one of the rounds is likely to be a “name these spaceships” picture round

I would totally play that.

@nbt

—Odd one out
John, Paul, George, Ringo
Ringo. It’s not his real name / he’s not an original Beatle.

Trapezium, Rhombus, Rectangle, Pentagon
Pentagon, the others all have four sides.

Exeter, Southampton, Truro, Taunton
Geography isn’t my bag. Are the all in the same county bar Taunton?

Lake District, Wye Valley, Norfolk Broads, Peak District
Presumably one of the middle two isn’t a national park. Dunno which.

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars
Venus, it has no moons.

Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, George Clooney
Bradd Pitt hasn’t played Batman.

Who is older – Gary Oldman, or Gary Numan?

How many lakes are there in the Lake District.

—General Knowledge
Which General commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until the end of the war? He shares his name with a brand of Irish Whiskey advertised by David Beckham.
General HAIG

Who was the Argentine leader at the outbreak of the Falklands War?
General GALTIERI.

Which general lead his army across the Alps together with elephants?
HANNIBAL.

Who led the Desert Rats during both Battles of El Alamein in July and October / November of 1942?
General MONTGOMERY (later Field Marshall, will accept this)

General Custer is famous for Custer’s Last Stand – at which battle did this take place?
BATTLE OF LITTLE BIGHORN

General Alfred Jodl signed the official surrender on behalf of the Germans in which French city?
REIMS

—Odd one out
John, Paul, George, Ringo
Ringo, not christened by that name

Trapezium, Rhombus, Rectangle, Pentagon
Pentagon as it has 5 sides

Exeter, Southampton, Truro, Taunton
Southampton is NOT a county town

Lake District, Wye Valley, Norfolk Broads, Peak District
Wye Valley, not a national park

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars
Venus has no moons

Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, George Clooney
PITT – The other three have all played Batman.

—VE Day
Although we celebrate VE Day on May 8th, on what date was the official surrender signed?
May 7th 1945.

Which London church held ten consecutive services on VE Day in 1945 attended by thousands of people?
St Paul’s Cathedral.

How many appearances did the Royal Family make on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on VE Day?
Eight.

Which two members of the Royal Family were allowed to mingle with the crowds on VE Day incognito?
Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret.

What were published and broadcast once again after VE Day having been classified as “Top Secret” during the war?
Weather Forecasts.

Although VE Day marked the end of the war in Europe, the UK still had rationing in force. In what year did food rationing finally end?
1954

—Music
Which brother and sister are the only ones to have achieved separate number one singles?
Daniel & Natasha Bedingfield.

What piece of machinery did Nizlopi sing about in 2005?
A JCB [The JCB Song].

Three all-girl groups had Three number 1 records in 1998. Spice Girls and All Saints were two, who was the third?
B*Witched

From which musical does the song “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair” come?
South Pacific.

Which school had a number one with “There’s no one quite like Grandma”?
St. Winifreds.

Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield are better known as which famous “Brothers”?
The Righteous Brothers

—General Knowledge
Which is the only European mainland country that shares a time zone with the United Kingdom and Ireland?
PORTUGAL.

Who sculpted the famous statue commonly known as “The Kiss”?
RODIN.

In the children’s song, which bell says “You owe me five farthings”?
ST MARTINS.

Who in 1963 became the first woman in space?
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA.

Where on a horse would you find it’s frog?
ON IT’S HOOF.

By law, what is banned in Japanese restaurants?
TIPPING

—Books & Literature
What was the pen name of author Eric Blair?
George Orwell.

Which Agatha Christie novel is the first to feature Miss Marple?
The Murder at the Vicarage.

In which fictional village did Rupert Bear and his friends live?
Nutwood.

Who had a companion named Sancho Panza?
Don Quixote.

What is the name of Hook’s ship in “Peter Pan”?
The Jolly Roger.

What was the name of the school boy who featured in the novels by Richmal Crompton?
[Just] William.

—Quiz Link
Who made her film debut in A Room With A View and has been married to Kenneth Branagh?
Helena Bonham CARTER

What’s the common name for the Australian outback?
BUSH

Having been rescued from adminstration in 2012, which UK card shop again went into administration in 2019 before being rescued in December?
CLINTON’s Cards

What is the name of the airport which serves Washington DC?
Ronald REAGAN airport

Which car manufacturer produced the Prefect?
FORD

What is the link between the previous five questions?
ALL AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

—True or False
All horses competing in Olympic equestrian events must be the same nationality as their rider.
TRUE.

For 238 years between 1311 and 1549, the tallest building in the world was Lincoln Cathedral ?
TRUE.

Orville Wright, the first man to fly, was still alive when Charles Yeager piloted the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound?
TRUE.(Orville Wright (1871-1948) and Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947)

The British decimal twenty pence coin was introduced into circulation before the British pound coin?
TRUE.(20p coin – 9 June 1982, pound coin – 21 April 1983)

The logo of SPAR stores is the fir tree because the word ‘spar’ in dutch means ‘fir’?
TRUE.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman was actually born in the USA?
TRUE.(in Hawaii)

@Cougar – good effort!

