The BIG Youth Team Quiz 2007

1. The BIGYouth Team Quiz 2007

2. Round 1 General Knowledge I Round 2 Sport & Leisure Round 3 Entertainment Round 4 Geography Round 5 History of the 20th Century Round 6 Saints Round 7 Weather & Climate Round 8 News & Current Affairs Round 9 Round the World Round 11 Music Round 12 General Knowledge II Round 10 Catchphrases

3. Round One General Knowledge I

4. Question No:1 Next • Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are which type of vegetable? Answer Lettuce

5. Question No:2 Next • By what name is the ‘Gravelly Hill Inter-Change’ better known? Answer Spaghetti Junction

6. Question No:3 Next • What is former President Bill Clinton’s middle name? Answer Jefferson

7. Question No:4 Next • In which country are the Sutherland Falls? Answer New Zealand

8. Question No:5 Next • What is the oldest University in the United States? Answer Harvard

9. Question No:6 Next • Who became Germany's first female chancellor? Answer Angela Merkal

10. Question No:7 Next • Who wrote ‘The Railway Children’? Answer Edith Nesbit

11. Question No:8 Next • Turin lies on which river? Answer The River Po

12. Question No:9 Next • Which country has the International car registration ‘RA’? Answer Argentina

13. Question No:10 Menu Bonus • A Methuselah of wine holds the equivalent of how many bottles? Answer Eight

14. Round Two Sport & Leisure

15. Question No:1 Next • On a darts board, what number is directly opposite No. 1? Answer 19

16. Question No:2 Next • What colour is the cue ball in pool? Answer White

17. Question No:3 Next • What is the craft of making arrows called? Answer Fletching

18. Question No:4 Next • In Cycle Racing, what is a sag wagon? Answer One of the last vehicles following road events and picking up riders who have dropped out.

19. Question No:5 Next • The apparatus used by male gymnasts consists of vaulting horse, pommel horse, horizontal bars, rings and floor. Apart from floor, which 1 of these pieces of apparatus do women use? Answer Vaulting Horse

20. Question No:6 Next • Why do American footballers paint black marks across their cheeks? Answer To protect against the Sun’s Glare

21. Question No:7 Next • In the early days of cricket, a bowler who took three wickets in a row was presented with a top hat. What modern term comes from this practise? Answer Hat Trick

22. Question No:8 Next • How many red balls are there in snooker? Answer 15

23. Question No:9 Next • What colour is the centre scoring zone of an archery target? Answer Gold

24. Question No:10 Menu Bonus • Why are the officials in American football known as zebras? Answer They wear striped shirts

25. Round Three Entertainment

26. Question No:1 Next • Who had the best selling debut album by a female artist of the 20th century? Answer Whitney Houston

27. Question No:2 Next • Who played a chain-smoking angel in the 1996 film ‘Michael’? Answer John Travolta

28. Question No:3 Next • Which underworld character’s autobiography was entitled ‘Odd Man Out’? Answer Ronnie Biggs

29. Question No:4 Next • Which US sitcom’s famous fictional venue is 112½ Beacon Street? Answer Cheers

30. Question No:5 Next • Who was cartoonist William Hannah’s professional partner? Answer Joseph Barbera

31. Question No:6 Next • Which Quentin Tarantino film was originally called ‘Black Mask’? Answer Pulp Fiction

32. Question No:7 Next • What is the Christian name of Police Chief Wiggun in ‘The Simpsons’? Answer Clancy

33. Question No:8 Next • Which two musicians founded Band Aid in 1984? Answer Bob Geldof & Midge Ure

34. Question No:9 Next • Which sporting event was BBC2’s first colour transmission in 1967? Answer Wimbledon

35. Question No:10 Bonus Menu • Steve Brookstein was the first winner of which UK TV talent show? Answer The X-Factor

36. Round Four Geography

37. Question No:1 Next • Apart from water, what runs through the mouth of the River Amazon and Lake Victoria? Answer The Equator

38. Question No:2 Next • Which country was previously called Abyssinia? Answer Ethiopia

39. Question No:3 Next • The largest policeman’s beat (territory) in Europe is in which country? Answer Scotland

40. Question No:4 Next • The cities of Cairo (in Egypt) and Fez (in Morocco) are generally accepted to have the oldest of what type of institution in the world? Answer University

41. Question No:5 Next • Where would you find the Queen Alexandra, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Maud mountain ranges? Answer Antarctica

42. Question No:6 Next • What the most southerly city: • Toronto • Seattle • Budapest • Or Bordeaux? Answer Toronto

43. Question No:7 Next • In what town in England would you find the first iron bridge ever built? Answer Ironbridge

44. Question No:8 Next • What Central American country’s name means ‘many fish’? Answer Panama

45. Question No:9 Next • As at 2006, which capital city has the highest population? Answer Tokyo (circa 34 Million)

46. Question No:10 Menu Bonus • What is the largest country in the world? Answer Russia

47. Round Five History of the 20th Century

48. Question No:1 Next • Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston USA in 1992 aged 103, was the last survivor of what? Answer The Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

49. Question No:2 Next • The British publisher Ján Ludvik Hoch (born 10th June 1923) was better known by which name? Answer Robert Maxwell

50. Question No:3 Next • Who (pictured left) became US President after Herbert Hoover? Answer Franklin D Roosevelt (1933)