Television Quiz 1 In the antiques investigations series which ran 1986-1993, who played the lead role in Lovejoy?      Ian McShane 2 In which year was racial satire Love Thy Neighbour first broadcast in the UK?      1972 3 Dubbed as Fantasy Island on a cruise liner, which show featured Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing?      The Love Boat 4 1980s drama Chancer was an early outing for which UK Hollywood A lister?      Clive Owen 5 Which US drama brought us characters Michael Kuzak, Grace Van Owen, Victor Sufuentes?      LA Law 6 Who presented the Krypton Factor?      Gordon Burns 7 Which spin off of Dallas lasted 13 years?      Knots Landing 8 Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt were creations of which comic genius?      Kenny Everett 9 Jan Francis and Paul Nicholas played characters in a will-they wont-they relationship in which television show?      Just Good Friends 10 Which tv police drama was set in the fictional northern town of Hartley?      Juliet Bravo 11 If Stephen Fry played Jeeves, who played Wooster?      Hugh Laurie 12 Like a scary Treasure Hunt with helicopters, a black clad menace and wrist mounted lazers to shoot backpacks. Name the show.      Interceptor 13 Which show created by Phil Redmond is based in Chester?      Hollyoaks 14 Who played Tom and Barbara Good in The Good Life?      Richard Briers and Penelope Keith 15 Which notorious television programme was broadcast only once on 31st October 1992?      Ghostwatch starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith and Craig Charles 16 Fulton Mackay played the captain with his dog Sprocket, but where was his lighthouse?      Fraggle Rock   Click Here For Printable Version Coronation Street Quiz 1 In Coronation Street, who was married to Phyllis, Renee and then Audrey?      Alf Roberts 2 The face of which Coronation Street star became the best selling image on t shirts in 1994?      Reg Holdsworth 3 Which Coronation Street left home in 1993 to move in with her boyfriend Craig?      Tracy Barlow 4 Which much loved Character returned to the Street in 2002 after finding herself left penniless?      Bet Lynch 5 What was the nationality of Elsie Tanner's husband, Steve?      American 6 Which ITV company makes Coronation Street      Granada 7 True or false, Stan Ogden had a brief career as a professional wrestler?      True 8 What was the name of the son of Jack and Annie Walker?      Billy Walker 9 In 1998 Tony Blair appealed for the release of which character?      Deidre Rashid 10 Name the son of Jack and Vera Duckworth      Terry Duckworth 11 What is the name of the pub that Liz Macdonald used to be the landlady of?      The Queens 12 Who killed drug dealing Jez Quigley?      Jim Macdonald 13 Which character had his leg amputated after crashing his car in a suicide attempt?      Don Brennan 14 Which character was played by actor Phil Middlemass?      Des Barnes 15 In what year did Derek Wilton die?      1997 16 Who proposed to Elsie after his first wife Nellie died, and then later married Rita?      Len Fairclough 17 Which character was awarded an OBE after serving 3 terms as Mayor of Weatherfield?      Alf Roberts 18 Which couple renewed their wedding vows in a 1997 video Viva Las Vegas?      The Duckworths (Jack and Vera) 19 Name 2 of Deidres 3 husbands.      Ray Langton, Ken Barlow, Samir Rashid 20 True or false, Vera Duckworths first name is Veronica?      True 21 How did Brian Tilsley die in Coronation Street?      He was stabbed 22 Who is Ashley Peacocks father?      Fred Elliott 23 What is the name of the adjacent street to Coronation Street?      Rosamund Street 24 Who is the father of Sarah Louise Platt?      Brian Tilsey, though he died thinking she was not his. 25 What was Alan Bradleys daughter's name?      Jenny Bradley   Click Here For Printable Version Words Quiz 1 What C is the name given to the French speaking inhabitants of Louisiana?      Cajuns 2 What 'ology is the study of bumps on the head?      Phrenology 3 What O is the opposite of the word transparent?      Opaque 4 What name is given to the science of grape growing?      Viticulture 5 What is the alternative name of the tree known as the mountain ash?      Rowan 6 What part of an insects body joins its head to its body?      Thorax 7 What name is given to the light winds which blow across the equatot?      Doldrums 8 What is the name of the largest artery in the human body?      Aorta 9 By what name is a Tibetan ox better known?      Yak 10 What is the name of the science of the study of time?      Chronology 11 What word means favouring of relatives or friends?      Nepotism 12 What name is given to the ova of frogs?      Spawn 13 Which word of Hindu origin literally means dust coloured?      Khaki 14 What L is the Latin word for liquid?      Latex 15 What is the Latin for I (refering to the self)      Ego 16 If a face was described as rugose, what would it be?      Wrinkled 17 What in airforce slang is a kiwi or penguin?      A non flying member of the airforce. 18 What drug is known in the U.S as doobie?      Marijuana 19 What in boxing parlance is a pug?      A boxer 20 What type of creature is a balisaur?      A badger 21 What is a badigeon used for?      Repairing masonry 22 What is a bellarmine a type of?      Jug 23 What in New Zealand is a kumera?      A sweet potato 24 What is a hornbeam? A bird or a tree?      A tree 25 What is geoponics?      The science of agriculture 26 What were fuggers?      German merchants 27 What type of creature is a galah - a cockatoo or a kangaroo?      Cockatoo 28 What is farina?      A type of meal or flour 29 If something is dendriform, what is it shaped like?      A tree 30 What is chiminage?      A toll for passing through a forest 31 What animal is affected by the disease braxy?      Sheep 32 What item of clothing is also known as a filibeg?      