QUICK FIRE ROUND

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Aspen is from which family of trees?

2. In which continent did the monkey-puzzle tree originate?

3. In which country did the bonsai technique develop?

4. In which county is England's largest forest?

5. Is the wood of a coniferous tree hard or soft?

6. The teak is native to which continent?

7. Which garden tree with yellow flowers has poisonous seeds?

8. Which three coniferous trees are native to Britain?

9. Which tree do we get turpentine from?

10. Which tree's leaves are the symbol of The National Trust? 

ANSWERS

1. Poplar.

2. South America.

3. Japan.

4. Northumberland.

5. Soft.

6. Asia.

7. Laburnum.

8. Yew, Scots Pine, Juniper.

9. Pine.

10. Oak.

[THE FUGITIVE]

Which artist(s) performed the following flower power hits?
1. Dandelion

2. Carnation

3. Roses are Red (My Love)

4. Spanish Rose

5. Dead Flowers

6. Blue Orchid

7. Orchid

8. Tip Toe Thru the Tulips

9. Only the Black Rose

10. Hyacinth House

11. Scarlet Begonias 

ANSWERS

1. Rolling Stones

2. The Jam

3. Bobby Vinton

4. Van Morrison

5. Rolling Stones

6. White Stripes

7. Black Sabbath

8. Tiny Tim

9. Yardbirds

10. Doors

11. Grateful Dead 

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Which famous bear was created by Michael Bond?

2. What was the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee?

3. What was the name of Walt Disney's famous deer?

4. What was the name of the canine member of Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five'?

5. What was the name of the golden eagle which escaped from London Zoo in 1965?

6. What type of animal was the baby in the film 'Bringing Up Baby'?

7. Who rode a horse named Black Bess?

8. What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in 'Daktari'?

9. What was the name of Long John Silver's parrot?

10. What type of animal was 'Ben' in the film of the same name? 

ANSWERS

1. Paddington Bear

2. Cheta

3. Bambi

4. Timmy

5. Goldie

6. A leopard

7. Dick Turpin

8. Clarence

9. Captain Flint

10. A Rat

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's space capsule?

