chrismoyles.net
- Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:07 pm
#263222
ART & DESIGN
A) What made a bit of a noise when it turned up in Oslo on 31 August?
B) What became the fastest-selling show in the National Gallery's history?
C) What links Mark Titchner, Rebecca Warren and Phil Collins?
D) Who won the Design Museum's prestigious Designer of the Year 2006 award?
BUSINESS STUDIES
A) Roughly how many people (to the nearest 5,000) currently work in the financial sector in the City of London?
B) And how many (to the nearest 100) are expected (by the Centre for Economics and Business Research) to have taken home bonuses of more than £1m this year?
C) According to the KPMG survey of directors' pay, what - to the nearest £50,000 - is the median take-home pay of chief executives of FTSE-100 companies?
D) Who gave away £3.5m of his own money to his staff after selling his business?
E) What did a consortium led by Eggert Magnusson buy for £108m?
F) What did Richard Branson sell for £690m?
CELEBRITY STUDIES
A) Who won a £25,000 prize, which she said she would spend on " make-up, clothes and orange lipstick"?
B) Where did Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes get married?
C) Who dropped out of the London Marathon after turning blue and shouting " I'm dying" to paramedics?
D) Who was named "worst celebrity to approach for an autograph" by the US magazine Autograph Collector?
CHEMISTRY
A) What ice-like crystalline mixture of water and gas, found in the oceanic sediment, has been much touted as a potentially huge source of energy?
B) What is polonium 210 used for industrially?
C) Why was N2O in the news?
D) Why was C10H15N in the news?
CITIZENSHIP STUDIES
A) Why was Tom Williams fined £80 at the Royal Norfolk Show?
B) Why was Steve Jago arrested outside Downing Street?
C) What percentage of Asbos are breached?
D) How much tax does the average British citizen pay to the state in the course of his or her lifetime?
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
A) Who said: "I have been abdicating state funding for years"?
B) Who said: "The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done" ?
C) Who greeted an offer of a major Cabinet promotion with a response that she would later describe as: "One word, and four lettered"?
D) What was declared Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary?
E) Who launched an interactive DVD game designed to promote spelling skills - only for 10,000 copies to be scrapped because his name was misspelt on the front?
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
A) Which graphic designer - famous for his classic V&A logo and his design for the Reuters news agency - died shortly before a major exhibition of his work at the Design Museum?
B) What are the TomTom GO910, the Garmin Nuvi 350 and the Medion GoPal PNA 515?
C) What sold 50,000 units within 12 hours of its launch this month - only to cause a spate of unexpected injuries?
D) Ian Callum was given a prestigious Royal Designer for Industry award for achieving "sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry". With which car marque is he associated?
E) Richard Rogers won the Stirling Prize for an airport that serves which city?
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
A) To which specific environmental issue was the year 2006 officially devoted?
B) England's 10 hottest years since records began (in 1659) have been, in chronological order, 1949, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006. Rank them in order of hotness.
C) Three successive Labour manifestos have promised a 20 per cent reduction of Britain's carbon emissions, from 1990 levels, by 2010. How does our current level of emissions compare with 1990?
D) Which UK borough produces the greatest carbon footprint per head?
E) In 1997 only 7 per cent of England's household waste was recycled. What percentage is recycled today?
FILM STUDIES
A) Who ousted Reese Witherspoon as the world's highest-paid actress?
B) Which Brit won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the 78th Academy Awards in March?
C) How many actors have preceded Daniel Craig in the cinematic role of James Bond?
D) What coveted film role was won, against stiff competition, by Dakota Blue Richards?
E) Which took most at the box office on its opening weekend in the US: Happy Feet, Casino Royale, or Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan?
GENERAL STUDIES
A) Which are there more of in the UK - married women, or single (ie, unmarried, divorced or widowed) women?
B) How much will the average British adult spend on gifts this Christmas: (i) £378; (ii) £738; or (iii) £837?
C) Which was higher in 2006: the A-level pass-rate or the GCSE pass-rate?
D) A study of 1 million claims by AA insurance found that the unluckiest day isn't, as popularly supposed, Friday 13th. Instead, it is a different day/date combination. Which?
E) Who gave President Bush a sweater, thought to be navy Burberry wool and apparently chosen by the donor himself?
