Momentous Moments Quiz
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Together for Short Lives is the leading UK charity for all children with life-threatening and life-limiting
conditions and all those who support, love and care for them. We support families, professionals
and services, including children’s hospices. Our work helps to ensure that children can get the best
possible care, wherever and whenever they need it.
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fancy. One of our focuses is making every moment count to highlight how precious time is for families
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seven entertaining rounds on the theme of moments. The quiz features a mixture of easy and hard
questions and is the perfect way for friends, family and colleagues to get together and raise money to
support children who may not reach adulthood and their families.
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Round 1
Momentous Sporting Moments
1. Which commentator famously said ‘some people are on the pitch.
They think it’s all over....it is now’?
2. Name the three British gold medal winners who took glory at
London 2012 Olympics within the space of an hour on Super
Saturday?
3. Who dropped kicked England to Rugby World Cup glory in 2003?
4. Which horse famously did the splits at the 1956 Grand National
just before the winning post?
5. Who bowled the ball of the century to remove Mike Gatting during
the 1993 Ashes series with his first ever ball against England?
6. Who recorded the first 147 break at the World Snooker
Championships in 1983?
7. In what year did Lewis Hamilton win his first World Championship,
becoming the youngest Formula One champion in history at that
time?
8. Which two pugilists fought the iconic Rumble in the Jungle in
1974?
9. Who won Sports Personality of the Year in 2006, 35 years after her
mother won the same award?
10. Which golfer holed the winning put to give Europe victory in the
2014 Ryder Cup?
Round 2
Map the Moment
1. The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed and buried by the
eruption of which volcano in 79 AD?
2. In which famous London landmark did the wedding ceremony of
Prince William and Catherine Middleton take place in 2011?
3. What is the name of the peace treaty that was signed in 1919,
formally ending the First World War conflict between Germany and
the Western Allies?
4. Which country was the first to give women the vote in 1893?
5. In which year did the Panama Canal, a key conduit for international
maritime trade, officially open?
6. Conchita Wurst, the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner, hailed
from which country?
7. In what year was the demolition of the Berlin wall, that cut off West
Berlin from surrounding East Germany and East Berlin, completed?
8. Former South African president Nelson Mandela spent the first 18
years of his 27 year sentence in which jail?
9. In what year did Hawaii and Alaska become the 49th and 50th US
states?
10. Which country was the first to celebrate the Millennium?
A) Kiribati B) Fiji C) New Zealand
Round 3
Moments in Print
1. Audrey Hepburn famously became ‘My Fair Lady’ in the film of the
same name, but which play was this adapted from?
2. What ‘E’ is the term for an awakening, arrival at an understanding,
or a moment of great personal change in literature?
3. Which book won the Man Booker prize for fiction in 2014?
4. And they all lived happily ever after... how many fairy tales,
collected by the Brothers Grimm, have been published since 1812?
A) 46 B)109 C) 211
5. The moment Shakespeare’s Macbeth begins his descent into
tragedy is when he is made Thane of...?
6. Who was Time Magazine’s surprising ‘Man of the Year’ in 1939?
7. In what year did the News of the World publish its last issue?
8. What is the name of the convict who famously reveals himself to
be Pip’s true benefactor in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations?
9. Which character breaks the momentous news ‘You’re a wizard
Harry’ in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?
10. What was the top trending hashtag of 2014?
A) #ICantBreathe B) #IceBucketChallenge
C) #BringBackOurGirls
Round 4
Mmmm Moments
1. What is the main ingredient of the Polish soup Borscht?
2. What year was the Iceland horse meat scandal?
3. Who first brought the potato to the UK?
4. Stollen is traditionally eaten at Christmas time, what is it?
5. Who was the Pavlova named after?
6. Who said ‘Let them eat cake’?
7. How big was the largest pizza spun in 2 minutes?
A) 33.2inch B) 55inch C) 27.1inch D) 40.4inch
8. Who threw their Baked Alaska in the bin in The Great British Bake
Off 2014?
9. Who were Anzac biscuits originally made for?
10. In which city was Sacher-Torte originally made?
Round 5
Musical Moments
1. What year did Elvis join the army?
2. What did the record buying public call Prince when he changed his
name to an unpronounceable symbol?
3. Who won the first series of X Factor in 2004?
4. Which 1960 Chubby Checker song became a national dance
craze?
5. Which duo was exposed as a fraud in 1990 after admitting they
had never sung on their records?
6. Who in 1971 scored his first solo hit with ‘Got to be there’ at the
tender age of 13?
7. What year did Elton John release Candle in the Wind?
8. Which German group laid the groundwork for electronic pop with
the release of hit song ‘Autobahn’ in 1975?
