1.Which number looks like an S when read upside down on a calculator?
2.How many days make up the celebrations of a Chinese New Year?
3.Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is more commonly known by what two-letter term?
4.What is the highest digit that can appear in the octal number system?
5.How many pockets does a snooker table have?
6.Number of ounces in a pound?
7.Military alliance signed on 4 April 1949?
8.In France it is SA; in Germany it is AG and in the Netherlands it is NV. What is it in the UK?
9.Which letter is represented in braille by a single raised dot, and in Morse Code by dot-dash?
10.The number of tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?
11.Which two letters after a barrister's name indicate that he or she has "taken silk"?
12.Written abbreviation that is a shortening of a Latin phrase?
We are over the 4000 questions mark :eek:
A is right belly button
2-15
Sorry for being late tonight quizzers
1.How is 5 hundreds, 0 tens and 8 units written?
2.What L do we use to breathe?
3.Which Italian chef won the 2009 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here?
4.Which former Labour politician claimed £22,500 of taxpayers money for treating dry rot at ther partner's home in Southampton, more than 100 miles from her Luton South constituency?
5.What is Adam Bede's profession in the 1859 novel of the same name by George Eliot?
6.What landlocked kingdom in southern Africa between South Africa and Mozambique is named after a nineteenth-century king?
7.Which Russian ruler was the first to use the title Tsar (emperor)?
8.Which monumental sculpture in Rome shows a priest of Apollo and his sons strangled by sea serpents sent by Apollo?
9.What was the title of Puccini's breakthrough work in 1893 that was based on Abbe Prevost's novel?
10.Which German Renaissance artist designed religious woodcuts for Martin Luther?
Well done for getting last night's Q9 belly button
6-Swaziland
7-Ivan III
10-Lucas Cranach
1.What word goes after witch and before nut?
2.After the wedding day the bride and groom may fly off on their holidays together. What is this holiday called?
3.Which classic ABBA song starts "Friday night and the lights are low"?
4.What dry Asian dish is primarily made with potatoes and cauliflower?
5.Which city lies at the very north of Australia, on the coast of the Timor Sea?
6.Who was the leader of the Shi'ite administration in Iran after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979?
7.In chemistry, what name is given to the chemical decomposition of compounds caused by high temperatures?
8.What was the name given to the French civil wars between 1648 and 1653?
9.In Norse mythology, who was Odin's son that rode to Hel to try and rescue his brother Balder?
10.Jemmy Twitcher, Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum appear in which eighteenth-century opera?
We start this week with A-Z (I'll be bringing A-Z themes soon)
Halloween quiz in a couple of weeks
A-First name of Russian auther Solzhenitsyn
B-Small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves
C-Revolutionary captured and killed by Bolivian soldiers in 1967
D-A female name or a flower
E-The latter part of the day and early part of the night
F-Star of controversial seventies TV drama, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire
G-Nepalese soldiers that use a curved sword called a kukri
H-Romanian dance singer who had a top ten single with Hot in March of this year
I-How the Falkland Islands are known in Argentina
J-American composer dubbed the "King of Ragtime" (surname)
K-Ballet company named after a prominent Bolshevik leader
L-French phrase used to describe a policy of non-intervention by government in economic affairs
M-Medieval siege engine similar to a catapult
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Both right damianswife - 3,11
4. 7
5. 6
12. Etc
2,6-10
7.NATO
8. Ltd
10. 24
2,9
A is right belly button
2-15
Sorry for being late tonight quizzers
1.How is 5 hundreds, 0 tens and 8 units written?
2.What L do we use to breathe?
3.Which Italian chef won the 2009 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here?
4.Which former Labour politician claimed £22,500 of taxpayers money for treating dry rot at ther partner's home in Southampton, more than 100 miles from her Luton South constituency?
5.What is Adam Bede's profession in the 1859 novel of the same name by George Eliot?
6.What landlocked kingdom in southern Africa between South Africa and Mozambique is named after a nineteenth-century king?
7.Which Russian ruler was the first to use the title Tsar (emperor)?
8.Which monumental sculpture in Rome shows a priest of Apollo and his sons strangled by sea serpents sent by Apollo?
9.What was the title of Puccini's breakthrough work in 1893 that was based on Abbe Prevost's novel?
10.Which German Renaissance artist designed religious woodcuts for Martin Luther?
2. Lungs
4. Not sure - Margaret Moran?
5. Carpenter
6. Just a guess - Lesotho
6,7,9,10
6-Swaziland
7-Ivan III
10-Lucas Cranach
1.What word goes after witch and before nut?
2.After the wedding day the bride and groom may fly off on their holidays together. What is this holiday called?
3.Which classic ABBA song starts "Friday night and the lights are low"?
4.What dry Asian dish is primarily made with potatoes and cauliflower?
5.Which city lies at the very north of Australia, on the coast of the Timor Sea?
6.Who was the leader of the Shi'ite administration in Iran after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979?
7.In chemistry, what name is given to the chemical decomposition of compounds caused by high temperatures?
8.What was the name given to the French civil wars between 1648 and 1653?
9.In Norse mythology, who was Odin's son that rode to Hel to try and rescue his brother Balder?
10.Jemmy Twitcher, Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum appear in which eighteenth-century opera?
2. Syrup Sun (Honeymoon!)
3. Dancing Queen
2. Honeymoon
3. Dancing Queen
4. Aloo gobi?
6. Ayatollah Khomeini?
5,7-10
10 Beggar's Opera
It is Darwin Moholo
Q8 is La Fronde
I'll be back with you all on Monday
What time?
I needs to know so I can pick the easy ones
Halloween quiz in a couple of weeks
A-First name of Russian auther Solzhenitsyn
B-Small, round goat cheese from Provence, France, that is dipped in brandy before being wrapped in chestnut leaves
C-Revolutionary captured and killed by Bolivian soldiers in 1967
D-A female name or a flower
E-The latter part of the day and early part of the night
F-Star of controversial seventies TV drama, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire
G-Nepalese soldiers that use a curved sword called a kukri
H-Romanian dance singer who had a top ten single with Hot in March of this year
I-How the Falkland Islands are known in Argentina
J-American composer dubbed the "King of Ragtime" (surname)
K-Ballet company named after a prominent Bolshevik leader
L-French phrase used to describe a policy of non-intervention by government in economic affairs
M-Medieval siege engine similar to a catapult