When Things Go Wrong Trivia Quiz

Answer: Name something you take to the beach

"Family Fortunes" is the UK equivalent of the US show "Family Feud". The show's questions are first asked to a survey of 100 people (usually the show's audience) and the object for the two family teams is to guess the answers that these people gave to the questions. In Big Money, the family that wins the show's first few rounds gets to select two of its five members to answer five questions and score 200 points. The second contestant in this round is put into an isolation booth while the first plays so that he or she cannot hear the questions or the answers given.

According to Johnson's version of events, when he went into the isolation booth, his earphones didn't block the sound out completely. Though he couldn't hear much clearly, one answer that he did hear was when his brother gave the answer "chicken" and scored 58 points. Though Johnson had heard the answer and the score, he crucially hadn't heard the question that had prompted it but he figured that if chicken was a good answer then so "turkey" must also be. Fixated on that "chicken" answer, he didn't really listen to questions asked and answered "turkey" to them all. His first answer prompted muffled laughter from the audience. The second question, "Name the first thing you buy in a supermarket", to which turkey was a vaguely plausible answer, brought heartier laughter but no points. Then came the third question, the one that Bob had overheard: "Name a food that is stuffed", which prompted cheers and scored 21 points.

Despite only needing to score 69 points in total from five questions, Johnson, unsurprisingly failed to hit his target, much to his brother's obvious annoyance. But he did achieve a degree of fame that mere game show success could never deliver.

Answer: Which author of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" shares his name with a long-armed ape?

The answer Anne was looking for was "Gibbon" as in Edward Gibbon, the great 18th century historian. His masterwork, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", to give its full title, was published in six volumes over 12 years from 1776. It is still held in high regard today although it was banned in several countries upon first publication because of its excoriating criticisms of the practices of Christianity.

"Gorilla" by Bruno Mars reached no. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and I can't give you any of its lyrics on a family site.

Josiah Judah is a super-middleweight boxer who comes from a pugilistic family. His brothers Zeb, a welterweight, and Daniel, a light heavyweight, are both boxing champions. All three are trained by their father Yoel.

Anthony Browne is a children's author and illustrator who was the UK's children's laureate from 2009 to 2011.

Answer: Which cathedral town on the river Severn shares its name with the sauce used in a Bloody Mary?

The sauce in question is Worcestershire sauce, commonly referred to as Worcester sauce. Worcester is a cathedral city in the west of England, most notable for being the site of Cromwell's final decisive triumph over King Charles II's Cavaliers in the English Civil War in 1651. Its eponymous sauce originated not from the city itself but from India, brought back as a recipe to the UK by the Sandys family and given to Messrs. Lea and Perrins to recreate.

The tomato, like the potato, is a member of the nightshade family and similarly to the aubergine (eggplant) and cucumber, it is botanically a fruit that is most commonly used like a vegetable in cuisine. Its difference in pronunciation, (UK: to-MAH-to, US: to-MAY-to) has become a meme representing a choice between two things that are essentially the same.

Answer: Someone or something whose existence has never been proven

Would that Hitler were imaginary but his birth certificate shows his birth in a town on the Austrian-German border in 1889. His policy of seeking Lebensraum in the name of the German people, contributed to the breaking out of war across the globe in the 1930s and 40s that led to the death of up to 50 million in Europe alone.

Ade Edmondson played Eddie Hitler in the 1990s UK sitcom "Bottom".

Answer: Name a Bob Hoskins film that shares its name with a painting by Leonardo

Bob Hoskins once starred with Michael Caine among others in the 1986 film, "Mona Lisa", which told the story of a former criminal who gets a job as a driver for a call girl. Through her he becomes involved in rescuing a young girl who had been trapped in a life of prostitution. Hoskins was Oscar-nominated for his performance. Leonardo painted "Mona Lisa", also known as "La Giaconda" in the early sixteenth century.

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is not a work of Leonardo's. It is a 1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis. Bob Hoskins had the main role as a detective called in to investigate a murder in Toontown, but the real star of the show was the animated character of Jessica Rabbit, voiced by Kathleen Turner. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Visual Effects.

