LOCKDOWN QUIZ SPECIAL
Philip Nolan turns quizmaster to keep you and your family entertained during lockdown. No cheating, now…
FAMILIES all over the country, and relatives far beyond, are getting together online every week for pub quizzes, since the real thing is not an option right now. So if you’re planning one later, why not try these teasers compiled by PHILIP
NOLAN, with a guest round from Dan O’Malley, Ireland’s sole surviving contender for the Brain Of Quarantine title!
HOW TO PLAY
GET your family or friends together, either through the Zoom (zoom.us) or Houseparty (houseparty.com) websites or apps.
Each couple, family or individual self-isolating should download the app and sign in together to the same meeting or house ‘party’ (ask a young person to help you if you’re not sure!).
Nominate a quizmaster to read out the questions. Each ‘team’, made up of an individual household, should write down their answers to each ten-question round, numbering them carefully. At the end of the quiz, the quizmaster reads out the answers and each team does its own marking. Anyone who cheats will be banished from the family forever!
One point per question, with a maximum score of 70.
ROUND ONE: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
1 Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Airport, with the IATA code MRU, serves what Indian Ocean island?
2 In 1998, a fixed exchange rate saw the punt worth how much in euro in advance of the introduction of the new currency, rounded to the nearest full cent?
3 This country is called Suomi by its citizens. What do we call it?
4 Brothers Richard and Maurice opened what restaurant in 1940 and later revolutionised the food industry by creating what they called the Speedee Service model?
5 What is the deepest oceanic trench in the world?
6 What 1691 battle was the bloodiest fought on Irish soil, leaving over 7,000 killed?
7 How did UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld die in 1961?
8 To the nearest 10,000 people, what is the capacity of St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City?
9 William Joseph Shields was the real name of what Irish star who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the 1944 film Going My Way? 10 The source of the River Shannon, known as the Shannon Pot, is in which county?
ROUND TWO: SCREEN TIME
The answer to each question is a well-known film. I will give you the main actors, the director and the year of release. You just have to name the film.
1 Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy. Directed by John Hughes, 1985.
2 Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes. Directed by Martin McDonagh, 2008.
3 Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo. Directed by Michel Hazavanicius, 2011.
4 Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. Directed by Richard Marquand, 1983.
5 Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper. Directed by Jan de Bont, 1994.
6 Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbell.
Directed by High Hudson, 1981.
7 Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Julia Stiles, Clive Owen. Directed by Doug Liman, 2002.
8 Cate Blanchett, Brenda Fricker, Gerard McSorley. Directed by Joel Schumacher, 2003.
9 Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle. Directed by Danny Boyle, 2000.
10 Clint Eastwood, Rene Russo, John Malkovich, Dylan McDermott. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, 1993.
ROUND THREE: THE POWER OF THREE
1 What 1995 song by The Outhere Brothers became inextricably linked with Dublin footballer Jason Sherlock?
2 What literary sisters were raised in a parsonage in Haworth in Yorkshire?
3 Where were the three billboards in a 2017 movie?
4 John, Robert and Ted were three of the most influential US politicians of the last century.
What is their surname?
5 What child star was three when her film career began, and later became US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia?
6 An Italian disco hit reworked by English musician Jamie Webster became an anthem for Liverpool FC fans in 2018. What was his version called?
7 Andrea, Sharon and Caroline are the sisters is what Irish group?
8 Where were the three coins in this famous 1954 romantic comedy set in Rome?
9 On what continent are the three Spanish territories of Ceuta, Melilla and and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera?
10 Rory McGrath and Griff RhysJones were two of the Three Men
In A Boat BBC series in 2006. What Irish comedian was the third?
ROUND FOUR: THE FOURTH
I’ll give you the first three in a sequence. You give me the fourth…
1 Derry, Donegal, Down…
2 Ore Aduba, Joe McFadden, Stacey Dooley…
3 Julian, Anne, George…
4 Vyvyan, Rick, Neil…
5 Clarke, Mac Diarmada, MacDonagh…
6 Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa… 7 WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett…
8 Tennant, Smith, Capaldi… 9 Tipperary, Galway, Limerick… 10 Unravelling Oliver, Lying In Wait, Skin Deep…