The MSE Towers Christmas Quiz – can you beat them?

The MSE Towers Christmas Quiz – can you beat them?

Each year at the MSE Christmas party the team are forced to love to play my Christmas quiz. So this year, ably aided by MSE’s Yasin and Catherine, I donned my sequined jacket (seriously), slicked back my hair (not seriously, I’ve not got enough) and turned Quizmaster.

Now it’s your turn to have a go (no googling), feel free to put your answers in the discussion below.

For obvious reasons I’ve left out the music round (which was name the song and the language it is in), the on-the-spot bonus questions and games and more – and the top two teams battled it out to win the overall contest in a tense rock, paper, scissors.

QUIZ ANSWERS PUBLISHED HERE

Round 1: What year did it happen in the 90s

There is one answer for each year 1990-1999, no year is duplicated.

1. The Channel Tunnel opens
2. Princess Diana dies in Paris
3. The Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, Georgia
4. Nelson Mandela is released from jail
5. John Major leads the Conservatives to a General Election victory over Neil Kinnock’s Labour Party
6. Blur beats Oasis in the battle of the bands when Country House reaches number 1 in the charts ahead of Roll With It
7. Google is founded
8. Freddie Mercury and Robert Maxwell die
9. The Grand National is cancelled after a false start
10. Britney Spears hits number one with Baby, One More Time

Round 2: The Martin round

This round has a proud tradition. All are questions I set without needing to reference research. You can probably tell a lot about me because of it!

1. What is Picard’s Borg name?
2. Who is on the back of a £50 note? NB: this is the question I got wrong on CBBC show ‘Hacker Time’ – luckily I got the rest right and ‘escaped’!
3. What is the current year… in the Jewish calendar?
4. Which is the only letter in scrabble all SIX vowels can be put after to form an allowed (SOWPODS) two letter word?
5. Who were the three Kings who reigned in England in 1066 after Edward the Confessor?
6. What is the Kobayashi Maru?
7. What do you call the second in command of a Roman century?
8. How many months of the year are allowed in Scrabble (SOWPODS)?
9. Who died first: Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun or Peter the Great?
10. Which of the following words is derived from the Greek word for pebble worm?

A) Anaconda B) Crocodile C) Conger Eel D) Iguana

NB. This was the £250,000 question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire that Angela Rippon and I decided to ‘take the money’ instead of answering.

Round 3: News and sport round

1. What is the shortest individual race in the Summer Olympics?
2. What was the exact offence Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of?
3. What is the men’s 100m running world record?
4. Name the consumer minister and the shadow consumer minister?
5. What group were England in for the men’s football World Cup round robin?
6. Which country became the 18th to join the Eurozone in 2014?
7. What’s the difference between running SPECIFICALLY the 400m at an outdoor track to an indoor track?
8. In which city did George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin get married?
9. What’s the maximum possible break at snooker?
10. And we’d done news and sport, so what better way to finish than with weather… at what temperature does water freeze… in fahrenheit?

Round 4: the Movie Round

Let me know how you get on below.

Past year’s quizzes

The MSE Christmas pub quiz 2013
The MSE Christmas pub quiz 2012
The MSE Christmas pub quiz 2011…can you beat the team?
The MSE Christmas pub quiz…can you beat the team?