Here is one of our quizzes.

Current Affairs Round

The first round is a topical set of ten, usually made up from the newspapers on the day of the quiz.

I usually pick articles which are unusual or about celebrities.

Entertainment Round

Questions

1. Name the son of a famous father (picture here)?
2. What was TV's first Rock and Roll show ?
3. Name the famous Scottish film Star (picture here)?
4. What's the real name of Tom Jones ?
5. Name the actor please (picture here)?
6. Name the actor please (picture here)?
7. Who was the pilot of Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5 ?
8. Name the Famous singer (picture here)?
9. Which comedy series featured the characters "Moriarty, Eccles and Bluebottle?
10. Name the Actor (picture here)?

Answers

1. Barry Van Dyke
2. Six Five Special
3. Ewan McGregor
4. Thomas Woodward
5. John Malkovich
6. Danny Glover
7. Steve Zodiac
8. Julio Inglesias
9. The Goon Show
10. Billy Zane

Sport Round

Questions

1. Which club did Mark Hughes join in 1995?
2. What nationality is the golfer Constantina Rocca?
3. Which is the slowest swimming stroke?
4. FIDE is the governing body of which game?
5. In sport what can be 106cm, 91cm or 84cm in height?
6. How many players did England use in the ’66 world cup finals 15, 16, or 17?
7. Which city was the first to hold the Olympic games twice, was it London, Paris or Los Angeles?
8. In which country was Rubens Barrichello born?
9. Over what distance is the Oaks run?
10. Jack Dempsey refereed the first world title fight in the Philippines true or false?

Answers

1. Chelsea
2. Italian
3. Breaststroke
4. Chess
5. Hurdles
6. 15
7. Paris
8. Brazil
9. 1.5 miles
10. True

Music Round

Questions

1. Name the song from No1 in Sept. ‘78? (Music clip here)
2. Who had a No 1 in ’92 with Ebenezer Goode?
3. Name the group No 1 Jan. ’75? (Music clip here)
4. Which pop group featured in the film Great rock and roll swindle?
5. Name the song or duo in this No 1 Mar ’71? (Music clip here)
6. Who had top ten hits with Black Knight and Strange kind of woman?
7. Name the group No 1 Aug. ’92? (Music clip here)
8. Which singer had top ten hits with Games without frontiers and Sledgehammer?
9. Name the group and the song No 1 Feb. ’98? (Music clip here)
10. Who had top ten hits with Gangsters, Too much and Nelson Mandella?

Answers

1. Dreadlock holiday (10cc)
2. The Shamen
3. Tymes (Ms. Grace)
4. The Sex Pistols
5.  Dave and Ansil Collins  /  Double Barrel 
6. Deep Purple
7. Snap (Rhythm is a dancer)
8. Peter Gabriel
9. Aqua  /  Dr. Jones
10. Specials

Pot Luck Round

Questions

1. Which American city is served by Dulles Airport ?
2. Who, in 1889, painted the picture called The Starry Sky ?
3. Who created WinnieThe Pooh ?
4. What is the highest-pitched woodwind musical instrument ?
5. In British horse racing, what is the minimum flat race distance ?
6. Who was the second man to step onto the Moon in 1969 ?
7. Which product was advertised with the slogan 'chocolates with the less-fattening centre'?
8. Who played the title role in the 1921 film 'The Sheik'?
9. In which State is the Little Bighorn, scene of Custer's last stand?
10. In which film did Roger Moore first appear as James Bond?
11. Which American clarinettist and bandleader created the jazz idiom known as swing?
12. How did the scriptwriters write Percy Sugden out of Coronation Street?
13. What is the lane on an uphill stretch of motorway provided for slow-moving vehicles called?
14. Which London theatre boasted that, during WW2, "We never closed”?
15. Which of the Great Train Robbers became a florist outside Waterloo station?

 Answers 

1. Washington DC
2. Vincent Van Gogh
3. A.A. Milne
4. Piccolo
5. 5 Furlongs
6. Buzz Aldrin
7. Maltesers
8. Rudolph Valentino
9. Montana
10. Live and Let Die
11. Benny Goodman
12. He went into sheltered accomodation (or old folk's home).
13. Crawler lane
14. Windmill
15. Buster Edwards

That is the format of our little quiz night

Hope to see you there

Willie, Susie and Debbie