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Friday Quiz October 18th 2013
1.Who has just been voted the best dressed person - ever? David Bowie
2.What was recovered from the depths of a Russian lake this week? A meteor
3.Which Northumberland landmark is used extensively in the Harry Potter films? Alnwick Castle
4.Name the band. London Grammar
5.In a British court of law, where would you traditionally find horsehair? In a judge's / barrister's wig
6.Which former armed robber's life story was turned into a film starring a rock legend of the 60s and 70s? John McVicar (not Buster Edwards, Phil Collins wasn't a rock legend in the 60s)
7.Paignton, Brixham and Torquay collectively form what? Torbay / English Riviera
8.Which group had the most number of UK No 1 singles in the 1970s? Abba - seven No 1s
9.What links the two pictures? BOSON/ BOSUN

10.Name the character Courage the Cowardly Dog
11.What name is shared by a former England soccer midfielder and a soap bad boy? David Platt
12.Who was the first act to appear in and sing the theme in the same James Bond film? Madonna
13. What is this not? Une pipe / A pipe. Rene Magritte's painting
14.Which Essex town boasts an amusement park named after the German for 'the reception room of a spa'? Southend-on-Sea (Kursaal)
15.Which winner of a TV culinary competition went on to open a chain of Mexican restaurants? Thomasina Myers
16.What term did Marx coin for the lowest stratum of the industrial working class, including tramps and criminals? Lumpenproletariat (1/2 point for proletariat)
17.What is regarded as the world's most widespread terrestrial poisonous snake? Adder / Viper
18.A planet orbits the sun at 5,000 kph and is 30,000 kilometeres from the sun. How fast does its sister planet have to travel to keep in parallel orbit if it is 50,000 kilometres from the sun? 8,333 kph
19.What links these pictures: Sherlock Holmes (Deerstalker; Study in Scarlet; violin; Russell WATSON; Elementary)

20.Unscramble these two words A D E I I I K L N N Y KYLIE & DANNII

To question 12:

Wikipedia: "Easton is the only artist to be seen singing the theme song to a Bond movie during its opening titles, as Maurice Binder liked Easton's appearance and decided to add her to the credits.[5"

I presumed that seeing her singing the theme tune qualifies as a visual appearance of hers in the film.
Well, nevermind

Bum, was just about to say Sherlock. Didn't see the quiz till now. Curse my lateness!

7. Faux pas

17. Arpeggio?

13. JK Rowling and Elle McPherson?

5. Statue Of Liberty

19. Citrus fruits? No sure about the first pic, Satsuma vase, The Lemonheads, the Orange Bowl, Clementine Churchill.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ 8th November 2013, 4:23 PM GMT

19. Citrus fruits? No sure about the first pic, Satsuma vase, The Lemonheads, the Orange Bowl, Clementine Churchill.

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The first pic is probably the Dutch national football team..."oranje"...so, probably you're right about the citrus fruits.

12 Justify

14 Ferns

Friday Quiz October 25th 2013
1.Who has been signed to play Christian? Jamie Dornan - signed up to play Christian Grey in the film of '50 Shades of Grey'
2.Which one of five declined its seat this week? Saudi Arabia turned down its seat on the UN Security Council
3.Which BBC series is the most downloaded from the BBC iPlayer? Top Gear
4.Name the golfer in the pink shirt. John Daly
5.Where in New York would you find a giant-sized book and torch? In the hands of the Statue of Liberty
6.Which region of Mexico gives its name to a breed of dog? Chihuahua
7.What is the French for 'false step', which is in common use in English as a term for a blunder? Faux pas
8.Between 20,000 and 30,000 people died as a result of the first epidemic of which disease in Britain in the early 1830s? Cholera
9.Televisually, what links the two presenters? Both Rick Stein and Monty Don regularly appear with their dogs in their shows. Sadly Chalky, Stein's Jack Russell died in 2007.

10.What are these? Madeleines
11.What name is given to both a young tree that is larger than a seedling, and also to a greyhound before it is a year old? Sapling
12.In printing and word processing, what term is used for the arrangement of text so that it is aligned with the left or right margins, or both? Justification

13.Name the two celebrities.
JK Rowling & Elle MacPherson

14.Which ancient group of plants, most of which have large leaves known as fronds, grow mainly in damp areas, have no flowers and reproduce using spores? Ferns
15.Which term, from the Italian 'to play the harp', is used for a chord in which the notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously? Arpeggio
16.Which animal has double the blood pressure of other large mammals, and a tight sheath of thick skin over its lower limbs to maintain high extravascular pressure? Giraffe
17.The name of which ancient religious philosophy is derived from the Chinese for 'way'? Taoism
18.A train travels through a tunnel in the Alps. The train is 250m long and is travelling at 40kph. At the point when the last carriage is completely inside the tunnel, a passenger starts walking from the end of the train to the front. He walks at 5kph and reaches the front of the train at the moment it emerges from the tunnel. What is the length of the tunnel? Let x= the length of the tunnel in metres. The man travels x metres at 45 kph (the combined speed of the train and his walking) in the same time that the train travels (x-250) metres at 40kph. The equation x/45= (x-250)/40 solves to x=2250. Therefore, the length of the tunnel is 2250 metres
19.What links these pictures: Citrus fruits. (The TANGERINES, Blackpool Utd; SATSUMAware; The LEMONheads; ORANGE Bowl; CLEMENTINE Churchill). ½ point for types of orange

20.Unscramble these two words A A C C E E E K N P P R CREPE & PANCAKE

And now we await the question that must be never be asked, but has been hidden in plain sight all the time.....

One answer each Freve.

Where do you get these questions?