QUIZ ANSWERS

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