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1. Which famous movie included the line:- "Get you a case of beer for that" ?

Apocalypse Now
Goodfellas
Platoon
Porky's

2. Mitzie, Cathy and Susie were famous in Movie history, but for what?

They were all Pigs who played Babe
They were all chimps who played Cheetah
They were all dogs who played Lassie
They were all dolphins that played Flipper

3. According to Danny, the ITV Football Presenter Bob Wilson has an unusual middle name, but what is it?

Cribbens
Homer
Primrose
Keggy

4. How did Mozart get even with his rivals?

By placing a mask over his buttocks - the rump thereby appearing to be his target's head - and then playing the piano in their style whilst bent double
By tormenting them with fart jokes
By composing satirical music about them or their wives
By slanderously claiming they were scheming to kill him

5. Why do dogs circle before they sit down?

It's all to do with a dog's poor sense of balance
Because their ancestors who slept in the open, would do it to tramp down the vegetation a bit to make a more comfortable "bed."
They are imitating "Wild dogs", who dig a deep hole and fill it with nesting material before they sleep
It derives from a primitive mating dance first observed in the Australian Dingo

6. Why do wet things look darker than dry things?

Because when something is wet, light bounces around inside it more
Because when something is wet, light bounces around inside it less
It's an Optical illusion
It's the result of a chemical reaction with the fibres of the material which yields an opaque gas

7. Which famous Hollywood Movie star had a Number 1 hit in Japan with his group Roving Boy?

Keanu Reeves
River Phoenix
Kevin Costner
Woody Allen

8. Which football team's Programme has a lifestyle section complete with wine column?

Stockport's
Man.Utd
Arsenal
AC Milan

9. Name Superman's Super Pets?

Krypto (dog), Comet (horse), Streaky (cat) and Beppo (monkey)
Lex (dog), Lightning (horse), Flash (cat) and Bonzo (monkey)
Freeway (dog), Champion (horse), Deeley (cat) and Peter Reid (monkey)
Ragtag and Bobtail

10. Name the two games mentioned in REM's track "Man On The Moon"?

Monopoly and Twister
Risk and Bucking Bronco
Twister and Risk
Trivial Pursuit and Simon

11. Musician Dave Stewart's dog was named after a character in a popular TV Series, but what was his name?

Catweazle
Flash Gordon
Sykes
Napoleon Solo

12. What is a banana?

A Fruit
A Herb
A Fern
A Vegetable

13. Who has the Fourth biggest Navy in the World?

France
Disneyland
New Zealand
Iran

14. Who rented whole theatres for Midnight Screenings and made his friends watch films on his own terms, making the projectionist repeat his favourite scenes. If the action was slow, such as a love scene, the projectionist would have to skip to the next part?

Michael Jackson
Howard Hughes
Elvis
Bill Gates

15. In German it goes "Schnatter, schnatter", in Arabic it goes "Wack, wack" and in Japanese it goes "Boo, boo", but what is it?

A Frog
A Chicken
A Dog
A Goose

16. Prior to the Big Breakfast on Channel Four, what was the Breakfast Show called?

Channel Four Daily
Good Morning Four
Rise and Shine
The Business Breakfast

17. Who was famously quoted as saying:- "Feminism, let me tell you about feminism; feminism was established to allow unattractive women access to mainstream society"

Sean Connery
Tony Curtis
Rush Limbaugh
Clint Eastwood

18. Who was famously quoted as saying:- "I don't think it's wrong to hit a woman, I mean not the way you would hit a man"

Rush Limbaugh
Tony Curtis
Sean Connery
Clint Eastwood

19. Who was famously quoted as saying:- "The truth is women aren't interesting before they're 30, but men are born people"

Rush Limbaugh
Jodie Foster
Sean Connery
Zsa Zsa Gabor

20. Name the dragons in the cartoons Ivor The Engine and Noggin The Nog?

Idris and Groliffe
Idris and Puff
Smaug and Glaurang
Puff and Groliffe

21. Which Film included the famous line:- "Has anyone seen Sam Lowry?"

The Seven Samurai
Brazil
On The Buses
The Godfather

22. In the Wacky Races, who drove the Creepy Coupe?

The Slag Brothers - Rock & Gravel
Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth
The Gruesome Twosome
Luke & Blubber Bear

23. In Victorian times, what was the name of the match-related disease contracted by workers in match factories and match sellers?

Yellow Fever
Lockjaw
Sulphuric Diarrhoea
Phossy Jaw

24. True or False, in ancient Rome for really special occasions, the Coliseum was flooded with water so that mock sea battles could be staged?

