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1.   Where is Arthur being disruptive? 
2.   What will be named with a bottle of whisky today?
3.   The insect-repellent citronella is derived from a close relative of which plant often used in Thai cooking?           
4.   Where is this?     

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5.   In biology, what name is given to the threadlike structures normally occurring in pairs in the cell nucleus that carry hereditary information in the form of genes?                                                                     
6.   In a standard three-pin electrical plug, two of the pins should be connected to the live and earth wires, respectively:  what should the third pin be connected to?
7.   Which Anglo-Saxon king, whose name means ‘noble counsel’, was given a nickname that meant ‘bad’ or ‘no counsel’?   
8.   The north-eastern corner of the isle of Corfu lies just off the coast of which country? 
9.   What nominally links these pictures?     

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10.   Who is this?   

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11.   In Ancient Greece, which city-state in the southern Peloponnese was characterized by its rigorous military discipline? 
12.   Which traditional Christmas treat originally contained meat and was made in the shape of a cradle, as a reminder of the manger in which Jesus lay?   
13.   Name the ‘S’.     

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14.   Who is the oldest female artiste to top the UK singles chart? 
15.   The Polish refusal to hand over which port to the Germans was used by Hitler as a pretext for invading the country to start the Second World War ? 
16.   Part of the Biblical book of Daniel was originally written in which language that is closely related to Hebrew and is said to have been Jesus’s mother-tongue?
17.   Which phrase, meaning that your prospects are bleak, refers to a breakfast item, and can be traced back to a best-selling 1984 film comedy ?   
18.   My neighbour has nine children born at regular intervals.  The sum of the square of their ages is equal to the square of his own age.  How old are his children?
 
19.   What links these pictures:

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20.   Unscramble the two words:  A C C D E H I O O O O P R S Z 

13. smörgåsbord

4. Czech Republic?

Edit. No  :)

 
2. The new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth
3. Lemongrass           
5. Chromosomes                                                                    
6. Neutral
7. Ethelred the Unready   
8. Albania
11. Sparta
12. Mince pies?
15. Gdansk/Danzig
16. Aramaic?

3. Lemon grass
8. Albania

7. Ethelraed the Unready

The 1 st picture connection is Holy......Holy Island, Holy City

18. His children are aged 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12and13 and he will be 81

4.  Greater London
9. St Michael

9. Saints - Mont St Michel and St Peters Square

19. 2,5,8,11,14,17,20,23,26

He is 48  ;)

10. Pete Sampras (?)

9.I thought it was Holy island and then you have the Holy See Vatican

14. Cher?

That was my first thought for 9....what with nominally being there....but wasn't convinced it was St Michael's Mount....looks more like Lindisfarne to me....maybe the church is called St Michael's

10. Nick Kyrgios

Got to be saints surely - Michael and Peter

Or Rafa Nadal, they were my only 2 guesses

The pictures are of Lindisfarne and St Peter's Square in Rome. Don't know what name links them though.

 19.  Bit of a bugger.    1 looks like a pager 2 a melon 3 Emile Zatopek 4 a scythe, don't know 5

14. Vera Lynn?

Yes.  A bugger indeed.  Pic 1 is defo a pager.  I was wondering if alternatives for Pics 3 and 4 might be runner and harvester?  I can't place Pic 5 either (initially thought it looked like Percy Thrower!). 

1. probably refers to Hurricane Arthur, which recently hit the North Carolina coast.

I've answered 19 Reg  ;)

Not lindisfarne Mont St Michael

You've answered 18

If its any use the runner is Emil Zatopek who won 3 Olympic gold medals at long distances.

He is Czech

No it's not. Not St Michael's Mount either I don't think.

Hah, what a tool. I put 19 when I answered it  :doh:

The more I look at them I think you are right. What would link them is Holy as someone previously stated

14 I think is Debbie Harry when she made a bit of a comeback a few years ago

9.  The first pic is defo Lindisfarne and there is a St Peter's Chapel there.  So St Peter would be the nominal link.

Not Vera Lynn?

Whale Meat Again?

It's Cher

Pretty damn obscure. While we're at it, there's a Lindisfarne song called Peter Brophy Don't Care.  :cry:

Agreed.  Maybe there's something else.

I saw the Blondie set at Glastonbury on the box last Friday....reminded me of seeing them at possibly the Roundhouse in London in about 1976....maybe 77, at the time I was surprised tolearnthat Debbie Harry was quite a bit older than me...which means she must be Rolling Stones vintage now...fair play to the girl.

Right, I've tracked down the fella with a lump on his head.

He is Edwin Curtis who got the lump when he got hit with a golf ball at the Honda Classic - so that's got to be some sort of link to the others.

