The Friday Question Set — 11-10-2013

Blimey … 

I’ll admit, in all the excitement of the find of the missing episodes of Dr Who … ?

I went and bought them … !

Well: I had enough in my iTunes account to go and buy the newly released version of Web Of Fear.

Granted that means no movies for a few weeks.

But, my word … !   The quality is rather tasty … !

~≈®≈~

At ANY rate, that’s not why your here, is it … ?

Is it … ?

No: you’s here for the Friday Question Set, aren’t you?

Here it is: covered by the usual Creative Commons License* …

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ROUND ONE. GENERAL IGNORANCE.

Q1) Which football club plays at the Riverside Stadium?
A1) Middlesbrough.

Q2) Roger Hargreaves created two sets of children’s characters: name either.   (Two points for both) 

Q2) Mister Men, and Little Misses’.

Q3) What name was given to the treaty signed in Poland, by 8 Eastern Bloc countries, in 1955?

A3) The Warsaw Pact.

Q4) Bob Ford shot who: Liberty Vallance, Wild Bill Hickok or Jesse James?

A4) Jesse James.

Q5) Which group of islands includes Porto Santo: the Canaries, Madeiras or Azores?

A5) The Madeiras.

Q6) Who had a hit with the original version of Mad World?

A6) Tears for Fears.

Q7) The male is a cob, the female a pen, young a cygnet: what bird are we talking about?

A7) The Swan.

Q8) In which county is England’s highest point? (Extra point for its name.)

A8) Cumbria. (Scafell Pike, in the Lake District)

Q9) What was the surname of composing brothers, Edward, Johann and Joseph?

A9) Strauss.

Q10) Which High Street store uses the St. Michael trademark?

A10) Marks & Spencer.

ROUND TWO. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

Q11) AppleScript, BASIC, and Java are all what: computer languages, or computer operating systems?

A11) Computer languages.

Q12) A polaroid is a type of what?

A12) Photograph/camera.

Q13) What did engineer Louis Renault manufacture?

A13) Cars.

Q14) Charles Richter invented a scale that measured what dangerous phenomena?

A14) Earthquakes.

Q15) What type of domestic machine did Isaac Singer invent?   (Or patent, anyway …)

A15) The sewing machine.

Q16) In which decade did Apple Computer’s appear?

A16) The 1970’s.

Q17) In which year of the 60’s did a man first walk on the moon?

A17) 1969.

Q18) Solar panel’s get their energy from where?

A18) The sun.

Q19) A stereo music system has a minimum of how many speakers?

A19) Two.

Q20) What does the H stand for, in the web acronym, HTTP?

A20) Hyper.

ROUND THREE. NEWS HEADLINES.

Q21) Tracey Emin caused headlines with a work of art that was basically an untidy what?

A21) Bed.

Q22) The ‘Good Friday Agreement’ was drawn up to ease tensions in which part of the UK?

A22) Northern Ireland.

Q23) In which decade did Queen Elizabeth 2nd ascend to the throne of the UK?

A23) The 50s.

Q24) Rasputin hit the headlines in which European country?

A24) Russia.

Q25) Which Princess did the future Lord Snowdon marry, in 1960?

A25) Margaret.

Q26) How was the trade union, Solidarnosc known, in English?

A26) Solidarity.

Q27) Marilyn Monroe is thought to have died of an overdose of what: sleeping pills, Heroin or anti–depressants?

A27) Sleeping pills.

Q28) In the September 11th attacks on the USA, in which US state did the plane crash into the Pentagon?

A28) Pennsylvania.

Q29) Who was Prime Minister directly before Tony Blair?

A29) John Major.

Q30) Neil & Jamie Acourt were named as two of the suspects in whose murder?

A30) Stephen Lawrence.

ROUND FOUR. AT THE MOVIES.

Q31) Which of the Ghostbusters stars was also one of its writers: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, or Dan Ackroyd?

A31) Bill Murray.

Q32) What ship–board movie was the most expensive of the 20th century?

A32) Titanic.

Q33) What job did George Lucas do on the original Star Wars: director or writer?

A33) Both.

Q34) For which Robert DeNiro film did Martin Scorcese get his 1st Oscar nomination?

A34) Raging Bull.

Q35) Which actress has appeared in both Charlie’s Angel’s and E. T.?

A35) Drew Barrymore.

Q36) Director Terry Gilliam was a member of which British comedy team?

A36) Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Q37) Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart appeared in The Big … what?

A37) Sleep.

Q38) Which studio made The Lion King?

A38) Disney.

Q39) Which Austin was played by Mike Myers?

A39) Austin Powers.

Q40) Which Arquettte appears in Pulp Fiction?

A40) Rosanna.

ROUND FIVE. MUSIC AND LIGHTS.

Q41) Helen O’Hara played violin for which 80s band?

A41) Dexy’s Midnight Runner’s.

Q42) Gordon Sumner, Andy Copeland and Andy Summers were better known as which band?

A42) The Police.

Q43) What’s the connection between Je T’Aime, Relax and My Ding–a–Ling?

A43) They were all banned.

Q44) Which 80s electro band were referred to by the initial’s, OMD?

A44) Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.

Q45) Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells was released in 1973: on which record label? 

A45) Virgin.

Q46) Paul Hewson is better known as which member of U2: singer, Bono, or guitarist, The Edge?

A46) Bono.

Q47) William Broad was the real name of which punk rocker: Billy Idol, Sid Vicious or Captain Sensible? 

A47) Billy Idol.

Q48) The Jam, in 1981, and David Bowie, in 1986, released a single with the same name: was the name Absolute Beginners, Going Underground or China Girl?

A48) Absolute Beginners.

Q49) How many pairs of strings are there, on a Nine string guitar?

A49) Three.

Q50) According to The Animals biggest UK hit, The House  the Rising Sun, where was the House of the Rising Sun?

A50) New Orleans.

ROUND SIX. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.

Q51) Name any of the actors to have played Q in the James Bond movies.   (The Eon Productions, I should add)

A51) Peter Burton, in Dr No, Desmond Llewellen from From Russia With Love to The World Is Not Enough,  John Cleese in Die Another Day and Ben Whishaw in Skyfall.   (Cleese’s version appeared in The World Is Not Enough: but is playing R, Q’s assistant.)

Q52) What kind of creature is a pipistrelle?

A52) A bat.

Q53) True or false: Beethoven wrote 10 operas.

A53) False. He only wrote 1. (Fidelio.)

Q54) Back in 1996, who did Bill Clinton beat to win his 2nd term in office?

A54) Bob Dole.

Q55) Who was the first UK winner of the Eurovision Song Contest?

A55) Sandie Shaw. (Puppet on a String.)

Q56) Which style did Monet & Renoir paint in: Impressionism, Cubism or Surrealism?

A56) Impressionism.

Q57) What’s the word for a young whale: kitten, calf or pup?

A57) Calf.

Q58) In which year of the 1940’s was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?

A58) 1948.

Q59) Oscar Wilde died in which European city?

A59) Paris.

Q60) Jim Davis invented which cartoon cat?

A60) Garfield.

Enjoy that: I’ll catch you next time.

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