Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 3rd July 2015, 7:56 PM BSTAnd is 11 They live in different Continents?
No. It's because they don't fancy each other.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 3rd July 2015, 7:56 PM BSTAnd is 11 They live in different Continents?
No. It's because they don't fancy each other.
Ok Answers & new quiz coming soon
10.Steadfast Tin Soldier
Friday Quiz February 13th 2015
1. Who won most Grammys at this year's ceremony? Sam Smith
2. What food led to a yearlong prison sentence this week? (Macadamia) Nuts What is the name of the Channel 4 documentary set in a maternity ward at a Leeds hospital? One Born Every Minute
3. Name the film. Boyhood
4. The genre of music known as grunge originated in which American city? Seattle
5. Venezuela and Ecuador are the two South American members of which multinational organisation? OPEC
6. What name is given to a plant that lives more than two years? Perennial
7. Which warm beverage is the only one to have made the UK Top Ten hit parade in the 70s, 80s and 90s? Hot Chocolate
8. What links these two pictures? Gene Simmons / Jean Simmons
9. Name the story The Steadfast Tin Soldier
10. Why don't lions and tigers mate in the wild? They live on different continents
11. Which major river gives its name to a delta that is Europe's most extensive wetland and the world's largest reed bed? Danube
12. What major food fish is this? Halibut
13. Which film concerned a mysterious al fresco meal that supposedly took place on Valentine's Day in the early 20th century on the side of a mountain near Melbourne? Picnic at Hanging Rock
14. Whose arms have three legs? Isle of Man
15. In the 1980s on Valentine's Day, why did smart anagrammists hold parties where everyone dressed up as people from the eastern Mediterranean countries? Valentine is an anagram of Levantine which relates to the Levant, another name for the Eastern Med.
16. Who is this? Wallis Simpson / Duchess of Windsor
17. There are a number of pupils in the classroom. Some have 28 books, some have 30 and others have 31. Altogether they have 365 books. How many pupils are there? 12.
18. What connection links these pictures: All can precede FACE (chalk; clock; type; baby; poker)
19. Unscramble the two connected words : E E I J L M O O R T U ROMEO & JULIET
Worth my while getting up early on a Sat. morning
3 Speedy Gonzales
12 The Bolshoi
19. Anthony Hopkins
5. Frank Leboeuf
17 Blazing Saddles
15. Beryl Cook
9. both have the names Clancy.
16. is it Collier's Magazine?
Friday Quiz February 20th 2015
1. Which European country elected its first female head of state last month? Croatia
2. Residents of Romford will shortly be able to have home deliveries from which fast food chain? Burger King
3. Which Looney Tunes rodent was billed as 'the fastest mouse in all Mexico'? Speedy Gonzalez
4. Name the current event. Chinese New Year (horse to sheep)
5. Who is the only person to have a football World Cup winner's medal and to have appeared in a Best Picture Oscar-nominated film? Frank Leboeuf
6. What is the oldest Japanese car manufacturer? Daihatsu
7. Arsenal Futbol Club won the Primera Division title in 2012. Nicknamed 'El Arse', it is a football club in which country ? Argentina
8. The population of which Asian country officially reached 100 million last year? Philippines
9. What links these two pictures? Clancy (Police chief Clancy Wiggum / Abbey Clancy)
10. Name the song Fancy
11. In medieval times, while dogs and young children were also harnessed for this job, what could a good goose keep spinning for up to 12 hours? Roasting a joint on a spit (the goose was on a treadmill)
12. Name the world's 'Great' ballet company, founded in the 18th century using recruits from the orphanage where the ballet company originally held classes.? Bolshoi (means 'great' in Russian)
13. Name the building The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
14. What's the event if four becomes five because of two extra players? A rugby union game. (Rugby League uses 13 players and scores 4 points for a try, Rugby Union has 15 players and 5 points for a try)
15. Which British artist, who died in 2008, was noted for her comic representation of plump people ? Beryl Cook
16. Which American weekly magazine, first published in the 1930s, stopped producing a print edition in 2012? Newsweek
17. Name the film. Blazing Saddles
18. 4 gardeners share a large garden measuring 48m x 40m. Each has their own rectangular plot. Alan is the only one with a square plot. Its area is half the area of Betty's. The area of Alan's plot is 2/3 the area of Charlie's plot. Their plots have one side in common. Daphne's garden is twice the area of Charlie's. What are the dimensions (length and width of each person's plot? Alan's is 16 x 16; Betty's 32 x 16; Charlie's 24 x 16 and Daphne's 24 x 32
19. What connection links these pictures: Anthony Hopkins films (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Silence of the Lambs; Hitchcock; Thor; Hannibal)
20. Unscramble the two connected words : E L M M O R R S S U U U ROMULUS & REMUS
4. Love Boat
17. The Warriors