The Vange Amateur Radio Society - The Hot Cross Quiz 2011 (Held 21st April 2011) The sources of the questions are credited at the start of each of the sections ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a) Funny Business - The Comedy round (From the MOnster Red Nose Day Quiz 2011) 1. Which commedian and actor shares his surname with the name of the most northerly London borough? 2. Frank Skinner in 1991, Steve Coogan in 1992, Al Murray in 1999, and Russel Kane in 2010, What award links these comedians? 3. How are the legendary children's entertainers Paul and Barry Eliott better known? 4. Which film director and actor once said "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying"? 5. In 2006, which former 'Doctor Who' actor's distinctive voice was used by BT for spoken delivery of text messages to landline phones? 6. Which Channel4 improvisational show had regular participants including Josie Lawrence, Tony Slattery, Ryan Styles, Greg Proops, Colin Mochrie, and Mike McShane? 7. What is the name of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's former radio producer who has, through shows like 'An Idiot Abroad', become a star in his own right? 8. Peter Kay first came to public consciousness on 'The Sunday Show', as did comic actor Paul Kaye, playing which rude and abusive character? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- b. Fact or fiction - The true or false round (From the MOnster Red Nose Day Quiz 2011) 1. True or False: In the 1940's, a chicken in Colorado called Mike lived for over 18 months without its head, after the axe used to chop it off missed the jugular vein. He was a national celebrity known as 'Mike the headless wonder chicken'. 2. True or False: In 1989, David Hasslehoff released the single 'Pingu Dance' in Switzerland, a rap song based on the 'Pingu' V series and featuring a number of samples of "Pinguish". 3. True or False: Former Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho is a keen amateur magician who came second in the 1979 Portugese Young Magician of the year contest with his innovative interpretation of the classic linking rings. 4. True or False: X-Factor judge Louis Walsh released a Christmas single as a 17 year old in 1969 called "Where is my little man in the moon?" which sold fewer than 2,000 copies. 5. True or False: The Oxford Street department store Selfridges is so called because, when it opened in 1904 as 'JP Gordon Domestic Machines', it specialised in the retail of innovative kitchen appliances, and advertised with a huge banner saying " The only shop in London to Sell Fridges" 6. True or False: Jon Bon Jovi's first appearance on a record was singing "R2D2 We wish you a Merry Christmas' on the 1980 Star Wars album 'Christmas in the stars' 7. True or False: in 2006, Lionel Blair and commedian Alan Carr saved a suicidal man's life by dragging him back from the edge of Blackpools North Pier after hearing of his plight, when they had finished recording a pilot show in the town. 8. True or False: As a teenager, Bruce Lee won both the Hong Kong High School Boxing Championship, and the 1958 Crown Colony Cha Cha Cha Dance Championship. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- c) Couch potatoes - the TV and film round. (From the MOnster Red Nose Day Quiz 2011 and by me) 1. Which classic TV comedy has episodes including "Cash and Curry", "He ain't Heavy' he's my Uncle" and "A slow bus to Chingford" 2. Which film features the beginning of "I got you" by Sonny and Cher being played ten times. 3. Who played Rooster Cockburn in the original (1966) film "True Grit"? 4. Which famous family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace, although from time to time the house number has been different? 5. In the world of films, what started with 'Sergeant' and finished with 'Columbus'? 6. Which famous actor played the part of Elwood P Dowd, alongside a 6 foot invisible rabbit? 7. In a famous 80's film, who are Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander? 8. The blonde bombshell who starred in the film xxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- d. The musical round (From the MOnster Red Nose Day Quiz 2011 & Worcester Hospital Radio) 1. "Always look on the bright side of life" appears at the end of which of the "Monty Python" films? 2. What song does this lyric come from? - "Do you speak-a my language? - he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich."? 3. How is American songwriter Alfred Matthew Yancovic better known? 4. Who's catchphrase was "Hi there pop pickers"? 5. What is the title of the Archers theme? 6. Ford Prefect was a character in which radio series? 7. The original Goon Show was made up of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and who else? 8. What Radio and TV presenter did it all "in the best possible taste"? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- e. Money or funny - the is it real money round? (Fom the MOnster Red Nose Day Quiz 2011) 1. Costa Rican Colon 2. Madagascan Pikaka Kamaka 3. Vietnamese Dong 4. South Korean Won 5. Singapore Lost 6. Vatican City Gold Piece 7. Mongolian Togrog 8. Turkmenistan Mustash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- f. Radio quiz (From The Radio Companion by Paul Donovan.) 1. In which year did The Archers make their national debut? 2. Which programme always included the question "Are you sitting comfortably"? 3. What was the name of Tony Blackburn's canine companion? 4. Which show on Radio Luxemburg was sponsored by a malted milk drink? 5. Which of the Goons wrote nearly all of the episodes? 6. What was Britain's first pirate radio ship, going on the air in 1964? 7. On which show did Bill Pertwee play the Irish chat show host Seamus Android? 8. Name the Lancashire comedian who played the part of a naughty schoolboy from 1958 to 1972? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- g. The General Knowledge Round (From the MOnster Red Nose Day Quiz 2011) 1. What is the popular name for the section of the North Atlantic Ocean where more than fifty ships and aircraft have disappeared? 2. What name is shared by one of the "Tellytubbies" and a river that runs through Turin in Italy? 3. In which country would you find the majority of the world's Walloons? 4. What Devon village is the only place in England with an exclamation mark at the end of it's name? 5. The encouragingly named Goodluck Jonathan became President of which African country in 2010? 6. What are the first eight letters of the village with the longest name oin the British Istles? 7. Which item of office stationery translates into French as "Le Trombone"? 8. Which is the only US state with a name containing all the letters in SPAM? ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ANSWERS: a) 1. Harry Enfield. 2. The Edinburgh Comedy Award, previously known as he Perrier Award. 3. The Chuckle Brohers. 4. Woody Allen. 5. Tom Baker. 6. Whose line is it anyway? 7. Karl Pilkington. 8. Dennis Pennis. b) 1. True. 2. True. 3. False. 4. False. 5. False. 6. True. 7. True. 8. True. c) 1. Only Fools and Horses. 2. Groundhog Day. 3. John Wayne. 4. The Simpsons. 5. The "Carry on" films. 6. James Stewart (in Harvey). 7. The Three Amigos. 8. Marilyn Monroe. d) 1. The Life of Brian. 2. Down under - Men at work. 3. Weird Al Yancovic. 4. Alan Freeman. 5. Barwick Green. 6. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. 7. Michael Bentine. 8. Kenny Everett. e) 1. Money. 2. Funny. 3. Money. 4. Money. 5. Funny. 6. Funny. 7. Money. 8. Funny. f) 1. 1951. 2. Listen with mother. 3. Arnold. 4. The Ovaltineys. 5. Spike Milligan. 6. Radio Caroline. 7. Round the Horne. 8. Jimmy Clitheroe. g) 1. Bermuda Triangle. 2. Po. 3. Belgium. (they are the French speaking ones) 4. Westward ho! 5. Nigeria. 6. Llanfair - Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobllllantysiliogogogoch in Anglesey 7. Paperclip. 8. New Hampshire.