Stoneway Guest House Quiz 12
Please do not use the internet and cheat.
Section 1
Match the Prime Ministers to their date in office.
CLEMENT ATLEE 1830-34 EARL GREY 1834-35 EDWARD HEATH 1852-55 HAROLD MCMILLAN 1937-40 HAROLD WILSON 1940-45 JAMES CALLAGHAN 1945-51 MARGARET THATCHER 1957-63 NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN 1963-64 SIR ALEX DOUGLAS HOME 1964-70 SIR ROBERT PEEL 1970-74 1976-79 1979-90
Section 2 Landmarks
1. The official name of the tower in which Big Ben is located was originally the Clock Tower, but what was it was renamed in 2012?
2. In a letter in 1754 by English antiquary William Stukeley, about which landmark did he write 'could be seen from the moon'?
3. Name the large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí?
4. Which bronze statue by Edvard Eriksen, can be seen on a rock by the waterside at the Langelinie promenade in Copenhagen?
5. The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the Yamuna river, in the Indian city of Agra, what is the meaning of 'taj mahal' in English?
6. Which world famous landmark celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1989?
7. The Colosseum (or Colosseo) is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome; what alternative name is it often called?
8. Which iconic landmark was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development?
9. In the 1985 comedy film National Lampoon's European Vacation, Clark Griswold backs his car into which iconic landmark?
10. If Southwark is to the south side of Tower Bridge, which London borough is to the north side?
Section 3
What of the following animals have the most bones? List them from most bones to least bones.
Human
Dog
Cat
Section 4 Link
All the following answers have a link. Can you name the link?
1. Which group of professionals belong to the NUT? 2. Which term is used to describe Commonwealth Ambassadors to another? 3. What was the name of the double edged broadsword used by Scottish clansmen? 4. What is the capital city of the Ukon region of Canada? 5. Idiophones are a type of instrument found in churches. What are idiophones?
What is the link?
Section 5 -British TV and Film
1. What was the first game show shown on Channel 4?
2. Which girl group performed during the opening minutes of Channel 5’s launch in 1997 in the UK? 3. In what year did Coronation Street first air on ITV? 4. What is the name of the prison in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge starring Ronnie Barker 5. What is the name of Miranda Hart’s best friend in her hit sitcom?
6. What is the name of the spell used by Ron and Hermoine in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to make their feathers fly?
7. The Imitation Game is a biopic based on which twentieth century figure?
8. Which Alfred Hitchcock film starred Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont?
9. What was Orlando Bloom’s first film role?
10. Emma Thompson made the nation cry in Love Actually – she thought her husband had bought her a necklace, but instead she received an album by which artist?
Section 6 True or False
1. Blood Group O is the most common blood group in the UK. 2. William Caxton invented the printing press. 3. Vulcanised rubber invented by Mr Pirelli. 4. The Suez canal has 6 locks? 5. Martensite is a form of lacework.
Section 7 - General Knowledge
1. What is fifteen percent of two thousand?
2. In which country was the renowned cricketer Brian Lara born?
3. Which metal has the chemical symbol Pb?
4. Tobermory is the capital of which Scottish island?
5. How many football matches were played in total in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia?
6. What is the name of the machine, commonly referred to as a ‘lie detector’, which measures reactions such as blood pressure, pulse and respiration of an individual in response to questions asked?
7. Which author created the character Paddington Bear?
8. Which artist painted “Lobster Telephone” in 1936?
9. In which ‘James Bond’ film did Daniel Craig first play the starring role?
10. Which word can come after ‘dream’, ‘steam’ and ‘life’ to form other words?
Section 8 – Who am I ?
I was born in Ulm, in Germany, in 1876. In 1895 I moved to Switzerland to study and in 1921 I won the Nobel Prize for Physics. I emigrated to the USA in 1933.