2. Which planet has a year which is shorter than its day?

3. What is the only sign of the Zodiac named after two living things?

4. What is the smallest planet in the Solar System?

5. What is the name of the largest constellation?

6. Ganymede and Io are moons of which planet?

7. What is the only sign of the Zodiac that is not named after a living creature?

8. Which theory states that the Universe was created after an explosion?

9. What type of creatures were Laska and Beny who went into space in 1958?

10. Who was the first American in space? 

11. Which planet is famed for its Canals?

12. What was the name of the US Space Shuttle which crashed during take-off in 1986?

13. Which is the largest asteroid in the solar system?

14. Which element makes up over 90% of the atoms in our galaxy?

15. What is the difference between meteors and meteorites?

16. With which planet do you associate the Cassini Division?

17. In 1986 which body within the solar system was explored by the European Giotto space probe?

18. Which planet, first discovered in 1930, takes 248 years to orbit the sun?

19. Triton and Nereid are satellites of which planet?

20. Which is the nearest star to the Earth, after the sun?

21. Who in 1965 became the first person to walk in Space?

22. According to the promotional trailers for the 1979 film Alien ? in space no one can hear you..? what?

23. The first space shuttle launch took place in April of which year?

24. Who had a top 10 hit with ?I?m the Urban Spaceman??

25. Who was the first woman in space?

26. What is the name of the spacecraft that landed on the moon in 1969?

27. Who directed the film 2001 ? a space odyssey?

28. According to the TV series Star Trek, what is space?

29. Which British born scientist in 1997 spent several months on the Russian spacecraft Mir?

30. Who was the first British female astronaut in space?

ANSWERS

1. Vostock 1

2. Venus

3. Gemini

4. Pluto

5. Hydra

6. Jupiter

7. Libra

8. The Big Bang Theory

9. Mice

10. John Glenn

11. Mars

12. Challenger

13. Ceres

14. Hydrogen

15. A meteorite is a meteor that has landed

16. Saturn (divisions in the rings)

17. Haley's Comet

18. Pluto

19. Neptune

20. Proxima Centuri

21. Alexy Leonov

22. Scream

23. 1981

24. Bonzo Dog Do Dah Band

25. Vantina Tereshkova

26. Apollo 11

27. Stanley Kubrick

28. The Final Frontier

29. Michael Foale

30. Helen Sharman

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What was the name of Dorothy?s dog in Wizard of Oz?

2. Chernuska was sent into space on what number Sputnick?

3. Whose Dog was called Dogmatix?

4. Einstein appeared in which film with Michael J Fox?

5. Which actor called his dog Indiana and his son Indy in a film?

6. In which vampire film do you meet a husky called Nanook?

7. Who had a cat called Mr Bigglesworth?

8. What was the name of the cat at the centre of a search in Men in Black?

9. Choo Choo & Benny are from which cartoon?

10. What is the name of Wallace?s dog? 

11. Which size of poodle comes between a standard and toy?

12. What is another name for a mountain lion?

13. Who wrote the music for cats?

14. How many canine teeth does a human have?

15. Which breed of dog was kept by monks in the alps to find lost travellers?

16. What was the name of the cat in the Alien films?

17. What is unusual about a manx cat?

18. Which is the largest of the great cats?

19. Which detective features in the story hound of the Baskervilles?

20. In which continent do jaguars live?

21. Who sang about, "Mad dogs and Englishmen going out in the midday sun?

ANSWERS

1. Toto

2. 9

3. Obelix

4. Back to the Future

5. Sean Connery in Indiana Jones & the last crusade

6. The lost Boys

7. Dr Evil in Austin Powers

8. Orion

9. Top Cat

10. Grommit

11. Miniature

12. Puma

13. Andrew Lloyd Webber

14. 4

15. St Bernard

16. Jones

17. It has no tail

18. Tiger

19. Sherlock Holmes

20. South America

21. Noel Coward

[THE FUGITIVE]

1.   What colour rose did the Lancastrians adopt in the Wars of the Roses?

2.   From where does the dandelion come?

3.   In which Gilbert and Sullivan opera does the character Little Buttercup appear?

4.   By what name is myosotis more commonly known?

5.   Who had a number 1 hit with the song Lily the Pink?

6.   With which type of flowers did Gregor Mendel do his genetic experiments?

7.   Which plant was featured on the threepenny piece minted between 1937 and 1967?

8.   What colour is the flower speedwell?

9.   Who played the title role in the film The Rose, based on the life story of the Rock singer Janis Joplin?

10.   Flowers in the rain was the first song played on Radio 1. Who recorded it? 

ANSWERS

1. Red

2. From the french Dent de lion-The lions tooth

3. HMS Pinafore

4. Forget me not

5. Scaffold

6. Sweet Pea

7. The Thrift

8. Blue

9. Bette Midler

10. The Move

[THE FUGITIVE]

1.   What is the name given to study of the skin?

2.   What is the medical term given to the deficiency of sugar in blood which may occur after too large a dose of insulin has been administered?

3.   In which part of the body are double, tented, radial or Ulnar loops, arches and Whorls found?

4.   What does necrotosing fascilitis attack?

5.   Which part of the body may be protected by equipment with the BS 2724: 1987 British Standards label?

6.   What is the name given to the light sensitive membrane which is the inner lining of the wall of the eyeball?

7.   How is the disease Varicella better known?

8.   What is the name given to a breast XRAY?

9.   What does a sphygmomanometer measure?

10.   Thought to be due to a lack of sunlight in winter, what does the acronym SAD stand for? 

ANSWERS

1. Dermatology

2. Hypoglycaemia

3. Fingers or Thumbs

4. The skin or Flesh

5. The Eyes (Sunglasses)

6. Retina

7. Chickenpox

8. A Mammogram

9. The Blood Pressure

10. Seasonal Affective Disorder

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the alternative name for a castle in chess?