True
False

25. World-wide, YKK are leaders in their field, but what do they do to deserve their acclaim?

They develop software to protect against the Millennium Bug
They make foot-long hot Dogs
They are the world's biggest manufacturer of Safety Pins
They are the world's biggest manufacturer of Zips

26. What is the full scientific name for the Gorilla?

Magilla Gorilla
Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla
Pongidae Pan Troglodytes
Grape Ape

27. What was the donkey called in Hanna Barbera's Arabian Knights cartoon?

Turhan
Champion The Wonder Horse
Eeyore
Zazoom

28. Which of the Banana Splits was a Lion?

Bingo
Fleegle
Drooper
Snorky

29. Buddy Swan played a pivotal part in movie history, but what was it?

He was the Stan Laurel's Stuntman
He was the real life Norman Bates on which Hitchcock based his character for the film Psycho
He played the young Citizen Kane
He founded MGM Studios

30. Who or what was "Fat Boy"?

The Hiroshima bomb
The Nickname given to Actor Marlon Brando
The old name for a MilkyWay Chocolate Bar
John Hartson's Nickname at West Ham

31. What was Stretch Armstrong's dog called?

Rubber Rex
Fetch Armstrong
Bendy Biffo
Fido

32. What is the middle name of Footballer Emile William Heskey?

Sinbad
Lionheart
Rufus
Ivanhoe

33. What is Footballer Paul Ince's middle name?

Emerson Carlyle
Maskaram Mitchell
Yakatit Eloy
Governor

34. Who was the first President of the United States?

Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
John Hanson
Ronald Reagan

35. How did Richard the Lionheart die?

Struck in the eye by an arrow after looking up at the sky to check out the weather
Struck by an arrow whilst applauding an enemy Bowman
Tripped in his armour and broke his neck
Lanced in the heart, whilst checking his flies

36. In Music history, what was Tony Peluso famous for?

The alien voice in The Carpenters hit Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Space
The guitar solo in The Carpenters hit Goodbye to Love
Producing Michael Jackson's Thriller
Mike Batt's collaborator on The Wombles

37. In the song MONY, MONY, what did MONY originally stand for?

Member Of Nonconformist Youth
Manufacturer Of New Yarn
Municipal Of New York
Medieval Oath Notarised by Yeoman

38. What were feuding brothers Adi and Rudolph Dassler famous for?

Bare-knuckle fighting Siamese twins
The world's first World Kickboxing bout contested by brothers
Setting up Sport's brands Adidas and Puma respectively
The first brothers to turn out together for the same football team

39. Who was the original drummer in Steely Dan?

Chevy Chase
Phil Collins
Karen Carpenter
Tony Peluso

40. If the Sheriff of Nottingham was Robin Hood's arch enemy, then who was the Bette Noir of William Tell?

Enforcer Toberone
The Grand Sheriff of Switzerland
The Uber Fuhrer Kessler
Habsburg Governor Kessler

41. Who's famous last words were:- "She's going, she's going, I'm going!"

John F. Kennedy
Glenn Hoddle
Donald Campbell
Dave Lee Travis

42. What was Brian May's first guitar made from?

Normal construction, but the strings were made from his own hair
Melted down Mr Potato Heads
Sticky-back plastic and Washing up bottles
His Fireplace

43. Before Peter Falk successfully made the role his own, who was originally planned for the part of Colombo?

Frank Sinatra
Clint Eastwood
Bing Crosby
Jeanette Kranky

44. What was the wiseacre floating alien named in The Flintstones?

His Excellence Nimoy
The Great Gazoo
Gonzo
Mork

45. Which famous film included the line:- "I looked up Neanderthal and there was a picture of you?"

City Heat
Jurassic Park
The Elephant Man
Apocalypse Now

46. "Flintstones, Meet the Flintstones
They're a modern stone age family
From the, town of Bedrock
They're a page right out of history
Let's ride, with the family down the street"
But what's the next line?

To town to get Fred some T.Rex meat
Through the, courtesy of Fred's two feet
With Betty and Barney Rubble we're complete
For some stone age humour quite upbeat

47. "Top Cat
The most effec-tu-al Top Cat
Who's intellectual close friends get to call him "T. C."
But what's the next line?

Fancy, Choo-choo, Brain, Spook and Benny
Providing it's with dignity
Except for Officer Dibble, who can be quite crotchety
And that's because he's a one-off rarity

48. What is the most popular fruit in the United Sates?

The Coffee Bean
The Orange
The Apple
The Banana

49. Why did Pirates wear Gold Earrings?

To hide their treasure maps
Because they thought it helped with their eyesight
To show a little off their feminine side
So they had assets in case they were ship-wrecked

50. What is peculiar about David Bowie's eyes?

Two different colours as a result of getting a whack in the head.
He has a glass eye
He was the first person in the World to wear Contact Lenses
Born blind, but had his sight restored as the result of a whack on the head.




   
   
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