General Knowledge
Quiz 30
1 AVENGE WAR HORSE (anagram of a former English football international) - Owen Hargreaves
2 Egg, Barcelona, Ball and Korum are all types of which item of furniture - Chair
3 What is the most popular luxury chosen by people appearing on Desert Island Discs - Piano
4 After returning from an elephant hunt in Botswana, who was sacked as honorary president of the Spanish branch of the WWF - King Juan Carlos of Spain
5 What is the most popular jukebox song of all time - Crazy (Patsy Cline)
6 In 1982, Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" was neither a man, nor a woman. What was it - The Computer
7 What was the first commodity to be rationed in the UK during WW2 - Petrol
8 What was the make and model of the aircraft that crashed during an air-show in Shoreham-by-Sea, England, killing 11 people in 2015 - Hawker Hunter
9 Which singer said, "If I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar in the Harvard Medical School" - Frank Sinatra
10 What was the more common name of the WW1 third battle of Ypres - Passchendaele
11 What was the name of Alistair MacLean's ice station - Zebra
12 The Bill Shankly Stand can be found at which football club's ground - Preston North End
13 What unit of power is defined as a derived unit of 1 joule per second - Watt
14 What was the name of the Victorian medical drama series in the nineties that starred Jemma Redgrave - Bramwell
15 The Left Bank generally refers to the left bank of which river - Seine
16 What was the name of the boutique opened by fashion designer Jeff Banks in London in 1964 - Clobber
17 What does the medical term Hydrosis mean - Sweating
18 Which multi-award-winning eighties film is considered to have included the biggest ever crowd of extras - Gandhi (over 300,000 for the funeral scene)
19 What is the current name of the product that was originally sold as Chemgrass - Astroturf
20 In the Northampton area in the sixties what was a bottle of spruce - Lemonade