Friday Quiz October 17th 2014
1. Which UK political parted has selected a new leader this week?
2. Which divorcee has just paid nearly £40m for a new London home ?
3. Total Wipeout was filmed at a course in which country?
4. Name the film.
5. Plantain is the cooking variety of which fruit?
6. What festival marks the Jewish New Year?
7. What poisonous plant has drooping purple flowers and a black, cherry-like fruit?
8. What connects the US State of North Carolina and a British bicycle manufacturer?
9. What links these pictures?
10. In which far-flung city would you find this?
11. What is an eagle’s nest called?
12. Which common word when capitalized turns from a noun or verb into a nationality?
13. Who is this?
14. In a set of numbers, what word describes the number that occurs the most often?
15. Which province of Russia is completely separated geographically from the rest of the Russian Federation?
16. In biology, what word for a minute body or cell in an organism, especially a red and white blood cell, comes from the Latin for ‘little body’?
17. In which classic British comedy of the 1960s and 1970s is one of the main characters married to Elizabeth, who is never seen on screen?
18. From the clues below, determine the four numbers I am thinking of: The sum of all four numbers is 31. One of the numbers is odd. The highest number minus the lowest number is 7. If you subtract one of the middle numbers from the other it equals two. There are no duplicate numbers.
19. What links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two 2 foodstuffs : C E F G H I M N N O O O U W Y
