RINGWOOD BOWLING CLUB PRESENTATION NIGHT QUIZ 21st OCTOBER 2016
ALPHABET QUIZ
As explained on your answer sheet, there are 26 questions in this round and each
answer begins with successive letters of the alphabet; where the answer consists of
more than one word, each word starts with that letter.
1. What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara
2. Paraguay is one of only two landlocked countries in South America; what’s the
other?
Bolivia
3. Which animal is the logo of the clothing company Lacoste?
Crocodile
4. Which character in the children’s stories by Hugh Lofting lives in Oxenthorpe Rd,
Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England?
Doctor Dolittle
5. Which studio produced a series of classic British comedy films including ‘The
Titfield Thunderbolt’, ‘Passport to Pimlico’ and ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’?
Ealing
6. What was the Cape in the 1962 film with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum and
the 1991 remake with Robert DeNiro and Nick Nolte?
Fear
7. Which author’s novels include “Brighton Rock”, “Our Man In Havana” and “The
Third Man”?
Graham Greene
8. In which city is the only Royal Palace in the USA?
Honolulu
9. In which country was Spike Milligan born?
India
10. Which island holds an annual Battle of Flowers during August?
Jersey
RINGWOOD BOWLING CLUB PRESENTATION NIGHT QUIZ 21st OCTOBER 2016
11. What was the name of David Hasselhoff's talking car in Knight Rider?
Kitt
12. What was the surname of Margot and Gerry, Tom and Barbara Good’s
neighbours in The Good Life?
Leadbetter
13. In the TV commercial, which product ‘loves the jobs you hate’?
Mister Muscle
14. In Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, what was the name of Captain
Nemo’s vessel?
Nautilus
15. What was the name of the Grouch in the Muppet TV series Sesame Street?
Oscar
16. Charlotte, Desirée and Rooster are types of what?
Potato
17. Which range of hills west of Bridgwater in Somerset was England's first Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty?
Quantocks
18. Of which novel are these the opening words: ‘Last night I dreamt I went to
Manderley again.’
Rebecca
19. Which children’s cartoon character lives in a pineapple in Bikini Bottom?
Spongebob Squarepants
20. What word describes an ornithology enthusiast who travels long distances to
see a rare bird that would then be ticked or counted on a list?
Twitcher
21. Which is the second largest lake in the English Lake District?
Ullswater
22. On which planet was Mr Spock born?
Vulcan
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23. In 1944, a woman named Helen Duncan was the last case of a female being
tried and convicted in the U.K. for what crime, under a 1735 British Act of
Parliament?
Witchcraft
24. The name of which American business services and document technology
corporation has been assimilated into US English and used to mean ‘photocopy’?
Xerox
25. What is the name of the skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer)?
Yarmulka
26. Of which African country is Lusaka the capital?
Zambia