Quiz Questions

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first regular Seaview Cafe Quiz Feast, both for the belly and for the brain.

Pit your wits and try and answer as many questions correctly as you can. The winning score this month was 24 out of 40, can you beat that?

Confident? Then try the quiz for real at the next Seaview Cafe Quiz night (reservations essential).

There will be four categories each with 10 questions and the categories this month are SPORT, GEOGRAPHY, POPULAR CULTURE and GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.

So without further ado lets get cracking - its time to engage the brain and begin the game.

(answers at the end of each section - no peeking now)

SPORT 

1. The Football World Cup was held in Germany last time but in which continent will the next one be held for the first time in 2010?

2. In which sport might you see an Eskimo roll?

3. Spa-Francorchamps is a formula one circuit in which Country?

4. H'Angus the monkey, a local football team mascot  became lord mayor of which English town in 2002, with the promise free bananas for all?

5. On August 12th, 490 BC a running messenger named Phillipidies delivered the news of the Persian defeat to Athens, and legend has it he collapsed and died shortly after he delivered his message. According to folklore how many miles did he run to deliver his news?

6.The champions league final was held at Hampden Park in 2002, Zidane was one of the scorers, can you name one of the others in the 2-1 game?

7. Who won American Footballs latest Super Bowl 2007?

8. Who was the last British man to win the singles title at Wimbledon?

9. Slap your thighs, puff out your chest, bend the knees, let your hip follow and stamp your feet are the English translation to what?

10.  The winner of the last BBC Sports Personality of the Year was (quite controversially) Zara Phillips, her mother Princes Anne also won the award, but in what year?

Answers to Sports section (I said no peeking)

1. Africa, South Africa      2. Canoeing       3. Belgium         4. Hartlepool      5. 26. Believed to have been the origins of the Marathon, the town he started from                    6.Lucio for Bayer Leverkausen or Raul for Real Madrid         7. Indianapolis Colts            8.  Fred Perry in 1936      9. Introduction to the Maori war dance the Haka performed by the New Zealand rugby team                 10. 1971

GEOGRAPHY

11. Which country has the largest Muslim population?

12. What is the official language of the United States?

13. Every year in July this Basque town hosts the annual running of the bulls. The town is Pamplona, but which local saint does the festival celebrate?

14. Only three member countries of the UN have names that start with the letter 'H' in English. Name two for half a point each.

15. What is the largest island in the West Indies?

16. Name me one of the two countries to have been accepted into the EU at the beginning of this year?

17. In which ocean are the Faroe Islands?

18. What American city is an anagram of COUNTS?

19. What city is translated into English as River of January?

20. This country is one of the newest in the world at less than a year old, its capital is Podgorica, name the country please?

Answers to Geography section

11. Indonesia     12. There is no official language in the United States          13. The Fiesta of St. Fermin                     14. Haiti, Honduras and Hungary. Hong Kong is not correct as is was previously a self-governing territory - China has since removed this status                        15. Cuba                       16. Romania or Bulgaria                        17. Atlantic Ocean                       18. Tucson, Arizona  19. Rio de Janeiro                       20. Montenegro

POPULAR CULTURE

21. For half a point each can you the name both the surnames of TV presenters Ant and Dec, doesn't matter in which order.

22. In wacky races who were clyde, zippy, softy, ding-a-ling, rockets, snoozy and yak-yak. They drove the Bullet Proof and also appeared with Penelope Pitstop?

23. Parkour was recently featured in the latest Bond Movie, what is it?

24.What do the initials ASBO stand for?

25. In the Simpson's in which store does Apu work?

26. Wavy Gravy, Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia are all what?

27.  Which fictional tube stop is located between Bow Road and West Ham ?

28. Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago and more recently Mason Dixon have all fought which fighter?

29. The annual music festival T in the Park is held in which town?

30. Which contestant escaped from the house in Big Brother 3 because he was bored?

Answers to Popular Culture

21. McPartlin and Donnelly                       22. The Anthill Mob                     23. Running/jumping/climbing off obstacles at speed - it was in the opening sequence to Casino Royale        24. anti-social behaviour orders                25. Kwik - E- Mart                        26. Ben and Jerry Ice cream flavours              27. Walford East on Eastenders    28. Rocky Balboa, (also fought Appollo Creed)    29. Balado in Kinross            30. Sandy

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

31. Sam Weller is most associated with which papers?

32. What is a Knight's Tour? Is it

A) A Jousting Challenge initiated by the French courts

B) A mathematical chess problem

C) Templar Knights pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

33. What is Helen Sharman famous for ? 

34. Previous to synthetic dyes, from which organic fruit or vegetable is the ink used to stamp meat normally made of ?

35. Donald F. Duncan introduced in 1929 a toy based on a weapon used by 16th-century Filipino hunters. What is it called?

36. How many spots are there on a regular 6 sided die?

37. Which aeroplane safety device was invented by James Martin in 1945?

38. Which artist was the first to perform live in a broadcast via satellite?

39. Captain Matthew Webb was the first person to successfully swim the English Channel in 1875 but how did he die?

A) Drowned  B) Influenza  C) Heart Failure

40. In the periodic table which element has the symbol Co?

Answers to General Knowledge

31. He is a character in the Pickwick papers by Charles Dickens        32. B) A mathematical chess problem                          33. Being the first British Astronaut, took to the skies in 1991      34. Purple Grapes                35.  Yo Yo                 36. 21 Twenty one                      37. Ejector Seat      38. Elvis Presley, Aloha from Hawaii in 1973                       39. A) Drowned (at Niagara Falls)              40. Cobalt

And the tie-break question.....

To the nearest year when did the French Revolution begin?

1789

How did you do? Confident or room for improvement?

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