Quiz night thread (Part 5)

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  • lightdragonlightdragon Posts: 19,059
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    11) From the dome sat on it, is it Jerusalem?
  • willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,303
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    1.On what day of the year are hot cross buns traditionally eaten?
    2.What F is a group of sheep? Flock.
    3.What item of footwear is also the name given to the rear of a car? Boot.
    4.On what part of the body would a person wear a coronet? Head?
    5.Current affairs: which banking giant is currently under fire after it helped clients evade tax? HSBC.
    6.GTA are the initials of which best-selling video game? Grand Theft Auto.
    7.In a recent survey by Good Food Magazine, 83% of people voted they couldn't live without which kitchen gadget? Microwave?
    8.Which former planet was named after the Roman god of the underworld? Pluto.
    9.In politics, who was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister?
    10.Which thief in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale was a "snapper-up of unconsidered trifles"?
    11.Picture: this is the presidential palace based in which capital city? http://www.postimage.org/image/x9pxich4f/
    12.Which 1507 map, named after its creator was the first to use the name America?
  • DDRickyDDDDRickyDD Posts: 5,241
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    1. Easter Sunday
    2. Foal
    3. Boot
    4. Head
    5. Halifax
    6. Grant Theft Auto

    7. Microwave
    8. Pluto
    9. John Major
    10. Hamlet
    11. Islamabad
    12. America Map
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    Well done AxG, all correct will, and 1,2,5,9-12 are wrong Ricky
  • P_PP_P Posts: 18,497
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    1. Easter Sunday
    2. Flock
    3. Boot
    4. Head?
    5. HSBC
    6. Grand Theft Auto
    7. Microwave
    8. Pluto
    9. Nigel Lawson?
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    Just 1 and 9 are wrong P_P
    10-Autolycus
    12-Waldseemuller map

    1.A chess board has how many squares - 64 or 84?
    2.What is the most common blood type - A or O?
    3.How many minutes are there in three hours?
    4.Stilton, Wensleydale and Yarg are types of which food?
    5.Lone Missile is an anagram of which footballing star?
    6.Which Richard Linklater film, made over a period of 12 years, charts the growing up of Mason Jr (Ellar Coltrane)?

    7.The airline QANTAS is based in which country?
    8.Quotations: which Hollywood actress said "I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested after running foul of the law in 2013"?
    9.The popular holiday resort of Sharm El Sheikh lies on which body of water?
    10.The Jagiellonian University, founded in 1364, is the second-oldest in Central Europe and the oldest in which country?
    11.The English-born granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II of Russia, Marie was the last queen-consort of Romania as the wife of which king, who died in 1927?
    12.Which Czech-American physicist gives his name to the non-Si unit used in radio-astronomy to measure the flux density of radio signals from space - it is equal to a flux of 10-26 watts per square metre of receiving area per hertz of frequency band?
  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    1. 64
    2. A?
    3. 180
    4. Cheese
    8. no idea but that's a funny quote :D
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.64
    2.O
    3.180
    4.Cheese
    5.Lionel Messi
    6.

    7.Australia
    8.
    9.Red Sea
    10.Sweden
    11.Nicolas II
    12.
  • bcdeebcdee Posts: 317,469
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    1 64
    2 O
    3 180
    4 Cheese
    5 Lionel Messi
    6 Boyhood
    7 Australia
    8
    9 The Red Sea
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    Just 2 is wrong Dare Devil, 10,11 AxG
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 242,800
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    6 Boyhood (and its Richard not Eric - Linklater !)
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    All correct bcdee
    Boyhood is right Barracute

    8,10-12
  • SallysallySallysally Posts: 5,070
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    1. 64
    2 O
    3 180
    4. cheese
    5. Lionel Messi
    6. Boyhood
    7. Australia
    8. Reese Witherspoon
    9. Red Sea
    10. Poland
    11. Michael?
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    Just 11 is wrong Sallysally

