Tuesday, June 15, 2010

& the winners were...

Les, with 82%, from Quiz In Your Face with 76% and Too Old To Think with 73%.

Les featured a hard core nucleus of players from the teams that had won the previous two months, so well done to Pete and his friends for a very well deserved hattrick!

Quiz Akabusi were the best team of two.

Quiz Qs from Sunday 6th June

Current Affairs
Which country won Eurovision?
Which popular double act did the Daily Star compare Cameron & Clegg to the day after the coalition agreement – Ant & Dec, Vic & Bob, or Morecambe & Wise?
How many trophies did Liverpool win with Rafa Benitez as manager (not counting runners up trophies)?
How many candidates are standing for election to be Labour leader?
Which band or act is replacing U2 at Glastonbury this year?
Name Ray Alan’s ventriloquist puppet
Which British sportsman is the new ‘face’ of Head and Shoulders?
What did David Cameron call Paul Collingwood?
Who resigned from England's 2018 World Cup bid, after being making bribery accusations?
& who resigned from the Mail on Sunday in protest at their sting?

Picture Round


Music Round
The theme of the music round was songs that had been number one in the UK at the time of World Cup finals, so it was a pleasingly diverse set of tunes, including Hips Don't Lie, Love is All Around, You're The One That I Want, and She

The World Cup
The 2010 tournament will be the 20th World Cup - true or false?
Name the two teams contesting the 2010 World Cup's opening match
Which country won the first ever World Cup?
Whose name does the original World Cup trophy bear?
Which match made up the finals of the 1986 and 1990 tournaments?

Designers
Which high street chain does Kate Moss design for?
Which luxury goods company sells the Grace and the Birkin handbags?
Which company was Alexander McQueen head designer for in the late 1990s?
Which British designer created the bags with the slogan ‘I am not a plastic bag’ for Sainsbury’s?
Spell the shoe designer Manolo B*****’s surname.

General Knowledge
Which comedian first came to fame in the TV show Mork and Mindy?
What is the capital of Senegal?
Which car manufacturer has a model called the Doblo?
In which area of the armed forces (Army, Navy, Airforce) did Prince Charles NOT serve?
What is Barry McGuigan’s first name an abbreviation of?
Which British king abdicated the throne in 1936?
Which metal takes its name from the German term meaning 'Devil's Copper'?
Which London station is the UK's busiest, in terms of passenger numbers?
What is the first name of Malcolm McDowell's character in the film 'A Clockwork Orange'?
What form of transport was pioneered by the Montgolfier Brothers?