WITHQUIZ The Withington Pub Quiz League ALBERT CLUB QUIZZES GK theme - The Fifth Month - Questions & Answers |
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Date of compilation | Title | Description | Links |
25/05/2009 | The Fifth Month |
Each answer contains a word or phrase that is (or sounds like it is) associated with the word ‘Fifth’ or ‘Five’. |
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1. |
Which BAFTA-winning BBC TV show started life in 1977 and has been presented variously by Angela Rippon, William Woollard and Noel Edmonds before its current team of presenters? |
Top Gear |
2. |
What is the State capital of Mississippi? |
Jackson |
3. |
Whereabouts in Didsbury is there a blue plaque to the author Howard Spring? |
Hesketh Avenue (where he lived for most of his life) |
4. |
What was the name of Tony Harrison’s 1985 poem concerning a visit to his parents’ grave in Leeds which Channel 4 controversially broadcast in 1987 despite a howl of protest from MPs, amongst others, who objected to “its stream of 4-letter words”? |
V (the Roman symbol for 5) |
5. |
What is the common name, derived from the Latin word for dove, for the bell-shaped flowers, known botanically as aquilegia? |
Columbines |
6. |
Which British electronics company, formed in 1931, has the stairwell of its London headquarters building on the sleeve of the Beatles Please Please Me album? |
EMI |
7. |
What happened simultaneously on July 13th 1985 in London and Philadelphia? |
Live Aid Concerts |
8. |
What special name is given to the numbers 6, 28, 496 and 8128? |
They are perfect numbers |
9. |
The Beatles’ songs Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, marked which first for the group? |
Their first double A-side hit record |
10. |
Who formed a relationship with housemate Ziggy on the 2007 Big Brother TV show? |
Chanelle Hayes |