P1

Question 1

UK Prime Ministers in
chronological order. 1st Winston Churchill, 3rd Harold Macmillan

Answer 1

Anthony Eden

Question 2

Of the 5 inhabited Channel
Islands, Jersey & Guernsey are biggest. The remaining 3 are 1st Alderney, 3rd Herm

Answer 2

Sark

Question 3

Jim Corr is the eldest member of The Corrs. His 3 sisters are 1st Caroline, 3rd Andrea

Answer 3

2nd Sharon

Question 4

As of April 2024, how many cities in England contain the word HAM?

Answer 4

FIVE - Birmingham, Durham, Nottingham, Southampton and Wolverhampton

Question 5

In which TV series did Officers
Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello
fight crime between 1977 and 1983?

Answer 5

CHIPS

Question 6

Who played Obi-wan Kenobi in the original 1977 Star Wars film?

Answer 6

ALEC GUINNESS

Question 7

Who played Obi-wan Kenobi in the original 1977 Star Wars film?

Answer 7

ALEC GUINNESS

Question 8

The Battle of Pork Chop Hill

Answer 8

Korean War

Question 9

‘It started with a kiss’ was a 1982 song released by which artist?

Answer 9

HOT CHOCOLATE

Question 10

10 Who played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the 1973 film ‘The Rocky Horror
Picture Show’?

Answer 10

TIM CURRY

Question 11

For what movie did Steven
Spielberg win his first Oscar for Best Director?

Answer 11

Schindler’s List

Question 12

Who is the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Lord of the Rings movie?

Answer 12

Sir lan McKellen

Question 13

In Beauty and the Beast, which wing of the castle is Belle forbidden from visiting?

Answer 13

The West Wing

Question 14

Name the film which boasts the famous line: “You can’t handle the truth!”

Answer 14

A Few Good Men

Question 15

Which Scottish actor played the
10th Doctor in Doctor Who?

Answer 15

David Tennant

Question 16

Who plays the Prime Minister in
Love Actually?

Answer 16

Hugh Grant

Question 17

The first episode of Downton
Abbey is set on the same day as which real historic event?

Answer 17

The titanic sinking

Question 18

In which James Bond movie did
Madonna have a cameo-role playing a fencing instructor?

Answer 18

Die Another Day

Question 19

Comedian in King Kong (2005) A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island

Answer 19

Jack Black

Question 20

Dreamgirls (2006) A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way. who plays the raucous performer
Jimmy Early

Answer 20

Eddie Murphy

Question 21

Limelight (1952) A fading comedian and a despondent
ballet dancer look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

Answer 21

Charlie Chaplin

Question 22

The King of Comedy (1982)
Rupert Pupkin (Robert de Niro) is an unsuccessful comic who craves to be in the spotlight so he stalks and kidnaps his idol.

Answer 22

Jerry Lewis

Question 23

Who played the role of Arya
Stark?

Answer 23

Maisie Williams

Question 24

What is the name of the series of novels that the TV series Game Of Thrones is based on?

Answer 24

A Song of Ice and Fire

Question 25

Which London-born actress played the role of Daenerys

Answer 25

Emilia Clarke

Question 26

Rockafella Skank (1998)

Answer 26

Fat Boy Slim

Question 27

Rock and Roll (1971)

Answer 27

Led Zeppelin

Question 28

1 am a Rock (1966)

Answer 28

Simon & Garfunkel

Question 29

Rock the Casbah (1982)

Answer 29

The Clash

Question 30

Ford first produced this car family in 1962. It went through many changes over the years, the last version, the Mark IV, finally ended it's production in 1982.

Answer 30

Cortina

Question 31

Name the Ferrari produced in 2008 named after a US state.

Answer 31

California

Question 32

Reliant produced the Regal, as seen in Only Fools And Horses, but what other three-wheel vehicle did they produce 1982-1998 that was named after an area of Venice?

Answer 32

Rialto

Question 33

Cadillac produced a "compact" car (by US standards!), and used what name for four models 1975 to 2004?

Answer 33

Seville

Question 34

Named atter an Italian city, what is the model of car driven in Starsky and Hutch?

Answer 34

(Ford) Gran Torino (named after Turin)

Question 35

According to Ferrari, which of their cars takes its name "from one of the most charming villages on the Italian Riviera, an eponym for stylish elegance"?

