Give me some great quiz questions!

[sleepychunky]

I'm writing a quiz for a charity fundraiser in a couple of weeks' time. I love quizzes but last time I wrote one everybody said the questions were too hard! So hit me with some really good questions - don't mind what category (I've already done general knowledge and picture round).

What is shagreen?

Who was Henry VIII’s last wife?

Who was the youngest Beatle?
In which country is Lake Titikaka?
Who painted The Scream?
Who wrote Dombey and Son?
Who was Henry VIII’s third wife?
Which planet is furthest from the sun?
Which scientist sailed on The Beagle

What is Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name? ( heard last week on the radio )

Stick different shaped pasta (obscure fancy pasta) to a sheet of paper, 1 sheet per team. Get them to name the pasta?

Bowls of weird crisps, name the flavours?

As above but with jelly beans.

Which four countries in Africa have Portuguese as the official language?

You could do a 'naming' round

e.g. 5 countries beginning with 'M'.

Loving these, give me more! I have got about 50% of these without looking up the answers so I reckon that's a pretty good level for my audience (who are mainly 60+ and pretty well educated)

Name the only station on the London Underground network that does not contain any of the letters of the word mackerel.

60 plus, you say.....

What year was BBC colour TV first broadcast?
What year was the Suez crisis?
What drink did Margaret Thatcher take away?

Q- Three different songs titled "The Power of Love" were in the UK charts at the same time. Who were the artists of each song?

A- Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Huey Lewis And The News
Jennifer Rush

quotes from films are always fun- guess who said them and what film.

A point for every country in Africa that you can name beginning with B (Botswana, Benin, Burundi, Burkina Faso) or S (Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, South Africa, Seychelles) I’ve probably missed some.

Name the only place Elvis ever visited in Great Britain ? Prestwick on a stopover on his way to Germany when he was in the Army

Name the 2 kelpies at the Helix park in Falkirk ? Duke and Baron

Q- The majority of immigrants to the USA between 1820 and 1900 came from which two countries?
A- Ireland and Germany

Q- Which model was know as ?The Shrimp??
A- Jean Shrimpton

Q- Which major British newspaper closed down for almost a year in 1978?
A- The Times

Q- Who was in office as President of the United States when the decision was taken to declare war on Germany during World War I?
A- Woodrow Wilson

How many people voted to Leave?
How many people voted to Remain?

To the nearest 100,000.

And what was the date the referendum took place. Bonus point for the day of the week.

mammal that lays eggs

Name the band which had drummers called Randolph and Richard.

Answer: The Beatles - Randolph Peter Best (Pete), Richard Starkey (Ringo)

Ooh @CatherineVelindre that's a good one - I'm a pretty big Beatles fan but didn't know that Pete Best was actually Randolph!

Q: Which was the only Hitchcock film to get the Best Picture Oscar?
A: Rebecca, 1940

Q:What is the longest running soap opera in the world?
A: The Archers, BBC Radio 4 (started nationally on 1st January 1951 after a trial run in the West Midlands the year before, has never stopped since)

Q: How old is June Spencer, who has played Peggy Woolley in The Archers since the beginning (with a career break early on)?
A: 100 years old on 14th June 2019

Q: Who's won the most Oscars for acting?
A: Katharine Hepburn

Q: Can you name a family with Oscar winners in three generations?
A: The Hustons were first (Walter, John, Anjelica). Also the Coppolas - Carmine, Francis Ford, Sofia.
(Lots of fascinating trivia on this page about connections between assorted nominees and winners.)

Q: Who was the first British Prime Minister?
A: Robert Walpole

Q: What's the only country in the world that begins with Q?
A: Qatar

Q: What's the only capital city in the world that starts with Z?
A: Zagreb

Q: What are the only two doubly landlocked countries* in the world?
A: Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan.
(* surrounded entirely by one or more landlocked countries, requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)

You could ask who wrote various well known quotations or poems, or what's the missing word from quotations or titles of films/songs/poems/books/plays.

Sporcle is a fantastic website for trivia. You could get lots of ideas there.

Missing link from above post!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_families

Name 4 US states named for British Kings or Queens. There are more, but 4 should be relatively easy.

They are Georgia (George II), South Carolina and North Carolina (Charles I) Virginia and West Virginia (Elizabeth I), and Maryland (Henrietta Maria, consort of Charles I). New York was named for the Duke of York who later became James II and VII.

Have a picture round that the teams can look at whilst the rest of the quiz is going on. Something like identify famous people from their baby photos, or have pictures of parts of the logos of different companies/brands, or chocolate bars, and identify those. Maybe different flags to identify would work too.

As a PP suggested, we have had identify different flavours of crisp, and jelly beans. Also flavours of Wkd.

Which country is directly south of Detroit?
What does the fashion brand ASOS stand for?
What colour was Dipsy?