Friday Quiz 18072014

[Red Frog]

I checked. Turns out the Liberty Bell was cast in London, ironically. By a founder, I suppose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell

[brocklesby red]

19. Cut into four equal pieces with two cuts, then slice the cake in half parallel to the plate.

I think you'd have to reverse the process to only slice 3 times

[4D]

Depends how big the knife is 

[Sir Pissalot]

20.  UNBRAID & UNDRAW ? 

[Berniman]

2. Australia.

And 3.

[kerry red]

15 could be as simple as 'poof'

Also I remember as a youth in the 60s the term 'a friend of Dorothy' was also used as slang for a bender

[Ells]

15 could be as simple as 'poof'

Also I remember as a youth in the 60s the term 'a friend of Dorothy' was also used as slang for a bender

I think it's polari as in the language they used.. My dad grew up in London in the 50s and some of his euphemisms I can't imagine being in any quiz..

Edit: the lady at no.4 I think is Maggie Aderin-Pocock of "the Sky at night"

[kerry red]

I think the problem is that the answer could be so many different things

I thought the question was what was the slang for a homosexual in the 50s and 60s.

Maybe I read the question wrong

[kerry red]

Is 9 Down and Out - as in the hobo and a tunnel

[4D]

Is 9 Down and Out - as in the hobo and a tunnel

Or wine cellar

[Sir Pissalot]

Is 9 Down and Out - as in the hobo and a tunnel

The second pic in 9 is a sewer.

[Bob's Orange]

1.   A record was set this week by a Scot after over 40 days continuous habitation of which isolated part of the UK?  Rockall
2.   Which country has repealed their carbon tax this week?  Australia
3.   The extremely dangerous funnel web spider is native to which country ?   Australia       
4.   Which long-running programme does this person present?      The Sky at Night

5.   Which West African country was founded by freed American slaves?  Liberia                                                                     
6.   Which bell, originally cast in a London foundry, is renowned for the large crack that runs through it, which appeared after it was first rung?  The Liberty Bell
7.   What links the films Donnie Darko, Sexy Beast and Harvey?  Rabbits   
8.   The then Princess Elizabeth found out that she had become queen while on a visit to which country?  Kenya
9.   What links these pictures?       tRAMp & sEWEr – both contain sheep
 
10.   Name the film.    Citizen Kane

11.   Which band took its name from a slang term for a German brothel?  Joy Division 
12.   What is the shortest-titled song ever to reach number one in the UK?  If or 19   
13.   Name the tree.      Gingko Balboa / Maidenhair Tree
14.   Which philosopher in 2012 proposed building an atheist temple in London?  Alain de Botton 
15.   What was the homosexual slang common in London in the 1950s and 1960s?  Polari 
16.   If the answer is ‘Abhors, almost and biopsy’, what is the question?  Name three six-letter words where the letters fall in alphabetical order
17.   What is the name of the Italian mafia organization based in and around the city of Naples?  Camorra   
18.   Imagine you have a birthday cake which you need to cut into eight equal pieces.  You can only make three cuts with your knife – how would you proceed?  The cake and knife are both of normal dimensions.   Cut in half, then in quarters, and finally slice the cake in half horizontally, resulting in eight equal pieces
 
19.   What links these pictures:  Singles by Madness (The Prince; Baggy Trousers; House of Fun; Grey Day; Michael Caine)
           

20.   Unscramble the two words:  A A B D D I N N R R U U W  BURUNDI & RWANDA

[Reg Smeeton]

Not many are getting 19 this week.  Laughter is a brilliant answer 

[jayohaitchenn]

11... hardly a German slang term. Didn't it come from a novel or something?

[brocklesby red]

18. If you cut the cake in half and then quarters, you then have four pieces of cake which would all have to be cut making six cuts. Surely you cut horizontally  first and then in half and then quarters meaning three cuts needed?