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?
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?
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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