Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (8th February 2009)

1. In the musical scale, what note is referred to as the ‘Dominant’?

2. Which rock star is currently irritating viewers advertising SwiftCover Insurance?

3. Which river enters St. Andrews Bay northwest of the famous golf links?

4. In the U.S., what term is used to describe the practice of overstaffing in order to save or create jobs, particularly in compliance with a union contract?

5. In what kind of facility does Homer Simpson work?

6. Which American singer, the son of a famous comedian, fronted the band The Playboys?

7. Tennis player Althea Gibson also played which other sport professionally?

8. In the 1970s, Martin Landau, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Patrick McGoohan, Ruth Gordon and Donald Pleasence were all apprehended by which detective?

9. In which county is the Isle of Thanet?

10. What type of pasta is derived from the Italian for “butterfly”?

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1. The Fifth
2. Iggy Pop
3. Eden
4. Featherbedding
5. Nuclear Power Plant
6. Gary Lewis
7. Golf
8. Lt. Columbo
9. Kent
10. Farfalle

Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (1st February 2009)

1. Which musical film features the songs I’d Do Anything, Where Is Love, and As Long as He Needs Me?

2. Which city’s American football team were named after a tiger that was resident in the local zoo at the time of their formation?

3. Which father-and-son lived on Oil Drum lane?

4. How many yards are there in a fathom?

5. What fruit is visible in Magritte’s 1964 painting ‘The Son of Man’?

6. Prominent in the late 19th century, what were windjammers?

7. What species of bird is also called a spink?

8. In EastEnders, Dennis “Dirty Den” Watts served his wife with divorce papers on Christmas Day, 1986. What was her name?

9. Which town, the only deepwater port on the west coast of Britain between Liverpool and Glasgow, is home to a football-like tradition called “Uppies and Downies”?

10. In the “four candles” sketch by The Two Ronnies, what word is seen written on the shelf at the very end of the skit?

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1. Oliver!
2. Cincinnati Bengals
3. Steptoe and Son
4. 2
5. Apple
6. Ships
7. Chaffinch
8. Angie (Watts)
9. Workington
10. Billhooks

Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (25th January 2009)

1. What species of tree is a sycamore?

2. Which fictional character created by G.K. Chesterton was based on a parish priest in Bradford?

3. Which 80s/90s American TV series was set around the law firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak?

4. Chris Norman was the lead singer with which 70s group, who had Top 10 hits with ‘If You Think You Know How To Love Me’ and ‘Oh Carol’?

5. When Anders Celsius introduced the temperature scale that bears his name, what value did he apply to boiling point?

6. Which politician famously picked up the ceremonial mace in 1976?

7. Which famous foodstuff from Kendal is said to be popular with climbers and mountaineers?

8. Which car company based in Malvern hand builds all of its cars?

9. On the council flag of which British island would you find a depiction of a castle and three crowns?

10. What two-word catchphrase became associated with Tony Hancock via the radio show 'Educating Archie'?

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1. Maple
2. Father Brown
3. L.A. Law
4. Smokie
5. 0 degrees
6. Michael Heseltine
7. Kendal Mint Cake
8. Morgan
9. Isle of Wight
10. Flippin’ Kids

Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (18th January 2009)

1. Which Coventry-based motorcycle manufacturing firm went bankrupt in 1983?

2. Playing on the super serious image of its star, what two-word term was used on the poster for the 1939 film Ninotchka?

3. What is a sun-dried brick used for construction in hot climates called?

4. Which island in New York harbour served as an immigration centre from 1892 to 1943?

5. Earl Grey tea is flavoured using the rind of which fruit?

6. Who holds the record for the most club appearances for Stoke City FC?

7. John Couch Adams, Walter Baade, Harlow Shapley and Fred Hoyle are famous names in which scientific field?

8. Who is the patron saint of musicians and church music?

9. Which character in Blake's 7 was played by Glynis Barber?

10. CFL's are replacing old-fashioned light bulbs. What do the letters CFL stand for?

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1. Triumph
2. Garbo Laughs
3. Adobe
4. Ellis Island
5. Bergamot (Orange)
6. Eric Skeels
7. Astronomy
8. St. Cecilia
9. Soolin
10. Compact Fluorescent Lamp (accept Compact Fluorescent Light)

Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (11th January)

1. Which TV series featured Master Po, Master Kan and Kwai Chang Caine?

2. Vampire bats are native to which continent?

3. Which song begins “You never close your eyes any more when I kiss your lips”?

4. The officials in which sport are sometimes known as “zebras”?

5. The so-called “Baftagate” incident of 1991 occurred when several judges demanded to see the votes, only to find they were “lost”, resulting in Prime Suspect beating which Alan Bleasdale-penned series to win the Best Drama Serial award?

6. The first line of the original version of Do They Know It’s Christmas was sung by which artist?

7. What is the appropriate (or perhaps lazy) name of the interactive museum of news and journalism in Washington, DC?

8. What was the name of Henry VIII’s older brother?

9. How is Yorkshire Feta cheese now known as?

10. On what object would you find the ‘peen’?

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1. Kung Fu
2. South America
3. You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
4. American Football
5. G.B.H.
6. Paul Young
7. Newseum
8. Arthur
9. Fine Fettle
10. Hammer

Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (4th January 2009)

1. Which singer was known as “The Big O”?

2. Which team did Bill Shankly say was “the second best team on Merseyside”?

3. What is the name of Winston’s wife in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’?

4. Who, according to a nursery rhyme, “could eat no fat”?

5. Which Birmingham-born comedian was the subject of the first ITV ‘An Audience With…’ show in 1978?

6. Which TV production company was established by Prince Edward in 1993?

7. In which Lancashire town is Moorhouse’s Brewery based?

8. Who starred alongside Nigel Bruce (who portrayed Dr. Watson) in the Sherlock Holmes films from 1939 to 1946?

9. What links the jockey David Nicholson with the actor John Wayne?

10. Vaudeville artist Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly specialised in what form of act, which spawned a fad and series of imitators in 1920s America?

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1. Roy Orbison
2. Liverpool Reserve Team
3. Katharine
4. Jack Sprat
5. Jasper Carrot
6. Argent
7. Burnley
8. Basil Rathbone
9. The Duke (nicknames)
10. Flagpole Sitting

Clayheads 10-Question Quiz (21st December 2008)

1. Which 1970s Top 10 Mike Oldfield song was based on the carol ‘Good Christian Men Rejoice’?

2. Which detective features in the books ‘The High Window’, ‘The Lady and The Lake’ and ‘Playback’?

3. “Whispering” Ted Lowe was a commentator associated with which sport?

4. Who portrayed the U.S. marshal tracking fugitive Harrison Ford in the 1993 film The Fugitive?

5. What four letter word, perhaps suggesting its cosy nature, refers to a small enclosure in a pub allowing a small number of people to sit in private?

6. The Granny Smith apple was originally cultivated in which country?

7. Named after legendary moneylender John Derby, 'darbies' is an archaic term for what item?

8. Which Coronation Street character was killed by a Blackpool tram in 1989?

9. What colour is a female blackbird?

10. On a British Monopoly board, what is the first train station after Go!?

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1. In Dulci Jublio
2. Philip Marlowe
3. Snooker
4. Tommy Lee Jones
5. Snug
6. Australia
7. Handcuffs
8. Alan Bradley
9. Brown
10. King’s Cross