of Shakespeare’s first play?

10 Which was the first country in the world to give women the vote?

Answers
Alpha
Captain Matthew Webb
Jeffrey Archer
It’s Not Unusual
Real Madrid
Don’t You Want Me by The Human League
1950s
Robert Walpole
Henry VI
New Zealand in 1893

QUIZ TWO

FIRST IMPRESSIONS – A quiz on firsts with the questions getting progressively more difficult

1 Who was the first President of the USA?

2 Who was the first actor to play James Bond on film?

3 What is the first word of The Lord’s Prayer?

4 Which soul legend had a 1974 worldwide hit with the song, You’re The First, The Last, My Everything?

5 What popular flower show was first held in May 1913?

6 Who was the first footballer to win 100 caps for England?

7 “Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window”, is the first line of which novel?

8 In Jewish folklore what is the name of the first ever woman?

9 What was the name of the first ever Pope?

10 Who was the first British monarch to abdicate?

Answers
George Washington
Sean Connery
Our
Barry White
Chelsea Flower Show
Billy Wright
The Mirror Crack’d
Lilith
Peter
Richard II

QUIZ THREE

CRYPTOLOGY – QUIZZING BY NUMBERS
Can you solve the number puzzles? Eg 4 S on a S = 4 sides on a square

1 14 L in a S

2 16 P in an O

3 88 K on a P

4 The 12 L of H

5 100 C in a D

6 3 C in a F

7 3 W on a T

8 SW and the 7 D

9 25 Y in a S A

10 1000 G in a K

Answers
14 lines in a sonnet
16 pounds in an ounce
88 keys on a piano
The 12 labours of Hercules
100 cents in a dollar
3 coins in a fountain
3 wheels on a tricycle
Snow White and the 7 dwarfs
25 years in a silver anniversary
1000 grams in a kilogram

QUIZ FOUR

CRYPTOLOGY – QUIZZING BY NUMBERS

1 366 D in a L Y

2 4 H of the A

3 G and the 3 B

4 40 D and 40 N in L

5 21 S in a G

6 1600 P A, the A of the W H

7 A B and the 40 T

8 13 U F S

9 21 S on a D

10 8 L on a S

Answers
366 days in a leap year
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Goldilocks and the 3 bears
40 days and 40 nights in Lent
21 Shillings in a guinea
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the address of the White House
Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
13 unlucky for some
21 spots on a dice
8 legs on a spider

QUIZ FIVE

QUIZLETS – CALLING ALL THE HEROES
Name the super heroes from their secret identities Eg Clark Kent = Superman

1 Bruce Wayne

2 Dr Donald Blake

3 Bruce Banner

4 Penry the mild mannered janitor

5 Mark Harris

6 Barbara Gordon

7 Peter Parker

8 Dick Grayson

9 Paul Metcalfe

10 Steve Rogers

Answers
Batman
The Mighty Thor
The Incredible Hulk
Hong Kong Phooey
The Man From Atlantis
Batgirl
Spiderman
Robin
Captain Scarlet
Captain America

QUIZ SIX

QUIZLETS – GO AHEAD MAKE MY DAY
In which film did Clint Eastwood………….

1 Kill Lee Van Cleef?

2 Break out of a San Francisco jail?

3 Eat a rattlesnake with Shirley Maclaine?

4 Climb the meanest mountain on Earth?

5 Share a wife with Lee Marvin?

6 Steal gold bullion from a bank in World War II?

7 Die after eating poisonous toadstools?

8 Partner Rene Russo as a presidential bodyguard?

9 Fall in love with Meryl Streep?

10 Accidentally break the jaw of Burt Reynolds in a fight scene?

Answers
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Escape From Alcatraz
Two Mules For Sister Sara
The Eiger Sanction
Paint Your Wagon
Kelly’s Heroes
The Beguiled
In The Line Of Fire
The Bridges Of Madison County
City Heat

