Conversation Champions - Quiz No 4

A big thank you to our friends the Barber’s who came up with this little number. It’s really interesting getting different people to do the quiz each week as you get a really eclectic range of questions (Did you see the sailing ones in Quiz 2?!). This week there’s a little bit more Sport than we’ve seen so far and who knew there were so many famous Jason’s? Can you name them all? ENJOY!

1. If you flew East from New York which would be the first country you reach?

2. What does DVD stand for?

3. What would have been the Capital of the UK if Hitler's plan had been successful?

4. What bone are babies born without?

5. How many lines are there on the London Underground?

6. Name Henry VIIIs last wife

7. What does IPA stand for

8. What are the 5 boroughs of New York City?

9. What ingredients make up a Negroni?

10. Which presenter took over the latest series of Love Island?

11. Which Emily Bronte novel inspired a Kate Bush Song?

12. The Tates is a network of four museums - 2 are in London, where are the other 2 in the UK?

13. Which famous British musician played a wizard singer in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

14. Which band had a huge 2002 global hit record with a ‘Rush of Blood to the head’?

15. What was David Bowie's real surname?

16. Which fruity hat did Prince wear?

17. Which 1938 Gothic novel concerns a young woman who marries a man to find his household is haunted by his previous wife?

18. Name the trilogy by Philip Pullman

19. Music round (play intro)

20. Music round (play intro)

21. Music round (play intro)

22. Music round (play intro)

23. Who is the governor of the bank of England and for a bonus point who was his predecessor?

24. Which 2 US banks went under in 2008?

25. Which UK energy company in May 2020 cut their dividends for the first time since WWII

26. What does AIM stand for - the sub market of the London Stock Exchange?

27. Which high street retailer run by Philip Green went into administration in 2016

28. Which England footballer got sent off in the 1998 World Cup game against Argentina

29. Who won the 2018 Football World Cup?

30. Who won the 2019 Cricket World Cup and who was the runner up?

31. How many players are there in an Ice hockey team?

32. Which team won the 2019 Super Bowl?

33. What year did Ayrton Senna die?

1. Picture round 1 - name the Jasons

Picture round 2 - who are the artists who painted these pictures?

Answers:

1. Portugal 2. Digital Video Disk (or Digital Versatile Disk) 3. Oxford 4. Kneecap/Patella 5. 11 6. Catherine Parr 7. Indian Pale Ale 8. Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx, Manhattan 9. Gin, Campari, Vermouth 10. Laura Whitmore 11. Wuthering Heights 12. St Ives and Liverpool 13. Jarvis Cocker 14. Coldplay 15. Evans 16. Raspberry Beret 17. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 18. His Dark Materials

Picture Round 19. Lullaby by the Cure 20. Mr Brightside by The Killers 21. Come as you are by Nirvana 22. With or Without you by U2 23 Andrew Bailey, predecessor Mark Carney 24. Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns 25. Shell  26. Alternative Investment Market 27. British Home Stores/BHS 28. David Beckham 29. France 30. England won, NZ runner up 31. 6 32. Kansas City Chiefs 33. 1994

Picture round 1

1. Jason Bateman 2. Jason Isaacs 3. Jason Biggs 4. Jason Derulo 5. Jason Segel 6. Jason Donovan 7. Jason Orange 8. Jason Priestley 9. Jason Leonard 10. Jason Momoa 11. Jason Statham

Picture round 2

1. Picasso 2. Gustav Klimt 3. Van Gogh 4. Rembrandt 5. Edward Hopper 6. Hokusai 7. Rembrandt

Conversation Champions - Quiz no 3

Week 7 of lockdown and we’re really pleased to see the pressure on the NHS is easing. It’s still vital to stay safe and stay home though so we’ll keep on publishing content as long as it’s needed. Here is Week 3 of our Quiz questions courtesy of our lovely friends, the Snows, Mrs Snow is actually one of our NHS Heroes so a HUGE thank you to her and everyone at the NHS for their dedication during these times.

Stay home, stay safe and keep talking.

Please do share any other quiz questions with us so we can share them with everyone.

