0-10: '5' Trivia

1. Danny Kaye portrayed a legendary jazz musician and bandleader in the movie "The Five Pennies". Which musician was it?

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: Red Nichols

Ernest "Red" Nichols was a cornetist and bandleader during the Big Band Era. Although he played with various groups and numbers of musicians he always referred to them as The Five Pennies as a play on the word "nickel" which sounded similar to his surname. His style was heavily influenced by legendary trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: Nigel Mansell

Nigel Mansell's first drive in Formula One with the red five on his car was in the 1985 season when he joined the Williams-Honda team. Whilst Mansell was at the peak of his career, the only requirement from the FIA was that the world champion carried number one on his car with his team-mate carrying number two. Prior to the start of the 1996 season, this changed so cars were numbered sequentially with teams being allocated numbers based on where they finished the previous season in the constructors championship.

From Quiz Take Five

Answer: Chinese

Five-spice powder consists of star anise, fennel, cloves, cinnamon and Szechuan pepper and is used in Chinese cooking.

From Quiz Fives

Answer: Genesis & Exodus & Leviticus & Numbers & Deuteronomy

They were: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy...the first five books of the Bible, they are also known as the 'Pentateuch'. It is thought by some that Moses was the author of these books, but this is very likely not true.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: James

Thomas, Edward and Gordon were all blue in colour and were numbers one, two and four respectively. Henry was green and was number three, whilst James was red and number five. The engines were all based on a fictional island called Sodor. When initially made for television, the stories were narrated by former Beatle, Ringo Starr.

From Quiz Take Five

Answer: five continents

The Olympic rings stand for the five original continents that participated in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 - Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and America. North and South America were counted as one continent.

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: Frank Sinatra

"Five Minutes More" was written by the legendary team of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. They wrote it for the movie "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi". Frank Sinatra's recording reached number one on the Billboard Pop Chart on September 14, 1946 and remained there for four weeks.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: The Final Frontier

"The Voyage Home" was "Star Trek IV" and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" was the last to entirely feature the original crew, led by Captain Kirk). The movies that primarily featured the crew from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" were not specifically numbered, however "Generation" was the seventh film of the "Star Trek" franchise. "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is generally accepted as one of the weaker films in the series.

From Quiz Take Five

Answer: Timmy

The children were Julian, Dick and Anne Kirrin, along with their cousin George Kirrin. George's real name was Georgina but she wouldn't answer to that! Timothy, or Timmy, was George's dog. The "Famous Five" were the main source of inspiration for the popular American cartoon "Scooby Doo".

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: Babylon

"Babylon 5" was set in the mid 23rd century, shortly after a war between Earth and Minbar. The station itself was the fifth attempt at setting up a space station where alien species could try and resolve their differences peacefully. The first three Babylon stations were destroyed before they were completed. Babylon 4 mysteriously disappeared shortly after becoming operational.

From Quiz Fives

Answer: Dionne

They are the famous Dionne quintuplets, born in Canada, May 28, 1934.

From Quiz Take Five

Answer: Kay Spreckels

Gable's wives, in order, were Josephine Dillon, Ria Langham, Carole Lombard, Lady Sylvia Ashley and Kay Spreckels. Gable died in 1960. A few months after his death, Kay Spreckels gave birth to his only son, John Clark Gable.

From Quiz Fives

Answer: Iroquois

The Iroquois Nation, League or Federation, if you fancy, became six in 1722, when the Tuscarora joined. These tribes all spoke related languages of the Iroquois family. I hope you were able to enjoy this quiz and learn a thing or two...thank you for playing!

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: Paul Desmond

At just 52, Paul Desmond passed away from lung cancer in 1977. Bis father was a musician, composer and arranger. He began playing the clarinet at age twelve, but picked up the alto saxophone while a freshman at San Francisco State College.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: Acts

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Old Testament and Daniel appears in that part of the Bible as well. Hebrews is a New Testament book, but appears much later. The first four books of the New Testament are the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Acts (or The Acts Of The Apostles) is the fifth book.

From Quiz Take Five

Answer: Peter Davison

Peter Davison (real name Peter Moffatt) played the fifth incarnation of the Doctor for 69 episodes. Other actors who have played Dr Who include William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann. Peter Cushing also played Dr Who in two movies - "Dr Who and the Daleks" (1965) and "Invasion Earth 2150 AD" (1966).

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: K

There are 100 tiles in a Scrabble set, 98 of which are letters with varying point values. The other two are blanks and can be used in place of any letter but have no point value. Although the letter "S" is worth only one point it is highly valuable as it can be added to an existing word on the board to pluralize it and enable all the letters in the word to be counted again.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: News and Sport

According the BBC's own statement of programme policy, Pop music for a young audience (age 15-29) is the remit of BBC Radio 1 and pop music for an adult audience (age 35+) is the remit of BBC Radio 2 (There is no mention of age 30-34!). Classical music can be found on BBC Radio 3 (all ages welcome!). http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/statements2010/radio/radio1.shtml

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: 3

Idaho, Maine and Texas are the only state names with five letters. The origin of Idaho's name is undetermined. Many history books say it came from the Shoshone language. A lobbyist named George Willing used that story to promote the name, then later said he made it up. The origin of Maine's name is also uncertain, but it was likely named for the French province of Maine. The name "Texas" comes from the Native American language, Caddo. "Tejas" means friend.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard married King Henry VIII of England just 19 days after he divorced Anne of Cleves, however she would remain married to him for only 14 months before she was accused of adultery. Like Anne Boleyn before her, Catherine's fate was execution.

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: Five Second Rule

The popularity of the game "Five Second Rule" soared when Ellen Degeneres began featuring it on her show. With her DJ "Twitch" acting as moderator she has played it with such diverse celebrities as Bradley Cooper, Will Smith and Cardi B. The game was invented by Michael Sistrunk.

From Quiz Gimme Five

Answer: The Horse And His Boy

Although many people will have a collection with "The Voyage of The Dawn Treader" marked as book number five, it was not actually the fifth to be published. The original publication order (according to Wikipedia) was: 1950: "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" 1951: "Prince Caspian" 1952: "The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader" 1953: "The Silver Chair" 1954: "The Horse And His Boy" 1955: "The Magician's Nephew" 1956: "The Last Battle"

From Quiz Five a Day

Answer: V

As the name suggests, the Roman numeral system originated in ancient Rome. The system was adopted and used throughout Europe well into the Middle Ages. The letter "L" stands for 50, "C" stands for 100 and "X" stands for ten. The system has remained in use for various things, such as identifying monarchs, popes, the year a movie or TV show was made, etc.

From Quiz Take Five

Answer: Ronald Reagan

This happened in 1984 when Reagan was preparing for a radio broadcast. His "joke" was not intended to be aired but unfortunately the microphone was on.

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