Melanie's Marvellous Quiz

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Melanie's Marvellous Quiz

Test your knowledge with Melanie's Marvellous Quiz! Dive into a fun and engaging experience that covers a variety of topics ranging from fictional characters to powerful women in history, and much more.

Think you know your stuff? Challenge yourself and your friends with these exciting questions!

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1. Which fictional character always referred to his wife as 'she who must be obeyed'?

Jerry Leadbetter (The Good Life)

Horace Rumpole (of the Bailey)

Jim Hacker (Yes Minister)

Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers)

2. What is the name of the fictional setting of Dad's Army?

West Malting

Walton-on-the-Naze

Walmington-on-sea

Westbourne-on-sea

3. Peter Falke plays the raincoat wearing, cigar smoking homicide investigator in the popular TV series Columbo. But what is his rank in the Los Angeles Police Department?

Lieutenant

Sergeant

Captain

Detective

4. Father Ted is the story of three priests sent to live on the remote Craggy Island. What is the name of the housekeeper who always wants to serve them tea?

Mrs Dougal

Mrs Doyle

Mrs Doubtfire

Mrs O'Donoghue

5. In the animated film Cars, what is the name of the run down town in which Lightening McQueen becomes imprisoned?

Radiator Falls

Piston Falls

Radium Springs

Radiator Springs

1. Who was the first Female solo artist or lead singer to headline at Glastonbury in 2016?

Adele

Kylie Minogue

Beyonce

Florence and the Machine

2. Kathryn Bigalow is the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. For which film did she win?

Zero Dark Thirty

K-19 The Widowmaker

The Weight of Water

The Hurt Locker

3. Martina Navratilova is considered one of the best female tennis players of all time. How many times did she win the Wimbledon Championship?

4. Who is the only person (and only woman to date) to win two Nobel Prizes?

Rosalind Franklin

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Marie Curie

Mary Somerville

5. Which girl band popularised the term ‘girl power’?

Destiny’s Child

Girls Aloud

Bananarama

Spice Girls

1. In the final moments of Blackadder Goes Forth, the main characters charge ‘over the top’ into which legendary World War 1 battle?

Passchendaele

Ypres

Somme

Verdun

2. Which of these actors has not portrayed Queen Elizabeth II on screen?

Helen Mirren

Emily Blunt

Samantha Bond

Claire Foy

3. The Greatest Showman, tells the story of America’s famous ringmaster, P T Barnum. What do the initials P T stand for?

Phineas Taylor

Phineas Tobias

Phillip Taylor

Phillip Tobias

4. Which Monarch, suffering with a severe stammer, is portrayed in the film The King’s Speech?

Edward VII

George VI

George V

Edward VIII

5. Which BBC comedy series, centres around a pair of high-powered career women on the London fashion scene and is reportedly based upon real life PR executive Lynne Franks?

Birds of a Feather

French and Saunders

People Like Us

Absolutely Fabulous

1. On April 30th 1952, what became the first toy to be advertised on television in the UK?

Play Doh

Mr Potato Head

Scalextric

Lego

2. What surprise hit toy made over a million sales in 1996?

Beanie Babies

Tamagotchi

Tickle Me Elmo

Teletubbies

3. In the film Toy Story (one of my all-time favourite films) what does Woody witness the neighbour Sid attempting to blow up in his back garden?

His sister’s headless doll

A slinky dog

Plastic dinosaur

Combat Carl

4. Which of these is not an official edition of Monopoly?

Bass Fishing

Dungeons and Dragons

Sheffield Wednesday

Elvis

5. Which children’s toy was so popular in the 1990’s that Blue Peter designed one you could make at home?

Batmobile

Tracey Island

Table football

Thunderbird 2

1. Which Bond film features Sam Smith’s track ‘Writing’s on the Wall’?

Spectre

No time to Die

Skyfall

Quantum of Solace

2. Which composer stayed in the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne in 1905, hiding with his mistress during a very public divorce?

Maurice Ravel

Camille Saint-Saens

Claude Debussy

Gabriel Faure

3. Fisherman’s Friends is a folk group who scored a top 10 hit album of sea shanties. Which Cornish village are they from?

Porthleven

Port Isaac

Port Quin

Perranporth

4. Finish the line of this Eurythmics song: Here comes the rain again, Falling on my head like a ………..

Melody

Constancy

Tragedy

Memory

5. If you saw 'Da Capo' (or D.C.) in a piece of music, what would you do?

Repeat the phrase

Go back to the beginning

Go back to the sign

Skip to the coda

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