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Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 08:07
by Selby White
Think a few will get this connection
1. Name the actor who starred in the movies Con Air, National Treasure, and Leaving Las Vegas
2. Which series of limestone caverns are a tourist attraction on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset
3. In carpentry, biscuit, butt and dovetail are examples of what
4. 1980 film starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends. The film reunited the pair who had appeared previously in the 1976 comedy thriller film Silver Streak
5. What was the title of the Christmas No1 in 2000 by Bob the Builder
6. Which Eastenders character is played by John Altman
7. Which UK sitcom had characters that include Cyril Heslop, Blanco and Crusher
8. By what name is Dwayne Johnson also known
9. In the US sitcom Hogan's Heroes, what was the name of the inept German Colonel in charge of the WWII POW camp
10. What is the connection between these 9 answers
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 08:13
by PockWhite
8. The Rock.
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 08:15
by Selby White
Big match today so 2 quizzes to keep you all busy.
1. Which former Manchester United and England midfielder, who occasionally played in defence, was bought from Spurs in 2006 for 18 million pounds?
2. What was the name of the first woman to be appointed US Secretary of State? She was nominated in 1996 by Bill Clinton, and confirmed the following year with a unanimous bipartisan vote of the US Senate.
3. Who won their sixth consecutive Scottish Premiership title on 1st April 2017?
4. Which rock group had a hit single in 1974 with You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet?
5. Albert Pierrepointe was born in Clayton, West Yorkshire in 1905. What job did he do that later in life gave him enormous notoriety?
6. In January 2017 who did President Donald Trump specifically give 30 days, before saying he would “bomb the number 2s out of them”?
7. Which title in the British peerage was created and offered to the abdicated King Edward VIII?
8. What is the name of the 5 star luxury hotel, located on the North Bank of the Thames, and built by theatre impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte, in 1889?
9. What is the world’s largest structure composed entirely of living organisms? NOT the largest living organism or single organism collective. Clue it is roughly 1’200 square miles in size.
10. What is the Connection?
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 09:10
by Davycc
Selby White wrote:Think a few will get this connection
1. Name the actor who starred in the movies Con Air, National Treasure, and Leaving Las Vegas
2. Which series of limestone caverns are a tourist attraction on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset
3. In carpentry, biscuit, butt and dovetail are examples of what JOINT
4. 1980 film starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends. The film reunited the pair who had appeared previously in the 1976 comedy thriller film Silver Streak STIR CRAZY
5. What was the title of the Christmas No1 in 2000 by Bob the Builder CAN WE FIX IT
6. Which Eastenders character is played by John Altman NASTY NICK COTTON
7. Which UK sitcom had characters that include Cyril Heslop, Blanco and Crusher
8. By what name is Dwayne Johnson also known
9. In the US sitcom Hogan's Heroes, what was the name of the inept German Colonel in charge of the WWII POW camp
10. What is the connection between these 9 answers
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 09:14
by PockWhite
In the 2nd quiz:-
1. Michael Carrick.
4. Bachman Turner Overdrive.
5. Hangman.
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 09:26
by Sniffer
Selby White wrote:Think a few will get this connection
1. Name the actor who starred in the movies Con Air, National Treasure, and Leaving Las Vegas Nicholas Cage
2. Which series of limestone caverns are a tourist attraction on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset Wookey Hole
3. In carpentry, biscuit, butt and dovetail are examples of what Joint
4. 1980 film starring Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor as down-on-their-luck friends. The film reunited the pair who had appeared previously in the 1976 comedy thriller film Silver Streak Stir Crazy
5. What was the title of the Christmas No1 in 2000 by Bob the Builder Can
6. Which Eastenders character is played by John Altman Nick
7. Which UK sitcom had characters that include Cyril Heslop, Blanco and Crusher
8. By what name is Dwayne Johnson also known
9. In the US sitcom Hogan's Heroes, what was the name of the inept German Colonel in charge of the WWII POW camp Clink
10. What is the connection between these 9 answers
Slang terms for prison.
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 10:45
by Davycc
Quiz 2
3. Celtic
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 10:56
by Davycc
Quiz 2
3. Celtic
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 11:12
by Sniffer
Quiz 2
2) Madeline Albright
7) Duke of Windsor
8) The Savoy
9) The Great Barrier Reef
10) No idea.
Re: Pre match entertainment
Posted: 16 Mar 2019, 11:23
by Wigan White
Is the connection types of knot?