Roald Dahl

What was "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" originally going to be called?

a) Wonka's Chocolate Factory b) Charlie's Chocolate Boy c) Charlie and the Glass Elevator d) Charlie and the Magic Chocolate Castle

Which of Roald's relatives had only one arm?

Which of Roald Dahl's popular children's books won the 1983 Whitbread Award?

a) The Witches b) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory c) James and the Giant Peach d) The Twits

What is Roald Dahl's favourite food?

a) Chocolate b) Vanilla Ice-cream c) Pork d) Caviar

How many books has Roald Dahl published (including adult's books)?

a) 45 b) 47 c) 19 d) None of the above

Which "James Bond" film did Roald Dahl write?

a) Casino Royale b) You Only Live Twice c) Diamonds Are Forever d) Live and Let Die

Who illustrated most of Dahl's children's books?

What year was Roald Dahl born?

Who is this?

Random Question Who is the recently deceased British artist who let out the hit single "Rehab"?

(Must have full name!)

Katsushika Hokusai

What was Hokusai’s childhood name?

During an 1804 Tokyo festival what did Hokusai create using a broom and buckets full of ink?

a) A portrait of the Buddhist priest Daruma b) A portrait of Buddha c) A picture of Mount Fuji d) A picture for a wooden book

What is the name of Hokusai's most famous collection of works?

• What is the name of this picture?

At what age did Hokusai complete his artwork entitled “Ducks in a Stream”?

a) 55 b) 63 c) 71 d) 87

What is the current name of the city of Edo where Hokusai was born?

What were Hokusai’s main media for his artwork?

a) Paint and charcoal b) Block print and oil c) Paint and block print d) Paint and pastel

Who is the person shown in this picture?

Fill in the blanks Hokusai's last words were "If only Heaven will give me another ten years... Just another five more years, then I could become a

Random Question What is this character's full name?

a) Sheldon J. Plankton b) James A. Plankton c) Edvard G. Plankton d) Antaeus K. Plankton

a) c) e) b) d) f)

Taylor Swift

What kind of music does Taylor Swift sing?

What were the names of the two songs that Taylor Swift wrote and sang for the new hit movie “Hunger Games”?

Which Jonas brother did Taylor Swift date?

In which animated movie did Taylor Swift voice a young girl called Audrey?

What is Taylor Swift's favorite number? a) 22 b) 14 c) 10 d) 13

In what movie was Taylor Swift in as a teenage high-school girl called Felicia Miller?

Which of these awards did Taylor Swift gain at the Grammy Awards this year?

a) Best Country Solo Performance b) Best Country Duo/Group Performance c) Best Country Album d) Best Country Song

Which famous American gave Taylor Swift an award for all the work she's done for charity?

How many albums has Taylor Swift released?

Random Question What city in the world could you find this in?

European Economy

Prior to the advent of the euro as a currency in Europe, what was the currency of Portugal?

When was the European Economic Community first formed?

Name three of the founding members of the EEC?

What central European country is not a member of the EU even though every country surrounding it is?

How many countries are currently members of the EU?

a) 18 b) 23 c) 27 d) 35

Which country is likely to be the next member of the EU?

What is the approximate exchange rate of the Euro to the NZ dollar?

Which EU country is currently at risk of leaving the EU due to their country’s financial difficulties?

What are the EU’s ‘four freedoms’? The free movement of: a) Goods, people, food and cars b) People, capital, services and goods c) Cars, capital, animals and services d) Goods, services, capital and food

Random Question What are the three top selling book series of all time? (Includes graphic novels) They do not have to be in order.

Space

Name all the planets in our Solar System

When Solarwinds manage to slip through the Earth's thick atmosphere, this is called... a) An Aurora Borealis b) An Eclipse c) A Nebula d) A Supernova

How many stars are there in our Solar System?

Who am I?

• I am a large planet with rings made of ice and rocks • I am the only planet that is tipped on its side • I travel round the Earth every month • A big storm travels across me every year, from space it appears to be a big red spot

Which of these people was a famous astronomer?

a) Abraham Lincoln b) Isaac Newton c) Galileo Galilei d) Ernest Rutherford

Between which planets in our Solar System is an asteroid belt?

i) Which movie is Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear from?

ii) Who was he named after?

What is the name of the space probe that has recently landed on Mars?

Why do we have leap years?

Random Question Why isn't Pluto counted as a planet?

Spanish Influenza

What year was the Spanish Influenza Pandemic?

What is the estimated number of people that died from the Spanish Influenza?

a) 50,000 b) 10,000,000 c) 75,000 d) 50,000,000

What is another name for the Spanish Flu?

a) Yo Soy Un Ucranio Alce b) La Burbuja c) El Español Enfermo d) La Grippe

True or False?

The Flu spread to the Artic.

Who was the flu most vulnerable to?

a) Infants b) 5-20 year olds c) 20-40 year olds d) Elderly

People with jobs such as capenters were employed to build for the Spanish Influenza?

a) Wooden Coffins b) Doors for Rooms c) Beds for Patients d) All of the above

How many waves of the Influenza were there?

a) 10 b) 2 c) 3 d) 5

True or False?

World War I caused the Spanish Influenza

Why was the flu so fatal?

a) Because people had weak immune sytems b) Because it was a mutation c) Because it spread so quickly d) Because there were no cures

The Metric System

Which country first came up with the idea of the metric system?

What are the seven basic units of the metric system

What is this and where is it kept?

Put the following in order from largest to smallest....

gigametre, picometre, kilometre, nanometre, zeptometre, decimetre, terametre, megametre, micrometre, and metre

What is the "Square Kilometre Array"?

Convert 3574.65 centimetres into kilometres

The modern metric system is most similar to which historical metric system?

a) Mesopotamian system b) Onomatopoeia system c) Greek system d) Persian system

If 1 Galleon = $4.81, 1 Sickle = $0.28 and 1 Knut = $0.01 and I have 10 Galleons, 10 Sickles, and 10 Knuts, how much money in dollars do I have?

Which is the ONLY industrialised nation in the world that does not use the metric system?

a) New Zealand b) United States of America c) United Kingdom d) Argentina

Random Question What is this from?

Famous World Landmarks

Which city in India is the Taj Mahal located?

What country gave America the Statue of Liberty as a "thank-you" present?

a) England b) Australia c) France d) Germany

How many years did it take to build the Leaning Tower of Pisa?

What city would you find this in and what is it called?

What are the names of the four Presidents who have their faces carved into Mount Rushmore?

Which indigenous people of the world named what we know as Ayers Rock "Uluru“

In what state in America could you find the Grand Canyon?

Which country in South America is Machu Picchu located?

• What is the height of this famous London landmark?

Random Question What are the first names of our four MC’s for tonight?