Booze
1. Which brewery is based in Devizes, Wiltshire? It’s most popular beer is branded 6X.
Wadworths
2. On which Scottish island are the Laphroaig and Bowmore distilleries? Whiskies from this island are known for a strong smoky flavour.
Islay
3. Caipirinha is a Brazilian cocktail made from cachaca (a local rum); lime juice and what other ingredient?
Sugar
4. Which bitter has the advertising tag line 'Afraid you might taste something, Lagerboy?’
Hobgoblin
5. By which name are the red wines of Bordeaux known colloquially in Britain?
Claret
Film
Name the movie from the line:
6. ‘We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!’
Withnail and I.
7. ‘It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.’
Casablanca
8. ‘Charlie don’t surf’.
Apocalypse Now.
9. ‘When the chimes end, pick up your gun. Go ahead and shoot me Colonel. Just try.’
A Few Dollars More
10. ‘You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?’
Taxi Driver
Political quotes
11. In 1978, who said that an attack from Geoffrey Howe was ‘like being savaged by a dead sheep’?
Dennis Healey
12. Who did Winston Churchill describe as ‘a sheep in sheep’s clothing’?
Clement Attlee.
13. To whom did Nicholas Soames shout ‘Mine's a gin and tonic, Giovanni, and would you ask my friend what he's having?’
John Prescott
14. Who has been called pejoratively ‘The Honourable Member for the 18th Century’?
Jacob Rees-Mogg
15. It is rumoured that the following exchange took place in the House of Commons:
Labour MP: ‘Half the Tory Members opposite are crooks’.
The House of Commons Speaker: ‘The honourable member must withdraw that remark’
Labour MP: ‘OK, half the Tories are not crooks’.
Which ex-Labour MP is attributed to these remarks (note that Google says it’s fake news but it’s fairly commonly quoted as true)?
Dennis Skinner
Stand-Up Comedy
Identify the stand-up comedian from their description on Wikipedia:
16. An American
stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, writer and producer. His stand-up comedy persona makes use of
paraprosdokians spoken in a wandering
falsetto tone of voice. The confused, childlike delivery of his material produces the intended
comic timing in a manner invoking the "wisdom of children" or the
idiot savant.
Emo Phillips
17. An English
stand-up comedian, writer and director. His stand-up is characterised by
repetition, frequent
callbacks, generally deadpan delivery and a pronounced use of deconstruction, which he often self-consciously refers to on stage... He co-wrote and co-directed the
West End hit musical ‘
Jerry Springer: The Opera’
Stewart Lee
18. Was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time... He won an
Emmy Award (1973) and five
Grammy Awards (1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982). In 2017,
Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time
Richard Pryor
19. Was an American
stand-up comedian,
social critic, and
satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex and
vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an
obscenity trial was followed by a
posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York state, by the
Governor George Pataki in 2003.
Lenny Bruce.
20. An English comedian, writer, presenter and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from
psychiatric nursing to the
alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on
Saturday Live, she went on to appear on
The Brain Drain...
Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on
QI,
Have I Got News for You and
Would I Lie to You?. She also makes regular appearances on
BBC Radio 4 in programmes such as
The News Quiz and
Just a Minute.
Jo Brand
Games
21. In which early computer game would you find the character Guybrush Threepwood?
Monkey Island
22. Five weapons in Cluedo are Candlestick; Dagger; Lead Pipe; Pistol; Rope. What is the sixth weapon?
Wrench or Spanner
23. Which board game is described on Wikipedia as ‘a
strategy board game of
diplomacy,
conflict and conquest for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a
political map of
Earth, divided into forty-two
territories, which are grouped into six
continents.’?
Risk
24. Blackwood; Lebensohl; Stayman; Gerber; Asptro and Landy are six bidding conventions used in which game? Most players know and use fewer than ten of the hundreds of conventions available and must declare which ones they use before play starts. Even internationals and accredited masters of the game may use only thirty or so.
Bridge
25. What is the best-selling video game (computer game) of all time?
Minecraft
* Billie Childish is also an artist. He co-founded the Stuckist art movement. The name ‘stuckist’ came from an argument between him and his ex, as he valued painting as an art medium. She told him that he was ‘Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!’.
