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 blanksHokusai'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)
b)
c)
d)
e)
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?