1 solved
2 55
3 toe
4 a bolt
5 credit
6 orange
7 groundhog day
8
9 the thistle
10 morocco
11 John Balliol
12

11 is wrong eugenespeed
Q1 is wrong farmer bob

12

ignore this too. Not got my head screwed on

Cheers quizmaster

12. Just a guess - but something Richter?

I really must get here sooner!

Gerhard Richter, Sallysally

Just remembered the quiz

1 Halved
2 55
3 Toe
4 Bolt
5 -
6 -
7 Pretty Woman?
8 -
9 -
10 -

I'm not very good at this

Just Q7 is wrong Patti-Ann

1.Which of the following means in secret: In record, in camera or in cassette?
2.What F is a pear-shaped fruit with sweet tasting flesh and many seeds?
3.What weather feature goes before the words drop, bow and fall?
4.If there are 20 servings of squash in a bottle, how many bottles will be needed to give 40 children 2 servings each?
5.Current affairs: a man went bankrupt over a 16-year legal battle costing £250,000 over which electronic device?
6.Which pair host the TV show Saturday Night Takeaway?

7.Which supermarket is the food division of the John Lewis Partnership?
8."He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish" is the opening line to which 1952 novel?
9.Phylloquinone is another name for which vitamin?
10.Quotations: who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"?
11.In nature, which bird can walk up to 20 miles a day and is particularly noted for its ability to kill snakes by stamping on them with its huge feet?
12.Who was appointed director of Germany's weapons research in the 1930s and subsequently recruited by the Americans in 1945 to head their Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile programme?

1) Camera
3) Rain
4) 4
6) Ant N Dec

1.In Record
2.
3.Rain
4.
5.
6.Ant & Dec

7.Waitrose
8.
9.
10.
11.Ostrich
12.?

1) record
3) rain
4) 4
6) Ant and Dec

1. no idea, record?
3. Rain
4. 4
5. PC (worth - when purchased - £1500, not worth the hassle at all)
6. Ant & Dec
7. Waitrose?
9. Vit D?
11. Ostrich?

1
2 Fig
3 Rain
4 Four
5 Laptop
6 Ant and Dec
7 Waitrose

10 George Orwell

All correct except AxG's 1,11, neil's 1

From Dare Devil - 1,9,11 are wrong, bcdee's 10

8-12

1. in camera

3.rain

4 4

5. laptop

7. Good old Waitrose

8." The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway

9. Vitamin K

10. Darwin

12 Werner von Braun

Need a bit more than K for the vitamin please Sallysally 10 is wrong

9-11

9. K1
10. Harvey Spencer...?

K1 is right but very close with Q10 irishguy

Damn.... I'm certain on the surname... think the firstname begins with an H... Harold Spencer?

Not Harold

Dammit... its gonna bug me now... I know he came up with the phrase after reading Origin of the Species but can't remember the first name. Gonna cheat and look it up... good luck to someone else getting it.
Last edited by irishguy : 26-03-2014 at 22:44

The Chase will start at 8.15pm next Monday night

1.In which month is the London Marathon staged?
2.What K is the martial arts using the hands and feet to deliver and block blows?
3.Bloomer, ciabatta, and French stick are types of which food?
4.In an orchestra, who uses a baton?
5."Decus et tutamen" is inscribed on the edge of which British coin?
6.Which part of the body is also the name of the band that recorded the albums The Seldom Seen Kid and Build a Rocket Boys?

7.In motoring, what are you applying for if you submit form TT26?
8.Which country's flag is the only one that features the map of the country on it?
9.In politics, what was the name of the diary secretary who admitted in 2006 that she had a two year affair with John Prescott?
10.Who designed and sculpted the statue of Nelson on the top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square?
11.Which Scottish clergyman nicknamed the Tartan Pimpernel was captured by the gestapo in 1942 after helping British servicemen escape occupied France?
12.Which Hindu scriptures translate literally as to sit down near?

Last quiz in this house.

1.April
2.Karate
3.Bread
4.The Conductor
5.£2
6.

7.Tax disc?
8.Cyprus
9.
10.
11.
12.

1) April
2) kung fu
3) bread
4) conductor
5) £1