9. What was the title of the Blur track that beat Oasis’ single ‘Roll
With It’ to number one in what was dubbed the battle of Britpop in
1995?
10. What year did James Corden cut Adele off during her acceptance
speech for the Album of the Year Award at The BRITs?
Round 6
Moments in Time
1. In what year was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?
2. Who was the leader of the British movement for female suffrage
but died in 1928 just before full voting rights were granted?
3. How did King John sign the Magna Carta in 1215?
A) A quill signature B) A royal wax seal C) A thumbprint
4. Which former American President left behind an immortal souvenir,
the teddy, which was named after him?
5. As well as being the first woman mayor in England, Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify in which profession?
A) Doctor B) Lawyer C) Surgeon
6. Who was the first King of England?
7. Who pioneered vaccination as a means of inoculating against
smallpox?
8. In which country was the world’s first female Prime Minister elected
in 1960?
9. The iconic soft drink Coca Cola was invented by pharmacist John
Pemberton in what year?
10. In what year did Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become
the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
A)1951 B)1953 C)1958
Round 7
Moments on Screen
1. What building in New York City does King Kong famously climb
on?
2. Who created the Channel 4 TV series Black Mirror?
3. In the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horse, what famously smashed
on the floor during the episode ‘A Touch of Glass’
4. The American sitcom Frasier is a spinoff of what popular show that
ended in 1993?
5. What film does the quote ‘We’re gonna to need a bigger boat’
come from?
6. What magazine did William Thacker (Hugh Grant) pretend to
represent in Notting Hill?
7. What is the name of the Thai island where The Beach was filmed?
8. How many hours does Aron Ralston (James Franco) spend
trapped in a cave in the film with the same name?
9. What film is based on the life of American football player Michael
Oher?
10. What did Chandler and Monica name their twins in Friends?
Answers
Round 1: Momentous Sporting Moments
Round 5: Musical Moments
1. Kenneth Wolstenholme (1)
2. Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford & Mo Farah (1)
3. Jonny Wilkinson (1)
4. Devon Loch (1)
5. Shane Warne (1)
6. Cliff Thorburn (1)
7. 2008 (1)
8. Muhammad Ali & George Foreman (1)
9. Zara Phillips (1)
10. Jamie Donaldson (1)
1. 1958 (1)
2. The Artist Formally Known as Prince (1)
3. Steve Brookstein (1)
4. The Twist (1)
5. Millie Vanilli (1)
6. Michael Jackson (1)
7. 1997 (1)
8. Kraftwerk (1)
9. Country House (1)
10. 2012 (1) Round 2: Map the Moment
Round 6: Moments in Time
1. Mount Vesuvius (1)
2. Westminster Abbey (1)
3. The Treaty of Versailles (1)
4. New Zealand (1)
5. 1914 (1)
6. Austria (1)
7. 1992 (demolition began in 1990) (1)
8. Robben Island prison (1)
9. 1959 (1)
10. Kiribati (1) Round 3: Moments in Print
1. Pygmalion (1)
2. Epiphany (1)
3. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1)
4. 211 (1)
5. Cawdor (1)
6. Adolph Hitler (1)
7. 2011 (1)
8. Magwitch (1)
9. Hagrid (1)
10. #ICantBreathe (1)
Round 4: Mmmm Moments
1. Beetroot (1)
2. 2013 (1)
3. Sir Walter Raleigh (1)
4. Fruit cake with marzipan inside (1)
5. Anna Pavlova (1)
6. Marie Antoinette (1)
7. 33.2inch (1)
8. Iain Watters (1)
9. Anzac biscuits were originally made to send to
the ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army
Corps) (1)
10. Vienna (1) 1. 1963 (1)
2. Emmeline Pankhurst (1)
3. A royal wax seal (1)
4. Theodore Roosevelt (1)
5. Doctor (1)
6. King Alfred (the Great) (1)
7. Edward Jenner (1)
8. Sri Lanka (or Ceylon as it was then – the
woman in question being Mrs Sirimavo
Bandaranaike) (1)
9. 1886 (1)
10. 1953 (1) Round 7: Moments on Screen
1. Empire State Building (1) 2. Charlie Brooker (1) 3. Chandelier (1) 4. Cheers (1) 5. Jaws (1) 6. Horse and Hound (1) 7. Koh Phi Phi (1) 8. 127 hours( 1) 9. The Blind Side (1) 10. Erica and Jack (1) Answer Sheet
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Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Momentous Sporting Moments
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Map the Moment
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Moments in Print
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Round 4
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Round 5
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Round 6
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Round 7
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Moments in Time
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