Leading Women Round

What was the profession of:

1. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

2. Ellen Terry

3. Zaha Hadid

4. Amal Clooney

5. Mary Seacole

6. Iris Murdoch

7. Kittie Fisher

8. Billy Jean King

9. Isadora Duncan

10. Marie Curie

Picture Round

What do each of the following images represent?

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Popular Culture

21. What cover version from BBC RAdio 1 Live Lounge was released on 23 April 2020 to raise money for the NHS

22. 1959 Structure designed by John Sherlock and enjoyed at Children's Parties

23. What song was released in 1971, covered in 2005 by a popular comedian and then recreated by NHS workers in 2020?

24. Where is the Love Island villa?

25. Who does Jo Exotic from Tiger King want dead?

26. Which actresses play the leading ladies in Villanelle?

27. Which Everton footballer was fined 2 weeks wages for hosting a party at his home during lockdown?

28. Who was the biggest revenue generating YouTube star/channel  in 2019?

29. Name the political activist with ASD who came to fame last year at the age of 16.

30. Which artist is singing the theme song to the Bond Film ‘No Time to Die’?

Geography Round

31. Name three North Sea rivers beginning with the letter ‘T’

32. Name the state capital of California

33. What is a ‘rias’

34. What 3 countries is Borneo divided into

35. What is the largest island in the Mediterranean?

36. Name the capital of Kenya

37. Name two EU countries which start and end with the same one letter

38. Which sea is Aberdeen on?

39. What state is Perth in?

40. What is a Scirocco?

Abbreviation Round

What do these abbreviations mean?

41. NASA

42. PPE

43. COBRA

44. LBW

45. BOAC

46. USSR

47. IOC

48. DNR

49. OPEC

50. DEFRA

51. AWOL

52. CBT

53. SENCO

Answers:

1. Doctor & Suffragette 2. Actress 3. Architect 4. Barrister and Humans Rights activist 5. Jamaican English Business woman and nurse 6. Author, Journalist 7. Courtesan 8. Tennis player 9. Performance Artist/Dancer 10. Physician, Scientist, ‘The Radium Woman’ 11. First Aid. 12. Forgive and forget 14. Ice Cube 14. Apple Pie 15. Tricycle 16. Arm in arm 17. Pie in the Sky 18. Equal Rights 19. Dolly Mixture 20. Half Baked 20b. Missing U 21. Foo Fighters - Times like these 22. Bouncy Castle 23. Peter Kay - Show me the way to Amarillo 24. Cape Town 25. Carol Baskin 26. Jodie Comer & Sandra Oh 27. Moise Kean 28. Ryans World 29. Greta Thunberg 30. Billie Eillish 31. Tay, Tweed, Tyne, Tees, Thames 32. Sacramento 33. A valley partly filled with water 34.Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia 35. Sicily 36. Nairobi 37. Austria and Albania 38. The North Sea 39. Western Australia 40. A hot wind 41. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 42. Personal Protection Equipment 43. Cabinet Office Briefing Room A 44. Leg Before Wicket 45. British Overseas Airways Corporation 46. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 47. International Olympic Committee 48. Do Not (actually) Resuscitate 49. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries 50. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 51. Absent WithOut Leave 52 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 53. Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator

5 simple steps to zen

Supporting you - Taking a moment for yourself

Conversations and connections are more important now more than ever. Whilst our mission is to get the nation talking and engaging with each other during these times, we’re conscious some people live alone, and others may live in a house full of people but still find themselves feeling isolated, scared and lonely. We thought it would be useful to share this exercise which helps you refocus and calm your mind. It can be done anywhere at any time.

5. Note FIVE things you see around you. It could be a pen, a spot on the ceiling, anything in your surroundings.

4: Note FOUR things you can touch or feel around you. It could be your hair, a pillow, a breeze  or the ground under your feet.

3: Note THREE things you can hear. This could be an external sound. If you can hear your belly rumbling that counts. Focus on things you can hear outside or your body.

2: Note TWO things you can smell. Maybe you are in your house and smell food or cleaning products or in your bedroom and smell your pillow. You may be outside and smell nature.

1: Note ONE thing you can taste. What does the inside of your mouth taste like - gum, pepsi, or the sandwich from lunch.