Questions and Answers Game (A General Knowlegde quiz)

[ROBERT M.]

Thanks Marian ..........there were 16 Gregory's............but there were no "Gregory's Girls" to share their lives with ........

[ROBERT M.]

Name five of the celebrities who attended the funeral of Norman Collier today ...............

[Marian]

A. RUSS ABBOTT, FREDDIE (PARROT FACE) DAVIS, ROY HUDD, ROY WALKER and TOMMY CANNON.

Q. Who is the "Dragon" who is re-opening Jessop's Shops today?

Two Jessops stores will open today in London's Oxford Street and Birmingham, with four others opening over the Easter weekend in Manchester, Aberdeen, High Wycombe and St Albans.

[Lena & Harry Smith]

A. PETER JONES Marian

[Marian]

That's right Lena and Harry Your turn...

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Thanks Marian..
Q. We've heard of a Buttonhook designed to fasten buttons etc, but what other term does this refer to.

[Marian]

Something to do with boxing Lena?!!!

[Lena & Harry Smith]

It is sport Marian, but not boxing. It has a connection with our country's most popular sport but played in America.

[mariana44]

FOOTBALL ??

[Lena & Harry Smith]

Yes, It is to do with American Football Marian,

[Marian]

Is it a way a player sometimes runs in American football when he suddenly stops and goes the other way?

[Lena & Harry Smith]

A. Yes well done, Marian. I know what you're saying. It's a term for a pass when a player runs straight down field then doubles back a few steps to retrieve it. Your turn !!

[Marian]

Thanks Lena, I wasn't so sure myself!

Q. Name 5 personalities that have turned down an honour (Knighthood, M.B.E. O.B.E. etc..)

[Lena & Harry Smith]

A. David Bowie, Nigella Lawson, J,S, Lowrie, Albert Finney, Evelyn Waugh.

[Marian]

Well done Lena and Harry. Your turn...

Some others that turned down Honours...
Danny Boyle, John Cleese, Jim Broadbent, Michael Winner, Honor Blackman, Ken Loach, Bill Nighy, Ian Diamid, Paul Scofield, Hattie Jaques, Malcolm McDowell, Alan Rickman and Trevor Howard.