The Weekly Quiz: #4

Could you have been a £1,000,000 aire?

Questions:


Q1 £100 - In the UK, the abbreviation NHS stands for National what Service?

Household

Honour

Health

Humanity


Q2 £200 - Which Disney character leaves behind a glass slipper at a royal ball?

Cinderella

Elsa

Sleeping Beauty

Pocahontas


Q3 £300 - What name is given to the revolving belt machinery in an airport that delivers checked-in luggage from the plane to baggage reclaim?

Terminal

Hangar

Concourse

Carousel


Q4 £500 - Which of these brands was mainly associated with the manufacture of household locks?

Phillips

Chubb

Ronseal

Flymo


Q5 £1,000 - The Hammer and Sickle is one of the most recognised symbols of which political ideology?

Liberalism

Communism

Conservatism

Republicanism


Q6 £2,000 - Which toys have been marketed with the phrase ‘robots in disguise’?

Hatchimals

Transformers

Bratz Dolls

Sylvanian Families


Q7 £4,000 - What does the word loquacious mean?

Chatty

Angry

Beautiful

Shy


Q8 £8,000 - Obstetrics is a branch of medicine particularly concerned with what?

Old age

Birth

Broken bones

Heart conditions


Q9 £16,000 - In Dr. Who, what was the signature look of the fourth doctor, as portrayed by Tom Baker?

Cape, velvet jacket and frilly shirt

Wide-brimmed hat and extra long scarf

Pinstripe suite and trainers

Bow tie, braces and tweed jacket


Q10 32,000 - Which of these religious observances lasts for the shortest time during the calendar year?

Diwali

Lent

Hanukkha

Ramadan


Q11 £64,000 - At the closest point, which island group is only 50 miles south-east from the coast of Florida?

US Virgin Islands

Bahamas

Bermuda

Turks and Caicos Islands


Q12 £125,000 - Construction of which of these famous landmarks was completed first?

Empire State Building

Big Ben Clock Tower

Eiffel Tower

Royal Albert Hall


Q13 £250,000 - Which of these cetaceans is classified as a ‘toothed whale’?

Gray whale

Humpback whale

Minke whale

Sperm whale


Q14 £500,000 - Who is the only British politician to have held all four ‘Great Offices of State’ at some point during their career?

David Lloyd George

Harold Wilson

James Callaghan

John Major


Q15 £1,000,000 - In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?

Bartholomew Roberts

Blackbeard

Calico Jack

Captain Kidd




Answers:



1 Health



2 Cinderella



3 Carousel



4 Chubb



5 Communism



6 Transformers



7 Chatty



8 Childbirth



9 Wide-brimmed hat and extra long scarf.



10 Diwali



11 Bahamas



12 Big Ben Clock Tower



13 Sperm whale



14 James Callaghan



15 Blackbeard.