    11,12
  • willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,303
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    1.A chess board has how many squares - 64 or 84? 64.
    2.What is the most common blood type - A or O? O.
    3.How many minutes are there in three hours? 180.
    4.Stilton, Wensleydale and Yarg are types of which food? Cheese.
    5.Lone Missile is an anagram of which footballing star? Lionel Messi.
    6.Which Richard Linklater film, made over a period of 12 years, charts the growing up of Mason Jr (Ellar Coltrane)?
    7.The airline QANTAS is based in which country? Qatar?
    8.Quotations: which Hollywood actress said "I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested after running foul of the law in 2013"?
    9.The popular holiday resort of Sharm El Sheikh lies on which body of water?
    10.The Jagiellonian University, founded in 1364, is the second-oldest in Central Europe and the oldest in which country?
    11.The English-born granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II of Russia, Marie was the last queen-consort of Romania as the wife of which king, who died in 1927?
    12.Which Czech-American physicist gives his name to the non-Si unit used in radio-astronomy to measure the flux density of radio signals from space - it is equal to a flux of 10-26 watts per square metre of receiving area per hertz of frequency band?
  • DDRickyDDDDRickyDD Posts: 5,241
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    1. 64
    2. A
    3. 180
    4. Cheese
    5. Messi
    6. Boyhood

    7. Australia
    8. Kate Winslet
    9. Meditaranean
    10. Czech Republic
    11. Murescu I
    12. Jankolovski
  • P_PP_P Posts: 18,497
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    1. 64
    2. O
    3. 180
    4. Cheese
    5. Lionel Messi
    6. Boyhood
    7. Australia
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    From will - all correct except will's 7, Ricky's 2, 8-12

    1.Before joining the euro, what was the currency of Italy - the Lira or Libra?
    2.What colour are the benches in the House of Commons - green or red?
    3.A water carrier represents which sign of the zodiac?
    4.What is the official London residence of the British monarch?
    5.Greens, fairways and bunkers are part of the setting for which sport?
    6.Which X Factor winner was the champion on the first series of the winter sports reality TV show The Jump?

    7.What object, often found in a tool box, is also the name of a measurement equal to 5.715cm?
    8.In which month do Americans observe Memorial Day?
    9.In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, who was fascinated by the frivolous Mary Crawford, but later falls in love with Fanny Price?
    10.Which mythical creature is traditionally given the body and head of a horse, the hind legs of a stag, the tail of a lion and a single horn in the middle of the forehead?
    11.What was the name of the secret Serbian society that plotted the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
    12.Designed in the Dutch Classicist style by Jacob van Campen, which royal picture gallery overlooking the Hofvijver Lake is flanked by the Hague's parliamentary buildings and was built in 1644 for a governor of Brazil?
  • bcdeebcdee Posts: 317,469
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    1 Lira
    2 Green
    3 Aquarius
    4 Buckingham Palace
    5 Golf
    6 Joe McEldrey
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    6/6 bcdee
  • BarracuteBarracute Posts: 242,800
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    1) Lira
    2) Green
    3) Aquarius
    4) Buckingham Palace
    5) Golf
    8) September
    10) Unicorn
  • The quizmasterThe quizmaster Posts: 92,787
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    All correct Barracute

    7,9,11,12
  • Dare DevilDare Devil Posts: 118,737
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    1. Lira
    2. Green
    4. Buckingham Palace
    6. Joe McEldery
    10. Unicorn
  • AxGAxG Posts: 25,663
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    1.Lira
    2.Green
    3.Aquarius
    4.Hampton Court Palace
    5.Golf
    6.

    7.
    8.
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    10.
    11.
    12.
  • willrelf92willrelf92 Posts: 15,303
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    1.Before joining the euro, what was the currency of Italy - the Lira or Libra? Lira.
    2.What colour are the benches in the House of Commons - green or red? Green.
    3.A water carrier represents which sign of the zodiac? Aquarius?
    4.What is the official London residence of the British monarch? Buckingham Palace.
    5.Greens, fairways and bunkers are part of the setting for which sport? Golf.
    6.Which X Factor winner was the champion on the first series of the winter sports reality TV show The Jump? Joe McElderry?
    7.What object, often found in a tool box, is also the name of a measurement equal to 5.715cm?
    8.In which month do Americans observe Memorial Day? July?
    9.In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, who was fascinated by the frivolous Mary Crawford, but later falls in love with Fanny Price?
    10.Which mythical creature is traditionally given the body and head of a horse, the hind legs of a stag, the tail of a lion and a single horn in the middle of the forehead? Unicorn.
    11.What was the name of the secret Serbian society that plotted the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
    12.Designed in the Dutch Classicist style by Jacob van Campen, which royal picture gallery overlooking the Hofvijver Lake is flanked by the Hague's parliamentary buildings and was built in 1644 for a governor of Brazil?
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