Quiz - Week 9 - Questions and Answers

For those of you who follow the blog and joined in with the Quiz on Tuesday I promised that on Fridays you would have the answers. 

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1. Food and Drink

1. On 8th January 1940 the first 3 food items were rationed due to WWII in the United Kingdom, they were sugar, butter and what?

Bacon

2. Which two items of food make up the title of a book by Dr. Seuss?

Green eggs and Ham

3. Peri Peri Sauce is associated with which Restaurant Franchise

Nandos

4. Which soft fizzy drink was invented by Charles Alderton in Texas in 1885?

Dr Pepper

5. The Vegetable Orka is more commonly named what?

Lady Fingers

2. Football team nicknames

1. Hammers

West Ham

2. Gunners

Arsenal

3. Name three Teams with the nickname “Pool” (a point each)

Liverpool, Blackpool, Hartlepool

4. Red Devils

Manchester Utd

5. Which team’s official nickname changed from the pensioners to the blues from 2014?

Chelsea

3. Children's TV

1. What is the Chuckle Brothers Catchphrase?

To me to you?

2. What was the names of the 80s puppet that accompanied Andy Peters?

Ed the Duck

3. Rosie and Jim lived where?

On a boat

4. Which superhero team used Megazoids to battle monsters?

Power rangers

5. Ant and Dec started their carer as Pj and Duncan in which Tv show?

Biker Grove

4. Film Plots described badly

1. A serial killer kills a man’s wife and left their son wounded and disabled. The boy is later kidnapped and placed with other captives. The Father goes on a journey to rescue his son.

Finding Nemo

2. An abused girl becomes a stripper, turns to drugs and later takes advantage of a mentally challenged man over 3 decades.

Forrest Gump

3. A Older Sister ruins the chances of her younger sister chance to be on nationally televised game show. She is later caught up in a love triangle and is responsible for hundreds of deaths.

Hunger Games

4. A love triangle between a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, a reformed killer who is old enough to be her grandad and a dog.

Twilight

5. A Uncle Kills a boys father just to take his home. The boy runs away meets to impressionable scavengers who he later recruits to get his revenge.

Lion King

5. History

1. Which country is responsible for the world’s first adhesive postage stamp?

UK

2. Who was the first US President to be assassinated?

Abraham Lincoln

3. In which year did the demolition of the Berlin Wall begin?

1989

4. Over the years which name has been used the most by Popes?

John

5. The bombing of which British cathedral city began on the evening of 14th November 1940?

Coventry

6. General Knowledge

1. Who wrote Sherlock Holmes?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2. True or false – fingernails continue to grow after you die.

False – contrary to popular belief

3. The term ‘renal’ refers to which bodily organ?

The kidney

4. Which is the second largest planet in our solar system?

Saturn

5. Perry Shaw invented with Road Safety Device?

Cats Eyes

Bonus question: 5 points each

1. When did colour television start transmissions?  1 year difference.

1967

2. The signing of which famous document eventually led to the formation of Parliament in England?

The Magna Carta

Now you have the answers, added up your points, including doubling the round that you played the joker on and place your answers in the comments. 

Winner takes all the glory!

Hope to see you next week!