1 In what street is London's famous
Petticoat Lane Market held |
Middlesex
Street |
2 What was the name of the landlord
in Rising Damp |
Rigsby |
3 In electronics what does L.C.D.
stand for |
Liquid
Crystal Display |
4 What is the branch of physics
concerned with light and vision |
Optics |
5 Who is the one armed drummer in
the group Def Leppard |
Rick Allen |
6 What in inches is the normal
height of the tread of a stair |
Seven and a
half inches |
7 What was Concorde's first
scheduled route |
London to
Bahrain |
8 What was the name of the
fictitious hunch-backed bell ringer in Victor Hugo's
novel "Notre Dame de Paris |
Quasimodo |
9 What are the first three words in
the Bible |
In the
beginning |
10 What is the name of Les Battersby's
wife in Coronation Street |
Janice |
11 How many letters are there in the
Latin alphabet |
23 |
12 What happened to Peeping Tom for
spying on Lady Godiva |
He was
struck blind |
13 What is the name of Andy Capp's
best friend |
Chalkie |
14 What kind of bird did the Ancient
Mariner kill |
An
albatross |
15 Which horse won the 2000 Arc De
Triomphe |
Sinndar |
TIME FOR A PINT |
16 What is the state capital of
Arizona |
Phoenix |
17 What was the name of the prison in
Porridge |
Slade |
18 In what year did decimal coinage
start in the U.K. |
1971 (Feb.
15) |
19 Who said in 1987 that you had to
fight for your right to party which reached number 11 in
the U.K. charts |
Beastie
Boys |
20 Who invented the clockwork radio |
Trevor
Bayliss |
21 In which country did the Aztecs
live |
Mexico |
22 By what name was Robert 1 of
Scotland better known |
Robert the
Bruce |
23 What was the largest German
battleship in W W 2 |
The
Bismarck |
24 From which team did Arsenal sign
Dennis Bergkamp |
Inter Milan |
25 How many square metres are there in
a hectare |
Ten
thousand |
26 Tea, rubber and which other product
are Sri Lanka’s major exports |
Coconuts |
27 In what county is Broadmoor Mental
Hospital for the criminally insane |
Berkshire |
28 At what Mach number does speed
become hypersonic |
Mach 5 |
29 From which musical did the song
Getting To Know You come |
The King
and I |
30 In which sport did Britain win it's
first gold medal of the Sydney Olympics |
Cycling |
Round 2. ADVERTISING |
31 Which toothpaste was advertised as
you'll wonder where the yellow went |
Pepsodent |
32 What is the commonly used term for
the subtle form of advertising by which brands are
featured in films and TV programmes |
Product
placement (a ban on this was lifted in the UK in early
2011) |
33 Which company advertises on its
shopping bags Chocolate Heaven since 1911 |
Thornton's |
34 Which chocolate bar allegedly had a
hazelnut in every bite |
Topic |
35 In what year did the Dulux Dog
first appear in adverts |
Nineteen
seventy five |
36 What was the first soap powder to
use street interviews in its commercials |
Omo |
37 Which man who doesn't get out much
wrote the slogan Naughty but Nice in the adverts for
fresh cream commercials |
Salman
Rushdie |
38 Which company advertised on TV with
the slogan, Gets your clothes deep down clean |
Tide |
39 Which soap when first advertised
claimed that its fragrance was worth nine guineas an
ounce |
Pink Camay |
40 What is advertised as "The mint
with the hole" |
Polo mints |