A kilt 33 What would you do with a zloty in Poland?      Spend it 34 What does the phrase mae culpa mean?      My fault (I am guilty) 35 What sort of creature is a scup?      A fish 36 What type of animal is a kob?      An antelope 37 What O is the name given to a piece of music opening a concert?      Overture 38 What name is given to the syrup made from pomegranite juice used in various cocktails?      Grenadine 39 What is the name for a small group of whales or seals?      A pod 40 What in Ireland is a loy?      A spade   Click Here For Printable Version Horror Quiz 1 Name the author of Dracula      Bram Stoker 2 Who wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde?      Robert Louis Stevenson 3 Which Belgian noble woman was sentenced to death for bathing in the blood of servant girls she had murdered in order to keep her young?      Countess Elizabeth Bathory 4 In which series of films from 1984 onwards did Robert Englund star as Freddy Krueger?      The Nightmare on Elm Street films 5 Which film first featured a character later named Pinhead?      Hellraiser 6 Who played the title role in The Abominable Dr Phibes?      Vincent Price 7 In 1951 Howard Hawks produced The Thing. Who directed the 1982 remake, which starred Kurt Russell?      John Carpenter 8 Which 1922 German vampire film starred the genuinely scary looking Max Schreck in the title role?      Nosferatu 9 Who played Jack Nicholsons wife in The Shining?      Shelley Duvall 10 Who directed the 1968 film Rosemarys Baby?      Roman Polanski 11 Which of Courteney Coxs co-stars from the Scream films is now her husband?      David Arquette 12 Who played the monster in the 1931 film Frankenstein?      Boris Karloff 13 What particular gimmick was used in the 1958 film House of Wax?      It was made in 3D 14 Which horror film star was portrayed in an Oscar winning performance by Martin Landau in Tim Burtons 1994 film about cult film maker Ed Wood?      Bela Lugosi 15 Which series of films features a habitual serial killer called Michael Myers?      The Halloween series of films 16 What was the contribution of actress Mercedes Mccambridge to Linda Blairs performance in The Exorcist?      She provided the devils voice 17 Who played the lead role in the 1960 Hammer production The Curse of the Werewolf?      Oliver Reed 18 Which 1945 Ealing film is a sequence of supernatural stories told by a group of people in a country house?      Dead of Night 19 Which mother and daughter both appeared in John Carpenters The Fog?      Jamie Lee Curtis and her mother Janet leigh 20 Which 1976 film starring John Travolta is about a persecuted schoolgirl with psychokinetic powers?      Carrie 21 Which actor of teh silent era was known as The Man of a Thousand Faces?      Lon Chaney 22 What is the title of the 1992 Belgian film about a film crew following and documenting the exploits of a serial killer?      Man Bites Dog 23 Which directors films included Shivers, Videodrome and The Fly?      David Cronenberg 24 What is the name of the summer camp in the Friday 13th movies?      Camp Crystal Lake 25 Played subsequently by Sarah Michelle Geller on tv, which character was played in a movie by Kirsty Swanson?      Buffy theVampire Slayer   Click Here For Printable Version   Disasters Quiz 1 Name the mining village in Mid Glamorgan, Wales where coal waste overwhelmed a school and houses in 1966, killing 144, of which 116 were children.      Aberfan 2 In which year did the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor occur?      1986 3 Name the oil tanker which ran aground in prince William Sound, Alaska in 1989      The Exxon Valdez 4 Which nautical disaster occured overnight on 14th April 1912?      The sinking of the Titanic 5 What was teh nature of the disaster at Nhopal, India in December 1984, which claimed 3,000 lives?      Poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide chemical plant 6 Who or what was Piper Alpha?      A North Sea oil rig. 7 In which of the United States of America is the volcano Mount St Helens which erupted in 1980?      Washington State 8 What was the name of the Russian nuclear submarine which was flooded and stranded on the sea bed in August 2000?      The Kursk 9 Which American city was devastated by fire and earthquake in April of 1906?      San Francisco 10 Which miltary disaster of the Crimean War did Lord Tennyson famously mourn in verse?      The Charge of the Light Brigade 11 From which Belgian port did the Herald of Free Enterprise set sail on 6th March 1987, before capsizing with loss of life of many passengers?      Zeebrugge 12 In which year was the Lockerbie disaster which destroyed Pan Am flight 103, killing 270 people?      1988 13 What type of disaster struck central America in 1998, killing almost 10,000 people and leaving millions dependent on aid?      A hurricane (Hurricane Mitch) 14 At which British airport did 54 people die when the engine of a Boeing 737 exploded on take off in August 1985?      Manchester 15 At which football stadium were 96 Liverpool football fans crushed to death on April 15th, 1989?      Hillsborough, Sheffield 16 At which london underground station was the fire of November 18th, 1987 which resulted in 31 deaths?      Kings Cross 17 On March 27, 1977 583 were killed in a collision between a KLM and PanAm Boeing 747s, the worlds largest multiple aircraft air disaster. Over which island did it occur?      Tenerife 18 In which year were 8 members of the Manchester United football team killed in an air disaster?      1958 19 Which of the ill fated space shuttles disintegrated on take off in January 1986: Challenger or Columbia?      Challenger 20 In which year was the Great Fire of London?      1666 Nearest The Mark / Tie Breaker How many people were killed or died as a result of the Bradford City football stadium fire of May 11th, 1985?     56   Click Here For Printable Version