2. In Disney?s ?Aladdin? who provided the voice of the Genie?

3. What was the name of the organisation that was fought by the Men from UNCLE?

4. What was the title of the trilogy of novels written by Flora Thompson?

5. Which former England goalkeeper died in the Munich air crash whilst working as a newspaper reporter?

6. What was the alternative name of Sir Francis Drake?s flagship ?The Golden Hind??

7. What was the name of the character played by Jodie Foster in ?The Silence Of The Lamb??

8. Who had hit records with Splish Splash?, and ?My Boomerang Won?t Come Back??

9. Which novel by Ken Kesey was set in a mental institution?

10. In ?Star Wars? what was the name of Han Solo?s spaceship?

ANSWERS 

1. ROOK

2. ROBIN Williams

3. THRUSH

4. LARKrise To Candleford

5. Frank SWIFT

6. The PELICAN

7. Clarice STARLING

8. Charlie DRAKE

9. One Flew Over The CUCKOO?S Nest

10. The Millennium FALCON

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Aspen is from which family of trees?

2. In which continent did the monkey-puzzle tree originate?

3. In which country did the bonsai technique develop?

4. In which county is England's largest forest?

5. Is the wood of a coniferous tree hard or soft?

6. The teak is native to which continent?

7. Which garden tree with yellow flowers has poisonous seeds?

8. Which three coniferous trees are native to Britain?

9. Which tree do we get turpentine from?

10. Which tree's leaves are the symbol of The National Trust? 

ANSWERS

1. Poplar.

2. South America.

3. Japan.

4. Northumberland.

5. Soft.

6. Asia.

7. Laburnum.

8. Yew, Scots Pine, Juniper.

9. Pine.

10. Oak.

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What colour is an ocelot?

2. What group has more teeth mammals or reptiles?

3. What animal was the first to be domesticated?

4. What colour tongue does a chow chow have?

5. How many teats does a cow normally have?

6. In Britain which is the only venomous snake?

7. What type of leaves does a koala feed on?

8. A jenny is a female what?

9. Which creature provides a moles main source of food?

10. the wild dog the dingo comes from which country? 

ANSWERS

1. Yellow with black markings

2. Mammals

3. Dog

4. Blue

5. 4

6. Adder

7. Eucalyptus

8. Donkey

9. Earthworms

10. Australia

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. If a countryman was referring to the spur of an otter, what would he be describing?

2. What are the proper names for the tails of the fox and the hound?

3. What type of creature is a cavy?

4. When does the Grouse shooting season start normally in the UK?

5. What is the collective noun for a group of foxes?

6. What is the bony projection on the lower leg of a horse called?

7. Dark Cornish and Dorking are breeds of what?

8. An Australian Parakeet is more commonly known as what?

9. It was thought that dogs descended from wolves, yet what is it that wolves cannot do that dogs do?

10. What is the plural of Mongoose?

ANSWERS 

1. Its footprint

2. Brush, Stern

3. Guinea Pig

4. 12th August

5. Skulk

6. Fetlock

7. Chicken

8. Budgerigar

9. Bark

10. Mongooses

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Which famous novel is set in the land of Narnia?

