Block Eight - Two Kebabs and a portion of Chips, please
Created | Updated Jan 31, 2003
The Champagne Quiz Holiday Extravaganza - What does koh-i-noor mean?
- Mountain of Light
- Which six countries whose independence did Simon Bolivar secure?
- Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru & Venezuela
- What is the characteristic smell of hydrogen cyanide?
- Bitter almonds
- In which year did the Eurovision Song Contest begin?
- 1956
- ...and when did Britain first have a winning entry?
- 1967 (Sandie Shaw "Puppet on String")
- What was Britain's first colony?
- Newfoundland (annexed 1583)
- What is Fred Hoyle's theory of creation of the universe called?
- The Steady State theory
- What ringing mechanism did James Ritty invent in 1884?
- The cash register
- How did Belgium's Queen Astrid die?
- Car crash
- What have the phrases, "The Greeks had a word for it", and, "A storm in a teacup", got in common?
- They're both the titles of plays
