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Steeple Aston Quiz Questions

First Round - 2007
  1. Three animal diseases hit farming in 2007- bird flu and foot and mouth were two. What was the third?
  2. Whose navy seized Faye Furney and 14 colleagues?
  3. To within 5 days, for how many days was the BBC reporter Alan Johnston held in the Gaza strip?
  4. From which Portuguese town did Madeleine McCann disappear?
  5. Who, aged 81, was appointed as First Minister in Northern Ireland?
  6. To within 2% how much did cigarette sales fall in the month following the ban on smoking in public places ?
  7. Who paddled his canoe to Panama?
  8. Who made a career of jumping over buses and died in 2007?
  9. To the nearest million how many copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows were sold in Britain and the USA combined in the first 24 hours?
  10. What right royal event occurred at 5pm on 26 December 2007?
First Round - General
  1. What was the second Harry Potter book to be published?
  2. When was Elvis Presley born?
  3. What drug is obtained from foxgloves?
  4. What was nationality of first non Russian and non American in space?
  5. In Eastenders who imprisoned Ian?
  6. What is the high security prison on the Isle of Wight called?
  7. How many Von Trapp children are there in The Sound Of Music?
  8. How many rounds in an amateur boxing fight?
  9. Which country has the longest coastline?
  10. Who succeeded Robert Runcie as Archbishop of Canterbury?
Second Round - Entertainment
  1. In late 2007, the album Growing Pains was released by which singer?
  2. Which actor spoke the lines sentencing Norman Stanley Fletcher to 5 years Porridge?
  3. Which character in the Archers has been played by the same actor since its inception?
  4. Which was the first Carry On film?
  5. Who was the undertaker in Dad's Army?
  6. Who was the oldest member of the Beatles?
  7. How did the Sweeney get its name?
  8. The Eagle has Landed centres on a plot to kidnap whom?
  9. In what decade did Blue Peter start?
  10. In Star Trek what colour was Mr Spock's blood?
Second Round - General
  1. What is the name of Dick Francis's first horse racing thriller?
  2. In which year did Britain's currency go decimal?
  3. Which is largest - 4 litres, 1 US gallon or 1 imperial gallon?
  4. What did S stand for in Harry S Truman?
  5. In Braille which letter consists of a single dot?
  6. Athene is the Greek goddess of wisdom, who is the Roman equivalent?
  7. Which Roman road linked London to York?
  8. Which football club does Northern Rock sponsor?
  9. Which country ceded Florida to the US in 1812?
  10. Which US probe was sent to land on Mars in 1997?
Third Round -Natural World
  1. What is the commonest bird in the British Isles?
  2. Which creature gives birth to the biggest babies?
  3. Which collective noun describes a group of crows?
  4. Which type of bird is especially associated with the Tower of London?
  5. What type of animal was the Empress of Blandings?
  6. Which is the only mammal able to fly?
  7. What colour are the fruits on deadly nightshade?
  8. From which language does the word budgerigar come?
  9. To which family of fish does the anchovy belong?
  10. What is the main food of the oyster catcher?
Third Round - General
  1. Who died first Romeo or Juliet?
  2. Which year was the Queen's annus horribilis?
  3. In which country would you come up if you drilled a hole straight through the earth from Buenos Aires?
  4. What was Marilyn Monroe's full maiden name?
  5. How many Sky channels were there originally in 1989?
  6. What is the capital of Venezuela?
  7. Who is the only character in Cluedo known to be unmarried?
  8. How old did women have to be to vote in 1918?
  9. In 1978 Pope John Paul I died after roughly how long in office?
  10. What are the colours of the All England Lawn Tennis Club?
Fourth Round -Local
  1. How many buses are there each weekday from Steeple Aston to Oxford?
  2. What did Oxford's Natural History Museum fail to preserve properly?
  3. What was the name of William IV's doctor who lived in The Grange?
  4. To within 3 how many annual summer horticultural shows have there been in the village?
  5. In which village is Winston Churchill buried?
  6. To within 10 years when was William Kent called in to remodel the gardens at Rousham?
  7. How many monarchs are commemorated with statues on the base of Banbury Cross?
  8. What is the address of the Steeple Aston website?
  9. Where in Oxford does the Cherwell join the Thames?
  10. To within 3 either way how many children are currently on the school roll?
Fourth Round - General
  1. What is the name of the hero in The Da Vinci Code?
  2. In which year was the death penalty abolished in Britain?
  3. What is the Fahrenheit equivalent to 100 degrees C?
  4. Whose funeral took place on the day Charles and Camilla were due to be married?
  5. How many beetles are featured on the front cover of Abbey Road?
  6. To the nearest day how long does it take the moon to make an orbit of earth?
  7. What are the names of the 4 Teletubbies?
  8. In which sport do the winners move backwards?
  9. On which island did Nelson Mandela serve most of his sentence?
  10. Which day of the week is the Muslim holy day?
Fifth Round -Food and drink
  1. What is Cornish Yarg cheese coated with?
  2. What is pancetta?
  3. Which pasta literally translated means little worms?
  4. Which nuts are used to make marzipan?
  5. In which country is Peroni Beer bottled?
  6. How many standard bottles of wine are equivalent to a Methuselah?
  7. Pound for pound which fruit contains most calories?
  8. Which chicken dish was named after a Napoleonic battle of June 1800?
  9. Which grain is used to make semolina?
  10. What milk is Roquefort cheese made from?
Fifth Round - General
  1. Which of Jane Austen's books starts 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife?
  2. A silver wedding is after 25 years, when is a linen anniversary?
  3. Where in your body is your frontal bone?
  4. Under which name is Gregor Efimovich better known?
  5. Who created Wallace and Gromit?
  6. Which is England's largest castle?
  7. What did France give the USA in 1886?
  8. What is the highest number on the Richter scale?
  9. When did a Briton last win a singles championship at Wimbledon?
  10. Where did Worzel Gummidge live?
Sixth Round - Places
  1. What was the tallest edifice in the world before 1930?
  2. To the nearest 10 miles how long is the M25?
  3. Which river flows over the Victoria Falls?
  4. Which planet lies between Venus and Mars?
  5. Which town in Britain was the first to have its analogue TV signal switched off?
  6. From which London station does Eurostar leave?
  7. Which is furthest south; Athens, Madrid or Rome?
  8. What is the capital of Hawaii?
  9. How many tunnels under the Mersey link Liverpool to the Wirral?
  10. In which city was the Maze prison?
Sixth Round - General
  1. What kind of school was run by Pussy Galore?
  2. In which month was Michael Fish embarrassed by the gales of 1987?
  3. Tom thumb, tennis ball and winter density are types of what?
  4. After whom is the sports company Nike named?
  5. In which suburb was the Good Life set?
  6. Which UK paper size is 148mm by 210mm?
  7. How many counters does each player have at the start of a game of backgammon?
  8. What is the smallest margin by which England won a test match against Australia?
  9. Who became leader of the Tory party the day after 9/11?
  10. Which element has the atomic number 50 and the symbol Sn?