Andrew Baker The Sunday family quiz

Like a conversation around the table, the Family Quiz follows a thread and everyone can join in. Some questions suit younger quizzers, but really it’s a free-for-all. Don’t all shout at once...

1

On this date in 1952, Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Where was she at the moment of accession?

(a) In a treehouse in Kenya

(b) In a teahouse in Kenilworth

(c) In a free house in Kensington

2

Also on this day, but in 1833, a man called Otto arrived where to begin his reign as its first modern king?

(a) Germany

(b) Greece

(c) Georgia

3

Which poet wrote the “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

(a) Lord Byron

(b) Pam Ayres

(c) John Keats

4

Pamela Jean “Pam” Barnes Ewing, played by Victoria Principal, was a character in which long-running television series?

(a) Dallas

(b) Dynasty

(c) EastEnders 5

A true Cockney must not only be from the East End of London, but born within hearing of what?

(a) The ships’ hooters of London docks

(b) The yells of Petticoat Lane

(c) The bells of Bow Church

6

Who grows silver bells and cockleshells?

(a) Contrary Mary

(b) Difficult Diana

?

(c) Stubborn Sally

7

Diana Ross found fame as the lead singer of which massively successful group?

(a) The Three Degrees

(b) The Spice Girls

(c) The Supremes

8

A PhD – also known as a doctorate – is the highest degree that a student can receive from a British university. What do the letters stand for?

(a) Physical Doctor

(b) Doctor of Philosophy

(c) Doctor of Physics

9

What is the name of the frequently amused, yet genuinely qualified, doctor in The Simpsons?

(a) Dr Nelson Muntz

(b) Dr Troy McClure

?

(c) Dr Julius Hibbert

10

Troy Tempest was the lead character in which puppet-based children’s television series of the 1960s?

(a) Thunderbirds

(b) Stingray

(c) Captain Scarlet

11

Katie Scarlett Hamilton Kennedy Butler (née O’Hara) appears in which romantic novel (and blockbuster film)?

(a) Breakfast at Tiffany’s

(b) Wuthering Heights

(c) Gone with the Wind

? 12

The sirocco is a wind that blows northwards from which desert?

(a) Sahara

(b) Mojave

(c) Kalahari

13

The Joshua Tree is a yucca native to the Mojave Desert, which gave its name to an album by which band?

(a) UB40

(b) MC5

(c) U2

14

BTS are a boy band who have become the fastest act to accumulate five US number one singles since Michael Jackson. Where are they from?

(a) Japan

(b) South Korea

?

(c) Hull

15

Rod Hull was a comedian and TV personality of the 20th century who performed with a giant and irascible glove puppet. Of what kind of animal?

(a) Lion

(b) Monkey

(c) Emu