Mrs Ms Christmas Quiz

2012

Disclaimer : - My word is final!

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Round 1

General Knowledge

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1. By what name is St. Stephens Day better known?

2. How many inches are in a yard?

3. Which company produces `Miniature Heroes` chocolates?

4. How is the number 1000 represented in Roman numerals?

5. Multiply this year by last year?

6. How many spots are there on a dice?

7. What is the name of a polygon with 10 sides?

8. What is the largest number you can make with the numbers 5, 1, 9, 2?

9. How many years on the throne did the Queen celebrate this year?

10. What two events did Mo Farah win at the Olympics?

Boxing Day36

Cadburys

M404613

2 21

Decagon

9521 (I will accept 9x5x2x1 = 90)

6010,000m and 5,000m (for 2

points)

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Round 2

Music

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1. So Solid Crew had how many seconds to go?

2. How many members in the Beatles were there?

3. Which Britney Spears song has the number 1 in the title?

4. Which Jay-Z song has a 2 digit number in the title?

5. How many people wrote the song "Scream", performed by Usher

6. Which PitBull song was in the film Men In Black III?

7. What does the word “forte” mean?

8. Who is the oldest member of One Direction?

9. How old is Madonna ?

10. The Rolling Stones have been together for how long?

21

4 (Ringo, Paul, John & George for extra points)

Baby ONE more time

99 problems

3Back in

timeLoud

Louis Tomlinson (he’s 20 and is Birthday is Christmas Eve)

54

50 years

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Round 3

Sport

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1. In which sport would you find a ‘silly mid on’??

2. In ten-pin bowling, what name is given to knocking down all ten pins with two balls

3. Who is this? For an extra point what nationality is he?

4. What distance is covered in one circuit of a modern outdoor running track? ?

5. What football club is the oldest surviving club?

6. How many times has the UK hosted the Olympics?

7. Who was the first person to run a mile in under 4 mins?

8. What is a perfect score in gymnastics?

9. Which 2 teams compete for The Ashes ?

10. What are the positions of the two players on a netball team who are permitted to shoot?

Cricket

Spare

Andy Murray - Scottish

Sheffield Utd

3 – 1908, 1948 and 2012

Roger Bannister

10

Australia and England

Goal Attack (GA) and Goal Shooter (GS) – 2 points

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400m

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Round 4

Science and Nature

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1. Where in the human body would you find the metatarsals?

2. Which of the following could you use to measure how far you had walked? A Pedometer, A Cryometer or a Micrometer

3. In computing what does RAM stand for?

4. What is the name given to a young lion?

5. Dry ice is a frozen form of which gas?

6. What unit do barometers and weather maps usually display atmospheric pressure in?

7. In trigonometry, what is calculated by the adjacent over the hypotenuse?

8. Which mineral forms the lead in a pencil?

9. What do 1,000 gigabytes make?

10. What is the usual colour of copper sulphate?

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Foot

Pedometer

Random Access MemoryA cub

Carbon Dioxide

Millibars

Cos (will accept Cosine – its proper name)

Graphite

Terabyte

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Round 5

TV and Film

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1. What character does the winner of I’m a Celebrity play?

2. Woody and Buzz Lightyear are two of Andy’s toys. Who is the next door neighbour that Andy’s toys fear

3. What is the meaning of the phrase “Hakuna Matata”?

4. Which of Forrest Gump’s body parts was wounded, thereby sending him home from Vietnam?

5. Who hosts “A Question of Sport”??

6. In which film does the line “Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore” appear?

7. Which children`s television show featured characters of George, Zippy and Bungle?

8. Which long-running Australian soap is set in Summer Bay?

9. Who played the Vicar of Dibley?

10. Which series did Jack Bauer feature?

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ANSWERS

Janine

Sid

No worries

Buttocks

Sue Barker

Wizard of Oz

Rainbow

Home and Away

Dawn French24

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Have a great break and

see you Next Year

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