Quiz night thread (Part 5)

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  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    Just 10 is wrong Sallysally

    10,12
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    Just 10 is wrong Sallysally

    10,12

    Well I never - a port called Sisal :o

    Anyway, for 10 - I just looked at my copy and Dante goes with Virgil. Should have known this, really. Old age, you know! :)
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    Virgil is right ;-)
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    12-Francois Ravaillac

    1.What Y is the involutary response to tiredness in which the mouth is opened wide and a long deep breath is taken?
    2.Which three-letter word can be a blank paper and a slang term for a living space?
    3.A banister runs up alongside which internal feature of an ordinary house?
    4.The volume of what is mesured in gills: liquids or solids?
    5.Current affairs: Solange Knowles attacked which rapper in the Standard Hotel lift in New York?
    6.The Euromillions lottery draw is drawn from how many main balls?

    7.Which animal appears on the logo on the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)?
    8.The title of which James Bond film is also a colloquial name for people from the county of Wiltshire?
    9.Awarded the OBE in 2012, fashion designer Barbara Hulanicki was the founder of which iconic 1960s clothes store?
    10.Picture: this is the headquarters of which organization? http://www.postimage.org/image/5p9jm986n/
    11.Which French writer disappeared in a plane crash in the Mediterranean in 1944?
    12.What was the name of the Norman King of Sicily from 1130 to 1154?
  • neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,529
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    1) yawn
    3) stairs
    5) Jay Z
    6) 50
  • neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,529
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    4) solids
    7) panda
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    All correct neil except 4
  • neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,529
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    2) pad
    4) liquids
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    Both correct

    8-12
  • P_PP_P Posts: 18,497
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    1. Yawn
    3. Stairs
    4. Liquids
    5. Jay-Z
    6. 7
    7. Panda
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    All correct P_P except 6

    8-12
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,285
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    1) Yawn
    3) Staircase
    4) LIquids
    5) ah Beyonces other half, cant remember his flipping name !
    6) 7
    7) Panda
    10) Eu?
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    6 and 10 are wrong Barracute

    8-12
  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    1. Yawn
    2. Pad
    3. Stairs
    4. Liquids
    5. Jay Z
    6. 50
    7. Panda
    10. I recognise that pic. Apple? that or GCHQ. Either way I know that image has been in the media a lot for a while.
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.Yawn
    2.Pad
    3.Stairs
    4.Liquids
    5.Jay-Z
    6.8

    7.Panda
    8.
    9.Monsoon?
    10.GCHQ
    11.
    12.
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    All correct Dare Devil (GCHQ)
    6,9 are wrong AxG

    8,9,11,12
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    8. Moonraker
    9. Biba (ah, those were the days my friend!)
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    Both correct Sallysally (they were indeed :))

    11-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    12-Roger II

    1.Which word means lacking any flavour when applied to food, and vulgar when referring to matters of lifestyle?
    2.What U is an institution that has the power to confer degrees?
    3.Which items of dress are referred to informally as jim-jams?
    4.If you are sick and unable to work, what is the name of the benefit you should claim: JSA or ESA?
    5.160 kilometres roughly equates to how many miles: 100 or 500?
    6.In bingo calling, two little ducks refers to which number?

    7.The name of which extinct group of reptiles derives from the Greek for terrible lizard?
    8.Teriyaki is a cooking technique commonly used in the cuisine of which Asian country?
    9.Bangui is the capital of which country?
    10."Reputation is an idle and very false burden, often got without merit and lost without being deserved" is a line from which Shakespeare play?
    11.What name refers to a secluded building used for religious retreat or instruction in Hinduism?
    12.Which company was commanded by John Hawkwood in fourteenth-century Italy?
  • neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,529
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    3) pyjamas
    4) ESA
    6) 22
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,285
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    1) Plain
    2) University
    3) Pjamas
    4) Esa
    5) 100
    6) 22
    7) Dinosaurs
    8) Japan
  • neilwatsonneilwatson Posts: 31,529
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    5) 100
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.Tasteless
    2.University
    3.Pyjamas
    4.ESA
    5.100
    6.22

    7.
    8.Japan
    9.Central African Republic
    10.
    11.
    12.
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    Just Barracute's 1 is wrong

    10-12
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    10. Othello
    11. Ashram?
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,061
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    Both correct Sallysally and 12 is White Company :)
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