A Café Collection
Which TV series featured the following
cafes/coffee shops/ restaurants?
1 Roy’s Rolls
2 Café Nervosa
3 Arnold’s
4 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
5 Planet Springfield
6 Central Perk
7 The Lanford Lunchbox
8 Beale’s Plaice
9 Le Chateau Anglais
10 Mrs Sullivan’s Kitchen
National Nuances
The next 10 questions all have a nationality
in the answer. Full answers must be given, not just the nationality
1 Who played Mr Harman in Are You Being Served?
2 Which film features the character of Charlie Croker?
3 What began in Feb 1917 that led to the downfall of Nicholas II?
4 Which spectator participation movement is said to have originated at a 1980 game involving the Vancouver Whitecaps?
5 Who played Vicky Pollard’s mother Shelley in Little Britain?
6 Who wrote the novel Trainspotting?
7 Which 2002 romantic comedy starred Nia Vardalos as Taila?
8 Which gangster was born Arthur Flegenheimer?
9 Deborah Moore, Amanda Lamb and Hayley Hunt have all played the lead advertising character in a TV commercial for which investment company?
10 Which creature is alternatively named the
bluebubble?
A University Challenge
Which British towns/cities are
home to the following universities?
1 University of East Anglia
2 Open University (HQ)
3 Aston University
4 University of Kent
5 Napier University
6 Solent University
7 Robert Gordon University
8 Strathclyde University
9 De Montfort University
10 Edge Hill University
Answers to Cafes
1 Coronation Street
2 Frasier
3 Happy Days
4 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
5 The Simpsons
6 Friends
7 Roseanne
8 Eastenders
9 Chef
10 Little House on the Prairie
Answers to Nationalities
1 Arthur English
2 The Italian Job
3 Russian Revolution
4 Mexican wave
5 Dawn French
6 Irvine Welsh
7 My Big Fat Greek Wedding
8 Dutch Schultz
9 Scottish Widows
10 Portuguese man of war
Answers to Unis
1 Norwich
2 Milton Keynes
3 Birmingham
4 Canterbury
5 Edinburgh
6 Southampton
7 Aberdeen
8 Glasgow
9 Leicester
10 Ormskirk
Doctor’s Orders
Which fictional doctor…?
1 Lives in Puddleby on Marsh
2 Has the first name of Yuri and was created by Boris Pasternak
3 Was given 9 consecutive life sentences at the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane
4 Was played on TV by DeForest Kelley
5 Is the arch foe of Austin Powers
6 Worked at the KACL Radio Station
7 Is the arch foe of Sir Denis Nayland Smith
8 Was played by Bill Cosby in The Cosby Show
9 Is the central character in The Fugitive
10 Has the first names of John Hamish
What Month Is It?
In which month do the
following fall?
1 Bastille Day
2 Burn’s Night
3 Trafalgar Day
4 St George’s Day
5 St Stephen’s Day
6 St Paul’s Day and St Peter’s Day
7 Groundhog Day
8 All Saint’s Day
9 Michaelmas
10 Commonwealth Day
A Sporting Chance
The name of which sport derives from…?
1 The French verb for to hold
2 The Tibetan word for ball
3 A Warwickshire town
4 The Greek words for ten and contest
5 The Japanese for gentle way
6 A slang term for junior cadets coined by army officers based in India
7 The Japanese for way of the sword
8 The Duke of Beaufort’s stately home
9 The Spanish for ball
10 The French for shepherd’s crook
Answers to Doctors
1 Dr Doolittle
2 Dr Zhivago
3 Dr Hannibal Lecter
4 Dr McCoy
5 Dr Evil
6 Dr Frasier Crane
7 Dr Fu Manchu
8 Dr Cliff or Heathcliff Huxtable
9 Dr Richard Kimble
10 Dr Watson
Answers to Months
1 July
2 January
3 October
4 April
5 December
6 June
7 February
8 November
9 September
10 March
Answers to Sports
1 Tennis
2 Polo
3 Rugby
4 Decathlon
5 Judo
6 Snooker
7 Kendo
8 Badminton
9 Pelota
10 Lacrosse
D Day
The following 10 answers all
begin with D
1 What is known as America’s First State?
2 Which song contains the lyric, “From glen to glen and down the mountainside”?
3 Mount Marmolada is the highest peak in which range?
4 What name is given to the bottom number of a fraction?
5 Which song topped the charts for Tommy Roe and Vic Reeves?
6 Which mode of transport has a name derived from the French for “steerable”?
7 Which game has a name derived from the Latin for “master”?
8 In which town does Inspector Jack Frost bring criminals to justice?
9 Who lives at 1313 Webfoot Walk?
10 Which group originally recorded as Girl’s
Tyme?
