General Knowledge
Quiz 5
1 HEADLINE TOOTH (anagram of something to eat)? - Toad in the hole
2 Which country represented by Sandra Kim won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986? - Belgium
3 Who directed Midnight Express and the film version of Evita? - Alan Parker
4 What word was coined to describe lemonade and cider beverages spiked with alcohol? - Alcopops
5 What is the largest and heaviest living lizard in the world? - Komodo dragon
6 What do the letters AOL stand for in the Internet provider? - America On Line
7 What type of car was driven by Dennis Waterman in Minder? - Ford Capri
8 What was the former name of the New Zealand city of Wellington? - Britannia
9 Who succeeded George H W Bush as President of the USA? - Bill Clinton
10 Smiley Burnette was which cowboy's sidekick? - Gene Autry
11 What is zephyr the poetic name for? - The West Wind
12 Which of DH Lawrence's books is set in Australia? - Kangaroo
13 Which musical instrument is associated with jazz musicians Barney Bigard and Buddy de Franco? - Clarinet
14 Who won an Oscar for playing Jimmy Malone in the 1987 film The Untouchables? - Sean Connery
15 The tea house Mellow Yellow opened in which European city in 1972, pioneering the legal sale of cannabis Amsterdam
16 The milk of which animal is used in the French Rocamadour cheese? - Goat
17 What is the name of the teapot in Disney's Beauty and the Beast? - Mrs Potts
18 What does the cockney rhyming slang Adam and Eve it mean? - Believe it
19 Who is credited with starting the jogging boom? - James F Fixx (he died of a heart attack while out jogging)
20 In the 2007 British TV series Hunter each episode is the song title of a song by which British band? - Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark