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(A bonus point for any decent bearded puns!)

Round 1: Guess the beard competition The quiz master reads the first clue in question 1. If no one gets it you continue through each clue pausing to see who can guess in the fewest number of clues, the winner(s) get one point!

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Round 2: Bearded brainbusters

Who is brave enough to take on the Bearded Brainbusters round? Get your whiskers around this general knowledge bonanza. Each question is worth one point.

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Round 3: Quick fire round – first on the buzzer (or to scream out!)For this fast-paced and furious round, see who is the quickest off the mark with the correct answer.

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Round 4: Guess the Santa! Our bearded bonanza question.Who is this mystery celebrity? Strictly speaking it’s just a question of knowing which sport he has mastered (as well as a few reality TV shows).

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Quiz Master Answer Sheets

Round 1: Guess the beard competition

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1. Briefly imprisoned for crimes he did not commit2. Is in seven books, and eight films3. Has a fancy umbrella4. Has a dog named fluffy5. Quoted as saying “Yer a wizard Harry!”

Hagrid

1. Born in 19562. Fashion of the 80’s was not kind to him3. Former World #1 Tennis Player4. Holds 11 Grand Slam titles5. Similar name to Björk, but she is who wore the infamous swan dress, he is not.

Björn Borg

1. Born in Hackney, London2. Actor, Film Producer, Singer and DJ3. #2 in People’s sexiest man alive 20134. Played a starring role on ‘The Wire’5. Starred in “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”

Idris Elba

1. Father to 5 children2. Has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s 3. This beard conceals a rather funny, but foul mouth4. His unruly white hair has become a trademark5. In Scotland is known as ‘The Big Yin’

Billy Connolly

1. Most people don’t know his first name is Ernesto. 2. Was a medical student3. Rode a motorcycle rather famously4. Argentinian5. Played a major role in the Cuban revolution

Che Guevara

1. Northern Irish actor, model 2. Performed in a folk band3. Played spectre-like serial killer in BBC drama4. Married to English actress and singer Amelia Warner5. Plays Christian Grey in the 50 Shades movie trilogy

Jamie Dornan

1. Is expert in breaking and entering2. Hails from the North3. Likes to wear red4. Has an uncanny ability to monitor behaviour of children throughout the year5. Delivers presents worldwide on Christmas Eve

Santa Claus

Round 2: Bearded brainbusters

1. Which American President grew his famous beard after a little girl wrote him a letter telling him he’d look better if he had one? Answer: Abraham Lincoln

2. In which year did bearded philosopher Karl Marx publish ‘Das Kapital’ – the influential and controversial socialist manifesto? Answer: 1867.

3. What is the correct term for someone who is fond of or loves beards? Answer: Pogonophile

4. Which Greek God threw thunderbolts and sported an epic set of whiskers? Answer: Zeus

5. Which bearded former slave turned abolitionist and social reformer was described as ‘the most influential African-American of the nineteenth century’. Answer: Frederick Douglass

6. What’s the number of whiskers on the face of an average man? 3,000, 15,000 or 30,000? Answer: 30,000

7. Which English sea-captain famously ‘singed the King of Spain’s beard’ in 1589? Answer: Francis Drake with a successful attack on Spanish ships at Cadiz.

8. Which famous bearded man appeared on a British ten pound note? Answer: Charles Darwin

9. Beard growth rate is genetic. True or False. Answer: True

10. What is a ‘hulihee’?

• ‘A clean-shaven chin with fat chops connected at the moustache’• ‘A tuft of hair grown on the chin, sometimes resembling a billy goat’s.’ • ‘A large, long beard, connected by sideburns, that flares outward in width at the bottom,

without a mustache.’

Answer: A clean-shaven chin with fat chops connected at the moustache. Funny fact: in Hawaiian, Hulihee means “Turn and flee”!

Round 3: Quick fire round – first on the buzzer (or to scream out!)

1. Leader of twelve disciples – Jesus

2. Viking of the funny pages – Hagar the Horrible

3. Hogwarts Headmaster – Albus Dumbledore

4. Writer with a famous white beard druring his ‘Papa’ phase – Ernest Hemingway

5. Discovered natural selection and had a bushy white beard – Charles Darwin

6. Russian monk with an unkempt beard –Rasputin

7. Cuban revolutionary – Fidel Castro

8. English King married six times – Henry VIII

9. Frodo’s wizard friend – Gandalf

10. Smurf with red hat – Papa Smurf

11. Psycho-analytical beard – Sigmund Freud

12. American rapper, singer, songwriter, husband of Kim – Kanye West

13. Rock band with long beards and sunglasses – ZZ Top

Round 4: Guess the Santa! Our bearded bonanza question.

Answer: Matt Dawson