Despite the reappearance of new series of Pointless and the Chase on TV recently, I'm resisting the urge to theme this week's quiz around a gameshow, and instead, I'm opting for a standard general knowledge workout. I may theme future quizzes around these two shows if I get the inclination in the near future however. Shall we get started? For Competitors:
For Question 1, you can have one point for the correct Odd One Out, and two points for the correct reason. For the rest, you can award yourself one point for each easy question, two for a medium and three for a hard question.
News
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| 2. Kim Jong-un |
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| 1. Rupert Murdoch |
Q1) This question takes the shape of my first ever Odd One Out, which is a question form that I have loved ever since I first saw it done so well on Have I Got News For You. I therefore thought I'd do one for a news item this week. So which of these 4 is the Odd One Out and why? Answer at the very bottom of the page.
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| 4. Queen Elizabeth II |
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| 3. The Sunday Herald |
Easy Questions
Geography
1) In which country would you find the Aachen and Cologne Cathedrals?
Art
2) Which Italian painter finished the Last Supper in 1498?
Science
3) Cumulonimbus and stratus are types of what?
Music
4) Which band's UK No. 1 hits include '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' and 'Jumping Jack Flash'?
Food & Drink
5) What is the name of the process in which bread rises due to the addition of yeast?
Sport
6) In which sport is the Grand National contested?
History
7) In which country did Idi Amin seize power after a coup in 1971?
Film
8) In which film series are C-3PO and R2-D2 regular characters?
Politics
9) John Bercow currently holds which position in the House of Commons?
Easy Answers
1 point each for any of these.
1) Germany
2) Leonardo da Vinci
3) Clouds
4) The Rolling Stones
5) Leavening
6) Horse Racing
7) Uganda
8) Star Wars
9) Speaker
Medium
Geography
1) Which city is the capital of the German state of Saxony?
Art
2) The Last Supper is to be found on a wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie, in which city?
Science
3) In which layer of the Earth's atmosphere would you expect to find the majority of clouds?
Music
4) The remastered version of which classic Rolling Stones double album topped the UK albums chart in 2010?
Food & Drink
5) If the 'crust' is the name of the outer part of a loaf of bread, what is the name for the white inner part?
Sport
6) Which notable obstacle at Aintree has undergone extensive modification since the death of 3 horses in the late 1980s?
History
7) During Amin's dictatorship, to which airport was an hijacked Air France flight taken and later rescued with the help of Israel?
Film
8) C-3PO was built by which Star Wars character?
Politics
9) Who did Bercow succeed as Speaker in 2009?
Answers
Medium - 2 points each
1) Dresden
2) Milan
3) The Troposphere
4) Exile on Main Street
5) Crumb
6) Becher's Brook
7) Entebbe International
8) Anakin Skywalker
9) Michael Martin
Hard
1) Which museum was founded in Dresden in 1912 by Karl August Lingner and was later used by the Nazis to produce propaganda for the concept of the Ayran race?
2) Which disciple of Jesus, whose fate was to be skinned alive, is depicted on the extreme left of the Last Supper?
3) Of which gas are the clouds in Venus's atmosphere composed?
4) Which song covered by the Rolling Stones is considered to be the only blues song to ever top the UK Singles Chart?
5) What is the name of the process that turns bread stale quickly after refrigeration/freezing?
6) Name 2 of the 3 horses that died as a result of jumping Becher's Brook in 1987 or 1989.
7) On 4th August 1972, Amin claimed that God had appeared to him in a dream and told him to do what?
8) C-3PO claims to be fluent in over 6 million forms of communication, and Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars hires him on the basis that he knows which one?
9) Before Michael Martin, who was the last Speaker to be forced by the House to resign, doing so in 1695 after accepting 1000 guineas to help push a bill through the legislative process?
Answers
Hard - 3 points each
1) The German Hygiene Museum
2) Bartholomew
3) Sulphur Dioxide
4) Little Red Rooster
5) Retrogradation
6) Dark Ivy, Seeandem and Brown Trix
7) To order Uganda's Asian community to leave the country
8) Bocce
9) Sir John Trevor
Odd One Out - 1 point for the correct answer and 2 for the correct reason
You've been waiting for this one haven't you?
They have all declared themselves in favour of Scottish independence, expect for the Queen, who has refused to express an opinion despite being provoked by both Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage. Salmond states that the Queen would be 'proud to reign over an independent Scotland', whilst Nigel Farage has argued that the Queen has a responsibility to speak out against the possible break up. Easy, right?
Scores are out of 57. Let me know how you did!
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