Useless 100

Captain Tom Moore's family have set a challenge for his birthday weekend, to raise money for charity by doing a challenge this weekend revolving around the number 100. So here below are 100 Pub Quiz Questions and there will be a prize!

To enter, simply answer all the questions below and email those answers to uselessquiz@outlook.com alongside evidence (a screenshot or a very honest sounding comment) that you have made a donation to the Captain Tom Charity Foundation (link: https://captaintom100.justgiving.com/donate ).

Entries close at 11:59pm on Sunday 9th May. The winner will be notified by email before the end of May. The winner will be whoever answers the most questions correctly, if there's a tie, one of the winners will be picked at random.

The amount donated to The Captain Tom Charity Foundation is up to you, and will have no bearing on the winner. Donate what you can.

The prize will be deliberately awful so it's not worth cheating.

Sport: Home Advantage
All of these countries hosted and won sporting competitions at the same time

1. In 1995 which country hosted and won the Rugby Union World Cup?
2. Which country hosted and won the first ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?
3. Who hosted and won the 1974 FIFA World Cup?
4. Who hosted and won the 1978 FIFA World Cup?
5. Who hosted and won the 1998 FIFA World Cup?
6. Which country hosted and topped the medal table in the 1996 summer Olympics?
7. Which country hosted and topped the medal table at the 1980 Summer Olympics?
8. Which country hosted and topped the medal table at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
9. Who hosted and won the 2011 Rugby Union World Cup?
10. Which country hosted and won the 2019 Cricket world cup?

TV & Film

1. Who played Sonia Fowler in Eastenders?
2. Alongside Si King who is the other Hairy Biker?
3. Who has appeared as a judge on the most episodes of the British version of the X-Factor?
4. Who has been nominated for the most Best Actress Oscars? (15)
5. Which actress played Lady Rose MacClaire in Downton Abbey and the title role in the 2015 film Cinderella?
6. Who shot JR?
7. Jimmy Nail played Oz in which 80s TV series?
8. What is the name of the boy who owns Woody, Buzz and the other toys in Toy Story?
9. Jim Moir is the real name, used occasionally for straight acting roles, of which comedian?
10. What was the first James Bond film to feature Roger Moore in the leading role?

Art & Theatre & Books & That

1. Who created the Mr Men series of books?
2. What word describes a gene in the title of a book by Richard Dawkins?
3. Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
4. The Cherry Orchard is the last play written by which famous playwright?
5. What is the third book in the Harry Potter series?
6. In the comic book company DC, what does DC stand for?
7. Hamlet was the prince of which country?
8. Atticus Finch and Boo Radley are characters from which famous work of literature?
9. In which novel does Ford Prefect save his friend Arthur Dent when the Earth destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass?
10. The Character Lord Snooty appeared in which comic?

Music

1. "All The Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From?" is a lyric from which Beatles song?
2. Which singer is famously not impressed by rocket scientists, Brad Pitt, Elvis Presley or those who have cars?
3. Brian Jones was one of the founder members and original guitarist with which band?
4. Released in November 2017, Reputation was a UK number 1 album for which artist?
5. Which all-female rap trio had a hit with Push It?
6. In the title of a song Tina Charles says she Loves to Love but her baby just loves to do what?
7. Terrence Nelhams-Wright was the real name of which famous singer and occasional financial journalist
8. Dangerously In Love was the debut solo album for which singer?
9. Which colour is mentioned in the title of seven of Elvis Presley’s UK hits?
10. Which pop singer was married to Jason Alexander for a 55 hours in 2004 and Kevin Federline later the same year?

Pot Luck

1. What did Theresa May answer when asked what the naughtiest thing she had ever done was?
2. Which of Henry VIII’s wives was married to his brother Arthur?
3. What is the name of the pirate flag with the skull and crossbones?
4. Anastasia Steele is the main character in which book?
5. Parkhurst Prison is on which Island?
6. What colour is traditionally associated with jealousy or envy?
7. What word would an American use to refer to the bonnet of a car?
8. Barry Took, Barry Norman, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvig, Miles Jupp and Andy Zaltzman have all hosted which radio 4 program?
9. Who was Chancellor of the Ex-Chequer when Gordon Brown was prime minister?
10. In Scotland a Spurtle is a wooden stick mainly used for stirring what?