GEOGRAPHY
A) In which countries are the owners of the following fine old British institutions based:
(i) London Electricity; (ii) BAA; (iii) Thames Water; (iv) Wessex Water; (v) Powergen; (vi) Rover.
B) Which country threatened to undermine Panama's most celebrated feature?
C) Name the countries that joined the EU in 2006
D) An international map of happiness published in August ranked Britain as the 41st happiest country in the world. Which country is happiest?
E) What - to the nearest 10 million - is the current population of the EU?
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
A) Who said: "I get tested for HIV twice a year. One has to be socially aware"?
B) What percentage of British men, and what proportion of British women, are clinically obese (ie, with a body mass index of more than 30)?
C) What does PVL stand for?
D) Which substance was reported this year (on various occasions) to " extend life", "counteract the effects of a high-fat diet", " reduce the risk of strokes and cancer", "delay the onset of the menopause", "reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease", " stave off deafness", "help you sleep", "help men lose weight" and "stave off gum disease", as well as being "a good source of dietary fibre"?
E) How much does the average GP earn?
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
A) Name the Wikipedia co-founder who is now launching a rival, Citizendium?
B) About 3 million people in Europe subscribe to IPTV. What is it?
C) How did BT shake BSkyB?
D) Sanjiv Ahuja and Arun Sarin are key players in the British - and world - telecommunications industries. What do they do?
E) Viviane Reding (from Luxembourg) is another. What does she do?
MEDIA STUDIES
A) Which is expected to record the greater advertising revenues for 2006 - Channel 4 or Google?
B) Which interviewee told a newspaper reporter: "Just make it up, honestly. Make me sound interesting"?
C) Who took over from M&C Saatchi as advertising agency for the Conservative Party?
D) Donatella Versace, Bono, Coleen McLoughlin, John Galliano and Tom Ford all acted as guest editors at some point in 2006. What did they edit?
E) In November, which sold a higher percentage of its copies at below full cover price: The Sun or The Daily Telegraph?
MUSIC
A) What was the bestselling rock/pop album of 2006?
B) Which was the most downloaded single of 2006 from Apple's iTunes Music Store?
C) Who did a Ronnie O'Sullivan at La Scala?
D) Whose seminal track, "Christmas With The Devil", was dropped from a BBC trailer after complaints from Christian viewers?
E) James Blunt became the first British artist since 1997 to achieve a US No 1 single. Who was the last person to do so?
POLITICAL STUDIES
A) It was revealed that Labour's £17.94m bill for its 2005 election campaign included a £7,700 bill for hairdressing for whom? And who was the hairdresser?
B) For what does the taxpayer pick up a £72,000 bill on behalf of bicycle-riding leader David Cameron?
C) To which image guru does the Conservative Party pay a reported £180,000 a year - down from £270,000 earlier this year - to advise David Cameron on strategy, marketing and presentation?
D) From whose lap did George Galloway sip milk (while she stroked his whiskers and said, "Good kitty")?
E) In January, BBC Radio 4's Today programme held a "Who Runs Britain?" poll. Tony Blair got 7 per cent of listeners' votes; "the British people" got 12 per cent; "Parliament" got 14 per cent; and Rupert Murdoch got 15 per cent. Who came top, with 22 per cent?
SPORT & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
A) How much will it cost Britain to stage the 2012 Olympics in London?
B) Who said that Olympic opening ceremonies were "a bloody nuisance" ?
C) How many teams in the 2006 Fifa World Cup finals were managed by a foreigner?
D) Who put Luton on the sporting map this winter?
E) Who is Shelley Rudman?
TV & RADIO STUDIES
A) Who became British television's highest-paid star?
B) Which £630,000-a-year presenter described women as "dirty whores" and was accused of having a "racist moment" after doing an impression of a "big, fat, black guy"?
C) Which £4,666-an-hour presenter showed an unhealthy interest in David Cameron's masturbatory imaginings?
D) Who exchanged a basic salary of £140,000 for one of £825,000?
E) What - apart from the fact that the former is a spin-off of the latter - links Torchwood to Doctor Who?
F) Which Radio DJ said the following quote at this year's 2006 Sony Radio Awards: " About * time. Sixteen years! Now I'll never have to come to one of these godforsaken nights again
Keep your answers to yourself, and ill post the answers in the new year.
