Are you brainier than the Quiz Trippers?

20 June 2011

Are you brainier than the Quiz Trippers? Test your knowledge with a selection of questions featured in the series (answers below)

1) What is the average weight of the human brain?

2) How many hands does Big Ben in London have altogether?

3) What was the name of the hotel in the 1980s Stanley Kubrick film, The Shining?

4) In what sport did Fred Perry become world champion of in 1929?

5) What were the character names of the four Golden Girls?

6) Whose departure from S Club 7 forced the band to change their name to just S Club?

7) Who was the first Premier League player to win the Player of the Year award twice in 1995 and 1997?

8) What are there more of in Scotland - red-headed people or left-handed people?

9) In what decade did all these people die: Karl Marx, Billy the Kid and Charles Darwin?

10) In the UK, Smith is the most common surname - what is the second?

11) Who was the first actress to receive four Oscars?

12) Which city can be found on the southern most part of the A1?

13) What was the first name of the world's first test tube baby?

14) What was the first item of non-stick cookware marketed by Teflon?

 

Solve these anagrams

15) (Film) GOOFY RED BALLS

16) (Famous landmark) FEEL HOTTER WIFE

17) (Famous American sports team) TOWERING YANKS

 

Answers:

1)    3lb

2)    None - Big Ben is the bell, not the clock

3)    The Overlook Hotel

4)    Table tennis

5)    Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia

6)    Paul Cattermole

7)    Alan Shearer

8)    Red-headed people

9)    1880s

10)  Jones

11)  Katherine Hepburn

12)  London

13)  Louise

14)  The frying pan

15)                        Blades of Glory

16)                        The Eiffel Tower

17)                        New York Giants