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Title: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Bob's Orange on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:35:34
1.   What is the most common password for logging in online?   
2.   Who wore an orange bow tie to collect his award this week? 
3.   In a court case, what are the three verdicts that can be delivered by a Scottish jury?             
4.   Who is this? 

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/Edinburgh_STFC/Q4_1.jpg) (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Q4_1.jpg.html)

5.   Costing around £85 billion, what is the most expensive object ever made?                                                                       
6.   Which four-letter word is used to describe a website that allows anyone to add or amend its content? 
7.   Which ‘Charlie’s Angels’ actress has enjoyed success in the wine world after launching an award-winning white wine? 
8.   What is the only one of the four great offices of state in British politics that has never been occupied by a woman?     
9.   What  links these two pictures?     

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/Edinburgh_STFC/Q9_1.jpg) (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Q9_1.jpg.html)
 
10.   Name the film.   

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/Edinburgh_STFC/Q10_1.jpg) (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Q10_1.jpg.html)

11.   In the 14th century, the papacy was temporarily situated in which French city? 
12.   Which team has played a record nine football World Cup finals matches without victory?     
13.   What kind of sleeve is shown here. 

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/Edinburgh_STFC/Q13_1.jpg) (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Q13_1.jpg.html)

14.   Which Swedish sci-fi TV drama is set in an alternate version of modern-day Sweden where humanoid robot servants are commonplace ? 
15.   Which colour was traditionally used to indicate a saint’s day or other Christian festival in the calendar?   
16.   Which ‘ultimate department store for oligarchs’ has a steel-and-glass domed roof containing more than 20,000 panes of glass? 
17.   Where is this man hoping to triumph?   

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/Edinburgh_STFC/Q17_1.jpg) (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Q17_1.jpg.html)

18.   Three people picked 65 lemons altogether.  At the first tree they all picked the same number of lemons.  At the second tree they all picked 3 times as many as they had at the first tree.  When they finished at the third tree, the group had five times as many lemons as they had when they started at that tree.  At the fourth tree they picked just five lemons in total.  How many lemons did each person pick at the first tree?     
 
19.   What connection links these pictures: 

          (http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a99/Edinburgh_STFC/Q19_1.jpg) (http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Q19_1.jpg.html)

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  B E E K L O O N N Q R S U Y




Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: 4D on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:36:40
1. Password
9. Avalon
20. Queens Brooklyn


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Flashheart on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:36:53
1: Password?
6: wiki


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:38:56
3. Guilty, Not Guilty, Not Proven
4. Anne Boleyn
8. Chancellor of the Exchequer
9. Avalon
11. Avignon
12 Honduras.....confused by first reading it as 9 distinct finals without a win
13 Raglan


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: blah blah on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:39:42
18. One


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: kerry red on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:41:30
9. Avalon

11. Avignon


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: blah blah on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:43:49
8 Chancellor of the Exchequer ?
12 Have Scotland ever won a game ?  :girlgiggle:


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: 4D on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:44:25
19. Is the artist formerly known as Prince, his songs

Kiss, red corvette,  1999 etc


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: kerry red on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:44:54
10. Looks like Papillon


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Abrahammer on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:49:03
5. The International Space Station maybe?


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Bob's Orange on Friday, January 23, 2015, 10:53:06
8 Chancellor of the Exchequer ?
12 Have Scotland ever won a game ?  :girlgiggle:

They have, but have never got out of their group. Always glorious failures!


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: 4D on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:03:38
12. El Salvador Honduras

El Salvador P6 lost 6
Honduras P9 drawn 3 lost 6


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Processed Beats on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:05:31
14. Äkta människor/Real Humans


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:12:59
 So....2,7, 15,16,17 left.


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: 4D on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:15:27
15. White?


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Leggett on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:35:40
6 wiki?


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: timmyg on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:39:02
17 is the guy trying to win the election in GREECE


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: blah blah on Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:59:59
7 I've a feeling that Drew Barrymore has something to do with a wine producer, not sure if shes won awards though


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: ghanimah on Friday, January 23, 2015, 13:01:06
16. Has to be the GUM store in Moscow on Red Square


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Batch on Friday, January 23, 2015, 13:09:32
10. Looks like Papillon

Definitely.


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Batch on Friday, January 23, 2015, 13:11:19
Oh, and number 1 is "123456". I read that yesterday!


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Bob's Orange on Friday, January 23, 2015, 16:02:36
1.   What is the most common password for logging in online?  123456 
2.   Who wore an orange bow tie to collect his award this week?  Bredan O’Carroll (Mrs Brown) at the National Television Awards 
3.   In a court case, what are the three verdicts that can be delivered by a Scottish jury?  Guilty, not guilty or not proven             
4.   Who is this?    Anne Boleyn

5.   Costing around £85 billion, what is the most expensive object ever made?  International Space Station                                                                       
6.   Which four-letter word is used to describe a website that allows anyone to add or amend its content?  Wiki 
7.   Which ‘Charlie’s Angels’ actress has enjoyed success in the wine world after launching an award-winning white wine?  Drew Barrymore 
8.   What is the only one of the four great offices of state in British politics that has never been occupied by a woman?  Chancellor of the Exchequer     
9.   What  links these two pictures?       AVALON (where Excalibur was forged; Roxy Music hit single)
 
10.   Name the film.     Papillon
11.   In the 14th century, the papacy was temporarily situated in which French city?  Avignon 
12.   Which team has played a record nine football World Cup finals matches without victory?  Honduras     
13.   What kind of sleeve is shown here.   Raglan sleeve
14.   Which Swedish sci-fi TV drama is set in an alternate version of modern-day Sweden where humanoid robot servants are commonplace ?  Real Humans
15.   Which colour was traditionally used to indicate a saint’s day or other Christian festival in the calendar?  Red (hence Red Letter Day)   
16.   Which ‘ultimate department store for oligarchs’ has a steel-and-glass domed roof containing more than 20,000 panes of glass?  GUM – Moscow’s major department store 
17.   Where is this man hoping to triumph?     In the Greek general elections (Alexis Tsipras of Syriza)

18.   Three people picked 65 lemons altogether.  At the first tree they all picked the same number of lemons.  At the second tree they all picked 3 times as many as they had at the first tree.  When they finished at the third tree, the group had five times as many lemons as they had when they started at that tree.  At the fourth tree they picked just five lemons in total.  How many lemons did each person pick at the first tree?   1   
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  Prince singles (Kiss; Little Red Corvette; 1999; Cream; Diamonds and Pearls)

         

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  B E E K L O O N N Q R S U Y  BROOKLYN & QUEENS


Title: Re: Friday Quiz 23012015
Post by: Reg Smeeton on Friday, January 23, 2015, 16:06:29
 Nobody got 2 then.....can't say I'm surprised.

 The saints day colour though you'd have thought somebody from the Catholic fringe might have known.