Answer 35

Portofino

Question 36

And now you do what they told ya

Answer 36

Killing In The Name (Rage Against The Machine)

Question 37

I picked you out, I shook you up and turned you around, turned you into someone new

Answer 37

Don't You Want Me (The Human League)

Question 38

Went to school and I was very nervous, no one knew me, no one knew me

Answer 38

Mad World (Michael Andrews and Gary Jules)

Question 39

Bryan Adams, "(Everything | Do) | Do It For You" (1991)

Answer 39

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Question 40

Seal, "Kiss From A Rose" (1995)

Answer 40

Batman Forever

Question 41

A character created by Beatrix Potter for the Peter Rabbit books.

Answer 41

Mr McGregor (gardener)

Question 42

The southernmost navigable body of water in the world, used by cargo ships as a supply route for Antarctic researchers.

Answer 42

McMurdo Sound

Question 43

What name is given to a point on the right side of the abdomen, used to locate the appendix.

Answer 43

McBurney's Point

Question 44

What name was given the political persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of alleged Soviet influence on American institutions in the 1940s & 50s.

Answer 44

McCarthyism

Question 45

1974 movie starring John Wayne as police detective.

Answer 45

MCQ

Question 46

Joni Mitchell

Answer 46

Big Yellow Taxi

Question 47

Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx

Answer 47

Gold Digger

Question 48

The process by which plants use the energy from sunlight (13)

Answer 48

Photosynthesis

Question 49

Breathes in (7)

Answer 49

Inhales

Question 50

What do you get if you cut a third into 3 equal parts (6)

Answer 50

Ninths

Question 51

To make somebody interested and energised in a subject (7)

Answer 51

Enthuse

Question 52

Mythological spirits of nature imagined as a beautiful maidens inhabiting rivers & woods (6)

Answer 52

Nymphs

Question 53

UK city in the northwest of the country (10)

Answer 53

Manchester

Question 54

Imperial unit of length (plural) (6)

Answer 54

Inches

Question 55

Songs of devotion or loyalty, particularly to a country (7)

Answer 55

Anthems

Question 56

A pair of attachments to the sole of a boots, used for walking in wintery conditions (9)

Answer 56

Snowshoes

Question 57

Improves something, or to makes something better than it was (8)

Answer 57

Enhances

Question 58

Board game that uses square tiles to form words

Answer 58

CRAB (Scrabble)

Question 59

One of the world's largest dams, built across the Nile in the 1960s

Answer 59

SWAN (Aswan)

Question 60

Muppet Show character known for being the backstage manager and general all-around "gofer"

Answer 60

COOT (Scooter)

Question 61

British male singer, had a hit with "Kiss From a Rose" in 1994

Answer 61

SEAL (Seal)

Question 62

Name given to a mighty animal described in the Bible as an example of the power of God, having monstrous size, power and appearance.

Answer 62

MOTH (Behemoth)

Question 63

A geographical term for a steep slope or long cliff that separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

Answer 63

CARP (Escarpment)

Question 64

New Zealand born movie actor, starred in A Beautiful Mind & Gladiator

Answer 64

CROW (Russell Crowe)

Question 65

The hecklers on the Muppet Show

Answer 65

Statler and Waldorf

Question 66

1991 movie that sees two women become fugitives

Answer 66

Thelma and Louise

Question 67

Cartoon series featuring two socially awkward, rock-metal-loving teenage delinquents

Answer 67

Beavis and Butthead

Question 68

Name the tools used by blind people to write Braille text, one to "punch" the dot, the other to guide.

Answer 68

Slate & Stylus

Question 69

The water that cascades down Niagara Falls comes from which lake, and goes into which lake

Answer 69

Erie into Ontario

Question 70

Us outlaws, surnames Parker and Barrow

Answer 70

Bonnie and Clyde

Question 71

P G Woodhouse characters in a series of funny novels and short stories

Answer 71

Jeeves and Wooster

Question 72

Name the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah in the Bible

Answer 72

Jacob and Esau

Question 73

Fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm (1812) named after siblings

Answer 73

Hansel and Gretel

Question 74

father of the atomic bomb"

Answer 74

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 75

American filmmaker, died 1959. He made multi movies in the silent era, & went on to produce Cleopatra (1934) & Samson & Delilah (1949)

Answer 75

Cecil B DeMille

Question 76

Australian-British writer, died 1996. Wrote Mary Poppins

Answer 76

PL Travers

Question 77

Author of War of the Worlds (1898)

Answer 77

H G Wells

Question 78

American banker, died 1913. He founded a bank, now the biggest in the US which bears his name.

