Heavy Metals

1 Which city’s American football team are known as the Steelers?

2 Which was the only group beginning with I to have a UK number one hit single in the 20th century?

3 With regard to UK hallmarks for precious metals, which animals head represents London?

4 Which process was introduced in 1856 for the mass production of steel?

5 Who wrote the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

6 With the atomic number of 3, what is the lightest known metal?

7 Which is the only chemical element with a three letter name?

8 Who did David Steele replace as leader of the Liberal Party?

9 In the proverb, silence is golden. What is silver?

10 In which film did Matthew Modine play Private Joker?

11 What is the name of the oriental bodyguard of Goldfinger?

12 Name a sport in which exactly half of the competitors wear shoes made entirely of metal.

13 Which song contains the line, “flies are in your pea soup baby”?

14 What is the modern day name for wolfram?

15 Which entertainer was born Thomas Hicks?

16 Who wrote the novel The Man in the Iron Mask?

17 What metal is added to iron in the process of galvanisation?

18 What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?

19 Who played A Man Called Ironside?

20 Which glam rock group topped the charts with Metal Guru?

21 Which English football club are nicknamed The Irons?

22 How many years of marriage are celebrated on a Tin anniversary?

23 What was the name of the short lived rock group co-founded by Pat Cash and John McEnroe?

24 In which film did Eddie Murphy play Chandler Jarrell?

25 By what one word name is Georges Remi, the creator of Tin Tin otherwise known?

ANSWERS

1 Pittsburgh
2 Iron Maiden
3 Leopard
4 Bessemer
5 Tennessee Williams
6 Lithium
7 Tin
8 Jeremy Thorpe
9 Silver is speech
10 Full Metal Jacket
11 Oddjob
12 Any sport involving humans and horses i.e. horseracing, polo, show jumping etc
13 Hi Ho Silver Lining
14 Tungsten
15 Tommy Steele
16 Alexandre Dumas
17 Zinc
18 Aluminium
19 Raymond Burr
20 T Rex
21 Scunthorpe Utd
22 Ten years
23 Full Metal Rackets
24 The Golden Child
25 Herge

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