Friday Quiz October 3rd 2014
1. Which athletics world record was broken this week ?
2. Who has just been voted ‘the best dressed woman in showbusiness’ ?
3. In Greek mythology, which female monsters had live snakes for hair and were capable of turning people to stone?
4. Name the film.
5. In grammar, what name is given to a word used to connect words, clauses and sentences?
6. Which monkey gets its name because its cap of hair resembles the cowl of an order of monks?
7. When they first meet in ‘The Hobbit’, with which question does Bilbo Baggins finally defeat Gollum in the riddle competition?
8. In the nursery rhyme, who killed Cock Robin?
9. What links these pictures
10. Name the Premiership stadium.
11. The name of which car manufacturer can be loosely translated as the Latin for ‘I drive’?
12. Which African country was the first to join the Commonwealth without having any traditional ties to Britain?
13. Who is this?
14. Which city in England is spelt using the fewest letters?
15. With the exception of the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place in which city?
16. Which group asked fans to pay what they liked for their 2007 chart-topping album?
17. The name of which style of art and architecture is believed to derive from the French word ‘rocaille’, meaning ‘shell-work’, and the Italian word for baroque?
18. What fifty US coins add up to exactly 1 dollar?
19. What links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two words : A A A A A A B B C C L N R S T
