QUIZ ME HARDER

2006-10-17T21:16:00.000Z

1. How many potential contestants are in the line-up at the beginning of a game of Deal Or No Deal?
2. Which three countries make up the Benelux group?
3. What kind of animal was the children's character Babar?
4. What was banned from the London Underground in 1984?
5. Who played Dr Pete Venkman in the Ghostbusters movies?

2006-10-16T21:13:00.000Z

1. What do frogs have in their mouths that toads do not?
2. What does the word 'karaoke' mean when translated into English?
3. Paul Hewson is the real name of which rock vocalist?
4. In traditional bingo calling, what number is a 'Dirty Gertie'?
5. What is the Welsh name for Wales?

2006-10-13T21:06:00.000Z

1. Which fictional character has been played on film by Laurence Olivier and Ralph Fiennes?
2. Cliff Barnes was a character in which 1980s soap opera?
3. The US Presidential Election is held once every how many years?
4. Which video game character was nearly called "Jump Man"?
5. How many multiple choice trivia questions must a contestant answer correctly to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

2006-10-12T21:03:00.000Z

1. Who is Pamela Anderson currently married to?
2. Who composed the opera Aida?
3. What is the full name of Scary Spice?
4. In which country were the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held?
5. What was the sinister nickname of Peter Sutcliffe?

2006-10-11T20:56:00.000Z

1. How was Edward Teach better known (and feared)?
2. In which sport would two teams from Lancashire called Warriors and Reds face each other?
3. Which channel was the third to commence broadcast in Britain?
4. If S is Sierra and T is Tango, what is O?
5. In the Star Wars film series, what kind of creature was Chewbacca?

2006-10-10T20:52:00.000Z

1. How many children did Queen Victoria have?
2. Steveland Judkins Morris was the original name of which US musician?
3. In the Bible, who lived in the belly of a great fish?
4. Which common mammal makes its home in a drey?
5. Who wrote the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's?

2006-10-09T20:45:00.000Z

1. What does an alopecia sufferer lose?
2. In political history, who were given full voting rights by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution?
3. Who narrates Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries?
4. What is the name of the BBC Children in Need bear?
5. Which Coronation Street barmaid is played by Beverley Callard?

2006-10-06T20:40:00.000Z

1. Which city will host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games?
2. Paricutin and Popocatapetl are both volcanoes in which country?
3. What Italian liqueur is flavoured with apricot and almond?
4. Which actor and director was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg?
5. Which duo recorded the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate?

2006-10-05T20:34:00.000Z

1. Who won an Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Girl, Interrupted?
2. The Great Slave Lake is in which Commonwealth country?
3. Prince Siddhartha Gautama founded which religion around 500 years BC?
4. Which band had a 2006 hit single with Monster?
5. Who wrote the novella on which the Stanley Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange was based?

2006-10-04T22:05:00.000Z

1. In 1999 at the age of 53 who became the oldest female vocalist to do so when her band reached the number one spot in the UK charts?
2. Who is the patron saint of lovers?
3. The Solent separates which island from mainland Britain?
4. What is the proper medical name for the collar bone?
5. Which Lancashire club won the first two English football league championships in 1889 and 1890?

2006-10-03T22:00:00.000Z

1. Dick Grayson was the real name of which sidekick to a comic strip superhero?
2. Which British public school was founded by King Henry VI?
3. According to tradition, kissing what bestows the kisser with tremendous powers of speech and persuasion?
4. Which artist has exhibited a tent embroidered with the names of everybody she'd ever slept with?
5. Which wild flowers takes its name from the French for 'lion's tooth'?

2006-10-02T11:49:00.000Z

1. How many people sit on a Scottish jury?
2. Who played the character Ripley in the Alien movies?
3. What city is the capital of Turkey?
4. What kind of creature is a marlin?
5. In history, who crowned Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor of France in 1804?

2006-09-29T11:45:00.000Z

1. How many players on a Rugby League team?
2. Who did Colonel von Stauffen plot to assassinate in 1944?
3. The Bill Bryson travelogue Notes from a Small Island is about which country?
4. Traditionally, athletes from which country lead the parade at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games?
5. Which punk band was the subject of the film The Filth & The Fury?

2006-09-28T11:43:00.000Z

1. About which queen did Shakespeare write these words: "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety"?
2. Whose gang included Chooch, Brain, Fancy and Benny the Ball?
3. To which island group does Herm belong?
4. A campanile is a tower usually constucted to house what?
5. Which Teletubby rides a scooter?

