Cheap Charlie's Quiz dated 13th May 2008
Winners: Khon Kaen Klan (40½ points)
Runners up: Drunken Layabouts (39 points)
Third Place: Sabai Sabai (27½ points)
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Round 1 |
| 1. | What is the main vegetable ingredient of Moussaka? |
| | Aubergine / Eggplant |
| 2. | The first ever Formula One race was held on this day, 13th May, 1950 at which racing circuit? |
| | Silverstone |
| 3. |  Name these two actors. (½ point for each)
I love black people! Who's your motherf**ker, Jerry? You're my motherf**ker! What'ya going to do Jerry? Show me the money! Uh! Congratulations, you're still my agent. |
| | Tom Cruise & Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire - 1996) |
| 4. | What is the name of the sea which separates New Zealand and Australia? |
| | Tasman Sea |
| 5. | In Rugby Union, which country turned the 'Five Nations' into the 'Six Nations' in 2000? |
| | Italy |
| 6. | SIT ON NYLONS is an anagram of which former world boxing champion? |
| | Sonny Liston |
| 7. | In Peter Gabriel's 1980 song Games Without Frontiers, whose bonfire did Enrico play with? |
| | Adolf's ("Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane. Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again. Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt. Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it.") |
| 8. |  Which car manufacturer has this as its logo? |
| | Proton |
| 9. |  Who painted the Portrait of Dr. Gachet in 1890? |
| | Vincent van Gogh |
| 10. | By what name is fossilised tree sap or resin known? |
| | Amber |
| 11. | Walter Mondale was Vice President of the United States under which President? |
| | Jimmy Carter (1977–1981) |
| 12. | Name that tune - ½ point each for Artist and Title. |
| | Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1989) |
| 13. | Which is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Olympic Games since 1896? |
| | Great Britain |
| 14. | What do the initials "PVC" stand for? |
| | Polyvinyl chloride |
| 15. | In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal Air Force) was established on this day, 13th May, in which year? (Nearest team gets 1 point) |
| | 1912 |
Round 2 |
| 1. | According to Dr. Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, what food "in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people"? |
| | Oats |
| 2. | What put Mehmet Ali Ağca in the news headlines on this day, 13th May, 1981? |
| | He shot and wounded Pope John Paul II |
| 3. | Name this film and its year of release. (½ point for each)
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. |
| | Casablanca - 1942 (Humphrey Bogart & Claude Rains) |
| 4. | By geographical area, what is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia? |
| | Burma / Myanmar |
| 5. | By what nickname is former world tennis champion Pete Sampras known? |
| | Pistol Pete / King of Swing |
| 6. | ANTIFASCIST TERM is an anagram of which well known Marvel Comics character? |
| | Mister Fantastic (AKA Reed Richards) |
| 7. | Which country did Céline Dion represent in the 1988 Eurovision song contest? |
| | Switzerland (Song title: Ne partez pas sans moi) |
| 8. |  Which African country has this as its flag? |
| | Angola |
| 9. | In literature, who owns a cat called Crookshanks? |
| | Hermione Granger (from the Harry Potter stories) |
| 10. | Which disease takes its name from the Medieval Italian word for "bad air"? |
| | Malaria (Mala Aria) |
| 11. | Michael Heseltine was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under which Prime Minister? |
| | John Major (1995-1997) |
| 12. | Name that tune - ½ point each for Artist and Title. |
| | Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric? (1979) |
| 13. | Which sporting organisation uses the slogan "For the Good of the Game"? |
| | FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) |
| 14. | Rhinotillexis is the medical name for which bad habit? |
| | Nose-picking (Greek, rhino "nose" + tillexis "habit of picking") |
| 15. | Captain Arthur Phillip left Portsmouth, England on this day, 13th May, with eleven ships full of convicts to establish the first penal colony in Australia. What year was it? (Nearest team gets 1 point) |
| | 1787 |
Round 3 |
| 1. | For what is St James's Gate in Dublin famous? |
| | Guinness |
| 2. | Who was sworn in as Russia's new president at a lavish ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin Palace last Wednesday? |
| | Dmitry Medvedev (Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev - Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев) |
| 3. | Complete this famous quote:
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ..... |
| | "This was their finest hour." (Winston Churchill - 18th June 1940) |
| 4. | In which European country would you find the Troodos mountain range? |
| | Cyprus |
| 5. | How many points are awarded to the third place driver in a Formula 1 race? |
| | 6 |
| 6. | For ½ a point, OREGANO TUB is an anagram of which US State capital? For another ½ point, which state is it the capital of? |
| | Baton Rouge - Louisiana |
| 7. | What was the title of John Lennon & Yoko Ono's 1971 Christmas single? |
| | Happy Xmas (War Is Over) |
| 8. |  Which country is this? |
| | New Zealand |
| 9. | In George Orwell's Animal Farm, what type of animals were Clover, Mollie, and Boxer? |
| | Horses |
| 10. | What colour are Beluga Whales? |
| | White (sometimes called the "White Whale" or "Sea Canary") |
| 11. |  What was the first name of Spanish dictator General Franco? |
| | Francisco (Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde) |
| 12. | Name that tune - ½ point each for Artist and Title. |
| | Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps - Be-Bop-A-Lula (1956) |
| 13. | Which former world boxing champion is known by the nickname "Dr. Iron Fist"? |
| | Vitali Klitschko (his brother, Wladimir is known as Dr. Steelhammer) |
| 14. | In computer terminology, what does LAN stand for? |
| | Local Area Network |
| 15. |  In which year did Austrian Dietrich Mateschitz team up with Red Bull inventor Chaleo Yoovidhya from Thailand to form the company Red Bull GmbH? (Nearest team gets 1 point) |
| | 1984 |
Picture Round |
1. Jenson Button
2. Audie Murphy
3. Maria Sharapova
4. Emma Thompson
5. Sheryl Crow
6. Carl Lewis
7. Andrea Corr
8. Lloyd Bridges
9. Laurence Olivier
10. Abi Titmuss
11. Gabriel Byrne
12. Helen Shaver
13. Adolf Hitler
14. Nicole Kidman
15. James Callaghan
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Snowball Question |
 Using an average length route, what is the road distance, in kilometres, from Khon Kaen to Chiang Mai? |
| | 582 km (361 miles) |
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