T53 HEAVY METALS QUIZ
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:23 am1 Which city’s American football team are known as the Steelers?
PITTSBURGH
2 Which was the only group beginning with I to have a UK number one hit single in the 20th century?
IRON MAIDEN
3 With regard to UK hallmarks for precious metals, which animals head represents London?
LEOPARD
4 Which process was introduced in 1856 for the mass production of steel?
BESSEMER
5 Who wrote the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
6 With the atomic number of 3, what is the lightest known metal?
LITHIUM
7 Which is the only chemical element with a three letter name?
TIN
8 Who did David Steele replace as leader of the Liberal Party?
JEREMY THORPE
9 In the proverb, silence is golden. What is silver?
SILVER IS SPEECH
10 In which film did Matthew Modine play Private Joker?
FULL METAL JACKET
11 What is the name of the oriental bodyguard of Goldfinger?
ODD JOB
12 Name a sport in which exactly half of the competitors wear shoes made entirely of metal.
ANY SPORT INVOLVING HORSES AND HUMANS
13 Which song contains the line, “flies are in your pea soup baby”?
HI HO SILVER LINING
14 What is the modern day name for wolfram?
TUNGSTEN
15 Which entertainer was born Thomas Hicks?
TOMMY STEELE
16 Who wrote the novel The Man in the Iron Mask?
ALEANDER DUMAS
17 What metal is added to iron in the process of galvanisation?
ZINC
18 What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?
ALUMINIUM
19 Who played A Man Called Ironside?
RAYMOND BURR
20 Which glam rock group topped the charts with Metal Guru?
T. REX
21 Which English football club are nicknamed The Irons?
SCUN.THORPE UNITED
22 How many years of marriage are celebrated on a Tin anniversary?
10 YEARS
23 What was the name of the short lived rock group co-founded by Pat Cash and John McEnroe?
FULL METAL RACKETS
24 In which film did Eddie Murphy play Chandler Jarrell?
THE GOLDEN CHILD
25 By what one word name is Georges Remi, the creator of Tin Tin otherwise known?
HERGE
PITTSBURGH
2 Which was the only group beginning with I to have a UK number one hit single in the 20th century?
IRON MAIDEN
3 With regard to UK hallmarks for precious metals, which animals head represents London?
LEOPARD
4 Which process was introduced in 1856 for the mass production of steel?
BESSEMER
5 Who wrote the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
6 With the atomic number of 3, what is the lightest known metal?
LITHIUM
7 Which is the only chemical element with a three letter name?
TIN
8 Who did David Steele replace as leader of the Liberal Party?
JEREMY THORPE
9 In the proverb, silence is golden. What is silver?
SILVER IS SPEECH
10 In which film did Matthew Modine play Private Joker?
FULL METAL JACKET
11 What is the name of the oriental bodyguard of Goldfinger?
ODD JOB
12 Name a sport in which exactly half of the competitors wear shoes made entirely of metal.
ANY SPORT INVOLVING HORSES AND HUMANS
13 Which song contains the line, “flies are in your pea soup baby”?
HI HO SILVER LINING
14 What is the modern day name for wolfram?
TUNGSTEN
15 Which entertainer was born Thomas Hicks?
TOMMY STEELE
16 Who wrote the novel The Man in the Iron Mask?
ALEANDER DUMAS
17 What metal is added to iron in the process of galvanisation?
ZINC
18 What is the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust?
ALUMINIUM
19 Who played A Man Called Ironside?
RAYMOND BURR
20 Which glam rock group topped the charts with Metal Guru?
T. REX
21 Which English football club are nicknamed The Irons?
SCUN.THORPE UNITED
22 How many years of marriage are celebrated on a Tin anniversary?
10 YEARS
23 What was the name of the short lived rock group co-founded by Pat Cash and John McEnroe?
FULL METAL RACKETS
24 In which film did Eddie Murphy play Chandler Jarrell?
THE GOLDEN CHILD
25 By what one word name is Georges Remi, the creator of Tin Tin otherwise known?
HERGE
