JGM Quizzes

04/03/2025

A general knowledge round from a pub quiz I hosted in March 2016 which I posted on Facebook and found today on FB 'memories'

1. The UK sales of Tate & Lyle golden syrup triple in the week leading up to which annual celebratory day.
2. Who is the only twentieth century British monarch not to feature on any issued coinage.
3. Sharing its name with an English word meaning ‘to shout’, what is the second largest island in the Shetlands.
4. ‘From the Big Bang to Black Holes’ is the subtitle of which best-selling book.
5. In which board game, introduced in 1963, do players attempt to collect cheese pieces.
NOT Trivial Pursuit as some teams answered incorrectly - that became available in the early 1980's
6. What was founded in 1849 as a small grocery shop on the Brompton Road, London.
7. Which of the seven deadly sins is portrayed in medieval art as a rider thrown from his horse.
8. Whose unemployment benefit records from 1961-1964 referring to a ‘. . . . Mr Woodward’s amateur singing interests and flamboyant dress . . .’ were put up for auction in 2010.
9. Originating in the fishing village of Mousehole (Mow-zul), which Cornish speciality consists of pilchards baked in a pie with their heads sticking out through the crust.
10. In what way was a football match between Manchester United and Watford on April 10th 1970 a famous first in F.A. Cup history.
11. First released commercially to the public in 1982, Cohiba is a cigar brand that was originally supplied exclusively to which person.
12. During a 1973 bank robbery, employees were held hostage for a few days and became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six day ordeal. In which European capital city did this incident take place.
13. Which of Batman’s enemies has henchmen called ‘Across’ and ‘Down’ and a girlfriend called ‘Anna Gram’.
14. What name is shared by a small writing desk, a large sofa and a 1990’s Wimbledon Ladies Singles champion.
15. 8 Part Question: Fictional Dog Owners: Which dogs are owned by the following characters from animation, literature and cartoon strips.
a) Dennis the Menace. b) Tintin. c) Wallace. d) Norville Rogers. e) Jon Arbuckle (Garfield). f) Georgina (George) Kirrin. g) Rubeus Hagrid. h) Oor Wullie.

03/03/2025

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02/03/2025

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01/03/2025

25/02/2025

A themed round from a quiz set I found on file:

BIRD ENDS
All two-word answers, the second of which in each case is the name of a bird (some are plural). There are no repeat bird names
1. Which American Football team won the Super Bowl in 2001 and 2013 and are the only NFL team named after a poem.
2. Which architect was accorded responsibility for rebuilding the 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666.
3. Who hosted phone-ins on the fictional Radio Norwich.
4. Produced in France, which brand of vodka was created in the 1990’s by Sidney Frank, who sold it to Bacardi in 2004 . . . and . . . for a bonus point . . . Introduced in 1940 which brand of bourbon is produced in a distillery near Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
5. Who was the first female DJ on BBC Radio 1.
6. New Zealanders of Scottish ancestry who play for the Scottish national rugby union team are known by what (alliterative) name.
7. What name is given to a tournament or competition in which each contestant meets all the other contestants in turn.
8. In the UK what title is given to the adult packleader in Girlguiding.
9. Which town in Bedfordshire is referenced in Mary Norton’s popular novel ‘The Borrowers’.
10. 5 Part Question: Movies:
a) Natalie Portman won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in which 2010 movie in which she plays dancer Nina Sayers.
b) Which fictional movie starship was built by the Corellian Engineering Corporation (CEC).
c) Emilio Estevez stars in which 1992 American sports-comedy-drama film about a minor ice hockey team.
d) In which 2018 American spy thriller film based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews does Jennifer Lawrence play the character Dominika Egorova.
e) Which 1991 action comedy film stars Bruce Willis as a master catburglar and safe-cracker.

