Quiz night thread (Part 4)

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  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    Bigshorts wrote: »
    What???
    A bliddy nettle! :eek:
    You have one tough arse!
    I'll stick to Andrex! :D

    :D:D:D
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    Good evening. Please don't miss the Christmas quiz tomorrow :)

    1.What is the name for the tool which has a long handle with a four pronged head and is used for digging?
    2.Which slang word for money is also a name for a frozen sweet on a stick?
    3.What C is a building material of cement, gravel, sand and water?
    4.What V is the name given to the meat from calves?
    5.The auditory nerve connects the brain to which sense organ?
    6.Which animal shares its name with a party held for a man shortly before his marriage?

    7.Picture: Whose face is this? http://www.postimage.org/image/dkakcezcf/
    8.In politcics, who entered Parliament as MP for Doncaster North in May 2005?
    9.In Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, who is the character that is always weeping, and shows Alice how to dance the Lobster Quadrille?
    10.In which country is the Spitzkoppe, a mountain known locally as the Matterhorn of Africa?
    11.Which pope issued the bull Regnans in Excelsis, that excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I in 1570?
    12.In which symhony did Mozart first use clarinets?
  • QofShebaQofSheba Posts: 43,330
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    1. Fork
    2. Lolly
    3. Concret
    4.What V is the name given to the meat from calves? Veal
    5. Ear
    6. Stag

    7. Ollie Muirs

    8. Ed Milliband?

    10. Somalia
  • bcdeebcdee Posts: 317,191
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    1 Fork
    2 Lolly
    3 Concrete
    4 Veal
    5 Ears
    6 Stag
    7 Olly Murs :o
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 242,496
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    7. Olly Murs
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    10 is wrong QofSheba
    All correct bcdee :D
    Correct Barracute
    8-12
  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    1. Fork
    2. Dosh??
    3. Concrete
    4. Veal
    5. Ear
    6. Stag
    7. Olly Murs
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 242,496
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    10. I'll guess South Africa ?
  • Mrs TeapotMrs Teapot Posts: 124,896
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    I missed it :eek::eek::eek:
  • OndineOndine Posts: 3,762
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    1. fork
    2. lolly
    3. concrete
    4. veal
    5. ear
    6. stag
    7. olly muirs?
    8.
    9. walrus
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.Fork
    2.Lolly
    3.Concrete
    4.Veal
    5.Ear
    6.Stag

    7.Olly Murs
    8.Ed Miliband
    9.
    10.Namibia
    11.
    12.
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    9 is wrong Ondine
    All correct Axg. Didn't think you'd get 10 :eek: ;)
    9,11,12
  • OndineOndine Posts: 3,762
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    9. mock turtle?
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    Sounded German so thought of an ex-German territory, so South West Africa (as known then) now Namibia is the only one I knew.
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    That's the one Ondine :)
    11,12
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    oooh - 4th page! Well done QM.

    But alas I cannot answer the last 2 questions. Hope I am in time tomorrow night.
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    I hope so too Sallysally :) It's going to be very festive :D:)
  • eugenespeedeugenespeed Posts: 66,695
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    11. Pius V
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    Is right eugenespeed
    12-No 31 (Paris)
    Back tonight
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    Good evening and welcome to the Christmas quiz and final QN of 2012 (maybe forever :eek: ;)) If it isn't the end of the world, QN will return on January 7

    On this day in 1946: Celebrated Christmas film It's A Wonderful Life premiered in New York :)

    1.In the classic Twelve Days of Christmas song, what were there two of?
    2.On which day of the week was Christmas Day in 2011?
    3.What is traditionally hidden in a Christmas pudding?
    4.What does the word advent mean?
    5.Which of Charles Dickens's characters says that "every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart"?
    6.Which Christmas character is known in France as le petit renne au nez rouge?
    7.Which major charity was launched on Noel Edmonds Late Late Breakfast Show on Christmas Day in 1985?
    8.Which group had consecutive Christmas number ones in 1996, 1997 and 1998?
    9.Picture 1: Name the film? http://www.postimage.org/image/bgzd72fcz/
    10.Who wrote the 1848 children's Christmas story of The Little Match Girl?
    11.A drinking fountain in Finsbury Square, London, commemmorates Tom Smith, who invented which Christmas commodity there in 1847?
    12.Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas featured in which classic musical?
    13.Picture: Where in the world is this? http://www.postimage.org/image/grbybaoux/
    14.In Italian tradition, what is the name of the woman who fills children's Christmas stockings with gifts on the eve of Epiphany (Twelfth Night)?
    15.Which Christmas carol is often sung to the melody composed by Felix Mendelssohn?
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 242,496
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    1. Turtle Doves
    2. Sunday
    3. Penny
    4. Arrival
    8 Spice Girls?
    11 Christmas Crackers
    12 Silent Night?
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.Turtle doves
    2.Sunday
    3.Ring
    4.
    5.
    6.Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
    7.Comic Relief
    8.Spice Girls
    9.The Gremlins
    10.
    11.Cracker
    12.
    13.Vatican
    14.
    15.
  • QofShebaQofSheba Posts: 43,330
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    1. Turtle doves
    2.Sunday
    3. Penny?


    6.Roudolph

    8.? Slade? Wizard?

    10.Hans Christian Anderson?
    11. Christmas cards?


    15. Oh Holy Night?
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 242,496
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    9. Gremlins
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,685
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    Correct except Barracute's 12, AxG's 3 and 13 QofSheba's 8,11 15
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