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Quiz night thread (Part 4)

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    AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    It's always the London Underground, never Glasgow, Moscow, Paris etc. :rolleyes:


    Although I could hardly name one station from any of those.:o
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    2(two left)
    4(three left)

    I'll do those next time AxG :p:D
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    fatsifatsi Posts: 10,270
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    4. Oxford Circus, Uxbridge and Kings X :p:D
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    Good evening. I like your thinking fatsi :p:D
    2-Wanna Be Startin Something (8) The Girl Is Mine (8)
    4-other is Croxley

    1.In the children's song, which words precede the lines "Short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout"?
    2.Bracelets are worn on which part of the body?
    3.The fun-fair ride in which carriages pass through dark, supposedly haunted tunnels, is known by what name?
    4.What relation is the brother of your niece to you?
    5.Wellies is an informal name for which items of footwear?
    6.Which Academy Award-winning Spanish actor played Bond villain Raoul Silva in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall?

    7."My word is my bond" is the motto of which London financial organisation?
    8.The island of Taiwan was historically known by what name, that means beautiful in Portugese?
    9.Who wrote the 1927 novel Steppenwolf, which details the experiences of Harry Haller?
    10.Picture: name this African anti-colonial leader? http://www.postimage.org/image/tgpeochln/
    11.In Hindu mythology, what is the name of the sacred cow which grants all wishes and desires?
    12.By what name is Tchaikovsky's first symphony, No. 1 in G minor known?
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    Mrs TeapotMrs Teapot Posts: 124,896
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    1. I'm a little Teapot :D

    2. Wrist

    3. Ghost Train

    4. Nephew

    5. Wellingtons and it's Wellybobs :p

    6.

    7. Lloyds :confused:
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    That was for you Mrs Teapot, as it's your Birthday :D
    Just Q7 is wrong
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    AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.I'm a little Teapot
    2.Wrist
    3.Haunted House
    4.Nephew
    5.Wellington Boots
    6.

    7.Lloyd
    8.Formosa
    9.
    10.
    11.
    12.
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    Mrs TeapotMrs Teapot Posts: 124,896
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    That was for you Mrs Teapot, as it's your Birthday :D
    Just Q7 is wrong

    Thanks :D

    It's not the one that is in my head, it's there and not coming out :(
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    BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,330
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    1) I'm a little teapot
    2) Wrists
    3) Ghost train
    4) Nephew
    5) Wellington Boots
    6) Javier Bardem
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    fatsifatsi Posts: 10,270
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    1. I'm a little teapot
    2. Wrist
    3. Ghost train
    4. Nephew
    5. Wellington boots
    6. Javier Bardem
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    1-6 correct Barracute and fatsi
    7-12
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    BarracuteBarracute Posts: 243,330
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    7. Bank of England?
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    AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    AxG wrote: »
    8.Formosa

    *Cough*
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    fatsifatsi Posts: 10,270
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    7. London Stock Exchange
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    AxG wrote: »
    1.I'm a little Teapot
    2.Wrist
    3.Haunted House
    4.Nephew
    5.Wellington Boots
    6.

    7.Lloyd
    8.Formosa
    9.
    10.
    11.
    12.

    Sorry AxG :o
    Just Qs 3,7 are wrong
    7,9-12
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    LSE is right fatsi
    9-12
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    Re Q6-Javier Bardem is one of two Academy Award-winning actors to play a primary Bond villian. The other is Christopher Walken :)
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    SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    7. Stock Exchange?

    8. Formosa

    10 a young kenyatta?
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    Just Q10 is wrong Sallysally
    9-12
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    9-Hermann Hesse
    10-Patrice Lumumba
    11-Kamadhenu
    12-Winter Daydreams


    1.According to the old saying "red sky at night, shepherd's... what?
    2.Maternity clothes are designed to be worn by which sex?
    3.If a flag is described as tricolour, it feataures how many colours?
    4.A low rounded hump built across a road to deter speeding motorists is known as a sleeping... what?
    5.What M is a type of cream or lotion applied to the skin of the face to make it less dry?
    6.Current affairs: which city in the North West is yob capital of the UK - with 630 incidents a day?

    7.What is featured on the badge of John of Gaunt and the arms of Scotland and is said to be the commonest pub name in Britain?
    8.What type of dessert takes its name from the Italian for half cold?
    9.One joule, or the work done by a force of one newton acting over a distance of one metre, is equal to ten million of what CGS unit, defined as the work done by a force of one dyne acting through a distance of one centimetre?
    10.What comes next in this sequence, being the countries that border Germany, in clockwise order: Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and... which country?
    11.Quotations: Which influential Post-Impressionist artist once said that "For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realise sensations"?
    12.Which Swedish poet was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature?
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    AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.Delight
    2.Female
    3.3
    4.Policeman
    5.Moisturiser
    6.Manchester

    7.Red Lion
    8.Something? Frio
    9.
    10.France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark ;)

    11.
    12.
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    Mrs TeapotMrs Teapot Posts: 124,896
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    1, Delight

    2. Female

    3. 3

    4. Policeman

    5. Moisturiser

    6. Manchester

    7. William

    8. Trifle.........mad guess :D
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    The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 93,103
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    All correct AxG
    7 and 8 are wrong Mrs Teapot
    8,9,11,12
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    SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    8. Demi or semi -freddo would be the literal translation, but alas I know of no pudding named this!

    9. erg?

    10.France
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    Mrs TeapotMrs Teapot Posts: 124,896
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    All correct AxG
    7 and 8 are wrong Mrs Teapot
    8,9,11,12

    I thought as much :D
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