The Big, Big News Quiz
6 December 2010
Winners of the last Big, Big News Quiz, staff members Nige Jones and Perie Cordner collect their prizes
I think I will be
spending my £50 on Christmas
presents
Nige Jones, Database Administrator
Connected brings you another chance to win £50 of High Street Vouchers with December's Big, Big, News Quiz. And to make it even easier for you to enter - and win - you can now send in your answers to the questions below via email.
All of the answers can be found here on the pages of Connected Online.
Q1 - Which modern gadget has enabled an ADT artist-lecturer to bring jazz greats of the 20th Century "back onto the modern streets of London"?
- Mobile phone
- Laptop
- Video camera
- Digital radio.
Q2 - Who is the subject of a new biography written by University of Derby Buxton lecturer Dr Kenneth Gibson?
- Adam Smith
- Oliver Cromwell
- Adam Bittleston
- William Wilberforce
Q3 - Which long running BBC Radio 4 topical debate programme did the University play host to in October?
- Question Time
- The Today programme
- Newsnight
- Any Questions?
Q4 - Name the businesswoman and former Channel 4 TV Secret Millionaire who was a guest speaker at the University's Kedleston Road site in November?
- Deborah Meaden
- Dawn Gibbins
- Kavita Oberoi
- Hilary Devey.
Q5 - Which children's charity was being supported during a 'training session' featuring people dressed as Santa Claus on the all weather pitch, at the University's Kedleston Road site, in November?
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- Barnardos
- Rainbows Hospice
- Variety Club.
Q6 - Which professional football team held its pre-match press conference at the University on November 3?
- Burton Albion
- Leicester City
- Nottingham Forest
- Derby County.
Q7 - What type of sports equipment will be fixed to the outside wall of the refurbished Harpur Hill sports facility in Buxton?
- Climbing wall
- Cricket nets
- Skateboard ramp
- Rope slide.
Q8 - Creative Expressive Therapies student and trombone player Sarah Francis helped provide music for an Armistice Day service in November at which significant wartime location?
- Dunkirk
- Ypres
- Verdun
- The Somme.
To enter simply send your responses (ie): Q1 B; Q2 D, etc, for each of the eight questions to Anne Wake via email a.wake@derby.ac.uk or, download and complete the PDF below and return it to the marketing department, S003, Kedleston Road.
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