2011 Big Quiz – Answers
1A: Ice-cream
2A: Firewater
3A: Tia Maria
4A: Souffle
5A: Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate
6A: Tea
7A: Wine taster
8A: Nebuchadnezzar?
9A: Stomach Lining
10A: Melon
11A: Aubergine
12A: A Spat
13A: Lettuce
14A: Plum
15A: Whisky and Drambuie
16A: Grapes (for wine-making)
17A: A fish
18A: The white of an egg
19A: Tomato
20A: Bootleggers
21A: Spinach
22A: Chilli
23A: Parma
24A: Russia
25A: 432 (54 gallons)
26A: Gelatine
27A: 20
28A: Cocoa
29A: Apple
30A: Soup
31A. Sweden
32A. Juneau
33A. Kings cross and Charing cross
34A. Pennsylvania
35A. KLM or Royal Dutch Airlines (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
36A. Caracus
37A. Holland (The Netherlands)
38A. Superior
39A. Jodrell Bank
40A. 53
41A. New Guinea (Greenland is the largest)
42A. Eros
43A. Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle
44A. St. Moritz
45A. Atlantic
46A. The Old Bailey
47A. Anglesey
48A. Mexico
49A. The Suez Canal
50A. Cheddar
51A. Mont Blanc
52A. Antarctica
53A. Israel and Jordon
54A. Ontario
55A. Greece
56A. Arc de Triomph
57A. The Falkland Islands
58A. Westminster Abbey
59A. Preston North End
60A. Hyde park
61A: Shoulder blade
62A: Lactic Acid
63A: Archbishop of Canterbury
64A: The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Phillip
65A: Captain James Cook!
66A: Bones in the Hand
67A: John D. Rockefeller
68A: Lungs
69A: The eye (inflammation of the cornea)
70A: Mormons
71A: Adam and Eve
72A: Princess Diana was killed in a car crash.
73A: Leprosy
74A: 1990
75A: Moses
76A: Persius
77A: Goerge Stephenson
78A: George cross
79A: Schutzstaffel or ‘Protection Squad
80A: The 16th
81A: Cellulite
82A: Arabic and Hebrew
83A: Fractures of the bone
84A: Leg
85A: Chelsea
86A: Theodore Roosevelt
87A: Elias
88A: Boris Karlov
89A: Bob Geldof
90A: Silver
91A. Momentum
92A. Kangaroo and Emu
93A. Nose
94A. Radiation
95A. Colony
96A. Alexander Fleming (1928)
97A. K
98A. Butterflies (and moths
99A. Pig
100A. Superior
101A. Jodrell Bank
102A. Fining
103A. Louis Pasteur (1885)
104A. 3
105A. Plum
106A. 4
107A. Touch
108A. New Guinea (Greenland is the largest)
109A. A monkey
110A. The Merchant Of Venice
111A. Teeth
112A. A pup
113A. Chicken Pox
114A. A badger
115A. A fish (of the herring family found off North America's Atlantic coast)
116A. the umbrella
117A. Prosthetics
118A. Rhinoceros (up to 5 tons, then hippo up to 3.2 tons)
119A. Water buffalo
120A. Decibels
121A. Germany
122A. Frank Bruno
123A. Sugar Ray Robinson
124A. Kentucky Derby
125A. Monica Selles
126A. 127
127A. 4
128A. 10
129A. Arnold Schwarzenegger
130A. Gascoigne
131A. A face off
132A. Bishop
133A. 8 ft (2.44 metres)
134A. Anna Kournikova
135A. David Coulthard
136A. Matthew Hoggard
137A. Abseiling
138A. 400 not out
139A. A maiden
140A. Preston North End - 1888-89
141A. Motor Racing (nickname for Indianapolis)
142A. Beijing
143A. Mercedes Benz
144A. Alec Stewart
145A. 20 (8 pawns can move 1 or 2 squares and 2 knights can move in 2 directions)
146A. Marcellus.
147A. A mallet
148A. Football. Not Bullfighting
149A. Irish
150A. Seconds out
151A: Terminator
152A: Bedrock
153A: Great Dane
154A: Leondaro, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello
155A: Thing
156A: Daily Slate
157A: John
158A: Mrs Hudson
159A: British Academy of Film and Television Arts
160A: Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith, played by George Peppard, from the 1980's US TV action series The A-Team.
161A: The Three Wise Men (or the Three Kings)
162A: A Few Good Men
163A: Rudolph Valentino
164A: The Coronation of Elizabeth II
165A: Cameron Diaz
166A: Angelina Jolie
167A: Professor Moriarty
168A: Halle Berry
169A: Munchkins
170A: Kitt
171A: The Artful Dodger
172A: 15
173A: Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again
174A: Dr. Who
175A: Sir Thomas More
176A: Mufasa
177A: Arthur
178A: Donald Pleasence
179A: Sheryl Crow
180A: Bert
181A. Handel
182A. Poland
183A. Dwight Eisenhower
184A. Bootlegger
185A. Australia
186A. English - founded in 1701 as a collegiate school it was renamed Yale college in his honour in 1718 and renamed Yale University in 1887.
187A. His bayonet
188A. Wisdom
189A. Neville Chamberlain
190A. KLM or Royal Dutch Airlines (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
191A. McDonalds
192A. Allah
193A. Jesper Parnevik
194A. Idi Amin Dada
195A. It took place in 1889. John L(awrence) Sullivan –1858 to 1918 knocked out Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds.
196A. They fathered children
197A. John Ronald Reuel - 1892 to 1973
198A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
199A. Louis Pasteur (1885)
200A. Apollo
201A. Puccini (1896)
202A. Dauphin
203A. WW 1
204A. Red Arrrows
205A. Gardens (a.k.a. Capability Brown)
206A. the umbrella
207A. Juventus
208A. The Old Bailey
209A. Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha, Utah.
210A. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
211A. Criminal
212A. Potatoes
213A. The aftermath
214A. Foreign language
215A. Excuse me
216A. Painless operation
217A. Fork in (the) road
218A. Dominoes
219A. Ten Downing Street
220A. Back seat driver
221A. Change of plans
222A. Undercover cop
223A. Its a small world after all
224A. A bad spell of weather
225A. Tale of two cities
226A. Postman
227A. Mother in law
228A. Within reason
229A. All in a days work
230A. Clean underwear
231A. Blue movie
232A. The good the bad and the ugly
233A. Frank Sinatra
234A. West indies
235A. What goes up must come down
236A. One step forwards two steps back
237A. Glance backwards
238A. Long time no see
239A. Gross injustice
240A. 3 blind mice