23/02/2025

If you like movies,
if you like dogs,
especially ones with names beginning with 'D',
then this could be for you

18/02/2025

Here are some questions I probably asked in a pub(s) in 2014. An easy general knowledge round and a Film and Television round on Pigs:

General Knowledge
1. What is the four-letter surname of Lázló, the Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen.
2. Which Mediterranean island country is also known as ‘George Cross Island’.
3. What word from the German for ‘lightning’ was the name given to the German aerial campaign against Britain during World War 2.
4. In which London building would you find the Stranger’s Gallery and the Stranger’s Bar.
5. A non-alcoholic cocktail traditionally made with ginger ale, a splash of grenadine and garnished with a maraschino cherry was named after which child film star of the 1930’s.
6. At the age of 14 which Icelandic singer joined an all-girl punk band called ‘Spit and Snot’.
7. What iconic Australian tool, used by indigenous Australians for hunting, did David Schummy throw a distance of 1,401.5 feet on March 15th 2005 to set a new Guinness World Record .
8. Founded in 1971, which organisation publishes the Good Beer Guide, an annually compiled directory of its recommended pubs and brewers.
9. Thomas Austin, an English settler in Australia is credited with introducing which harmful animals into Australia in 1889 when he released 24 of them as game for shooting parties.
10. What is the connection between 32 degrees, 273.15 degrees and 0 degrees.
11. On September 11th 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologised for the ‘appalling’ treatment received by which World War 2 code breaker and computing pioneer.
12. Which literary character graduated in medicine from London University in 1878 and was promptly sent to Afghanistan, where he was shot and nearly died of enteric fever.
13. The Rutshire Chronicles is the name given to a series of romantic novels by which British female writer, the first in the series being ‘Riders’, published in 1986.
14. 2 Part Question: Sums: a) If you add together one of each coin in general circulation in the UK what monetary total would you have. b) The four track events in an Olympic decathlon total how many metres.
15. 3 Points: ‘Fire’ Songs: With which song titles, each ending in the word ‘Fire’ did the following artists have UK hit singles – Take That featuring Lulu (1993(1)), U2 (1985 (6)) and Will Young (2002 (1))

Film & Television: Pigs
1. In which 1973 horror movie is the sound of the demon leaving Regan’s body actually a recording of pigs being herded for slaughter.
2. In the television soap Emmerdale members of which family keep pigs outside their house.
3. During the filming of which 1986 Oliver Stone Vietnam War movie did actor Willem Defoe drink water from a river, not knowing there was a dead pig not far up stream. He was subsequently sick for 24 hours.
4. Based on a 1942 Agatha Christie novel of the same name, ‘Five Little Pigs’ was a 2003 episode title of which television detective series.
5. Which stuttering pig made his debut in the 1935 animated short movie ‘I Haven’t Got A Hat’.
6. In 2009 a DVD of the new look pig characters ‘Pinky and Perky’ was released. Based on the James Bond movie title ‘License To Kill’, the DVD was entitled ‘License to . . . .’ what.
7. As piglets grow so quickly, Gub-Gub the pig had to be replaced several times during the filming of which 1967 movie, starring Rex Harrison as the title character.
8. Which character in the Simpsons once revealed that he had seen his own father hanged for stealing a pig.
9. Which character in the 1973 Disney animated movie ‘Robin Hood’ was originally going to be a pig, but was changed to a badger to avoid insulting religious sensibilities.
10. ‘Pigs in Space’ was a recurring skit on which family television show.
11. In which 1972 John Boorman movie is one of the characters ordered at gunpoint to ‘squeal like a pig’ as he’s being r***d by a mountain man.
12. In which 1970’s British television sitcom did the central characters own two pigs named Pinky and Perky.
13. Hamm, a wise cracking realist piggy bank with a cork in his belly instead of a stopper first appears in which 1995 movie.
14. The animated children’s television title character ‘Peppa Pig’ has a little brother. What is his name.
15. What is the title of the 1998 sequel to the 1995 movie ‘Babe’.

16/02/2025

I love soup - had some this evening. With regards to question 5 . . . please remember that several flavours begin with the words 'Cream of' . .

12/02/2025

10 countries to guess. ps Greenland doesn't count for the letter 'G' as it is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark or something like that.