The Stand up to Cancer Quiz Quizmaster Instructions

THE STAND UP TO CANCER QUIZ QUIZMASTER INSTRUCTIONS

It’s time to beat cancer at its own game by hosting your very own quiz fundraiser. Challenge your colleagues, mates, or your family. Flex those mind muscles and put the FUN in fundraising, all while raising life-saving cash for cancer research.

This pack contains four rounds of thrilling trivia and should take around 30 minutes to play.

TURN THAT QUIZ INTO QUIDS

Raising cash from your quiz is easy. Invite your mates and family to take part at your house, host it at the office with your team, or go all out and hold it at a local venue. Simply ask your guests to make a contribution to take part and use the questions provided.

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE THE CASH

We recommend charging each player £5, £10 or £20 to take part. You can either pay in the money you raise to your online Giving Page or get each of your players to text ‘Quiz5’, ‘Quiz10’ or ‘Quiz20’ to 70404* to donate £5, £10 or £20. *Please see our full text-to-donate T&Cs at SU2C.ORG.UK/TERMS.

TOP TIPS FOR A WINNING QUIZ

Try adding a few extra rounds ‘Guess the picture’ is always fun, and ‘name that song’ is also a great addition. Just don’t forget to include some extra pieces of paper along with your answer sheet.

Promote your quiz Ask your friends and family to promote the quiz and if you’re happy for your community to join, consider putting up posters in your local area. Remember, the more people that take part, the more money you’ll raise. Team names Get everyone to think of an inventive team name – you could even award extra points for the best one.

Prizes You need to consider what the winner will get; maybe make a certificate or provide a group prize. See if any local businesses would be willing to donate a prize to the winning team or for the best team name. THE STAND UP TO CANCER QUIZ QUIZMASTER INSTRUCTIONS

QUIZMASTER, ARE YOU READY?

For each round we have provided you with the questions and answers, as well as an interesting fact for when you reveal the correct answers. We’ve also given the quizmaster some words to get the room listening and encourage your friends and family to put their thinking caps on.

Each question is worth 10 points, except for our Stand Up To Cancer research, science and and history round where we up the stakes with each question worth 20 points – to find out who the real brainiacs are.

ROUND 1 – MINDBLOWING FACTS

Ok let’s get started. The first round is all about mind blowing facts, so we’ll soon find out who the Wikipedia addicts in the room are. There’ll be 4 questions in total, and you’ll get 10 points for each one you get right.

# Question A B C Factoid when revealing answer

How many dimples Most golf balls have anything from 1 does a golf ball 24 208 336 300 to 500 dimples but 336 is the have? most common number.

Which of these Herring use the noise from farting animals is the only 2 Herring Sloth Vulture to move as a group and protect one capable of themselves at night. breaking wind?

According to some Astronaut Tim Peake described former astronauts, the smell as being like “a British 3 Eggs Cheese Sausages what does space summer barbeque – sausages on smell like? a charcoal grill”.

Tug of war was contested from 1900 Which of these has Chess to 1920, while ski ballet featured in 4 not ever been an Ski ballet Tug of war boxing the 1988 and 1992 winter Olympics. Olympic sport? THE STAND UP TO CANCER QUIZ QUIZMASTER INSTRUCTIONS

ROUND 2 – CELEBRITY ANAGRAMS

This is the Stand Up To Cancer quiz so it wouldn’t be right if there weren’t some celeb-based questions. Unscramble the letters to reveal the names of some famous faces from the worlds of sport, entertainment and music.

# Question Answer 1 Nerdy Andy Danny Dyer

2 Baroness Honor Sharon Osborne

3 Graham Illegal Liam Gallagher

4 Red Sheena Ed Sheeran

5 Cali Cornflake Caroline Flack

6 Back Dived Ham David Beckham

7 Brainy Wedge Wayne Bridge

8 Vanilla Ice Moo Olivia Coleman

ROUND 3 – ENTERTAINMENT

Time for a few questions about some of the well-known stars from the entertainment, sporting and music worlds, who’ve helped bring the UK together to Stand Up To Cancer. You know the drill by now. 4 questions, 10 points each. Let’s do this.

1. Who was named Star Baker after crafting a shortbread version of his wife’s vagina in Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer? A.Jimmy Carr B.Russell Brand C.Johnny Vegas The judges described the vagina shortbread as ‘well baked’ and ‘delicious’ before Russell won.

2. In Slovenia, which popular Channel 4 TV show is known as ‘God, Please Don’t Let the TV Die’? A.Gogglebox B.8 out of 10 cats C.First Dates ‘God, Please Don’t Let The TV Die’ is also the name of a popular song in Slovenia.

3. Which Stand Up To Cancer presenter once appeared as a dancer in one of Kylie Minogue’s music videos? A.Davina McCall B.Adam Hills C.Alan Carr Davina appeared in Kylie’s video for ‘Word Is Out’ in 1991. THE STAND UP TO CANCER QUIZ QUIZMASTER INSTRUCTIONS

4. Which of these celebrities discovered they’re a descendent of King Edward III? A.Greg Rutherford B.Danny Dyer C.Scarlett Moffatt Not only is Danny related to King Edward III, his 22-times-great-grandfather, but a whole host of the royal court including William the Conqueror and Henry VIII’s advisor, Thomas Cromwell.

