Quiz Night

The Quiz Master put on a pretty tough show this evening for the Club's annual Quiz Night. 4 rounds battled out by 6 teams lubricated with a wide range of drinks were tonight's fayre and a pretty close run thing it was too.

Why don't you have a go?

Cakes and Confectionary:

Scene for a famous mutiny
Dusty coastal plain less than 30 miles from Athens that ended up lending its name to a
chocolate bar
Who reputedly said 'let them eat cake' when told that the populace was revolting over
their lack of bread
Family name at the time of his birth of a member of the Royal Family assassinated in 1979
How is Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte commonly known in this country
Where are Whipple-Scrumptious-Fudgemallow-Delights produced
'All because the lady loves __________' Please give one of two possible answers
Which British city is the home of chocolate-makers Rowntrees & Terrys
London Routemaster is the most famous ….
To what piece of music does David Bowie fall to Earth in the film of that name
Whose bite from a small cake - a madeleine - revived his childhood experiences and provoked
him to spend the rest of his life writing a huge novel based on his recollections
Portuguese-owned territory in the Atlantic …Original home of Christiano Ronaldo
Having completed two starters, a main course and several pints of lager what did Phil Lion
consume 36 of at the 2004 FCC Annual Dinner
Subject of a 1991 Court Case to decide whether it's a cake or a biscuit
Top-class urban thoroughfare

Sports Injuries and Illness

Bone in the foot broken by David Beckham & Wayne Rooney prior to the last two World Cups
NBA star who announced that he had contracted HIV in 1991 and temporarily retired before
returning to play in the 'Dreamteam' at the 1992 Olympics
Talismanic Australian who stepped on a cricket ball during a game of touch-rugby and
arguably lost the 2005 Ashes
Who recovered from cancer to ride to victory in the 1981 Grand National
The injury-prone horse on which he rode
Who 'dropped for World Cup Glory' in 2003 but hardly played for club or country for the next
three years
In what circumstances was Herbert Jones seriously injured in the 1913 Derby
What did Canadian snooker player Bill Werbenuik drink during matches to counteract benign
familial tremor
Whose tackle ended the career of footballer Alf Inger Harland
Glasgow-born top ten player who missed this month's French Open due to injury
Having been hit under the heart and seen a team-mate hit in the head, who famously
proclaimed that only one team was playing cricket in the 1932-3 Ashes series
Which member of the 1966 World Cup winning side had undergone an operation for cancer the
previous year
400m runner whose hamstring snapped in a heat at the Barcelona Olympics and who was helped
to the finishing-line by his father
Whose battle against illness is recorded in his book 'It's not about the bike'
Number of Indian batsmen absent hurt in second innings of 1976 Jamaica test

Numbers

What is the next number …. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21____
Distance in hours of Gene Pitney from Tulsa
In Shakespeare play how may daughters did King Lear have
Including current one how many Big Brother series (ignore Celebrity version)
Value of Mayfair on a Monopoly Board
How many individual scores in test cricket between 350 and 400 inclusive
Cube root of 512
How many Benedicts before the current Pope
Age of the Earth according to Creationists (10% leeway)
How many King Williams so far in English history
1994 Film starring Morgan Freeman & Brad Pitt
Motorway linking London and Reading
If all 10 wickets fall clean bowled to the first ten balls of an innings
which batsman is not out
Number of minutes for light from the sun to reach the Earth
Answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything

Asia

Lake holding 20% of world's freshwater
City served by Chattrapathi Shivaji International Airport
Cricket stadium devastated by Tsunami
Only Carry On film set in Asia
World's leading golfer is half American, half ______
Colonial name of Myanmar
Location of Petronas Towers
World's most heavily-armed frontier divides which two countries
Miss Malaysia 1984, Bond Girl, Geisha and most recently astronaut
Oscar-nominated Bollywood epic about a cricket match between British Army
and Indian villagers
Kazan - Perm - Yekaterinberg - Omsk …. Which railway
What draws tourists to the Chinese city of Xian
Ignoring countries with less than 50 million inhabitants, which is the planet's
most densely populated country
Great Pakistan batsman only ever out once LBW in a home test over
17 year period
President of Afghanistan