A Quiz

Quiz 8

• See Team Times 2008-09

Answers 8

1. Chris Hoy
2. Rebecca Adlington
3. Rebecca Romero
4. David Davies
5. Ben Ainslie
6. Christine Ohuruogu
7. Bradley Wiggins
8. Louis Smith
9. Nicole Cooke
10. James DeGale

Quiz 7

1. On what day in June 2008 does northern hemisphere summer officially begin at 23:59 GMT?
2. Summer Holiday was the UK number 1 hit single on two separate occasions in 1963. Which hit by the Shadows interrupted its run?
3. Sharing many plot similarities with her better known novel, Ethan Frome, who wrote the novel Summer?
4. In what year was Mungo Jerry’s In the Summertime first used in UK government adverts to warn of the dangers of drink driving?
5. Which Shakespeare play set in Athens, and a wood not far from it features Francis Flute, the bellows-mender?
6. What song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart about the trials and tribulations of teenage life in America was used in the 1980 film Caddyshack?
7. What district in southwest London lies east of Wimbledon, south of Earlsfield, west of Tooting and north of Collier's Wood?
8. What year in the 20th century falls between the years of the Long Hot Summer and the Summer of 3 Popes?
9. What song by Green Day begins: “Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last”?
10. In what month of 2008 does northern hemisphere summer officially end at 15:44 GMT?

Answers 7

1. 20th
2. Foot Tapper
3. Edith Wharton
4. 1992
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream
6. Summertime Blues
7. Summerstown
8. 1977
9. Wake Me Up When September Ends
10. September (22nd)

Quiz 6

• See Team Times 2008-02

Answers 6

1. Silverstone
2. Hungaroring
3. Monaco
4. Monza
5. Valencia

Quiz 5

1. What is special about mountain Gangkhar Puensum?
2. Who wrote the black comic novel, London Fields?
3. What charity that assists elderly people is also the title of a song by Pulp?
4. In which two countries will Euro 2012 take place?
5. What is the westernmost borough in Greater London?
6. In 1872 who became the first woman to be presented with the Freedom of the City of London?
7. For whom did Bernard Bee coin a famous nickname at the first battle of Bull Run?
8. How was Michael Van Wijk better known in a game show of the 1990s?
9. What is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka?
10. Who appeared in 12 films and a TV series for over 20 years wearing the same coat?

Answers 5

1. Highest unclimbed mountain in the world
2. Martin Amis
3. Help the Aged
4. Poland and Ukraine
5. Hillingdon
6. Angela Burdett-Coutts
7. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
8. Wolf (in Gladiators)
9. Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte
10. Lassie

Quiz 4

1. Sitting atop the Shaftesbury Memorial, what figure from Greek myth is inaccurately known as Eros?
2. What diarist who lived from 1620 to 1706 recorded the events of the Great Fire of London?
3. Who broke the 5000 metres athletics world record by 5 seconds at the White City stadium in 1954?
4. What play began as a short radio play broadcast on May 30, 1947 called Three Blind Mice?
5. What festival took place in London on 15 and 16th September 2007, billed as “London’s biggest end-of-summer party”?
6. What character did Reginald Marsh play in The Good Life?

Answers 4

1. Anteros
2. John Evelyn
3. Chris Chataway
4. The Mousetrap
5. Thames Festival
6. Andrew / Sir

Quiz 3 (London)

1. Who must have "The Knowledge" before they get a licence to trade?
2. Which high security prison establishment would you find at: Western Way, Thamesmead LONDON SE28?
3. In which suburb would you find the largest Hindu temple in London?
4. Which Zurich Premiership rugby club shared Loftus Road with QPR from 1996 to 2002?
5. Which of London's famous teaching hospitals lies directly across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament?
6. In which London park, south of the Thames, would you find a "Peace Pagoda"?
7. Which English composer, who died in 1957, wrote the Knightsbridge March, part of his London Landmarks suite
8. The "Nulli Secundus" was a familiar sight on London thoroughfares between 1923 and 1937. What was it?
9. Which south London district, setting for a TV comedy series, has a name derived from the Anglo-Saxon meaning: "Village among the hills"?
10. The Wealdstone Brook, the Dollis Brook and the Silk Stream are the headwaters of which of London's rivers?

Answers 3

1. London Black cab taxi drivers
2. Belmarsh
3. Neasden
4. Wasps
5. St Thomas'
6. Battersea Park
7. Eric Coates
8. A British Army Dirigible
9. Peckham
10. River Brent

Quiz 2 (All at sea)

1. The children's book We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, set on the North Sea, was written by which author, better remembered for using a Lake District setting?
2. Which sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean, is named after a 16th century Dutch navigator?
3. Which tax was extended to inland counties by Charles I, spurring a protest led by Hampden?
4. Who composed the choral work, Sea Symphony, which makes use of poems by Walt Whitman?
5. What is the title of the poem by John Masefield which begins: "I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky.."?
6. What is the name of the ship, built as a pleasure steamer and still making excursions, which is the last example of a sea-going paddle steamer?
7. Two of the masts of a three masted ship are the fore mast and the main mast. What is the name of the third?
8. What, in a nautical context, might have a grip, a loom, a shaft and a blade?

Answers 2

1. Arthur Ransome
2. (Willem) Barents Sea
3. Ship money
4. Ralph Vaughan Williams
5. Sea Fever
6. The Waverley
7. Mizzen-mast
8. An oar

Quiz 1 (London)

1. Which aid to London's travellers was first produced by Harry Beck in 1933?
2. By what name do we know today the concert venue whose name was changed from Bechstein Hall as a result of the First World War?
3. The firm of Berry Brothers and Rudd carry on what trade at No 3 St James Street?
4. A grandiose monument celebrating which king caused an area in Battle Bridge to become Kings Cross?
5. Lord Nelson lies in St Paul's crypt in a sarcophagus that had been confiscated by Henry VIII having been designed for whom?
6. What medical link did Dr John Snow publicise in a pamphlet of 1849?
7. In which suburb did Lord Dowding have his HQ during the Battle of Britain?
8. Which London theatre was the first public building in London to be lit by electricity?
9. Which London organisation's museum is housed in the former home of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw in Southwark Bridge Road SE1?
10. Which "great" ship was launched, after difficulties, in Millwall in 1859?

Answers 1

1. Simplified TUBE MAP
2. WIGMORE HALL
3. WINE MERCHANTS
4. GEORGE the FOURTH
5. CARDINAL WOLSEY
6. WATER SUPPLY and CHOLERA
7. STANMORE (Bentley Priory)
8. SAVOY
9. LONDON FIRE BRIGADE ("Oh Captain Shaw" - G&S)
10. Brunel's GREAT EASTERN

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