ROUND 4 – STAND UP TO CANCER SCIENCE

Its time for the final round! Let’s see who the real boffins are, as we up the stakes with each question in this round being worth 20 points. Learn more about Stand Up To Cancer’s important work and remind ourselves why we have come together to beat cancer at its own game.

1. Who were the first known people in history to write about cancer? A.The Egyptians B.The Romans C.The Victorians Cancer has been around for millions of years, right back to the time of the dinosaurs, but the oldest description of cancer was discovered in Egypt and dates back to 3000BC.

2. After tobacco first arrived in Europe, how many years did it take for scientists to discover the link to cancer? A.5 years B.100 years C.300 years Tobacco smoking is the largest cause of cancer in the UK. Tobacco was brought to Europe in 1492 when Christopher Columbus travelled back from America, but it took more than 300 years for scientists to spot the link between tobacco smoking and cancer.

3. How much does it cost to kit out one PhD student with all the equipment they need to become a scientific researcher? A.£200 B.£1000 C.£20,000 100% of donations to Stand Up To Cancer go straight to life-saving research, made possible by the work of dedicated researchers, who start off their scientific career as PhD students.

4. In Oxford, a trio of Stand Up to Cancer scientists are developing a futuristic way to package and deliver chemotherapy more effectively. How is this done? A.Bubbles B.Playdough C.Sand Each microbubble will contain a dose of chemo, and can be coated in cancer-hunting microscopic ‘anchors’ that can seek out and stick to tumours. If successfully engineered, these microbubbles could dramatically improve how thousands of existing chemotherapy drugs work – ultimately saving lives. THE STAND UP TO CANCER QUIZ QUIZMASTER INSTRUCTIONS

THE TIE-BREAKER Even scores between the teams? Use this tie-breaker question to see who will be crowned the winner of the Stand Up To Cancer quiz.

How much has Stand Up To Cancer raised for life-saving research so far to the nearest million pounds? Give an answer between 1 and 100.

£62.9 million - Since its launch in 2012, Stand Up To Cancer has raised over £62 million pounds to fund ground-breaking research that accelerates new cancer treatments and tests to UK patients, and across the world.

Stand Up To Cancer and Stand Up To Cancer Brand Marks are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Entertainment Industry Foundation. Cancer Research UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666) and the Isle of Man (1103). 100% of your donation is made to Cancer Research UK in support of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign. Cancer Research UK’s registered address (until 30th September 2019): Angel Building, 407 St John Street, London EC1V 4AD; (from 1st October 2019) 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ. THE STAND UP TO CANCER QUIZ QUIZMASTER INSTRUCTIONS

TEAM NAME

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 MINDBLOWING FACTS CELEBRITY ANAGRAMS

1. 1. Nerdy Andy

2. Baroness Honor

2. 3. Graham Illegal

4. Red Sheena

3. 5. Cali Cornflake

6. Back Dived Ham

4. 7. Brainy Wedge

8. Vanilla Ice Moo

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

ROUND 4 ROUND 3 STAND UP TO CANCER OVERALL TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE /240 1. 1.

2. 2. THE TIE-BREAKER 3. 3.

4. 4.

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

TEAM NAME

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 MINDBLOWING FACTS CELEBRITY ANAGRAMS

1. 1. Nerdy Andy

2. Baroness Honor

2. 3. Graham Illegal

4. Red Sheena

3. 5. Cali Cornflake

6. Back Dived Ham

4. 7. Brainy Wedge

8. Vanilla Ice Moo

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

ROUND 4 ROUND 3 STAND UP TO CANCER OVERALL TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE /240 1. 1.

2. 2. THE TIE-BREAKER 3. 3.

4. 4.

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

TEAM NAME

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 MINDBLOWING FACTS CELEBRITY ANAGRAMS

1. 1. Nerdy Andy

2. Baroness Honor

2. 3. Graham Illegal

4. Red Sheena

3. 5. Cali Cornflake

6. Back Dived Ham

4. 7. Brainy Wedge

8. Vanilla Ice Moo

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

ROUND 4 ROUND 3 STAND UP TO CANCER OVERALL TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE /240 1. 1.

2. 2. THE TIE-BREAKER 3. 3.

4. 4.

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

TEAM NAME

ROUND 1 ROUND 2 MINDBLOWING FACTS CELEBRITY ANAGRAMS

1. 1. Nerdy Andy

2. Baroness Honor

2. 3. Graham Illegal

4. Red Sheena

3. 5. Cali Cornflake

6. Back Dived Ham

4. 7. Brainy Wedge

8. Vanilla Ice Moo

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80

ROUND 4 ROUND 3 STAND UP TO CANCER OVERALL TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT SCIENCE /240 1. 1.

2. 2. THE TIE-BREAKER 3. 3.

4. 4.

TOTAL: /40 TOTAL: /80