A) What made a bit of a noise when it turned up in Oslo on 31 August?
B) What became the fastest-selling show in the National Gallery's history?
C) What links Mark Titchner, Rebecca Warren and Phil Collins?
D) Who won the Design Museum's prestigious Designer of the Year 2006 award?
BUSINESS STUDIES
A) Roughly how many people (to the nearest 5,000) currently work in the financial sector in the City of London?
B) And how many (to the nearest 100) are expected (by the Centre for Economics and Business Research) to have taken home bonuses of more than £1m this year?
C) According to the KPMG survey of directors' pay, what - to the nearest £50,000 - is the median take-home pay of chief executives of FTSE-100 companies?
D) Who gave away £3.5m of his own money to his staff after selling his business?
E) What did a consortium led by Eggert Magnusson buy for £108m?
F) What did Richard Branson sell for £690m?
CELEBRITY STUDIES
A) Who won a £25,000 prize, which she said she would spend on " make-up, clothes and orange lipstick"?
B) Where did Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes get married?
C) Who dropped out of the London Marathon after turning blue and shouting " I'm dying" to paramedics?
D) Who was named "worst celebrity to approach for an autograph" by the US magazine Autograph Collector?
CHEMISTRY
A) What ice-like crystalline mixture of water and gas, found in the oceanic sediment, has been much touted as a potentially huge source of energy?
B) What is polonium 210 used for industrially?
C) Why was N2O in the news?
D) Why was C10H15N in the news?
CITIZENSHIP STUDIES
A) Why was Tom Williams fined £80 at the Royal Norfolk Show?
B) Why was Steve Jago arrested outside Downing Street?
C) What percentage of Asbos are breached?
D) How much tax does the average British citizen pay to the state in the course of his or her lifetime?
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
A) Who said: "I have been abdicating state funding for years"?
B) Who said: "The only way we can win is to leave before the job is done" ?
C) Who greeted an offer of a major Cabinet promotion with a response that she would later describe as: "One word, and four lettered"?
D) What was declared Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary?
E) Who launched an interactive DVD game designed to promote spelling skills - only for 10,000 copies to be scrapped because his name was misspelt on the front?
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
A) Which graphic designer - famous for his classic V&A logo and his design for the Reuters news agency - died shortly before a major exhibition of his work at the Design Museum?
B) What are the TomTom GO910, the Garmin Nuvi 350 and the Medion GoPal PNA 515?
C) What sold 50,000 units within 12 hours of its launch this month - only to cause a spate of unexpected injuries?
D) Ian Callum was given a prestigious Royal Designer for Industry award for achieving "sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry". With which car marque is he associated?
E) Richard Rogers won the Stirling Prize for an airport that serves which city?
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
A) To which specific environmental issue was the year 2006 officially devoted?
B) England's 10 hottest years since records began (in 1659) have been, in chronological order, 1949, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006. Rank them in order of hotness.
C) Three successive Labour manifestos have promised a 20 per cent reduction of Britain's carbon emissions, from 1990 levels, by 2010. How does our current level of emissions compare with 1990?
D) Which UK borough produces the greatest carbon footprint per head?
E) In 1997 only 7 per cent of England's household waste was recycled. What percentage is recycled today?
FILM STUDIES
A) Who ousted Reese Witherspoon as the world's highest-paid actress?
B) Which Brit won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the 78th Academy Awards in March?
C) How many actors have preceded Daniel Craig in the cinematic role of James Bond?
D) What coveted film role was won, against stiff competition, by Dakota Blue Richards?
E) Which took most at the box office on its opening weekend in the US: Happy Feet, Casino Royale, or Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan?
GENERAL STUDIES
A) Which are there more of in the UK - married women, or single (ie, unmarried, divorced or widowed) women?
B) How much will the average British adult spend on gifts this Christmas: (i) £378; (ii) £738; or (iii) £837?
C) Which was higher in 2006: the A-level pass-rate or the GCSE pass-rate?
D) A study of 1 million claims by AA insurance found that the unluckiest day isn't, as popularly supposed, Friday 13th. Instead, it is a different day/date combination. Which?
E) Who gave President Bush a sweater, thought to be navy Burberry wool and apparently chosen by the donor himself?