QUIZ SEVEN

FIVE OF A KIND – The following ten questions all require five answers

1 What are the first five books of the Bible?

2 What were the surnames of the five members of the boy band Take That?

3 What are the names of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five?

4 Which five states of the USA have a compass point in their name?

5 In what five fields were the Nobel Prizes awarded when first instigated?

6 What are the five heaviest land mammals in the world?

7 Which five cities beginning with M have hosted the Summer Olympics?

8 Who are the five longest reigning British Monarchs?

9 What were the names of the five fellow members of Top Cat’s gang?

10 Name the five boxers who defeated Muhammed Ali

Answers
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Williams, Owen, Barlow, Donald, Orange
Dick, Julian, George, Anne and Timmy the dog
North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia
Medicine, physics, literature, peace, chemistry
Elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, giraffe, bison
Melbourne, Mexico City, Munich, Montreal, Moscow
Queen Victoria, George III, Henry III, Edward III, Elizabeth II
Spook, Fancy, Benny the Ball, Choo Choo, Brains
Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks, Larry Holmes, Trevor Berbick

QUIZ EIGHT

FIVE OF A KIND

1 What are the five largest planets in the solar system?

2 Name the five songs that topped the UK charts for the Bee Gees

3 Who were the first five British Formula One World Champions?

4 What are the names of the five Tracy brothers in Thunderbirds?

5 What are the five most highly populated countries in the world?

6 What are the names of the five Osmond brothers who sang together on Love Me For A Reason?

7 What are the five largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea?

8 What are the five colours of the rings on the Olympic flag?

9 Charles Dickens wrote six novels with a first and last name in the title. One is Oliver Twist, can you name the other five?

10 What are the five longest mountain ranges in the world?

Answers
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth
Massachusetts, I Gotta Get A Message To You, Night Fever, Tragedy, You Win Again
Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart
Alan, John, Gordon, Scott, Virgil
China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil
Donny, Wayne, Alan, Jay, Merrill
Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete
Red, yellow, green, blue, black
David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
Andes, Rockies, Himalayas, Great Dividing Range, Trans-Antarctic Range

QUIZ NINE

FOR THE ANORAKS

1 Which country is the most southerly point of Asia?

2 What connects the 1948 Olympics, the song Cry Me A River and the novel Call Of The Wild?

3 What name is given to the symbol of &, that is used to represent the word “and”?

4 What connects iron pyrites, the Bond debut of Pierce Brosnan and the song Lonely Boy?

5 Which film director was once quoted as saying, “Actors should be treated like cattle”?

6 In which county did Richard III die on the battlefield?

7 Who was the first US President to have a presidential aircraft?

8 What is the location of Olympic Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system?

9 What superstition derived from the Last Supper?

10 Which detective made his literary debut in the 1975 novel The Last Bus To Woodstock and was named after a chairman of Lloyds Bank?

Answers
Malaysia
London, the Olympic venue, Julie London the singer and the author Jack London
Ampersand
Gold, fool’s gold, Goldeneye and the singer Andrew Gold
Alfred Hitchcock
Leicestershire
Franklin D Roosevelt
Mars
That 13 is an unlucky number. Thirteen attended the last supper prior to the crucifixion
Inspector Morse, named after Sir Jeremy Morse

QUIZ TEN

FOR THE ANORAKS

1 What is graminology the study of?

2 What connects Alice In Wonderland with Luton Town Football Club?

3 What are bred in a magnamerie?

4 “He never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one”. To which monarch is this quote referring to?

5 Who was the first American President to ride in an ambulance?

6 In 1885 what was transported in 214 crates from France to the USA?

7 What connects the Grand National winners of 2001, 1974 and 1968?

8 What was banned in China in 1911, as it was viewed as a symbol of feudalism?

9 Which character spoke the first words in the film, Star Wars?

10 Can you spot the three tittles in this sentence?

Answers
Grass
Hatter, the Mad Hatter and Luton are nicknamed The Hatters
Silk worms
Charles I
William McKinley after he was shot in 1901
The Statue of Liberty
The word Red for Red Marauder, Red Rum and Red Alligator
Pigtails
C3PO
A tittle is the name given to a dot over the letter I