Halloween Quiz – Round 7 – General Knowledge
1. When is ‘All Souls’ Day’ celebrated? November 2nd (or November 3rd if 2nd falls on a Sunday) 2. ‘Hallowmas’ is another name for which festival? All Saint’s Day (November 1st) 3. Which legendary...
View ArticleHalloween Quiz – Round 6 – Music
The Halloween lyrics round is lyrics from songs associated with horror and all things scary. You need to give us the name of the song the lyrics are from. 1. “You try to scream, but terror takes the...
View ArticleHalloween Quiz – Round 5 – Art and Literature
1. Who painted ‘The Scream’? Edvard Munch 2. What was the name of the clown in Stephen King’s ‘It’? Pennywise 3. Who painted the 1968 artistic work entitled ‘Big Electric Chair’? Andy Warhol 4. Mary...
View ArticleHalloween Quiz – Round 4 – Food and Drink
1. What type of confectionery, popular around the U.S. and Canada at Halloween, is made from marshmallows, sugar, corn syrup and orange, yellow and white food colouring? Candy corn 2. In parts of...
View ArticleHalloween Quiz – Round 3 – True Or False
Quite simply – true or false? 1. In Mexico they celebrate ‘El Día de los muertos’ (The Day of the Dead), which instead of being one day, as the title suggests, starts at midnight on October 31st and...
View ArticleHalloween Quiz – Round 2 – TV and Film
In true Halloween style, this week’s questions are all about horror films. 1. In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film ‘Psycho’, what is the name of the character who is stabbed in the famous shower scene?...
View ArticleHalloween Quiz – Round 1 – Picture Round
This picture round is a cryptic round – all of the answers are words to do with Halloween or horror. Halloween Picture Round Picture Round PDF 1. Bewitch (Bee – witch) 2. Frankenstein (Frank – inn –...
View ArticleQuiz 36 – Round 3 – Comedy
1. Who played the character of Betty to Michael Crawford’s Frank Spencer in the 1970s sitcom ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em’? Michele Dotrice 2. Which stand-up comedian ran 43 marathons in 52 days in 2009...
View ArticleQuiz 36 – Round 2 – Science and Nature
Not the most pleasant round…. but this round is all about diseases and injuries. We will give you the name of a disease/injury which affects only a certain part of the body. You need to give us the...
View ArticleQuiz 36 – Round 1 – Picture Round
All of the following pictures are of waxworks of famous people. Can you work out who the person is? Picture Round 36 Picture Round PDF 1. Britney Spears...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 7 – General Knowledge
1. Which male name is sometimes used as a nickname for the autopilot of an aeroplane? George 2. What is the capital city of Latvia? Riga 3. What is 2013 in Roman Numerals? MMXIII 4. In Jonathan Swift’s...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 6 – TV and Film
1. In which film does Julie Andrews play a female singer who impersonates a male, gay, Polish, female impersonator? Victor Victoria 2. Which actor played Spike Dixon in the successful TV comedy...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 5 – Science and Nature
The following are breeds or species of which type of animal? 1. Barbet Dog 2. Simbrah Cattle 3. Australian Mist Cat 4. Appaloosa Horse 5. French Angora Rabbit 6. Greater Mouse-Eared Bat 7. Muntjac Deer...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 4 – Art and Literature
1. Which child in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ is turned into a giant blueberry? Violet Beauregarde 2. Which Austrian-born artist and architectural designer has a second name which would...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 3 – Money
The idea of this round is very simple – we will give you the name of a country – you need to give us the name of its currency. 1. Rwanda Rwandan Franc 2. China Renminbi (accept also Yuan) 3. Argentina...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 2 – Initials
1. What does the ‘A’ stand for in ‘A’ Level? Advanced 2. The two most common UK teaching unions are the NUT (National Union of Teachers) and the NASUWT. What does the latter stand for? National...
View ArticleQuiz 37 – Round 1 – Picture Round
This week’s picture round is a selection of Presidents of the United States of America. Picture Round 37 Picture Round PDF 1. Ronald Reagan Photo credit: This file is in the public domain (Courtesy...
View ArticleQuiz 38 – Round 7 – General Knowledge
1. Which of the Beatles wears white on the cover of the Abbey Road album? John Lennon 2. What is the meaning of the musical term ‘diminuendo’? With gradually decreasing volume 3. Who was the longest...
View ArticleQuiz 38 – Round 6 – Words
This week’s words round is another set of difficult to spell words. 1. Caribbean 2. Persistent 3. Neanderthal 4. Pharaoh 5. Fahrenheit 6. Playwright 7. Prejudice 8. Laryngitis 9. Kaleidoscope 10....
View ArticleQuiz 38 – Round 5 – TV Characters
This round tests your knowledge of British TV shows. We will give you the name of a show and an actor who starred in it. You need to give us the character that he/she played. 1. Amanda Redman in ‘New...
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