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 Friday Quiz December 12th 2014
1.   What won best single of the year at the inaugural BBC Music Awards? 
2.   What two-word phrase, relating to the dramatic drop in pressure leading to severe meteorological conditions in the UK, has been severely overused this week? 
3.   What flat, currant biscuit is named after an Italian statesman and soldier?             
4.   Name the film. 

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5.   What is generally recognized as the most expensive spice in the world?                                                                       
6.   Chopin’s Minute Waltz is the theme music to which radio programme? 
7.   What Latin named Roman Catholic organization translates into English as Work of God? 
8.   What is the name of the electronic score board on Family Fortunes?     
9.   What links these two pictures?     

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10.   Name the character this actor is most famous for playing.   

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11.   Which foodstuff is typically sourced from the pancreas of a young animal? 
12.   In what month is the earth closest to the sun?     
13.   Name the saint.   

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14.   Where did The Drifters like to spend Saturday Night? 
15.   Which Wimbledon tennis champion also danced on Strictly Come Dancing?   
16.   A 1958 film about a group of National Service recruits launched which series of films? 
17.   Which prefix denotes a multiplying factor of 10-to-the-minus-12?

18.   Andrew drinks white coffee and smokes.  He is totally consistent with his habits.  Every day, apart from 29th February he smokes the same number of cigarettes, uses the same amount of coffee beans and the same amount of milk in his coffee.  He buys the daily newspaper, which he purchases more often than a packet of 20 cigarettes.  The cigarettes are purchased more often than the pint of milk, which in turn is purchased more often than the bag of coffee beans.  On June 14th he bought all four items.  The next time he bought all four items on the same day was 4th July the following year.  How many cigarettes does he smoke each day?     
 
19.   What connection links these pictures: 

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20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words  :  B D E E I L N N N O R T Z

19. Edgar. Not sure of the first one, but painting is by Edgar Degas, Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, and Edgar Davids

2. weather bomb
3. garribaldi
5. has been saffron, not sure now.
14. the movies
16. might be Carry Ons...
17. tera

9.  Casablanca.....Rick from the film....white house in Spanish

15. Martina Hingis

1. Pharrel Williams

5. Saffron

5.   Saffron                                                                       
6.   Just A Mniute 
7.   Opus Dei     
11.   Rennet? 
12.   June?         
16.   Carry On?

4. Funny Girl

9. White House. The film is Casablanca (meaning White House) and obviously POTUS resides in the White House

1. Happy
10. Howard Wolowitz (Big Bang Theory)
13. Saint Lucia

Assuming no errors, I make it 8, 18, 20 still to get.

Yep.

8.  Mr Babbage

That's knowledge....didn't Babbage build one of the earliest computers or something?

In the 19th Century - Babbage engine. I didn't know Family Fortunes' scoreboard had a name.

Yes.  Charles, I think.

He planned it but never actually finished it because he ran out of money and people thought he was mad so didn't invest.

20. Bronze/ Tinned ??

no L

18

Days diff = 385

Prime factors 5 x 7 x 11

buy a pack of cigs every 5 days

4 cigs a day.

On balance, probably not then.

Q20 is proving a tough nut to crack this week.  Have tried various combinations using: bronze, benzine Ritz, Berlioz, Belize, dozen, etc but getting nowt so far!   :hmmm:

Queue 4D's arrival on the scene with the answer in a flash.... :)

Berlitz and some other travel guide

Donner and Blitzen?

Donner Blitzen  ;)

 :clap:

I was posting before Bob's post was up BTW.

Never in doubt.   ;D

Yeah yeah 4D!! ;)

But you have all the answers Bobster  :)

Not yet I don't! We get them around 4pm.

For once, that was one I tried to get and it just clicked for some reason!

Yeah yeah BO!  ;)

 :D

 Friday Quiz December 12th 2014
1.   What won best single of the year at the inaugural BBC Music Awards?  Happy by Pharrell Williams 
2.   What two-word phrase, relating to the dramatic drop in pressure leading to severe meteorological conditions in the UK, has been severely overused this week?  Weather bomb 
3.   What flat, currant biscuit is named after an Italian statesman and soldier?  Garibaldi             
4.   Name the film.    Funny Girl

5.   What is generally recognized as the most expensive spice in the world?  Saffron                                                                       
6.   Chopin’s Minute Waltz is the theme music to which radio programme?  Just a Minute 
7.   What Latin named Roman Catholic organization translates into English as Work of God?  Opus Dei
8.   What is the name of the electronic score board on Family Fortunes?  Mr Babbage     
9.   What links these two pictures?       White House (literal translation of Casablanca)
 
10.   Name the character this actor is most famous for playing.     Howard (Wolowitz) from The Big Bang Theory
11.   Which foodstuff is typically sourced from the pancreas of a young animal?  Sweetbreads 
12.   In what month is the earth closest to the sun?  January     
13.   Name the saint.     Santa Lucia
14.   Where did The Drifters like to spend Saturday Night?  At the movies 
15.   Which Wimbledon tennis champion also danced on Strictly Come Dancing?  Martina Hingis   
16.   A 1958 film about a group of National Service recruits launched which series of films?  The Carry On films 
17.   Which prefix denotes a multiplying factor of 10-to-the-minus-12?  Pico

18.   Andrew drinks white coffee andsmokes.  He is totally consistent with his habits.  Every day, apart from 29th February he smokes the same number of cigarettes, uses the same amount of coffee beans and the same amount of milk in his coffee.  He buys the daily newspaper, which he purchases more often than a packet of 20 cigarettes.  The cigarettes are purchased more often than the pint of milk, which in turn is purchased more often than the bag of coffee beans.  On June 14th he bought all four items.  The next time he bought all four items on the same day was 4th July the following year.  How many cigarettes does he smoke each day?   4 – see below for full explanation   
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:   EDGAR (the computer from Electric Dreams; Degas; Allen Poe (the Pit & the Pendulum); Davids)

       

20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words  :  B D E E I L N N N O R T Z  DONNER & BLITZEN

Maths answer:  The purchases are made according to 4 different cycles. There are 385 days from June 14th until July 4th  of the following year excluding 29th Feb. These purchasing cycles intersect every 385 days and are thus in the set of factors for 385 (1, 5, 7, 11, and 385). Since the newspaper is purchased every day, and the coffee and milk are purchased more often then the pack of cigarettes, then the pack is purchased either every 5 days or every 7 days. The pack contains 20 cigarettes which only has the factor 5 in common with the possible cycle for the cigarettes. Therefore a pack of 20 is purchased every 5 days.

Couple of errors there Froggy...wasn't so sure about rennet, but I always thought sweetbreads were some sort of animal nadgers.

June....did seem a bit obvious.

For my part....wrong on tera as opposed to pico