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Round One

1.     (Anagram) menace shifting event = ‘The Magnificent Seven’ (famous book and film)

2.    Lyrics. ‘Each morning I get up I die a little, can barely stand on my feet’ is the opening line to which song?

Queen – Somebody to Love

3.    Which word can go before each of these four to make new words; man, son, front, bird?

Sea   ( Seaman, Season, Sea Front, Seabird )

4.    50/50 Which team won this year’s University Boat Race?

Oxford University

5.    On Saturday, which horse became only the second horse to win the Grand National?

One For Arthur

6.    What was the product of the first man-made alloy of two metals? = bronze (copper and tin)

7. What was the name of the plastic cone ice cream that had a bubble gum in the bottom? = ‘Screwball’
8. Who is the current (Thief) Chancellor of the Exchequer? = Philip Hammond
9. What is the predominant colour of Cornelius the rooster pictured on the cornflakes packet? Is it green or red = Green
10. Which chocolate bar was advertised from 2001 to 2011 with the slogan ‘It’s not for girls !’?

Yorkie Bar

Easter Egg Round

1. In which Beatles song will you find the lines “I am the egg man, they are the egg men”?

I Am the Walrus

2. Before they were renamed with the ‘Cadbury’ branding in 1971, under which name had ‘creme eggs’ been available previously?

Fry’s Creme Eggs

3. Which bird lays the largest eggs?

Ostrich

4. In 1988 who provoked outrage by suggesting that most of Britain’s eggs were infected by salmonella?

Edwina Currie

5. Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying “An egg today is better than a ___ tomorrow”. Can you fill in the blank?    Hen

6. Virtually all Fabergé eggs were manufactured under the supervision of the famous Russian jeweller who gave them their name, but what was his full name?

Peter Carl Fabergé (But he was  also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé)

7. Which egg is described in a familiar phrase as ‘good in parts’?

Curate’s egg

8. Which electronic plaything, released in 1996, takes its name from the Japanese for ‘Loveable Egg’? Over 76 million have been sold worldwide.

Tamagotchi

9. Which vegetable is served with eggs Florentine? 

Spinach

10. Which showbiz couple’s marriage was the bride’s third husband and provoked the headline ‘Egghead weds hourglass’?

Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe

Pyramid Round

1.     The name of which English city would be first in an alphabetical list?

Bath

2.    There are only two countries in the world that have the letter ‘X’ in their names, name both?

Mexico and Luxembourg

3.    There are three England football managers that have been knighted; name them?

Walter Winterbottom , Alf Ramsey and Bobby Robson

4.    What are the last 4 American states alphabetically?

Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

5.    Name 5 Spice Girls UK number ones?

1	Spice Girls	Wannabe	Jul 1996	Notes
1	Spice Girls	Say You'll Be There	Oct 1996
1	Spice Girls	2 Become 1	Dec 1996
1	Spice Girls	Mama / Who Do You Think You Are	Mar 1997	Notes
1	Spice Girls	Spice Up Your Life	Oct 1997
1	Spice Girls	Too Much	Dec 1997	Notes
2	Spice Girls	Stop	Mar 1998
1	Spice Girls	Viva Forever	Aug 1998	Notes
1	Spice Girls	Goodbye	Dec 1998
1	Spice Girls	Holler / Let Love Lead The Way	Nov 2000
11	Spice Girls	Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)	Nov 2007	Notes

DOM round

Each answer contains the letters DOM

1.     Which muscles are you trying to develop if you are working on your ‘abs’?

2.    Which country last won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997 in Dublin?

3.    Which electronic device measures the number of steps that an individual has taken during a day?

4.    What was the first multi-purpose indoor sports stadium in the world, opened in 1965?

5.    In the world of finance for what do the initials GDP stand?

6.    Which book, completed in 1086, was also known as ‘The Great Survey’?

7.    In 2012, 150,000 of which product were given free of charge to

athletes competing in the London Olympics? That’s 15 each.

8.    Members of which religious order are known for wearing black habits?

9.    Which London building opened on 31^st December 1999?

10. Punta Cana International Airport accounts for 60% of all air arrivals to which holiday destination?

ANSWERS

1.     ABDOMINALS

2.    UNITED KINGDOM

3.    PEDOMETER

4.    HOUSTON ASTRODOME

5.    GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT

6.    DOMESDAY BOOK

7.    CONDOMS

8.    DOMINICAN FRIARS

9.    MILLENNIUM DOME

10. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC