This document contains questions from 6 different quiz rounds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, Food and Drink, Manchester and the North West, a Picture Round, Films, and Strap-lines and Advertising Slogans. Each round contains 10 multiple choice or short answer questions on the given topic. The questions test knowledge on details from movies, books, celebrities, local history, cooking and more.

1. Round One
Science Fiction and
Fantasy

2. Question 1
When Buffy the
Vampire Slayer first
died, who replaced her
as the next Slayer?

3. Question 2
In Quentin Tarantino’s
Kill Bill films, what was
the code name for
Daryl Hannah’s
character?

4. Question 3
James Cameron
created what TV series
that launched the
career of Jessica Alba?

5. Question 4
In the X-Men: Last
Stand film, what is the
mutants codename
who is the source for
“The Cure”?

6. Question 5
What recent film by
Marvel Comics was
filmed in Manchester’s
Northern Quarter
because of it’s 1930s
feel?

7. Question 6
What colour pill did Neo take to become fully
aware of The Matrix?

8. Question 7
What is the name of
the character who
replaced Rose Tyler as
Doctor Who’s
assistant?

9. Question 8
What was the
name of the
planet in the film
Avatar?

10. Question 9
In what year did
Superman first
fly into action?

11. Question 10
How many
Actors have
played the role
of Batman (TV &
Film)?

12. Round Two
Food and Drink

13. Question 1
In cooking what in
Panko used for?

14. Question 2
When making toffee
what is the
temperature range to
get a HIGH CRACK?

15. Question 3
What is a Truckle?

16. Question 4
What was the name of
the 1st person to
invent a method to
freeze food?

17. Question 5
How do you make
white wine from red
grapes?

18. Question 6
What 5 spirits are
mixed together to
make a classic Long
Island Ice Tea?

19. Question 7
What is a Smelt?

20. Question 8
What is
Samphire?

21. Question 9
The talented
Mary Berry from
Great British
Bake Off
published her
first cookbook in
what year?

22. Question 10
What are the
home towns of
the Hairy Bikers?

23. Time for a short break

24. Round Three
Manchester and the North
West

25. Question 1
Which pub in
Manchester had
knickers on the back
wall/celing?

26. Question 2
Who designed the
£1.4m B of the Bang
sculpture that was sold
for £17K as scrap
metal when
dismantled?

27. Question 3
What’s the train
station called that only
opens when
Manchester United
play?

28. Question 4
When did the Hacienda night club close?

29. Question 5
The last person in
Britain to hang was
hung at Strangeways -
what was their name?

30. Question 6
Where does the name
Manchester come
from?

31. Question 7
Where in the North
West were there
witches?

32. Question 8
What was first split
in Manchester in
1917?

33. Question 9
Where did you used
to be able to go to
the loo but can now
have a drink?

34. Question 10
What beast
guards
Manchester
Town Hall?

35. Round Four
Picture Round – Guess who
is coming for dinner?

36. Round Five
Films

37. Question 1
Vivian Leigh who
starred in ‘Gone with
the Wind’ lived with
what mental health
condition?

38. Question 2
In 1962 Marilyn
Monroe died of a drug
overdose What was
her real name?

39. Question 3
What was Elizabeth
Taylor’s first film?

40. Question 4
What town was Alfred
Hitchcock born?

41. Question 5
What was the name of
the Dragon in the
Disney film “Pete’s
Dragon”?

42. Question 6
How many times has
Meryl Streep won an
Oscar and for what
films?

43. Question 7
UK born actor Tom
Hardy played Bane in
the latest blockbuster
Batman – Dark Knight
Rises. What is the
name of the film where
he plays an endearing
but traumatised
homeless alcoholic.

44. Question 8
Rachel Griffiths first
hit the big screen as
Rhonda Epinstalk in
Muriel’s Wedding.
What character did
she play in TV
series 6ft Under?

45. Question 9
Who was the last
poster girl covering
up Andy’s escape
route in the
‘Shawshank
Redemption’?

46. Question 10
What is the name of
Elle’s dog in the film
‘Legally Blonde’?

47. Round Six
Strap-lines and
Advertising Slogans

48. Question 1
Whose slogan was “fluent in finance”?

49. Question 2
Whose strap-line is “Because life is
complicated enough”

50. Question 3
Whose strap-line is “don’t leave home
without it”?

51. Question 4
“Is she or isn’t she?” is said to promote
what product?

52. Question 5
Who uses the slogan “let your fingers do the
walking?”

53. Question 6
What company wants you to think that they
“Think Different”?

54. Question 7
Who wants you to “Just Do It”?

55. Question 8
What provides “Liquid Engineering”?

56. Question 9
What can you enjoy “Anytime, Anyplace,
Anywhere”?

57. Question 10
What “Lift and Separates”?