Answer 78

JP Morgan

Question 79

British author, died 2008. Wrote multiple science fiction novels and short stories. Credited with the idea of geostationary satellites (rotate with the Earth). This orbit now bears his name.

Answer 79

Arthur C Clarke

Question 80

American sportsman, actor and armed robber

Answer 80

O J Simpson

Question 81

American rapper, singer and record producer. He was the lead member of the hip hop group Black Eyed Peas

Answer 81

Will I am

Question 82

Dusty Springfield song, released 1969

Answer 82

Son of a Preacher Man

Question 83

Which relative does Paddington Bear quote numerous times in his stories? She stayed in Peru but sent him to Britain.

Answer 83

Aunt Lucy

Question 84

Written in 1852, name the anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 84

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 85

Located farthest back (8, 3)

Answer 85

Rearmost - ARM

Question 86

A bed for a baby (4,3)

Answer 86

Crib - RIB

Question 87

Traditional gift for a 30th wedding anniversary (5)

Answer 87

Pearl - EAR

Question 88

Olympia is the capital of which US state (10, 4)

Answer 88

Washington - SHIN

Question 89

Name given to one thousand-millionth of a second (10, 4)

Answer 89

Nanosecond - NOSE

Question 90

Vote that blocks a decision (plural) (6, 3)

Answer 90

Vetoes - TOE

Question 91

To ascend a mountain (5,4)

Answer 91

Climb - LIMB

Question 92

10 To jump or dive into water (6, 4)

Answer 92

Plunge - LUNG

Question 93

Orly

Answer 93

Paris

Question 94

Fiumicino

Answer 94

Rome

Question 95

Schiphol

Answer 95

Amsterdam

Question 96

Marco Polo

Answer 96

Venice

Question 97

Sheremetyevo

Answer 97

Moscow

Question 98

Kenya

Answer 98

Shilling

Question 99

Guinea (Guinean)

Answer 99

Franc

Question 100

Brazil

Answer 100

Real

Question 101

South Africa

Answer 101

Rand

Question 102

Malaysia

Answer 102

Ringgit

Question 103

Saudi Arabia

Answer 103

Riyal

Question 104

The Tokapi Palace

Answer 104

Turkey. (Ottoman Sultan palace for 300 years, now a tourist attraction)

Question 105

Machu Picchu

Answer 105

Peru.

Question 106

Mount Sinai

Answer 106

Egypt. (Mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt)

Question 107

Mesopotamia

Answer 107

Iraq.

Question 108

The film location of many Star Wars desert scenes, including Luke Skywalker's home, and the planet Tatooine. Now a tourist attraction.

Answer 108

Tunisia.

Question 109

Angel Falls (the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall)

Answer 109

Venezuela

Question 110

Academy winning American actress, starred opposite Humphrey Bogart in In A Lonely Place (1950), & achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952) & The Big Heat (1953)

Answer 110

Gloria Grahame

Question 111

7 Italian actor who played René Mathis in the Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace

Answer 111

Giancarlo giannini

Question 112

American composer and pianist, who, with his brother, wrote orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) & An American in Paris (1928)

Answer 112

George Gershwin

Question 113

Which two bones connect as ball & socket to form the shoulder joint.

Answer 113

Humerus (upper arm bone) and scapula (shoulder blade)

Question 114

Which is the only US state capital with "Saint" in it's name?

Answer 114

Saint Paul (Minnesota)

Question 115

What is the name of the smallest Uk sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere, located in the Caribbean.

Answer 115

Saint Kitts & Nevis

Question 116

What are the Christian names of the US actress (surname Saint) who starred in On The Waterfront and North by Northwest

Answer 116

Eva Marie Saint

Question 117

Jamie Oliver's wife.

Answer 117

Juliette Norton

Question 118

Country bordered by Guinea and Liberia.

Answer 118

Sierra Leonine

Question 119

Starred in Raiders of the Lost Ark

Answer 119

John Rhys-Davis

Question 120

British model & actress, appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road

Answer 120

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Question 121

Won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Amadeus (1984)

Answer 121

F Murray Abrahams

Question 122

"The Muppet Movie" was released in 1979. Who produced the movie, and was the Muppet creator & chief puppeteer.

Answer 122

Jim Hens en