#7558, aired 2017-06-21 | PUB TRIVIA $200: A form of this popular pub game was used as training for British archers in the Middle Ages darts |
#2174, aired 1994-02-03 | MUSIC TRIVIA $100: After the death of Keith Moon in 1978, Kenney Jones became this British group's drummer The Who |
#2107, aired 1993-11-02 | TV TRIVIA $100: This Redd Foxx series was based on a British sitcom called "Steptoe and Son" Sanford and Son |
#1590, aired 1991-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL TRIVIA $800: Gastown is a restored 19th century area of this port city in British Columbia Vancouver |
#1371, aired 1990-07-16 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: He was captured by the British during the Revolution when still a boy in the Carolinas Andrew Jackson |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BRITISH TRIVIA $100: King Richard II is credited with this invention, which is something to sneeze at the handkerchief |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BRITISH TRIVIA $200: The son of a director of a sausage-making company, he married a princess in 1973 Captain Mark Phillips |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BRITISH TRIVIA $300: He's the British equivalent of Santa Claus Father Christmas |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BRITISH TRIVIA $400: After losing the American revolution, Gen. Cornwallis became Gov.-Gen. of this Asian country India |
#1087, aired 1989-05-02 | BRITISH TRIVIA $500: The governor of a harbor town was called a portreeve & the governor of a county, this shire reeve |
#1062, aired 1989-03-28 | INTERNATIONAL TRIVIA $500: Troubled capital that's a major British port, its name is Gaelic for "mouth of the sandbank" Belfast |
#929, aired 1988-09-22 | BRITISH TRIVIA $100: Allied-Lyons, a British company, now owns the 31 plus flavors of this ice cream company Baskin-Robbins |
#929, aired 1988-09-22 | BRITISH TRIVIA $200: Member of the British royal family who's patron of the Pre-School Playgroups Association Princess of Diana (Princess of Wales) |
#929, aired 1988-09-22 | BRITISH TRIVIA $300: The new "in" meat with Londoners is from this reptile raised on Louisiana farms alligator |
#929, aired 1988-09-22 | BRITISH TRIVIA $400: In 1987 Mary Quant opened a new fashion emporium on this London street famous in the '60s Carnaby Street |
#929, aired 1988-09-22 | BRITISH TRIVIA $500: It's reported the building shown in the opening of this John Cleese series is being made into a real hotel Fawlty Towers |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BRITISH TRIVIA $100: Samuel Pepys recorded having his 1st cup of this September 25, 1660; there was no mention of crumpets tea |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BRITISH TRIVIA $200: Nero is said to have played this instrument now associated with Highlanders the bagpipe |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BRITISH TRIVIA $300: As a gift for Albert, Victoria reportedly commissioned a nude statue of this tax protestor Lady Godiva |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BRITISH TRIVIA $400: 1 of 4 royal family members who took part in a '87 celebrity version of the game show "It's a Knockout" Prince Andrew (or Prince Edward, Princess Anne, or Fergie, the Duchess of York) |
#772, aired 1988-01-05 | BRITISH TRIVIA $500: June 1987 event referred to in British tabloid headline "Super Mag Wins Her Hat Trick" Thatcher winning her third national election |
#696, aired 1987-09-21 | BRITISH TRIVIA $100: Independent televisions "Frocks on the Box" is a show about this fashion |
#696, aired 1987-09-21 | BRITISH TRIVIA $200: It wasn't until 1911 that members of Parliament began receiving this for their work pay (salary) |
#696, aired 1987-09-21 | BRITISH TRIVIA $300: On Feb. 12, 1987, this feisty member of the royal family picked up her pilot's license Sarah Ferguson (Fergie) |
#582, aired 1987-03-03 | MOVIE TRIVIA $500: This British actor has played crooks in "The Long Good Friday", "Mona Lisa" & "The Cotton Club" Bob Hoskins |
#521, aired 1986-12-08 | TV TRIVIA $2,000 (Daily Double): British versions of these U.S. game shows were "Celebrity Squares", "Family Fortunes" & "Criss Cross Quiz" Hollywood Squares, Family Feud & Tic-Tac-Dough |
#395, aired 1986-03-14 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $1000: Nationality of the man who played Illya Kuryakin in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Scottish |
#374, aired 1986-02-13 | POLITICAL TRIVIA $500: At over 13 million square miles, Guinness calls this group the largest political division in the world the British Commonwealth of Nations |
#367, aired 1986-02-04 | BRITISH TRIVIA $200: These schools were first opened to educate children who worked in factories 6 days a week Sunday schools |
#367, aired 1986-02-04 | BRITISH TRIVIA $400: After graphite deposits were discovered in 1564, the British began making "marking stones" &, later, these pencils |
#367, aired 1986-02-04 | BRITISH TRIVIA $600: In British newspapers, it's what a "Page 3 Girl" is usually lacking clothing |
#367, aired 1986-02-04 | BRITISH TRIVIA $800: In 18th-century English gambling dens, employees swallowed these in case of a police raid dice |
#367, aired 1986-02-04 | BRITISH TRIVIA $1000: Lloyd's of London started out not as an insurer, but as a purveyor of this beverage coffee |
#296, aired 1985-10-28 | SPORTS TRIVIA $400: Called "poona" in India, 19th c. British officers took this racquet sport home & called it this badminton |
#287, aired 1985-10-15 | ROCK 'N' ROLL TRIVIA $200: British group whose logo features fat red lips & a lascivious tongue the Rolling Stones |
#285, aired 1985-10-11 | SPORTS TRIVIA $1000: With a win in this April tourney, Bernhard Langer became most famous German golfer since Hermann Tissies the Masters |
#92, aired 1985-01-15 | TRIVIA $500: What Gandhi marched down to the sea to make against British order salt |
#83, aired 1985-01-02 | TRIVIA $300: The first heir to the British throne to have earned a university degree Prince Charles |
#83, aired 1985-01-02 | TRIVIA $500: Inventor of snooker pool was this British prime minister known for "Peace in our time" Neville Chamberlain |
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