2. What was the name of Darwin?s famous research ship?

3. In the 1970s TV series Tarzan what name was given to his chimpanzee?

4. Which female pop group had hits with Automatic, Slowhand and I?m so excited?

5. What is the nickname of Hull FC?

6. Who is the patron saint of mountaineers?

7. What would an Iranian have been called before 1936?

8. Which American pop group had hits with Africa and Roseanna?

9. Two Oriental men named Chang and Eng were the first recorded cases of what?

10. The Cabot straits separates Nova Scotia from where?

11. Who played Inspector Clouseau in 5 Pink Panther movies?

12. Which breed of dog was kept by monks to find lost travellers in the Alps?

13. Who wrote the novel ?The dogs of war??

14. In which continent do Jaguars live?

15. Which English King was called Lion-Heart?

16. Which general of World War II was nick-named ?The Desert Fox??

17. In astrology, which 2 months are the star sign Leo?

18. What is unusual about a Manx cat?

19. Which dogs used to walk beside carriages to fend off highwaymen?

20. Which is the largest of the great cats?

ANSWERS 

1. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe

2. Hms Beagle

3. Cheetah

4. The Pointer Sisters

5. The Tigers

6. Saint Bernard

7. Persian

8. Toto

9. Siamese Twins

10. Newfoundland

11. Peter Sellers

12. St Bernard

13. Frederick Forsythe

14. South America

15. Richard I

16. Erwin Rommel

17. July and August

18. No tail

19. Dalmatians

20. Tiger

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Learning something new everyday

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What part of the body is affected by glaucoma?

2. Which bone in the body is most often broken?

3. Anaemia is caused by a deficiency of what?

4. What is the common term for acetylsalicylic acid?

5. Which of the seven vertebrae is the lowest?

6. What was the worlds first effective antibiotic?

7. Skin, hair and nails all share which component?

8. What is the tendon at the top of the human heel?

9. The tibia is better known as what bone?

10. What part of the human body is an anagram of ?elation??

11. What is the Gluteus Maximus?

12. Do veins carry blood away from or to the heart?

13. How many senses do we have?

14. What is the longest bone in the body?

15. Which organ is affected by hepatitis?

16. How many teeth do we have (if we have them all)?

17. What substance makes up most of the human body?

18. Where would you find the pituitary gland?

19. Where would you find your olfactory organs?

20. If you had renal failure, what wouldn?t be working correctly?

ANSWERS 

1. The eyes

2. The Collar Bone

3. Red Blood Cells

4. Aspirin

5. The Coccyx

6. Penicillin

7. Keratin

8. The Achilles tendon

9. The shin

10. Toenail

11. The largest muscle in your body, your buttocks

12. To the Heart

13. 5 (Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing, Taste)

14. The Femur

15. The Liver

16. 32

17. Water

18. In the brain

19. On your face (nose)

20. Your Kidney?s

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What part of your body is the metacarpus?

2. If you had the Wasserman test what would you be been tested for?

3. What is the more common name for the bone called the maxilla?

4. If you were put on Allopurinol what illness would you be likely to be suffering from?

5. What names are given to the two bones in your forearm?

6. What name is given to the light sensitive part of the eye?

7. What is the medical name given to the thigh bone?

8. How is the substance called Myeloid Tissue better known?

9. What can be true false or floating?

10. Chang and Eng Bunker were the first recorded people to suffer with which complaint? 

11.   What on the human body, and especially on the face, are lentigines? (pronounced LEN-TIJ-JEN-NEES)

12.   Which part of the body would be affected by myalgia?

13.   Gingivitis is inflammation of which part of the body?

14.   To which part of the body does the adjective 'pulmonic' refer?

15.   Nephrectomy is the surgical removal of which organ of the body?

16.   What is defined as: 'A state marked by reduced consciousness, diminished activity of the skeletal muscles and depressed metabolism'?

17.   A goitre is an inflammation or swelling of which gland of the body?

18.   In which organ of the body can the pineal gland be found?

19.   What part of the hand is the pollex?

20.   Which is the largest bone in the human body?

ANSWERS

1. Hand

2. Syphillis

3. Upper Jaw

4. Gout

5. Radius and Ulna

6. Retina

7. Femur

8. Bone Marrow

9. Ribs

10. Siamese Twins

11. Freckles

12. The Muscles

13. The Gums

14. The Lungs

15. The Kidney

16. Sleep

17. Thyroid Gland

18. The Brain

19. The Thumb

20. The Femur