The Chase Questions
Twenty questions from the British television quiz show, "The Chase". Can you beat the chasers?
Questions
- According to the makers what is the most popular flavour of Walkers crisps?
- Crack and pussy are varieties of what tree?
- 'Flammable air’ was an early name for which gas?
- What is the book A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust most famous for?
- Dump, floater and wipe are terms used in which sport?
- Which material is used in the artform known as scrimshaw?
- A common addition to the words on a 'kiss me quick' hat are 'squeeze me...' what?
- Which comic strip character is known in Germany as Willi Wakker? (Hint: this comic strip was created by cartoonist Reg Smythe)
- Where did Aerosmith find love in a 1989 hit single?
- Steely McBeam is the mascot of which American football team?
- What colour are the spacesuits NASA space shuttle astronauts wear?
- Which French explorer discovered Prince Edward Island?
- According to Tolstoy, Napoleon would tug on what part of a person's body if they were in his favour?
- Which organ in the body acts as a filter for your blood, cleaning it of bacteria and viruses?
- At what country estate was the World War Two German Enigma code broken?
- Traditionally, sailors would get a tattoo of what bird after travelling over 5,000 nautical miles?
- In 1948, the Empire Windrush arrived in London from which Caribbean Island?
- Which newspaper in 1906 coined the word 'suffragette'?
- According to the first line of 'Pride and Prejudice', a "single man in possession of a good fortune" is in want of what?
- What is the minimum numbers of players a football team must have for a match to start or restart?
Answers:
- Cheese and onion
- Willow
- Hydrogen
- Longest ever novel (its 1,267,069 words is double that of War and Peace)
- Volleyball
- Ivory or bone
- Slow
- Andy Capp
- In an elevator
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Orange
- Jacques Cartier
- Ear
- Spleen
- Bletchley Park
- Swallow
- Jamaica
- Daily Mail
- A wife
- Seven