Clockwork Quiz 476
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Round One – General Knowledge
1. What changed from 240 to 100 in the UK in 1971?
Pennies in the pound
2. In terms of numbers of cardholders which is Britain’s largest loyalty card?
Nectar
3. What name is given to the person appointed to carry out a person’s will?
Executor
4. Which region in France is famous for making mustard?
Dijon
5. Who is currently the longest-serving quizmaster for a single show on UK television?
Jeremy Paxman – University Challenge
Round Two – Up on the Roof
1. Which Country is sometimes referred to as the Roof of the World?
Tibet
2. What is the craftsman called that covers a roof with dry vegetation such as straw?
Thatcher
3. Who played Bert the Chimney Sweep in the film “Mary Poppins”?
Dick Van Dyke
4. The Romans predominately made terracotta tiles for their Villa roofs, what colour were they?
Red
5. Ninety per cent of Europe's natural slate used for roofing originates from which country – Spain – Italy – or Austria?
Round Thee – Dukes
1. Which Duke in Glasgow has a traffic cone placed on his head most weekends?
Duke of Wellington
2. Who became the Duke of Windsor in 1937?
Prince Edward – King Edward VIII
3. In which English County is Chatsworth House, the home of the Duke of Devonshire?
Derbyshire
4. In which year were Archduke Ferdinand and his wife assassinated?
1914
5. What comes between Duke and Earl in the ranking of British peers?
Marquees
Round Five - Tool Box
1. Which every day tool is one of the murder weapons in the game of Cluedo?
Spanner
2. Which machine shapes material by rapidly turning it against a stationary cutting device?
Lathe
3. What is the No. 1 DIY tool used by men in Britain?
Cordless Drill
4. In a box of tools which one will contain bubbles?
Spirit Level
5. Which 1990’s sitcom had a slot called Tool Time?
Home Improvement
Round Six – Towers
1. In which US city is the Sears Tower?
Chicago
2. Who was the last man to be locked up in the Tower of London?
Rudolph Hess
3. What was ruled out of bounds to tourists for safety reasons in 1990, the first time it had been closed since around 1275?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
4. Which organisation produces a magazine called the Watchtower?
Jehovah’s Witnesses
5. In which year was the Eiffel Tower opened?
1889
Round Seven - Sunday best
1. Starring Al Pacino, Cameron Dias and Denis Quaid, which 1999 movie follows the ups and downs of an American Football team?
Any Given Sunday
2. Sunday the tenth of October 2010 can be represented in numerical form 10.10.10, What decimal number is represented by the binary number 101010?
42
3. In what year were professional football matches played on a Sunday in Britain for the first time?
1974 – 75 or 76
1974
4. Which famous European horse race is run annually on the first Sunday in October?
The Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe
5. Which Sunday newspaper first issued a colour supplement?
In 1962 - The Sunday Times
Round Nine – Jeopardy - All Electric
3pts for a correct answer / -3 for an incorrect answer / no answer no penalty
1. What kind of electricity can be produced by combing your hair?
Static Electricity
2. What name is given to the chief electrician on a film set?
Gaffer
3. In 1800 Alessandro Volta invented the Voltaic Pile, what is its more common modern name?
The Battery
4. What metallic element is the best conductor of electricity?
Silver
5. What trade name was given to the first synthetic plastic developed in 1909, and widely used for electrical appliances?
Bakelite
TIEBREAKER - If you took all the blood vessels in the human body and laid them end to end, what would be the combined length, in miles?
a. 60,000 miles
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