The runner is Emil Zatopek

I presume the melon is a cantaloupe

19. Anagrams/contains  citrus fruits?
Emil - lime
Curtis - citrus
Melon - lemon

Now I'm stuck  :)

Oooooooer. That sounds promising

Pager = grape

On to something here

Ah, fruit.

Pager is grape

Straw berry

Yep, incredibly Debbie is 69.

Got it. Reap is pear. Good lateral thinking 4D.

only taken him 7k+ posts  ;D

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Good work...that's the most obscure one of these we've yet had....bloke hit on the head by a golf ball ffs.

Don't think we've got the breakfast word, from comedy or 20 yet.

Is it 'Its Toast'?

Has Vera Lynn had any number one singles in the last 40 years ? In fact has she ever had a number 1 single because the charts probably didnt exist when she was around

How about...you're toast. Maybe ghostbusters to Mr Staypuffed.

I knew she had some recent war album chart but re singles, probably not, unless white cliffs of Dover was released as a single?


That's the one I was thinking of.

Yes.  It's from Ghostbusters.  Spoken by Bill Murray as Dr Peter Venkman, I think - doesn't he frequent the TEF?!

Yes, yes I do :) and yes, yes I concur.

So now we have to know passages of scripts from films FFS!!

Complete guess on my part....I thought if it was to do with Ghostbusters Venkman would have been all over it.  :)

Busters was from 1984 too

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Anyone got anywhere near with Q20?  That Z is really pissing me off!  [zodiac, prizes, craze, chorizo, capsize]

Zodiac horoscope,  just for Bewster  :D

You're playing a blinder today 4D...

 :doh:  I had discounted that because I only counted 3 'O's!  What a putz?!

 :clap:

More likely to be lump - plum don't you think?

Yeah....that's better than citrus, I'd still like to know how Audrey knew Edwin Curtis, even with google.

Reg

I googled 'Pictures of people with big lump on head' and there he was.

What a wonderful tool! - which is something Mrs Audrey has never uttered

You aren't supposed to use Google in this quiz!   :no:

1.   Where is Arthur being disruptive?  East Coast USA – the first hurricane of the season. 
2.   What will be named with a bottle of whisky today?  HMS Queen Elizabeth
3.   The insect-repellent citronella is derived from a close relative of which plant often used in Thai cooking?  Lemon grass         
4.   Where is this?       Greater London

5.   In biology, what name is given to the threadlike structures normally occurring in pairs in the cell nucleus that carry hereditary information in the form of genes?  Chromosomes                                                                     
6.   In a standard three-pin electrical plug, two of the pins should be connected to the live and earth wires, respectively:  what should the third pin be connected to?  Neutral
7.   Which Anglo-Saxon king, whose name means ‘noble counsel’, was given a nickname that meant ‘bad’ or ‘no counsel’?  Ethelred the Unready   
8.   The north-eastern corner of the isle of Corfu lies just off the coast of which country?  Albania 
9.   What nominally links these pictures?       HOLY (Holy Island & the Holy See)
 
10.   Who is this?       Nick Kyrgios

11.   In Ancient Greece, which city-state in the southern Peloponnese was characterized by its rigorous military discipline?  Sparta 
12.   Which traditional Christmas treat originally contained meat and was made in the shape of a cradle, as a reminder of the manger in which Jesus lay?  Mince pie   
13.   Name the ‘S’.       Smorgasbord
14.   Who is the oldest female artiste to top the UK singles chart?  Cher with ‘Believe’ 
15.   The Polish refusal to hand over which port to the Germans was used by Hitler as a pretext for invading the country to start the Second World War?  Danzig / Gdansk   
16.   Part of the Biblical book of Daniel was originally written in which language that is closely related to Hebrew and is said to have been Jesus’s mother-tongue?  Aramaic
17.   Which phrase, meaning that your prospects are bleak, refers to a breakfast item, and can be traced back to a best-selling 1984 film comedy ?  ‘You’re toast!’  from Ghostbusters.   
18.   My neighbour has nine children born at regular intervals.  The sum of the square of their ages is equal to the square of his own age.  How old are his children?  2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23 and 26.  (I’ll also accept 3 sets of triplets aged 11, 23 and 35)
 
19.   What links these pictures:  Anagrams of fruit  (PAGER/GRAPE; MELON/LEMON; EMIL/ LIME; REAP/PEAR; LUMP/PLUM)

         


20.   Unscramble the two words:  A C C D E H I O O O O P R S Z  HOROSCOPE & ZODIAC 

That triplets bit in answer to 18 doesn't make sense

 Yay....I got Holy, Rome also known as the Holy City.

 Bob's Friday quizzes are ace...

I am merely the postman of these quizzes Reg! I Can't take pure credit for them! :)