B is for Beast
What animal beginning with B…?
1 Is identified by the adjective ursine
2 Is a dog breed named after a Northumberland town
3 Has a home called a lodge
4 Has a name that means thunder lizard
5 Is the only domestic breed of dog incapable of barking
6 Is the UK’s largest indigenous wild carnivore
7 Belongs to the chiroptera order of animals
8 Has a name that means pig rat
9 Is the generic term for a two humped camel
10 Is said to be responsible for the loss of
$300 million annually in the US cotton industry
P Posers
The following 10 answers all
begin with P
1 What is the name of the Greek God of the Woods?
2 The name of which muscles mean pertaining to the chest?
3 What is the alternative name for the snow grouse?
4 Which fruit is named from the French for grenade?
5 Which dictator was born Saloth Sar?
6 In the Bible who said of Jesus, “I find no fault with this man”?
7 What was Take That’s first chart topping single?
8 Which hill range begins south west of Edinburgh and terminates in the Clyde Valley?
9 With regard to the human body which word means” of the lungs”?
10 Name the 5 groups beginning with the
letter P that topped the UK singles charts in the 1970s (Excluding the ensemble
that topped the charts with Amazing Grace)
D Answers
1 Delaware
2 Danny Boy
3 Dolomites
4 Denominator
5 Dizzy
6 Dirigible
7 Dominoes
8 Denton
9 Donald Duck
10 Destiny’s Child
Answers to B Beasts
1 Bear
2 Bedlington terrier
3 Beaver
4 Brontosaurus
5 Basenji
6 Badger
7 Bat
8 Bandicoot
9 Bactrian
10 Boll weevil
Answers to P
1 Pan
2 Pectoral
3 Ptarmigan
4 Pomegranate
5 Pol Pot
6 Pontius Pilate
7 Pray
8 Pentland Hills
9 Pulmonary
10 Paper Lace, Pilot, Pussycat, Police, Pink
Floyd
T Time
The following 10 answers all
begin with T
1 On which river does Cardiff lie?
2 Which organisation is responsible for the upkeep of lighthouses in England and Wales?
3 James T Kirk. The T stands for?
4 How were Brine, Hammet, Standfield and his son plus the Loveless brothers collectively known?
5 Which town in the Mexican state of Jalisco gave its name to a popular drink?
6 Which plants wreaked havoc in a 1951 novel by John Wyndham?
7 Who was town sheriff of Four Feather Falls?
8 What is the first name of the character played by De Niro in Taxi Driver?
9 Which company owned the Herald of Free Enterprise?
10 Which is the only Shakespeare play with a
capital city in the title?
B Is for Band
Which groups beginning with B had hits with
the following songs in the given years?
1 Mr Tambourine Man in 1965
2 No Matter What in 1998
3 Painter Man in 1979
4 Drop the Boy in 1988
5 My Camera Never Lies in 1982
6 Melting Pot in 1969
7 I Want Candy in 1982
8 Smalltown Boy in 1984
9 My Girl Lollipop in 1982
10 Spaceman in 1996
L of an Answer
The following 10 answers all
begin with L
1 What name is given to young hare?
2 Which song includes the lyric “Phoney Beatle mania has bitten the dust”?
3 In which film did Vinnie Jones play Big Chris Sting?
4 Later the subject of a painting in 1500 who did Jesus raise from the dead?
5 Which band originally recorded as the New Yardbirds?
6 In DC Comics who was elected US President in the year 2000?
7 In 1903 which Hertfordshire location became the world’s first garden city?
8 Which puppet accompanied Sheri Lewis?
9 Which controversial comedian was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in a 1974 film?
10 In a Monty Python sketch which flower did
the character of Dennis Moore steal from the rich and give to the poor?
T Answers
1 Taff
2 Trinity House
3 Tiberius
4 Tolpuddle Martyrs
5 Tequila
6 Triffids
7 Tex Tucker
8 Travis
9 Townsend Torensen
10 Timon of Athens
Answers to B Bands
1 Byrds
2 Boyzone
3 Boney M
4 Bros
5 Bucks Fizz
6 Blue Mink
7 Bow Wow Wow
8 Bronski Beat
9 Bad Manners
10 Babylon Zoo
Answers to L
1 Leveret
2 London Calling
3 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
4 Lazarus
5 Led Zeppelin
6 Lex Luthor
7 Letchworth
8 Lamb Chop
9 Lenny Bruce
10 Lupin