The following questions have been asked on popular game shows including, The Chase, Bullseye and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
91 Questions
Not a lot of people know this but which actors real name is Maurice Micklewhite? | Michael Caine |
Who is the founder of the Virgin Empire? | Richard Branson |
Which famous couple met on the set of the film 'Cleopatra'? | Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor |
Which country did Paddington Bear come from? | Peru |
Which Country is said to be in the shape of a boot? | Italy |
Which Country's Cars carr the registration letters CH? | Switzerland |
Which American sporting event was first won by the Green Bay Packers in 1966? | Super Bowl |
Which sport involves a combination of cross country running and map reading? | Orienteering |
Which League football team became known as the Milton Keynes Dons in 2004? | Wimbledon |
Which Dale Winton TV Quiz Show was set in a shop? | Supermarket Sweep |
Which Coronation Street character has been in the soap from the beginning? | Ken Barlow |
What was the name of the Coffee Shop where TV's 'Friends' used to meet? | Centrel Perk |
What stopped being free for Primary School Children in 1971? | Milk |
Which colour are the seats in the House of Commons? | Green |
What did the Ecology Party change its name to in the 1980's? | The Green Party |
Which War took place between 1956 and 1975? | The Vietnam War |
Which two houses took part in the War of the Roses? | York and Lancaster |
In which Lane did the Great Fire of London begin? | Pudding Lane |
Who was Edgar Rice Burrough’s most famous creation? | Tarzan |
Name the three Bronte Sisters? | Emily, Charlotte and Anne |
Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'? | Herman Melville |
What is a Tsunami more commonly known as? | Tidal Wave |
What name is given to the Chinese Art of paper folding? | Origami |
Which drink is names after the town Jerez in Spain? | Sherry |
How often does a British Census take place? | Every 10 years |
What colour is the Central Line on a London Underground Map? | Red |
Which town in Greater Manchester gives its name to a rounded pastry with a dried fruit filling? | Eccles |
What does the ‘T’ stand for in the trade union TSSA? | Transport |
Who had a 1970’s number one album with ‘Sing it again Rod’? | Rod Stewart |
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize for which novel? | The Grapes Of Wrath |
A Zony is half Pony and half what other animal? | Zebra |
Who wrote the classical piano trio called ‘The Ghost’? | Beethoven |
In Newspaper announcements, ‘Obit’ is short for what? | Obituary |
Frank Bruno lost to Mike Tyson twice in what Nevada City? | Las Vegas |
‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ was a number one for what band? | The Verve |
Radar was developed before and during what war? | World War Two |
Cardinal Wolsey appears in what Shakespeare play? | Henry the Eighth |
Which TV Network owns digital channels 4Seven and More4? | Channel 4 |
The song 'Take A Chance On Me' features in what stage musical? | Mamma Mia! |
What party did Winston Churchill rejoin in the 1920s? | Conservative Party |
What former home of the Earl of Shrewsbury is a Staffordshire amusement park? | Alton Towers |
The play 'Black Coffee' featured what Agatha Christie detective? | Hercule Poirot |
Which TOWIE star presented Party Wright Around the World on ITV2? | Mark Wright |
What word for a camera image comes from the Greek for 'light' and 'draw’? | Photograph |
Which PG Wodehouse character belonged to the Junior Ganymede Club for valets? | Jeeves |
The 1921 Treaty of Ankara was between France and what other Country? | Turkey |
Since 1979 the US have competed against what team for the Ryder Cup? | Europe |
What modern day Country was formerly known as Mesopotamia? | Iraq |
What is the capital of Jamaica? | Kingston |
Which Country has the biggest coastline? | Canada |
In what film did Russell Crowe play Maximus Decimus Meridius? | Gladiator |
For which role did Robert De Niro receive his first Oscar? | Don Vito Corleone (The Godfather) |
Which of the Spice Girls was the first to become a mother? | Mel B |
What popular Swimwear Manufacturer, whose name has become synonymous with racing briefs, was established in 1914? | Speedo |
What actress has the same name as William Shakespeare's Wife? | Anne Hathaway |
Who became ruler of North Korea in 1994? | Kim Jong-il |
Counter Tenor is the lowest type of Male singing voice? True or False? | |
What architect designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Guggenheim Bilbao and Experience Music Project? | Frank Gehry |
Which Agatha Christie murder mystery novel takes place on a cruise ship? | Death on the Nile |
What do the text messages LOL, IDK and TTYL stand for? | Laugh(ing) Out Loud, I Don’t Know and Talk To You Later |
In Cockney rhyming slang what does tom mean? | Jewellery (Tom is short for tomfoolery which rhymes with Jewellery) |
What mythological creature is also the name given to one who posts controversial or irrelevant messages in an online community? | Troll |
A deficiency of which vitamin can lead to night blindness? | Vitamin A |
How many chambers make up the heart – two, three or four? | Four |
A Venn diagram is created by drawing what overlapping geometric shapes? | Circles |
In 2003 which Country became only the third, after the US and Russia, to send its own person into space? | China |
In what body part would you suffer Astigmatism? | Eye |
If a player is at advantage in a game of tennis loses the next point, what is the score? | Deuce |
How long in feet is a tournament size snooker table? | 12 |
In which combined events contest did British athlete Jessica Ennis become World Champion in 2009? | Heptathlon |
The art of knotting string or card in patterns to make decorative articles is known as what? | Macrame |
With which team did Lewis Hamilton become Formula 1 World Champion in 2008? | MaLaren |
The Piedmont Wine Region is located in – France, Italy or the United States? | Italy |
Wiki, as in Wikipedia, means ‘fast’ in what language? | Hawaiian |
What is the largest African Country? | Sudan |
Which of these films does not star Ben Stiller – Dodgeball, The Wedding Singer or Night at the Museum? | The Wedding Singer |
Who played Simon Pegg’s flatmate and best friend, Ed, in the 2004 British zombie comedy film Shaun of the Dead? | Nick Frost |
What animal appears on the front of a box of | Cockeral |
New Zealand was first inhabited by people approximately how many years ago – 1,000, 5,000 or 10,000? | 1000 |
In what year did pupils sit O-Level examinations for the last time in the UK? | 1987 |
Who did Gordon Brown defeat to become Labour Party leader and Prime Minister in 2007? | No One |
Soldiers of the United Nations peacekeeping forces wear berets of what colour? | Blue |
The award-winning Swiss Re building in the City of London, designed by Norman Foster, is commonly known by what name? | The Gherkin |
Which Legendary Irish Hero is said to have built the Giant’s Causeway and lived in a cave on the island of Staffa? | Finn Mac Cool or Fingal |
In the SI system of units, which prefix is used to denote one thousand millionth of one unit? | Nano |
Which Actor plays Withnail’s Uncle Monty in the cult 1987 film comedy ‘Withnail and I’? | Richard Griffiths |
Which City lies on the River Usk, a few miles above its entry into the Severn Estuary? | Newport |
Which Author based his stories about the Spy Ashendenon his experiences in the British Secret Service during the First World War? | (William) Somerset Maugham |
The dried leaves of which plant that is the only member of the genus Lawsonia produce a red-orange dye that has been used since ancient times for body art and hair dye? | Henna |
At the Grammy’s in 2012, which British Singer won all six awards for which she was nominated? | Adele (Adkins) |
Which Country’s ‘perpetual neutrality’ was recognised at the congress of Vienna, in 1815? | Switzerland (accept Swiss Confederate – its name at the time) |
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