I am running a quiz (for fundraising) - I need some current affairs questions please?

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So far I have:

1)Which Southampton football club player was recently fined £96, 425 for driving offences?

Answer: Mario Lemina – the fine was for failure to disclose who was driving his car rather than the actual speeding offences

2)Which veteran Labour MP recently (August 2018) resigned the whip after claiming that Corbyn’s leadership is “a force for anti Semitism”?
Answer: Frank Field, MP for Birkenhead for the past 40 years. He claimed that Labour was increasingly “seen as a racist party” and that Mr Corbyn has done “nothing substantive” to address the issue
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I need some difficult ones to sort out the men (and women) from the boys (and girls)..as well as some more moderate to easy questions

I avoid the news mostly so would appreciate some suggestions. Cheers

Thanks

Pawnee - He didn't resign though. He resigned the whip. It's important to get these things right!

Sorry people but X factor judges and Big brother are not IMHO current affairs.

Fine for a round on reality TV, not for current affairs.

Something people have a chance of guessing

Pic a local town, what was the max temp reached in the last 12 months. You could also do minimum temp.

Matching quotes to political parties / politicians.

Flags is a good one.

Not really current but could be fun - Patron saints.

Eg name three countries with the patron saint St Patrick.

Name political parties with elected MPs that are not conservative, labour or lib dem.

Yes true Barbara re Novichok - they were from Aymesbury (although the poisoning occurred whilst they were in Salisbury)

How much were Leave.EU fined for breaking Electoral Law? Nearest guess wins?

Hi Limit
How about the famous faces picture round? Stick a load of pictures of famous people (try some when said person was v young too, makes it a bit tricky) on paper and photocopy? Quite handy as a half time flller to give quiz master a break and can be used to give early birds something to get on with.

National air lines?

Doh ... meant to say aim is to name the face !

I'd stay away Brexit entirely, its meant to be a fun night out and for many it's deeply worrying.

The other quiz categories that I am doing include:

Geography and the natural world
History
Culture (art, literature, movies)
Sport
Celebrity Trivia
Food and drink

If anyone has some question suggestions for those I would be immensely grateful. I have used a number of the suggestions above for Current Affairs and a picture round

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Paparadscha I’m baffled that you think the question about Frank Field is difficult but you think an easier one is when Betty Boothroyd became Speaker?

As the saying goes, a question is difficult when you don’t know the answer to it!

What is the likely age range of the contestants? If they’re young they likely won’t have even heard of Betty Boothroyd, and I certainly wouldn’t describe it as a current affairs question (although I wish it was because I’m old).

What is the name of the caves from which the Thai footballers were rescued? (Tham Luang Nang Non)

Who wrote 'Vanity Fair'? William Makepeace Thackeray (possible bonus point for the middle name?)

How many goals in total did England score in their year's World Cup?

When is the next netball World Cup? (2019)

Who founded Parkrun? (Paul Sintin-Hewitt)

It would help if I could spell! Paul Sinton-Hewitt

In what year was the first Strictly Come Dancing? (2004)

Which album cover featured a cake baked by Delia Smith? (Rolling Stones, Let It Bleed)

Slivovic is a brandy made from which fruit? (plum)

For geography

Which country has the largest area of permanent snow, answer Australia.

Which country has the most wild camels, answer again Australia

What language is the official language of Iran - Farsi

History - which country first used concentration camps?, answer Britain.

Who was 'queen' for 9 days before Mary Tudor, Jane

Food and Drink - what other name is used for the grape variety syrah, answer shiraz.

What animal is a muntjac - deer

What colour are peacock eggs, answer peahens lay eggs not peacocks.

For picture rounds you could have copies of adverts with the brand name removed - it can be surprisingly difficult to remember which advert is for which company.

Another one could be to provide sections of various maps with a placename taken out. So maybe showing three local villages, with the name of one missing. You could change the level (as it were) so have a few with street names, and you could also include bus and train maps.

I like the advert idea, you could do a logo quiz, pick some logos and they have to say what they're?bit easy tbh, but fun to do and maybe a nice starter activity to ease everyone into it

Movie Questions

Which two actors presented the Best Film Award that went wrong when they announced the wrong winner in 2017?

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway

Which two films were at the centre of the controversy? Both the actual winner and the wrongly announced film?

Moonlight and La La Land

Who became the first woman to be Oscar nominated for an adapted screenplay based on her own book?

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Which Bond actor had an uncredited appearance as a stormtrooper in Star Wars : The Force Awakens?

TV Questions

Game Of Thrones is set in which fictional realm?

Westeros

Who made history as TVs highest paid actress for her $20 million payday for Greys Anatomy?

Ellen Pompeo

Food - can you include a question about Seaweed in Chinese dishes being made from cabbage. (See other thread).,

For Culture, why don’t you have a music round, and do ‘Guess the theme tune’, and either play a selection of well known film theme tune snippets (Jaws, Star Wars, great escape, dam busters, etc) or tv theme tunes (one show, match of the day, Grange Hill, bikers grove, etc)

Likely age of participants makes the biggest difference in my opinion. We quiz quite a bit and despite being 60 at many of the venues we are among the youngest! If DS comes with us, despite being excellent at general knowledge he doesn't stand a chance on many of the questions as they are designed for a more mature audience.

Personally, I love a proper varied entertainment round, picture and music rounds. DH loves the geography and history rounds. Neither of us like flora and fauna or food and drink rounds, others seem to agree as a collective sigh usually goes up when they are announced
Hope it goes well.

Following on from Petal's idea, you could have a food and drinks round all based on "what is the main ingredient in..." (maybe state you're not meaning pasty etc). You could have a mix of food and drinks (cocktails) and throw in some tricks such as the Chinese seaweed and Peking Duck.

What was the nickname if the boys football team who got stuck in the Thailand caves? (Think it was the Wild Boars but it would be worth checking)

I thought that MissFezziwig

Age range of those attending is 40 -70 ish (with most clustered around the mid 40's to 50's)

Thanks for these suggestions folks - they are great and I will be using them. Saves me a lot of work

Keep them coming please

You could do a picture round: match the person to the job. Dead simple ones like the PM and US President. Trickier ones like the Pope and the Governor of the Bank of England, Vice President of the US, and then absolute sods like Secretary of State for Work and Pensions or SecGen of the UN.
As long as you include a few women into the mix and perhaps some people even the people who are clueless can enjoy having a stab at deciding whether a face looks like a banker.

I wouldn't include football in a current affairs quizz.

But maybe that's just me being biased... Because I couldn't answer a question like that (not even about our local - and admittedly quite popular - football club!)...

Geography and the natural world

Which continent has no desert? (Ok, that's easy)

Name a double landlocked country? (There are two)

What is the most densely populated (sovereign) country?

History does that in your opinion also include mythology? Always makes for interesting and varied questions imo.

If people are quite good quizzers then a good literature one is
“who is?
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Prisoner of Azkaban/Zenda
Gone Girl
Mockingjay
The Lord of the Rings
Etc