Questions for Quizzes
Always handy to have a quiz to fill a few minutes.
Number Cruncher
Examples:
14 D in a F Fourteen Days in a Fortnight
101 D 101 Dalmations
Now it’s your turn. Can you work them out?
- 12 S of Z
- 366 D in a LY
- 60 M in a H
- 7 C in a R
- 5 T on each F
- 24 H in a D
- 88 PK
- 64 S on a CB
- 747 is a JJ
- 10 M in a C
Who’s Who
Who invented what?
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Marconi
- John Logie Baird
- Professor Rubic
- Thomas Edison
- Henry Ford
Who discovered what continent?
- Christopher Columbus
- Marco Polo
- Captain Scott
- Dr David Livingston
True or False
Can you work them out?
- Bats are blind
- Henry VII had 8 wives
- Spiders are insects
- A sponge is an animal
- Coal comes from wood
- Aluminium is magnetic
- There are 21 James Bond Movies
- Glass is a liquid
- Lamagiers are extinct
- A can of coke contains 230ml
Abbreviations
Can you work them out?
- K
- BMX
- FTSE
- AIDS
- DVD
- CFC
- BSE
- RAC
- BT
- SL
Solver
E.g. 16 = O in a P – Ounces in a pound
- 26 = L of the A
- 7 = A of the AW
- 1001= AN
- 54 = C in a D (including J)
- 88 = K on a P
- 13 = S on the AF
- 90 = D in a RA
- 3 = BM (SHTR)
- 11 = P in a FT
- 1000 = W that a P is W
- 29 = D in F in a LY
- 40 = D and N of the G F
Pot Luck
- What was Terry Wogan’s Real Name?
- Which river runs through the Grand Canyon?
- Name the geological fault that runs the length of California
- Which drink did Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins advertise?
- Name the art of making decorative lace-work with knotted threads
- Where was Captain Cook killed?
- In fiction, Michael Henchard became the mayor of which town?
- Which mountain was first climbed by Edward Whymper in 1965?
- Name Mary Quand’s shop which revolutionised fashion in the 1960s
- Which planet was home for the aliens in Wells’ “War of the Worlds”?
Chocolates and Sweets
- Wobbly infants
- Where refined people live
- 100% precious metal
- 9, 10, 11
- Fallen fruits
- Carrier for dairy produce
- Mothers’ local
- All sorts of girls
- Belly dancer, perhaps?
- Sport for a prince
- Home for alcoholic teeth
- Speak quietly
- Edible fasteners
- Aromatic Spheres
- Inhabitants of Mediterranean isle, perhaps?
- Feline gear
- Occult perhaps
- Corks for a mouth
- A galaxy
- London has big red ones
- Wise guys
- Usually found in an electric plug
- Of no fixed abode
- Royal herb
- 10 pin bowling perhaps
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