Tuesday, December 23, 2003

the timesnewroman 1st annual festive quiz

A Year in the Death

1. Which Argentinian joined the Junta in the sky in January?
2. Which parentless six year old, died in February.
3. Which singer of �What do you want� died in March?
4. Who began losing an awful lot of weight in April?
5. Who was �touched� at the age of 84 in May?
6. Who swilled his final G&T and wrote his last Dear Bill letter in June?
7. Whose very deep voice was silenced in July?
8. Whose �wish� finally came true in August?
9. Which loathed film director, sentenced to 4 years in prison at Nuremberg, died in September aged 101?
10. Who was done in (not quietly) by his colleagues in October?
11. Whose hopes of visiting Portugal were dashed in Amsterdam?

Television

1 Who never won a Whacky Race?
2 Who Captained Fireball XL5
3.Who were Sabrina Duncan, Jill Munroe and Kelly Garrett?
4.Who Played Jack Regan and George Carter?
5.What took off Doctor Romano�s arm in E.R.?
6. Where did Mike Stone and Steve Lellor work?
7.What programme featured detective, McGarret and Williams?
8.In which T.V. programme would you have found Marshall Matt Dillon?
9.Who was raised in a Shaolin temple and went to America to find his father?
10.In which T.V. programe would you have found Nellie and Nels Olsen?

SPORT
1.Who won the 1936 Olympic 100 and 200 m sprint Gold Medals?
2.Who is the only boxer to have won 3 Olympic Gold medals in the same weight category?
3.Miguel Indurain is the first person to win what on 5 consecutive occasions?
4.In the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, he won gold in the men�s 5,000 m, 10,000m and the marathon, a race he never before entered, who is he?
5.Who ran for Britain in the 1984 Olympics, but for South Africa in the 1992 Olympics?
6.What did Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the Gold and Bronze medal winners in the men�s 200 m sprint, do, to cause controversy at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
7.Which Russian female gymnast won 3 gold medals, aged 17 at the 1972 Munich Olympics
8.Which American swimmer won a record 7 gold medals at the 1972 games?
9. In 1977, he won the World Cup 400-m hurdles beginning a string of 122 consecutive victories, he defeated all opponents until June 1987, who is he?
10. He won 5 Wimbledon men�s singles finals in succession from 76-80 who is he?

General Knowledge

1. What are the six categories of Nobel prize?
2. What is the Chemical Symbol Co?
3.Which wormwood based drink was banned for many years?
4.Which aperitif is white wine infused with herbs and sugar?
5.Who�s album was �This left feels right�?
6. Who wrote the book about the Highland Clearances that opened peoples eyes to the reality that it was ethnic cleansing?
7. What is the Chemical Symbol Cd
8. Whose 1983 hit was �What is love?�
9. Put these Ranks in Order of Senior to least Senior
Major, Colonel, Lieutenant, Brigadier
10. Whose 1986 Single was �Don�t leave me this way?�
11.Whose Album was Nine Lives?
12.What year was the Act of Union?

The general knowledge section was geared towards particular areas of knowledge of work colleagues, which says a lot about us I guess.

Oh and you are missing out on the music and picture rounds cos it would take me to long to sort it out, but if you could have guessed Simon Dupree and the Big Sound: Kites, then you would have done very well indeed and are older than I.

Answers on an email to times(remove-anti-spam)newroman@omne.uk.net. There is no fabby prize, but names will be illuminated in reverential terms on the blog. Oh and no surfin the net for answers, that would make you incredibly sad indeed.

Ready steady GO!

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