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 Friday Quiz April 17th  2015
1.   Which Nobel Prize winner died this week?   
2.   Which James Bond has taken on the role of a life-saver? 
3.   The surname of which veteran female radio DJ is also the name of a familiar singing bird?             
4.   Name the film   

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5.   What was the first full-length feature film produced by Nick Park and the team at Aardman Animation?                                                                       
6.   Which 19th century British civil engineer designed the main drainage system for London? 
7.   Which artist features on three of the ten biggest selling singles of the 2010s? 
8.   Which Central American fruit, named after a mythical creature can resemble a mini-pineapple crossed with a banana?     
9.   What  links these two pictures?   

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10.   Where might you have seen this chap displaying his prowess recently?   

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11.   With a dark green tinged fur, along with flashes of yellow, black, and white, and with a red and blue snout, what is the most colourful primate? 
12.   In the 1950s, which was the first African country to gain independence?     
13.   Name the character. 

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14.   What is the emergency telephone number most commonly used in European countries? 
15.   What do you call the special kind of x-ray that is used to examine the veins and arteries in the human body?   
16.   Which drink derives its name from an old Gaelic word which translated means ‘the drink that satisfies’? 
17.   What is this?   

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18.   At my last Scrabble tournament every player played one game against everybody else (games are always played one-against-one).  The total number of games that oldies played between themselves exceeded those played between oldies and youngsters by 18.  There were 4 youngsters at the tournament, so how many games were played in total?

 
19.   What connection links these pictures:

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20.   Unscramble the two words  :  A C D L M N O S U Y

 3. Anne Nightingale
 6. Joseph Bazelguette (sp)
 7. I'd punt Calvin Harris
10.University  Challenge
12. Egypt?
17. Cress?

17. Cress?

5. The wrong trousers?

11. Proboscis monkey?

19.  The main characters in the book "Little Women" - Jo (Brand), Amy (Winehouse), Beth (Tweddle) and Meg (Ryan).

19. Little women

Edit. Aaaaaaarrrrggghhhhhh!!

I'd say mandrill, but have a feeling had this in a quiz before, said mandrill and it was wrong....or maybe it was the biggest primate.

5. Chicken Run
9. Greek? One played Zorba and the other is the lesser-known Savalas brother isnt he?
11. Mandrill?
17. Water cress

Miliseconds !   :D

9.  Stavros.  (their respective characters in Guns of Navarone and Kojak

That was my wrong answer to last week's quiz...

14. 112

8. I'm sure there is a dragon fruit, but always thought of it as Asian rather than Central American

16. Dram is Gaelic for drink so it's probably Drambuie

1.  German writer but can't remember his name.
16. Drambuie

Too late I see...

2.  Didn't Daniel Craig get appointed by UN to some role to do with landmine removal this week?

15. Venogram - I've had one!

12. Not Egypt....that was granted independence of a sort in the 20's.  Could be Ghana.

Gunter Grass....should have got that  :doh:

....or Libya?

Maybe...your guess is as good as mine. Wasn't Libya an Italian colony of sorts?

We don't seem to have anything for 4, 13, or 20

4. Betty Blue
12. Ghana?

Whoops, reg already said that.. A sneaky edit off the ball there  :)

 So 13 and 20.

I know 20 is usually related words but it does split into

Many Clouds - the recent Grand National winner

13 is Doran Martell from Game of Thrones.

Sorry I forgot to post the answers! Monday, if I don't forget!

ha,ted loveday (10) who fucked the oxford good and proper!