Answer: What is the more common name given to the government department "Military Intelligence Six"?

Military Intelligence, Section 5 is the UK's security service, mainly concerned with the country's internal security. Its counterpart, MI6, is the secret intelligence service, responsible for foreign intelligence. Possibly MI5's most famous former member is the novelist John le Carre, a nom de plume of David Cornwell, who worked for the service for eight years before moving to MI6 in 1960. Among le Carre's most famous works are "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Russia House".

The service was founded as part of the Secret Service Bureau. The branches of the service were renamed into Military Intelligence (MI) units in the 1930s and at various stages numbered up to MI19 (responsible for debriefing prisoners of war). Most of these branches have now rolled up into MI5, MI6 and GCHQ.

The TV show "Spooks", which ran for 10 series between 2002 and 2011, was a very glamorized (apparently) account of the work of several intelligence agents, colloquially known as spooks, working for MI5.

Answer: Which artist had a blue period?

Pablo Picasso's blue period began in 1901 following the suicide of his friend Carlos Casegemas. The paintings of the three-year spell, such as "The Old Guitarist", were mainly coloured in blue or blue-green tints.

Stalin became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922, five years after the Bolshevik revolution that had brought Lenin to power in Russia. On Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin became the leader of the nation, a position he held until his death nearly thirty years later. The conference in Yalta came in February 1945 when the allies were confident of victory in World War II. Its purpose was to establish the governance and boundaries of Europe post-war. The ramifications of the conference were felt as Europe froze into a Cold War for the better part of 40 years.

Answer: Which jungle-swinging character clad only in a loincloth was played by Johnny Weissmuller?

Johnny Weissmuller was of course most famous for the role of Tarzan, whom he played in twelve movies between 1932 and 1948.

The vast majority of Christian denominations follow the doctrine established at the Council of Nicaea of trinitarianism that says that God exists in three forms, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and that Jesus was the Son. A few nontrinitarian denominations exist that do not accept this view, such as Christian Scientists.

Jesus College, Cambridge, or to give it its full title, The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge, has many famous alumni; Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex; John Flamsteed, the first astronomer royal; and Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII to name but a few.

"Jesus" is called out when someone sneezes in Spain. An alternative response is "Salud" meaning "to your health", which is more common in other Spanish-speaking countries.

Answer: Which country in South America is named after the explorer Simon Bolivar?

It is of course, Bolivia that was named after Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, who helped much of Latin America to gain independence from oppressive Spanish rule in the 19th century. Brazil, being a colony of Portugal, was not one of the lands that Bolivar led.

The Brazilian land mass of over 8.5 millon km square, makes it by some distance the largest country on the South American continent. Its capital Brasilia was purpose-built to create a capital that was closer to the centre of the country than its previous coastal capital, Rio de Janeiro. The chief architect of the city's buildings was Oscar Niemeyer, a Brazilian also famous for the United Nations headquarters in New York. Lucio Costa developed the urban plan. The city was completed and opened for business in 1960.

Brazil earned the right to keep the original World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet trophy, when they won the FIFA World Cup tournament in 1970 in Mexico. It was their third triumph in four tournaments after victories in Sweden in 1958 and Chile in 1962.

Answer: A bird with a long neck

Naomi Campbell, as a pupil of the Italia Conti Academy, had made appearances in a number of pop videos before she was discovered by a talent scout at the age of fifteen. Before she turned 20 she was one of six women dubbed "supermodels" by the media. As her star reached its peak, Campbell appeared in the Michael Jackson video for "In the Closet" before she branched out into the world of literature (or as close as she could get) when she put her name to the novel "Swan". A critical mauling followed but Campbell wasn't worried as she hadn't written a word of it, claiming to "not have the time to sit down and write a book."

The contestant on "Family Fortunes" was presumably thinking of the colloquial use of the word "bird" for a woman. There is no evidence to suggest that Campbell's neck is particularly elongated.