5. Pope Francis

8. Inspector Wexford

10. Yalta?

12. Salisbury Cathedral (just a guess based on the fact it is a Bishop's ground!)

9. Cyprus

Just 10 is wrong Sallysally
Correct Dingbatts

10-Brest-Litovsk
11-Henri Cartier-Bresson

1.According to the proverb, what makes the heart grow fonder?
2.If your shopping costs £6,36, how much change would you get from £10?
3.What, on your hand, is your pollex?
4.What is the full name of the audio-visual device that is often abbreviated to telly or TV?
5.Which word can come before gang, stud and conference to name free phrases?
6.Take That had a 1996 number one single with How Deep Is Your Love, a cover version of whose 1977 single?

7.On vehicles from which African country are the letters ZW displayed to identify their nationality?
8.Which country has the motto E pluribus unum, supposedly taken from a recipe for a salad by the Roman poet, Virgil?
9.In nature, which North American grazing animal takes its name from an Algonquin word meaning eater of twigs?
10.By what name was Elizabeth, the daughter of James I of England known, because of her short reign?
11.Which father and daughter are represented by elements in the Periodic Table?
12.The medieval Lewis Chessmen, now mostly in the British Museum, were discovered in which country in the nineteenth-century?

1.Absence

2. £3.64

3. Thumb

4. Television

5. Press

6. Bee Gees

7. Zimbabwe

1 Absence
2 £5.64
3
4 Television
5 Press
6 The Bee Gees
7 Zimbabwe

All 7 correct Mrs Teapot

2 is wrong bcdee
8-12

10. Anne of a thousand days

1) Absence
2) £3.64
3) Thumb?
4) Television
5) Press
6) Bee Gees
7) Zimbabwe

All 7 correct Barracute
8-12

1.absence

2.£3.64

3 thumb

4. television

5. press

7. Zimbabwe?

8. USA (I did not know about the salad! )

11. Is the father Pluto?

11. Just checked the table - it is Tantalus and Niobe.

All correct Sallysally (Tantalum and Niobium)
9-Moose
10-Winter Queen

Good evening and welcome to the last quiz week of 2013. No special tonight as we've got the Christmas quiz on Thursday

1.According to the proverb, what is mightier than the sword?
2.In which year is the next leap year?
3.If there were 24 chocolates in a box, and three quarters of them had been eaten, how many would be left?
4.What C is the name given to a necklace that fits snugly around the neck?
5.Which close relative of the lemming and gerbil is an anagram of love?
6.According to the UK Highway Code, pedestrians and who else can use a toucan crossing?

7.What is the Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" known as in English?
8.Quotations: which US First Lady said in 1992 "I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette"?
9.Which African country shares land borders with Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, and Western Sahara?
10.What Italian ice-cream dessert originating from Pizzo, Calabria, translates into English as truffle?
11.It's name taken from an Arthur C. Clark short story, which NASA spacecraft will be launched on a rocket from Cape Canaveral in 2014 and will use a 13,000 sq foot sail to ride the solar winds, orbiting the sun monitoring solar flares?
12.What type of Roman gladiator was known as the fish man or fish fighter?

1. The pen
2. 2016
3. 6
4. Chokechain
5. Vole
6. Bicycles
7. Land of my Fathers
10. Tartufo

1. The word

2. 2015

3. 6

4. Choker

5. Vole

6. Cyclists

7. I vow to thee my Country That's wrong innit

2. 2016
3. 6
4. Charm?
5. Vole
6. Cyclists?

7. The land of my fathers
8. Hilary Clinton

1) shield
2) 2016
3) 6
4) choker
6) cyclists
10) Neopolitan

Mrs Teapot's 1,7, P_P's 4, and neil's 1 and 10 are wrong
8,9,11,12

1 Pen
2 2016
3 6
4 Choker
5 Vole
6 Cyclists
7 Barbara Bush
9 Algeria

1 pen

2. 2016

3.6

4. choker

5.vole

6. bicycles? (much to my shame I don't really know!)

7. land of my fathers

8. Hilary Clinton

9. Chad

10. tartufo (well, that is what truffle is in Italian, but never eaten it)

12. Pescatorian

7 is wrong bcdee
Just 9 and 12 are wrong Sallysally
11,12

1.A lot of heat, ha melted sword!
2.Year? Surely the song is "Ten lords are leaping".
3.By the time you've counted the fat lady would have eaten the box.
4.Choke-chain
5.Richard "The Hamster" Hammond
6.A toucan obviously.

7."This is just made up words"
8.Bill Clinton
9.The People's Democratic Empire Kingdom of Whoisthatistan.
10.Cornet a la flake
11.David Dickinson
12.Mr Birdseye

oops silly me...