8/9/10 - Pot Luck - Game Shows

Team name – Mock of the week style ; Things You're Unlikely to Hear on a Quiz Show

Picture Round

Current Affairs
1. The world smallest man title has changed hands this week to Edward Hernandez of Colombia. How tall is he in centimetres?

2. Coronation Street have been filming the funeral of which best loved character?

3. Which English director’s new film has caused two people to require medical attention during its screening at the Telluride Film Festival last Saturday?

4. In this week in 1997, which Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, died at the age of 87?

5. What did riots in Dublin lead to in London this week?

6. Last night The XX won this years Mercury Music Prize. But which band and album was the first to win the prize in 1993?
a) Primal Scream – Screamadelica
b) New Order – Republic
c) Simply Red – Stars
d) U2 – Achtung Baby

7. Which artist faced setbacks in plans to open up a new gallery to the public?

8. Which English actor took a little plastic lamb took the Tamara Drewe premier Monday night?

9. Name the band from which a former member was killed by a giant bale of hay this week?

10. In this week, 1964 the Queen opened Europes largest suspension bridge over the River Forth which connects which 2 cities? (1/2 mark each)

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General Knowledge
1.    What is the fastest animal on earth?
2.    What was the last album the Beatles recorded together?
3.    What does a notaphile collect?
4.    Which country’s capital is Nassau?
5.    Which is the nearest Galaxy to our own?


Call my bluff – Choose the correct defnition of the word given
6.  What does the word ‘hoxter’ mean?
a) someone who teaches magic
b) the inside pocket on a suit or jacket
c) one who advocates equal rights for men
d) any drug that relieves depression

7. What does a ‘tegestologist’ do?
a) trades with old coins and notes
b) collects beer mugs and beer coasters
c) predicts the movement of stellar objects
d) studies porcelain and items made of porcelain

8. What of these is the meaning of the world ‘quodlibertarian’?
a) a person who will testify to anything for the right price
b) one who can talk about numerous subjects
c) someone who either has been married 4 times or who is married to 4 people
d) a pedantic person who engages in elaborate arguments about minor things

9. What is the meaning of ‘estivation’?
a) the act of building a nest
b) eating snakes
c) the art of creating new words to represent entire sentences or shorthand notation
d) going somewhere for the summer

10.    Which of these is the defintition for the word ‘funkify’?
a)    to spend all your time trying to make money
b)    to run away in fear
c)    to quickly eat ones meal, not taking time to savor it
d)    to cause a frog or toad to fly through the air



Jackpot
1. What is the most common non-contagious disease in the world?

2. Which British monarch commissioned St James's Palace in London?

3. What is the longest line of latitude on the Earth?