GEOGRAPHY
A) In which countries are the owners of the following fine old British institutions based:
(i) London Electricity; (ii) BAA; (iii) Thames Water; (iv) Wessex Water; (v) Powergen; (vi) Rover.
B) Which country threatened to undermine Panama's most celebrated feature?
C) Name the countries that joined the EU in 2006
D) An international map of happiness published in August ranked Britain as the 41st happiest country in the world. Which country is happiest?
E) What - to the nearest 10 million - is the current population of the EU?
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE
A) Who said: "I get tested for HIV twice a year. One has to be socially aware"?
B) What percentage of British men, and what proportion of British women, are clinically obese (ie, with a body mass index of more than 30)?
C) What does PVL stand for?
D) Which substance was reported this year (on various occasions) to " extend life", "counteract the effects of a high-fat diet", " reduce the risk of strokes and cancer", "delay the onset of the menopause", "reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease", " stave off deafness", "help you sleep", "help men lose weight" and "stave off gum disease", as well as being "a good source of dietary fibre"?
E) How much does the average GP earn?
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
A) Name the Wikipedia co-founder who is now launching a rival, Citizendium?
B) About 3 million people in Europe subscribe to IPTV. What is it?
C) How did BT shake BSkyB?
D) Sanjiv Ahuja and Arun Sarin are key players in the British - and world - telecommunications industries. What do they do?
E) Viviane Reding (from Luxembourg) is another. What does she do?
MEDIA STUDIES
A) Which is expected to record the greater advertising revenues for 2006 - Channel 4 or Google?
B) Which interviewee told a newspaper reporter: "Just make it up, honestly. Make me sound interesting"?
C) Who took over from M&C Saatchi as advertising agency for the Conservative Party?
D) Donatella Versace, Bono, Coleen McLoughlin, John Galliano and Tom Ford all acted as guest editors at some point in 2006. What did they edit?
E) In November, which sold a higher percentage of its copies at below full cover price: The Sun or The Daily Telegraph?
MUSIC
A) What was the bestselling rock/pop album of 2006?
B) Which was the most downloaded single of 2006 from Apple's iTunes Music Store?
C) Who did a Ronnie O'Sullivan at La Scala?
D) Whose seminal track, "Christmas With The Devil", was dropped from a BBC trailer after complaints from Christian viewers?
E) James Blunt became the first British artist since 1997 to achieve a US No 1 single. Who was the last person to do so?
POLITICAL STUDIES
A) It was revealed that Labour's £17.94m bill for its 2005 election campaign included a £7,700 bill for hairdressing for whom? And who was the hairdresser?
B) For what does the taxpayer pick up a £72,000 bill on behalf of bicycle-riding leader David Cameron?
C) To which image guru does the Conservative Party pay a reported £180,000 a year - down from £270,000 earlier this year - to advise David Cameron on strategy, marketing and presentation?
D) From whose lap did George Galloway sip milk (while she stroked his whiskers and said, "Good kitty")?
E) In January, BBC Radio 4's Today programme held a "Who Runs Britain?" poll. Tony Blair got 7 per cent of listeners' votes; "the British people" got 12 per cent; "Parliament" got 14 per cent; and Rupert Murdoch got 15 per cent. Who came top, with 22 per cent?
SPORT & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
A) How much will it cost Britain to stage the 2012 Olympics in London?
B) Who said that Olympic opening ceremonies were "a bloody nuisance" ?
C) How many teams in the 2006 Fifa World Cup finals were managed by a foreigner?
D) Who put Luton on the sporting map this winter?
E) Who is Shelley Rudman?
TV & RADIO STUDIES
A) Who became British television's highest-paid star?
B) Which £630,000-a-year presenter described women as "dirty whores" and was accused of having a "racist moment" after doing an impression of a "big, fat, black guy"?
C) Which £4,666-an-hour presenter showed an unhealthy interest in David Cameron's masturbatory imaginings?
D) Who exchanged a basic salary of £140,000 for one of £825,000?
E) What - apart from the fact that the former is a spin-off of the latter - links Torchwood to Doctor Who?
F) Which Radio DJ said the following quote at this year's 2006 Sony Radio Awards: " About * time. Sixteen years! Now I'll never have to come to one of these godforsaken nights again
Keep your answers to yourself, and ill post the answers in the new year.
