1.The word rhino is short for what animal? Rhinoceros.
2.According to superstition, it is bad luck to walk under what piece of equipment used by builders and window cleaners? Ladder.
3.What B is a structure that provides passage over a river or a ravine? Bridge.
4.A slice of bread dipped in raw egg and then fried is called what - German toast or French toast? French toast.
5.Film quotations: in which 1992 gangster film does a character played by Steve Buscemi ask the question "Why am I Mr Pink"?
6.Picture: this is the logo of which financial institution? http://www.postimage.org/image/q2cfxqd1x/
7.If the Mississippi and its tributary the Missouri are considered to be two separate rivers, which is the longest river in the world to flow through only one sovereign state?
8.The extensive monument in Rome's Piazza Venezia known locally as the Wedding Cake, or The Typewriter, is dedicated to which Italian monarch?

It is the Bank of England

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4/4 will

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1. rhinoceros
2. ladder
3. bridge
4. French
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Bank of England
7. Yellow River? Sorry, it has to be the Yangtze as this is longer
8. Victor Emmanuel

8/8 Sallysally

Finished

Sorry QM, I edited my answer as I realised just after I hit submit that I meant the Yangtze, although I am still not sure if this is correct!

I noticed it Sallysally. Thanks

1. Rhinoceros
2. Ladder
3. Bridge
4. French Toast
5. Reservoir Dogs

5/5 P_P

1.Which word has more letters - weakest or link?
2.What organs enable fish to breathe underwater - jills or gills?
3.At a school sports day, which four-letter word follows obstacle, sack and egg and spoon to give the names of three competitions?
4.A sequence of words that is difficult to say is called a tongue... what?
5.What type of ancient monster was seen terrorising the Orient Express in a 2014 episode of Doctor Who?
6.What is the name of Viola's twin brother in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, whom she believes to be dead at the start of the play?
7.Sometimes called the Monkey Trial, the historic case tried in Tennessee in 1925 is usually named after which high school teacher charged with teaching the theory of evolution?
8.As a small child, Samuel Johnson was brought to London to be touched by which monarch, the last in Britain to practise the custom?

1) Weakest
2) Gills
3) Race
4) Twister
5) Mummy

5/5 Barracute

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1. weakest
2 gills
3. race
4 twister
6. Sebastian
7. John Scopes

All correct Sallysally

8

8) Victoria? I do know it cures scrofula, whatever that is.

8. George III

Not Victoria or George III. It's Queen Anne

1. Weakest
2. Gills
3. Race
4. Twister

the last ones are always so hard!

1.Which word has more letters - weakest or link? Weakest.
2.What organs enable fish to breathe underwater - jills or gills? Gills.
3.At a school sports day, which four-letter word follows obstacle, sack and egg and spoon to give the names of three competitions? Race.
4.A sequence of words that is difficult to say is called a tongue... what? Twister.
5.What type of ancient monster was seen terrorising the Orient Express in a 2014 episode of Doctor Who?
6.What is the name of Viola's twin brother in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, whom she believes to be dead at the start of the play?
7.Sometimes called the Monkey Trial, the historic case tried in Tennessee in 1925 is usually named after which high school teacher charged with teaching the theory of evolution?
8.As a small child, Samuel Johnson was brought to London to be touched by which monarch, the last in Britain to practise the custom?

1. Weakest
2. Gills
3. Race
4. Twister
5. Weeping Angels

5/5 from last quiz P_P. Special announcement tomorrow - some of you will already know what it is But we start this week with alliterative answers

1.How is 55 written in words?
2.A romantic way to express feelings of love in written form is called a what?
3.Which Labour Party politician died a fortnight ago, aged 75?
4.Picture: whose face is this? http://www.postimage.org/image/7lovfx875/
5.Who had a top ten hit in 1981 with Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)?
6.Which French phrase describes an alluring or seductive woman, especially one who causes men to love her to their own distress?
7.Which wood carver and sculptor is best known for the choir stalls and organ screen in London's St Paul's Cathedral?
8.Who wrote the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin?

1. fifty five
2. love letter
3. Michael Meacher
4. Brian Blessed
6. femme fatale
7. Grinling Gibbons
8. Bela Bartok

1 Fifty Five
2 Love Letter
3
4 Brian Blessed

7/8 Sallysally

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3/3 bcdee

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1.How is 55 written in words? Fifty Five.
2.A romantic way to express feelings of love in written form is called a what? Love Letter.
3.Which Labour Party politician died a fortnight ago, aged 75?
4.Picture: whose face is this? http://www.postimage.org/image/7lovfx875/ Brian Blessed.
5.Who had a top ten hit in 1981 with Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)?
6.Which French phrase describes an alluring or seductive woman, especially one who causes men to love her to their own distress?
7.Which wood carver and sculptor is best known for the choir stalls and organ screen in London's St Paul's Cathedral?
8.Who wrote the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle and the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin?