Quiz Questions

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the second 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 31 out of 40, well done, can you beat that?

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

There will be four categories each with 10 questions and the categories this month are POP MUSIC, HISTORY, TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION, and CURRENT AFFAIRS.

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)

POP MUSIC

1. Finish off this Ronan Keating line, "You say it best......."

2. Mick Hucknall is the lead singer of which group?

3. Hearsay, winners of Popstars in 2001, launched which single on the unsuspecting British Public?

4. In 2003, the group Fountains of Wayne were in love with Stacy's what?

5. Howard Donald is a member of which recently reformed boy band?

6. Who sang the song 'Don't Speak' in the 90's?

7. Which Irish band topped the first official download chart in the UK in 2004?

8. Bjork, the slightly peculiar songstress is fro which country?

9. Which band had the best selling album of last year? Was it:

a)Eyes Open by Snow Patrol b)Ta-Da by Scissor Sisters c)Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by the Arctic Monkeys

10. The last Christmas number one in 2006 was called A Moment Like This? Who sang it?

Answers to Pop Music (I said no peeking)

1. When you say nothing at all     2. Simply Red      3. Pure and Simple      4.  Mom     5. Take That      6.No Doubt     7. Westlife     8.  Iceland     9. A)   10. Leona Lewis

HISTORY

11.  Which war began on the 25th of June 1950 and is often referred to as the Forgotten War?

12. What was the operation codename for the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany during the Second World War? .

13. Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932?

15. Who was the second wife of English King Henry VIII?

16. Another Henry, this time English King Henry the V became King of France after which battle?

17. There was a recent Hollywood movie, Last King of Scotland, but who was recognised as the first king of Scotland?

18. By what name was Tsar Ivan the IV generally known?

19. Which surgeon performed the first heart transplant in 1967?

20. The plane Enola Gay had what rather sinister claim to fame?

Answers to History

11. Korean War      12. Operation Barbarossa      13. Amelia Earheart      14.  1707      15. Take That      16.Agincourt      17. Kenneth Macalpin      18.  Ivan the Terrible      19. Christian Barnard      20. First to drop a nuclear bomb

TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION

21. In which city was the ill fated Titanic built?

22. Which European city's famous landmark is the Little Mermaid?

23. Sir Christopher Cockerell Invented which maritime vessel in 1956?

24. The US city of Honolulu is located on what island, not what island group, but what island?

25. Caledonian MacBrayne ferries customers on the Dunoon to Gourock route, what is the other company that provides a service from the Clyde to Argyll?

26. Which person was generally attributed to have been the worlds first travel expert beginning in 1841 and included excursions to Scotland, the Grand Tour and a round the world trip?

27. Which contraption, popular throughout Asia, comes for the Japanese term for Human Powered Vehicle?

28. The world's first supersonic passenger plane Concorde was removed from active service in which year?

29. Jeremy Clarkson presents the BBC's motor show Top Gear along with Richard Hammond in the current series, but who is the third presenter?

30. For half a point each name two of the three Baltic States?

Answers to Travel and Transportation

21. Belfast      22. Copenhagen      23. Hovercraft      24.  Oahu      25. Western Ferries      16. Thomas Cook     17. Rickshaw      18.  2003      19. James May      20. Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia

CURRENT AFFAIRS

31. President Bush has just about completed a tour of Latin America but which South American leader is doing a similar tour to speak out against what he calls "American Imperialism"?

32. Name the UK's current Deputy Prime Minister?

33. Which current Premiership star met his wife on the set for a car advert?

34. US politician Al Gore appears in which Oscar winning documentary about climate change?

35. The Darfur region in the depths of a brutal civil war is in which country?

36. Who is the president of Zimbabwe since coming to power in 1980?

37. Name the US's oldest overseas Naval Base, located in Cuba?

38. Which country, formerly part of the Soviet Union and headed by long time leader Lukashenko is often referred to today as the Last Dictatorship in Europe?

39. Which team beat Wales in the Six Nations Rugby at the weekend and also beat Scotland at Murrayfield in the same tournament?

40. Which film won best picture at this years Oscars?
 

Answers to Current Affairs

31. Hugo Chavez of Venezuala       32. John Prescott       33. Thierry Henry      34.  An Inconvenient Truth      35. Sudan      36. Robert Mugabe      17. Guantanamo Bay      38. Belarus 2003      39. Italy      40. The Departed

And the tie-break question.....not used

To the nearest year when was the first Eurovision Song Contest held?

1956

How did you do? Confident or room for improvement?

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