Coffee Break
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NEW - denotes added week commencing 14th July 2008
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Videos to cheer you up
Will you have this much energy – and fun – when you’re retired?
Guaranteed to make you laugh…Can you watch through the whole of this video and not laugh?
Is this the fastest selling item at Halfords?
If it’s raining outside, this will liven you up.
Feeling under the weather?
At least the ‘corpse’ being interviewed has a laugh at his own expense.
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43. Which actor, who died on April 5th 2008, was originally considered for the role of Chief Brody
in the 1975 film Jaws?
44. What breed of spaniel has been selected as Best in Show more times than any other?
45. Which letter of the alphabet appears only once in the names of all English and Scottish
league football teams and not at all in the names of the elements in the Periodic Table?
46. What is the name of the dam on the Zambia - Zimbabwe border?
47. What were lost by King John, melted down by Oliver Cromwell and almost stolen by
Thomas Blood?
48. What is the maximum number of horses allowed to run in the Grand National? NEW
49. Which is the largest country in the world with only one time zone? NEW
50. Which football team are known as the Rosso-nera or Rosso-Neri? NEW
51. What is the name of the pan in which you make paella? NEW
52. Who was the first American actor to be nominated for Emmy Awards for portraying the same
character on 3 different shows? NEW
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Anagrams For earlier Coffee Break questions, see our Coffee Break Archive
18. Prefabricate nose habit (Johnny Depp movie)
19. Sown in discomfort (Computer Operating System)
20. Three torn goldfish (Famous trilogy)
21. Dirty after shave gun (John Travolta movie)
22. Major Held Icon (Master US Sportsman)
23. Genuine Class (Knighted Actor)
24. Pair or Hot Wreath (New Terminal!)
25. Choking grateful throat (Famous Western)
26. Hire a Navy (Enough of it, and you’ll need to!)
27. Baste Linnet (small-ball game)
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Strange but true
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31. What was the name of Billy J. Kramer's backing group in the 1960s?
32. Who had a hit single with 'Crocodile Rock' in 1972?
33. Who had a hit single in 1961 with 'Runaway'?
34. The pop groups Ace Of Base and The Cardigans both hail from which country? NEW
35. Which Barbadian singer stayed ten weeks at number 1 with ‘Umbrella’? NEW
36. Which 1980 Splodgenessabounds hit gives its name to the title of a BBC comedy series? NEW
37. Which instrument was Dizzy Gillespie famous for playing? NEW
38. Which boy’s name was the title of the debut album released by Amy Winehouse? NEW
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6. Which town in Yorkshire has liquorice based sweets named after it?
7. The Phillipines were named after which Philip II, king of which country?
8. What is the full name of the owner of the company AMSTRAD?
9. Volgograd, a Russian city on the river Volga, was known until 1961 as what name?
10. Dame Nellie Melba the Australian soprano was ill in the London Savoy in 1893, and would only
eat one thing that was later named in her honour. What was this?
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Global Warming
Taking a lighter hearted look on Global Warming.
Is this conclusive proof of global warming?
You've probably seen this before, but it is worth a revisit. Do horses produce methane?
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6. Which movie, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1972, was withdrawn from UK cinemas
a year later because of copycat sexual violence?
7. Who wrote the novel Lady Chatterley`s Lover, which was famously banned in the UK for breaking
obscenity laws?
8. Which novel by James Joyce was banned in 1922 under obscenity laws?
9. Which Anna Sewell novel was banned in some countries because of the word "black" in its title?
10. Who was the female vocalist alongside Serge Gainsbourg on the song Je t’aime, which was banned
by the BBC in 1969 for sexual references?
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6. Nelson Mandela was one of two men who were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993
for their role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Who was the other one?
7. There are four British drivers taking part in the 2008 Formula One championship. Lewis Hamilton,
David Coulthard and Jenson Button are three of them, but who is the other one?
8. Mars has two moons. Phobos is one, but what is the other one called?
9. In the 1966 movie The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Clint Eastwood played "the Good” and
Lee van Cleef played “the Bad”, but who played “the Ugly”?
10. During Margaret Thatcher’s years as Prime Minister, there were three Chancellors of the Exchequer.
Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson were two, but who was the other one?
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Movie Quotes
1. In which film was the famous quote “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” first spoken?
2. Which actress spoke the line “Play it Sam... play As Time Goes By” in Casablanca?
3. “Nobody’s perfect” is the last line from which famous 1959 film?
4. Which actor spoke the line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” in the film Apocolypse Now?
5. “You talking to me?” was a line famously spoken by Robert de Niro in the film Taxi Driver,
but what was the name of the character who said this?
6. With which movie would you associate the quote “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here –
this is the war room”?
7. With which movie would you most associate the famous quote "Rosebud”? NEW
8. “Why don’t you come up and see me” was said by Mae West in which 1933 movie? NEW
9. “Made it, Ma – top of the world” was spoken by James Cagney in which 1949 movie? NEW
10. “Go ahead, make my day” was spoken by Clint Eastwood in which movie? NEW
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Ships NEW
1. Which famous ship was damaged by fire in May 2007 while undergoing restoration at
Greenwich in London?
2. What was the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine?
3. The Black Pig was a ship belonging to which fictional character?
4. Sir Francis Drake set off to circumnavigate the globe in 1577 in the Pelican, but renamed the
ship half way through his voyage. What new name did he give it?
5. What was the name of the raft used by Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean?
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