… presumably with your Odd One Out rounds, you’d allow as correct any justifiable answer? Like, Paul is the odd one out because he’s the only Beatle to play left-handed.

Fun sinister fact here incidentally: Paul plays lefty but is actually right-handed; Ringo is the other way around, he’s left-handed and plays on a kit configured for a right-hander.

Who is older – Gary Oldman, or Gary Numan?

I believe I know this thanks to it cropping up on an Internet meme. Numan is older.

“Funnel or Tunnel” 🤣🤣🤣

I can’t breathe!

Haig whisky is Scotch

Is “Scotch” an autocorrect fail from “shit”?

(You’re right though, nice catch)

Is “Scotch” an autocorrect fail from “shit”?

Racist

For our last movie round, I just picked three characters from 10 movies, and folks had to guess the movie.

1 Andy Dufreyne,Ellis Boyd Redding,Warden Norton
2 Andy,Woody,Sid
3 Bruce Wayne,Joker,Harvey Dent
4 Pumpkin,Honey Bunny,Jules Winnfield
5 Jenny Curran,Bubba Blue,Lieutenant Dan Taylor
6 Neo ,Morpheus,Trinity
7 Clarice Starling,Jack Crawford,Barney
8 Zazu,Nala,Scar
9 George Bailley,Mary Hatch,Clarence
10 R.P McMurphy,Nurse Ratched,Chief Bromden

For a good quiz, 80% of folk will get 80%, 15% / 90%, and 5% / 100%

I think I know all of those bar #5 and #9.

… and having googled them, I should’ve known #5. Cool idea, I like that.

Think I know all bar #10 and I can guess that I think? – quick google shows yes I guessed right. NIce idea

good catch on the whisky

and as for right answer / wrong reason etc – you need the answer written down by the quizmaster. If you’re arsey about having another answer that is also correct, you get nowt, if you’re nice about it then quizmaster may allow it at their discretion

Nothing worse than a quizmaster who refuses to admit they’re wrong. 😝

Which company manufactures the most tyres?

Lego.

What gets wetter as it dries?

A towel

What is the unit of measurement for your shoes? Ie. Size 9 is 9 whats?

Barleycorn (which is also a third of an inch)

Which company manufactures the most tyres?

That I knew. The number of minifigs exceeded the population of the Earth a year or two back also, IIRC.

What is the unit of measurement for your shoes? Ie. Size 9 is 9 whats?

That I did not and it’s rather cool.

You’re saying my shoes are 10 barleycorns long, so 10* 1/3 of an inch?

I dispute that

How did it go?

The which is furthest west was the one that caught everyone out.
Edinburgh,Cardiff or Liverpool.
Put in a couple of my own..name the false band
Hatfield and the north
Tontos expanding hat band
Gaye bakers on acid
Lesbian dopeheads on mopeds * (I know they were gboa but I bet they aren’t know by more than a handful of people)
Half man half biscuit
What event happened on the 19th of September 1999 that won’t occur again until 1st of january 3111?

Did a weekly quiz in lockdown and took turns in preparing rounds. Here’s one of mine based on the shipping forecast.

1. Which radio station is the Shipping Forecast broadcast on? R4
2. What is the name of the renowned light orchestral piece of music played just before last broadcast on Radio at 0048? Sailing By.
3. Cromarty, Forth, Tyne and Shannon are forecast areas named after what? Rivers
4. Which forecast area shares a name with a small island in the Bristol Channel? Lundy
5. And which forecast area shares a name with person who undertakes a somewhat dubious pastime in car parks at night? Dogger.
6. The forecast provides wind speed using the Beaufort scale. What number does this scale go up to? And for a bonus point, what is it described as? Force 12 Hurricane.
7. Two of the areas are named after famous port towns on the south coast. A point for either. Dover and Plymouth.
8. Britpop band Blur famously included the lyrics “On the Tyne, Forth and Cromarty. There’s a low in the high Forties” in their song “This is a Low”, but on which 1994 album did it feature? Parklife
9. Faeroes is the second most northerly shipping forecast area (but you all knew that). But which football team did the Faroe Islands beat in 2014 and again in 2015 who were the previous European Champions from 2004? Greece
10. A recording of part of the forecast is played over the opening and closing credits of which famous chef’s TV programme? Rick Stein.

which is furthest west was the one that caught everyone out.
Edinburgh,Cardiff or Liverpool.

That’s nasty, cos there’s bog all between all three of them.

You’re saying my shoes are 10 barleycorns long, so 10* 1/3 of an inch?

I dispute that

its the increment between sizes  – so a size 9 is one barleycorn longer than a a size 8, not 9 barleycorns long. And don’t forget you go through all the kids shoe sizes before the scale starts again for adult shoes.

which is furthest west was the one that caught everyone out.
Edinburgh,Cardiff or Liverpool.

which is furthest west – Inverness or Swansea?

How many lakes are there in the Lake District

One. Bassenthwaite Lake.

Also one in Scotland (Lake of Mentieth)

https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/55.94948,-2.59910,18/pin

Which company is the biggest toy retailer in the world?

Fair point Scotroutes, you have to qualify the Scotland one with “excluding man-made reservoirs…”

Which company is the biggest toy retailer in the world?

Maccy Ds