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Posted Thursday, December 3, 2009

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Rosatos quiz 27/11/9

 

Current Affairs

1. Which film director has spent the last 2 months in a Swiss jail while efforts are made to extradite him to the USA?

2. Why is Gilad Schalit in the news?

3. Which organisation is set to pay out €161m for decades of child abuse in Ireland?

4. Of which country was Mullah Omar the leader?

5. What is Mohammed Ajmal Kasab currently on trial for?

6. Which 74-year-old singing dame is about to make a comeback on the London stage?

7. To whom is Carla Bruni married?

8. On what day this week were the schools on strike?

9. Why are Americans all off work and school today?

10. Who is the Prime Minister of Israel?

 

 

Answers

1. Roman Polanski

2. He is the captured Israeli soldier who is going to be swapped for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners

3. The Christian Brothers

4. Afghanistan

5. The Mumbai Massacre

6. Julie Andrews

7. President Sarkhozy of France

8. Tuesday

9. It’s Thanksgiving

10. Benjamin Netanyahu

Sport

1. Who is top of the Scottish Premier League?

2. Who did Chelsea beat 1-0 last night in the Champions League?

3. Who are the two top ranked men’ players in the world at tennis?

4. Who was the British boxer who recently won the World Heavyweight title at boxing defeating Valuev the Goliath Russian?

5. Who won this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup?

6. For which team will world champion Jensen Button be driving next year?

7. Which snooker player is on this year’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here?

8. Which ex-heavyweight boxer is on this year’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here?

9. Who is the new manager of Portsmouth?

10. Which team are currently top of the Championship in England?

 

 

Answers

1. Rangers

2. Porto

3. Federer / Nadal

4. David Haye

5. Kauto Star

6. McLaren

7. Jimmy White

8. Joe Bugner

9. Avram Grant

10. Newcastle

History and Geography

1. Inishowen has a population of 12,000 / 32,000 / 52,000

2. In which country is Westphalia?

3. In which century did Henry the 8th reign?

4. Which people did Genghis Khan rule?

5. Is the Isle of Skye in the Inner or Outer Hebrides?

6. Which city has the bigger population, Glasgow or Liverpool

7. Achilles was a hero in which war?

8. In which country is Auschwitz?

9. Alexander the Great was from which province or state of Greece?

10. Of which country was Hamlet a Prince?

 

 

Answers

1. 32,000

2. Germany

3. 16th century

4. The Mongols

5. Inner

6. Glasgow has 610,000 – Liverpool has 470,000

7. Trojan War

8. Poland

9. Macedonia

10. Denmark

Fashion

1. In Haute Couture what does couture mean – Sewing, Culture or Custard?

2. What country does the fashion designer Max Mara come from?

3. From which country is Paco Rabanne?

4. From which country is Karl Lagerfield?

5. Which men’s designer operates out of Nottingham?

6. What does Manolo Blahnik mainly design?

7. Who sells clothes from her Anglomania label at her shop World’s End in the Kings Road in London?

8. From which country is supermodel Elle MacPherson?

9. Who is the new face of L’Oreal Paris?

10. Who designed Madonna’s wedding dress for her marriage to Guy Ritchie in 2000

 

 

Answers

1. Sewing

2. Italy

3. Spain

4. Germany

5. Paul Smith

6. Shoes

7. Vivienne Westwood

8. Australia

9. Cheryl Cole

10. Stella McCartney

Children’s TV

In which decade did these Disney Films come out?

1. Dumbo

2. Hocus Pocus

3. The Princess Diaries

4. Mary Poppins

5. The Aristocats

6. The Three Musketeers

7. Mighty Joe Young

8. Who framed Roger Rabbit

9. Darby O’Gill and the Little People

10. The Fox and the Hound

 

 

Answers

1. 1941

2. 1993

3. 2001

4. 1964

5. 1970

6. 1993

7. 1998

8. 1988

9. 1959

10. 1981

General Knowledge

1. How many are there in a baker’s dozen?

2. Who is the host of Channel 4’s Deal or No Deal?

3. Which comedian was previously a welder in the shipyards?

4. What was George Orwell’s real name?

5. Who were the two stars of the movie The Sting?

6. What falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox?

7. Who would wear a surplus and soutane?

8. Who or what produces Royal Jelly?

9. Which country does Usain Bolt represent at athletics?

10. Which song is sung the most?

 

 

Answers

1. 13

2. Noel Edmonds

3. Billy Connolly

4. Eric Blair

5. Robert Redford and Paul Newman

6. Easter Sunday

7. A priest or altar boy

8. A Queen Bee

9. Jamaica

10. Happy Birthday

 

Guess Who?

30. American actress born Nov 12th 1929 in Philadelphia

28. Her mother was the daughter of German immigrants and her father the son of Irish immigrants

26. Played opposite Bing Crosby in The Country Girl

24. Starred in Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder

22. She ended her film career in the musical High Society

20. Was married in 1956

18. In 1957 she gave birth to her first child Caroline

16. In 1958 she gave birth to her 2nd child Albert

14. In 1965 she gave birth to her 3rd child Stephanie

12. She died in 1982 in a car accident caused by a stroke

10. Her husband was called Rainier

8. Her first name was Grace

6. Her second name was Kelly