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 Friday Quiz November 7th 2014
1.   What is now the tallest building in the Western hemisphere? 
2.   The chief executive of which oil company was recently killed in a plane crash? 
3.   What is the name of the central family in Downton Abbey?             
4.   Who is this?     

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5.   Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp have both played which character from a children’s film?                                                                       
6.   What is the process of splitting atoms called? 
7.   What is the small piece of gummed paper that is used to attach stamps in an album? 
8.   Which folk rock band share a name with an 18th century agriculturalist?     
9.   What links these two pictures?     

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10.   Who is depicted here?   

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11.   Which gas is used in a solution of water for preserving biological specimens? 
12.   Which female film icon was only ever played by males?     
13.   Name the film.

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14.   What connects the London boroughs of Hillingdon, Enfield, Havering and Croydon ? 
15.   ‘The White Cap’ is the English translation of the title of a monthly magazine of which military organisation?   
16.   In which 1970s musical is a zombie-like character found in a deep-freeze, and then subsequently runs amok? 
17.   Which American short story tells of a man who fell asleep for 20 years?

18.   Andy said to Bill, "When we last met, our ages were both prime numbers, and when I was a quarter of the age I am now, you were that age plus half the age your mother would have been thirty years previous to when she was six times the age you would have been when I was half your age". Bill said to Andy "I'm off down the pub". How old were Andy and Bill the last time they met?     
 
19.   What links these pictures: 

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20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words  :  D E E H J K L L Y Y

13. Clash of the Titans

5. Willy Wonka

15. French FOREIGN Legion

17. Rip van Winkle?

5. Willy Wonka
8 Jethro Tull

16 Rocky Horror Picture Show

20. Jekyll, Hyde

6. Nuclear fission.

11. Formaldehyde

2. Total.
7. Stamp hinge.
10. Prometheus.
12. Lassie?

1.  New World Trade Center
2.  Total

9. Concord (Flight of the Conchords & Place de la Concorde).

18. 11 and 17. Mum was 44 at this point.

10. Prometheus

Edit Just seen Sir Pissalot already has it.

What's anyone got for No 19 so far? 

I'm trying: isle, edit, jack, fold, font -  to see if they can all be preceded by something (eg Black Isle, Blackjack etc) but am struggling.

I'm thinking along the lines of printing.

Used to work in the industry. The paper folding is what we used to call a mock-up.

Got font as well plus some edited copy

Also thinking  maybe church or Alice in Wonderland, though!

Is Pic 1 The Philosophers Stone?

19 is quite tricky. You are on the right lines with 1 of your 3 guesses is all I'll say!

I wouldn't have said so.  I think it's just a generic image of an island.

Does 'island' have any kind of link to printing?

3. Crawley family.

Nope. TBH I cant tell what that pic is - cud be anything

Its not related to printing.

I think its things found in a church - (a)isle, alter, (k)nave, ??, font

Fold

 Well done! :clap:


Elsewhere, I think the guy in Q4 was in The Sopranos but I can't remember his name.

Blah blah is correct and his reasoning is just about there.

4D, fold isn't correct. The actual correct answer for the paper clue is one I am not familiar with!

Any answers around Bob?

14. might be something to do with them not having a London postcode?  Or being the furthest boroughs to the North/South?East/West?  Admittedly this is based entirely on knowing that Enfield and Croydon are far away from London and the Croydon has CR postcode!

I'll put the answers up at 5 Timmy. You have nailed 14.

If it's not fold, then is it likely to be a word any of us have heard of?

maybe someone like Reg.

I've got it

Imposition

1.   What is now the tallest building in the Western hemisphere?  One World Trade Center
2.   The chief executive of which oil company was recently killed in a plane crash?  Total
3.   What is the name of the central family in Downton Abbey?  Crawley             
4.   Who is this?       Nik Wallenda – the tightrope-walker

5.   Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp have both played which character from a children’s film?  Willy Wonka                                                                       
6.   What is the process of splitting atoms called?   Nuclear fission
7.   What is the small piece of gummed paper that is used to attach stamps in an album?  Hinge 
8.   Which folk rock band share a name with an 18th century agriculturalist?  Jethro Tull     
9.   What links these two pictures?       Concorde (Flight of the Conchords & Place de la Concorde)
 
10.   Who is depicted here?      Prometheus
11.   Which gas is used in a solution of water for preserving biological specimens?  Formaldehyde 
12.   Which female film icon was only ever played by males?  Lassie     
13.   Name the film.      Clash of the Titans
14.   What connects the London boroughs of Hillingdon, Enfield, Havering and Croydon ?  The London boroughs that extend furthest West, North, East and South respectively 
15.   ‘The White Cap’ is the English translation of the title of a monthly magazine of which military organisation?    French Foreign Legion
16.   In which 1970s musical is a zombie-like character found in a deep-freeze, and then subsequently runs amok?  Rocky Horror Show (Eddie was the character)
17.   Which American short story tells of a man who fell asleep for 20 years?  Rip Van Winkle

18.   Andy said to Bill, "When we last met, our ages were both prime numbers, and when I was a quarter of the age I am now, you were that age plus half the age your mother would have been thirty years previous to when she was six times the age you would have been when I was half your age". Bill said to Andy "I'm off down the pub". How old were Andy and Bill the last time they met?   Andy and Bill were 2 and 5 years old respectively the last time they met. If A and B are Andy and Bill's present ages and a and b are their ages when Andy was half Bill's age then

B - 3A/4 = (A/4) + (6b - 30)/2

Since their ages have always had the same difference we have

B - A = 3b - 15 = b - a

and since 2a = b then a = 3 and b = 6. So their ages differ by 3. Since all primes except 2 are odd and differ by an even number we can only have 2 and 5, Bill being the older of the two. The mother plays no part in the problem!   
 
19.   What links these pictures:   Church architecture (aisle; altar; nave; choir; font)

         

20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words  :  D E E H J K L L Y Y  JEKYLL & HYDE