Food & Drink

1. Prosecco comes from which country?
2. Mother’s Ruin refers to which drink?
3. In booze what does IPA stand for?
4. What sauce do you use to make an Eggs Benedict?
5. Mars, Bounty, Snickers, Twix and Malteaser Teasers are in which box of chocolates?
6. What is the main ingredient in the French dish Bouillabaisse?
7. What spirit is the main alcoholic ingredient in a daiquiri cocktail?
8. What name is given to a mixture of Whisky and Ginger Wine?
9. What is in the French dish Escargot?
10. How many litres are in a Magnum?

Sport

1. What sporting event is represented by a flag that features 5 interlocking rings?
2. Which racehorse was kidnapped by the IRA in 1983?
3. In which sporting event did the actor Hugh Laurie participate in 1980?
4. Who was the England captain when they won the Rugby Union world cup in 2003?
5. Who captained the British Men’s Football team at the 2012 Olympics?
6. In his speech at the end of the Beijing Olympics, when Boris Johnson said “Wiff Waff” was coming home, what sport was he referring to?
7. Lewis Hamilton holds the record for most F1 races started in poll position. Whose record did he break?
8. Which of the four tennis grand slam tournaments is played earliest in the calendar year?
9. In November 2011, which football team reported an annual loss of £197million, the biggest in English football history?
10. Cricket, and world Geography, Which world city hosted the first home test match for Pakistan in 1955 and the first home test match for Bangladesh in 2000, it is now the capital of Bangladesh, it was the capital of East Pakistan in 1955?

History – The World Wars

1. What date is D-Day?
2. What treaty bought about the end of the first world war but imposed strict conditions on Germany?
3. Which Dutch Exotic Dancer was convicted of spying for Germany during World War I and shot by French firing squad?
4. In which year did the USA join the first world war?
5. Whose assassination on 28^th June 1914 sparked the first world war?
6. Which US band leader went missing over the channel in 1944?
7. What was the name of the German airforce?
8. In which French city was the German surrender at the end of World War 2 signed?
9. What is the English translation of the word Blitzkreig?
10. According to the song lyrics Hitler has only Got One Ball, what is the location of the other one cut off by his mother when he was very small?

Science & Nature

1. What K is the proper term for movement energy?
2. Where in the human body is the Hyoid Bone, the only bone not connected to any other bone?
3. Hepatitis causes inflammation to what part of the body?
4. Edward Jenner is credited with development of the vaccine for which illness?
5. What part of the body are cuspids?
6. What animals are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight?
7. The Malleus bone in the ear is colloquially referred to as what common tool?
8. On the periodic table Pu is the chemical symbol for which element?
9. In which organ of the human body would you find the hippocampus and hypothalamus?
10. Dione is a moon around which planet?

A Little Bit Of Everything

1. The TV and film character Alastair Leslie Graham is better known by what name?
2. Which TV show has featured memorable guest appearances from Sir Cliff Richard, Status Quo, Cheryl Cole, Peter Schmichael, Peter Kay, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Patrick Stewart, Noddy Holder and Prince Charles?
3. The character Dr Frasier Craine first appeared in which sitcom?
4. Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester, Lurch and Thing were characters in which films and TV series?
5. Ziggy Stardust’s backing band were the WHATS from Mars?
6. Who had a 1981 hit with Stand and Deliver?
7. “In my imagination, there is no complication, I dream about you all the time. In my mind, a celebration. The sweetest of sensation, thinking you could be mine” are the opening lyrics to which song by Kylie Minogue?
8. On the 27^th January 2006 all the church bells in Salzburg rang out simultaneously to honour the 250^th anniversary of which composer?
9. In computing what does RAM stand for?
10. In the British Army what rank comes between lieutenant and major?

Good luck.

Remember email your answers to uselessquiz@outlook.com with proof of your donation to the Captain Tom Foundation

Entries close 11:59 on Sunday 9th May. Winners will be notified by email before the end of May 2021.

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