Creation Christmas Quiz
7th Dec 2009
Think you can beat the 'Santamentals'? Have a go at the Creation Agency Christmas Quiz!
Geography
- Which south coast holiday town became a city to celebrate the millennium?
- Which US state includes the picturesquely-named Rat Islands?
- Which fashionable area of NYC takes its name from being in the Triangle Below Canal Street?
- Which country should you visit to see the ruins of Machu Picchu?
- What is the only geographical feature depicted on a London Underground map?
- What must all postage stamps of the world bear, except Britain?
- Which country boasts a third of the world’s fresh water?
- What country are you in if you’re sitting on a sofa in Sofia?
- What was England’s first garden city?
- Which city was at the other end of the original Orient Express route from Istanbul?
Entertainment
- Which movie hears Renee Zellweger tell a phone caller she’s: (A) wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between her thighs?
- Who’s the former Dr Who who narrates Little Britain?
- Who became known as a singer after playing naughty Emma in Home and Away?
- Which rock start survived for two years on meatloaf, mashed potato and tomatoes?
- Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
- What was the first animated TV sitcom?
- Which comedian played Eric Gartside in Coronation Street?
- Which sci-fi movie starring Jude Law was inherited by Steven Spielberg from Stanley Kubrick?
- Who was the first winner of Celebrity Come Dancing?
- What colour fills in the bits between the white stripes of fishy cartoon hero Nemo?
History
- What were 35 million people in Britain issued with in 1938?
- Which former Rock came second to Joe Pasquale in I’m a celeb?
- What did Britons spend a record £5bn on in 2003?
- What went down in 1545 that came back up in 1982?
- Which of Henry VIII’s wives could have been burned as a witch for having 11 fingers and 3 nipples if adultery charges had failed?
- Whose private parts did a lawyer claim had: No blemishes, no moles and no growths?
- What were young people said to be buying less of, according to a 1998 report, due to the Jeremy Clarkson effect?
- What came down in 1989 after 29 years?
- Which decade saw the pound note replaced by the pound coin?
- What did Coca-Cola call their bottled water which flowed from taps in Sidcup, Kent?
Art & Literature
- Which model partner of a rock star appeared naked in The Graduate and had her breasts described as: Two fried eggs in the gloaming?
- Which West End stage version of a top movie was hyped: Drop Everything?
- Which LA Lakers basketball star gave his name to a Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s track?
- What was originally launched as Britain’s first daily newspaper for women?
- What joins Aries and Leo to make the three fire signs?
- What was Dr Jekyll’s first name?
- Which artist was shot the day before Robert Kennedy was assassinated?
- What is the literary link between racecar, madam and kayak?
- Which Shakespeare play title should never be spoken backstage in a theatre?
- Which annual sold its 100 millionth copy in 2003?
Science & Nature
- What does IBM stand for?
- What was Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk the first town in the world to have a park bench with free access to?
- What expensive spice is properly called crocus sativus?
- What are you afraid of getting stuck to the roof of your mouth if you suffer from arachibutyrophobia?
- What is the world’s most widely used stimulant?
- What does a male barnacle have that’s larger than any other creature’s in relation to its size?
- What was the first Earth-orbiting telescope?
- How many digits has a standard bar code?
- What did a 2005 report say the average woman has 15.3 hours of that men only need to do for 12.2 hours?
- What colour is the first G on the standard Google logo?
Sport & Leisure
- What soft fruit is David Beckham said to have a birthmark in the shape of?
- What made international headlines when it got stuck as it rose above Sydney in 2000?
- Name the entire 2004 British Olympic Boxing team?
- Which football supremo said: I wasn’t the best manager in the business but I was in the top one?
- Which famous work of art was draped in an Alan Shearer number 9 shirt in 1998?
- What is the final event of the decathlon?
- Which football club won the Carling Cup in 2004, their first major trophy in their 128-year history?
- Who was the first player to score 200 Premiership goals?
- What colourful book was advertised on TV by Terry Venables, Bobby Robson and Graham Taylor?
- Who became the youngest ever snooker world champion at the age of 21 years 106 days in 1990?
Published by
Peter Smith, B2B Solutions Director
peter@creationagency.com, 07764 898007
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