Hi there and welcome to the first free mini pub quiz of 2008. Hopefully you had a great Christmas and New Year, with a resolution to improve your trivia firmly in place. Well, let's make a start - this week's quiz is a general knowledge round followed by a headquarters round.
Round One - General Knowledge
1) Which Californian city has a NBA basketball team called the Kings?
2) Which 2002 Matt Damon movie was the first film to be awarded a 12A certificate by the British Board of Film Classification?
3) Who was the third President of the United States?
4) On the Beaufort Scale what category of wind speed comes between storm and hurricane?
5) Which ocean does the Orinoco River flow into?
6) Who wrote the book 'The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club'?
7) In 'Bob the Builder' what colour is the crane named Lofty?
8) What does the German word "rathaus" mean?
9) Which American female singer was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in two consecutive years (1972 & 1973)?
10) Who in 2007 released a cookery book titled 'Real Family Food'?
Round Two - Headquarters
Can you name the town or city in which you would find the headquarters of each of the following companies?
1) Asda
2) The Co-operative Group
3) Easyjet
4) Royal Bank of Scotland
5) The Body Shop
6) Next
7) Cadbury Trebor Bassett
8) Baxters
9) Barclays plc
10) Nationwide Building Society
Tie break - in which year was the international food company Baxters founded?
Answers to this quiz will be supplied with our next free quiz in a fortnight, or you can get them in advance by following this LINK
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