Quiz group – June/July 2025

We were able to meet twice in June with another challenging set of 120 questions.

Our first Monday quiz covered the topics of  Zoo time, At sixes and sevens, Off to the Opera house, Just a second, General knowledge and Peerage Titles.

It was a low scoring quiz and at times the quizzers may have felt at sixes and sevens. However, because of the jokers played that subject scored the most points. However the overall knowledge of opera music could be bettered with a few visits to the Opera House..

So:

• The Amazon World Zoo is situated in which part of the UK?
• Who was Henry VIII’s sixth wife?
• Don Alfonso was the name of a character in which Mozart opera?
• Pall Mall is the first purple coloured square on a Monopoly board, with Northumberland Park the third . What is the second?
• Barry is a variety of which fruit?
• Edmund Blackadder was Duke of where?

Our second encounter revolved around the themes of It’s June, Casino time, Good afternoon, A European tour, Fingers and General Knowledge.

We were unusually few in number but went ahead and  the results revealed some excellent scores.

Those who took part must have travelled a lot around Europe as ‘A European tour’ gained the most points. On the bottom of the pile was the ‘Casino time’ topic. Here is a snippet from each round and would you have realised that:

• June is named after the Roman goddess Juno
• The highest number that can be called in bingo is 90
• Ernest Hemingway  wrote a book about bull fighting called ‘Death in the afternoon’
• The Franz Liszt Academy of Music is located in Budapest
• Sean Connery played the role of James Bond in the film ‘Goldfinger’
• The last Queen, Elizabeth II, had eight grand children

So another month of quizzes has come and gone and now we get ready for the July encounters on Monday 7th and Monday 21st.

Graham Carey, Quizmaster