2006-09-27T11:39:00.000Z

1. In which European country is the resort of Antibes?
2. Which band had a 1985 hit with The Power of Love, which featured on the soundtrack of the Michael J Fox movie Back to the Future?
3. The male and female of which animal are properly called Jack and Jenny?
4. What name is given to a first-year student at an American university?
5. Mork and Mindy was a spin-off from which long-running sitcom?

2006-09-26T11:36:00.000Z

1. What does the organisation Gideons International usually leave in hotel rooms?
2. According to the proverb. what is the sincerest form of flattery?
3. What is the unit of measurement which describes the loudness of sound?
4. Marti Pellow was the lead singer of which Scottish band?
5. How many films were made in the Rocky series starring Sylvester Stallone?

2006-09-25T11:33:00.000Z

1. Which fictional pirate was captain of the Jolly Roger?
2. In the Winter Olympics, what two activities make up the biathlon?
3. Of which country is Budapest the capital?
4. Which two actors cross-dressed in the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot?
5. In the animal kingdom, 'simba' is the Swahili word for which wild creature?

2006-09-22T15:13:00.000Z

1. In which city was Tony Blair born?
2. Who released the 1966 album Blonde on Blonde?
3. What is the more commonly used name for the visual defect Daltonism?
4. Which was the third channel to start broadcasting in Britain?
5. Which European country abolished its monarchy after a 1946 referendum?

2006-09-21T15:10:00.000Z

1. Ailurophobia is the fear of which domestic animal?
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams was the first person in the UK to purchase a personal computer manufactured by which company?
3. Which British author is about to be portrayed on film by the American actress Renee Zellweger?
4. Richard O'Brien and Ed TudorPole were both presenters of which Channel 4 game show?
5. What is the specific link between James Dean, Grace Kelly and Marc Bolan?

2006-09-20T15:03:00.000Z

1. During the Second World War, due to a shortage of metal what were Oscar statuettes made of?
2. Which Oscar-winner directed one of the first ever Colombo adventures starring Peter Falk?
3. Why was Pope Pius IX technically a better pope than his predecessor Gregory XVI?
4. What kind of stage variety act takes its name from the Latin for "speaking from the belly"?
5. How many players on a women's lacrosse team?

Here, have some more questions.

2006-09-19T10:06:00.000Z

1. To which animal family do the badger and the wolverine belong?
2. On Saturday evening television, which fictional village was the location of Noel's House party?
3. With which band did Paul Weller achieve his first UK number one single?
4. By which name was Shirley Crabtree better known in the wrestling ring?
5. Which comic features the exploits of Roger the Dodger and Minnie the Minx?

Happy Monday

2006-09-18T10:02:00.000Z

1. The Bay of Pigs incident was a 1961 US-backed attempted invasion of which of the Antilles?
2. What is Tony Blair's full name (including middle names)?
3. What was the name adopted by the Irish singer Sinead O'Connor when she was "ordained" as a priest?
4. Musically, what was the surname of Chicogo brothers Jake and Elwood?
5. Which chemical element has the atomic number 4 and is represented by the symbol Be?

I know they're not too difficult...

2006-09-15T09:57:00.000Z

...but stop whining, I'm saving the toughies.

1. Chiromancy is an alternative name for what form of fortune telling?
2. What were the first names of the Charlton brothers who were part of the World Cup winning England side in 1966?
3. What is the most commonly spoken and most commonly written word in the English language?
4. "Any Dream Will Do", released as a single by former Neighbours star Jason Donovan, is taken from which Lloyd Webber stage musical?
5. Hokkaido, Honshu and Shikoku are the main islands making up which country?

And we're back

2006-09-14T21:40:00.000Z

Alright, you win. Here are some questions. I'm taking the pressure off; only 5 a day for the foreseeable future (like fruit and veg).

1. In which movie is the Statue of Liberty brought to life using pink slime and a cassette of Jackie Wilson?
2. By population, which country is the largest Islamic state in the world?
3. Which rock group released the albums Sheer Heart Attack and Innuendo?
4. Which Grand Slam tennis championship was first held in 1877?
5. In ancient myth, who was the better known sister of Euryale and Sthena?

Which multinational company's headquarters is situated in Battle Creek, Michigan?

2006-07-24T20:41:00.000Z

1. In which year was the Berlin Wall erected?

2. By what nickname was murderer Albert de Salvo known?

3. In the U.S.A., what is known as a "billfold"?

4. Which pop group took its name from its financial state in 1977?

5. At which sporting venue would you find the Radcliffe Road End?

6. Which explorer drowned in 1806, whilst leading his second expedition up the Niger river?

7. What nationality was the ballerina Alicia Markova?

8. In which harbour was the battleship H.M.S. Royal Oak sunk during World War Two?

9. Which ancient king famously said 'Another such victory and we are done for'?

10. Which business people might use a 'Millers Guide'?