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• Quiz Number #61625th October 2025

  Round 1

  
  
  1. Spelling: SERGEANT (army and police)

  2. The Vauxhall car brand are known as what in Europe?

  Opel

  3. Which PSGM was the title of a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola?

  Peggy Sue Got Married

  4. Which of these words are included within the names of the counties of Yorkshire?

  Red | Riding | Hood
  Riding

  5. A baby has 270 bones compared to 206 bones in an adult. What happens to these extra bones over time?

  Fuse Together | Dissolve | Turn Into Cartilage
  Fuse Together

  6. The natural caves of Mount Combalou are used for aging what?

  Cheese

  7. A website address is known as a URL. What does the L stand for?

  Locator (Uniform Resource Locator)

  8. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in which continent?

  Africa

  9. Which item, that be found in this bar, shares it’s name with the highest fence on the Grand National course?

  The Chair

  10. Which song did Marie Osmond sing to Kilmarnock fans on her visit to Rugby Park in 2013?

  Paper Roses

  11. There are 4 holes in a mini-waffle, how many holes in a classic Birds Eye potato waffle?

  20

  12. True or False: Sir Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister during Elizabeth II’s coronation?

  TRUE

  Final Rounds

  Family Fortunes (Actual factual answers – find the missing answer) Quiz hosts, pick whichever one you want to take out.

  1. The 5 nicknames of the Spice Girls were:
  Baby | Ginger | Posh | Sporty | Scary
  
  2. The Five human senses are:
  Sight | Hearing | Smell | Taste | Touch
  
  3. Based on recent NASA data, the 5 hottest planets in the solar system are:
  Venus | Mercury | Earth | Mars |Jupiter
  
  4. The 5 boroughs of New York City are:
  Manhattan | Brooklyn | Queens | The Bronx |Staten Island
  
  5. French chef Marie-Antoine Carême listed the 5 mother sauces of French cooking as:
  Béchamel | Velouté | Sauce Espagnole | Tomato sauce | Hollandaise

  Double Up

  6. Who are the next two in line to the throne?
  William | George
  
  7. Which two animals appear on the Australian coat of arms?
  Kangaroo | Emu
  
  8. What are the surnames of the Pet Shop Boys?
  Tennant | Lowe
  
  9. What are the two best selling brands of vodka in Scotland?
  Smirnoff | Absolut
  
  10. Brass is an alloy of which two metals?
  Copper | Zinc

  Additional

  Countdown

  Answer: Garnished

  Letters: His Danger

  Clue: A dish that has been decorated with food.

  Tie Break:

  Captain James T. Kirk was born on March 22nd of which year? (canonically)

  2233

  Bonus – (On-TV-Screen)

  Pin Drop

  Where is Peppa Pig World

  Catchphrase –  (On-TV-Screen)

  Teddy Swims.

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Top tip for creating your own Countdown conundrums.

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Music Rounds

1 minute clip (play twice during presentation) with 5 songs from 5 different decades.

Format 1: Pull the first letter from each artist and it will spell out which 5 letter word?

Format 2: Give the teams the 5 letter word first, then play the clip and have them name each artist.

Here is a sample of our music round which can be used as a full round or just bonus points during a music question round.