Friday Quiz October 24th 2014
1. Which disgraced former Cabinet Minister was immortalized in an artwork this week?
2. Which footballer was accused by his manager of carrying some extra weight?
3. In Indian cuisine, what name, derived from a Persian word meaning ‘fried’, is given to a dish of basmati rice mixed with meat, often topped with a thin omelette and served with a separate vegetable curry?
4. Name the series.
5. Which city and its surrounding area was the last English possession in France? It was taken back by France in the 16th century.
6. Who is the only Beatle to have been individually nominated for an Oscar?
7. In which panel game were blindfolded guests invited to identify a sportsperson by touch alone?
8. What is Goldfinger’s reply when Bond, who is about to be cut in half by a laser beam, asks him ‘Do you expect me to talk?’
9. What is represented here?
10. What kind of animal are these?
11. Which three US states have names beginning with two consonants?
12. What Lebanese staple is traditionally made of bulgur wheat, tomatoes, parsley, mint and onion plus seasoning?
13. Who is this?
14. Which marsupial, native to the south-eastern part of Australia and Tasmania, is the largest burrowing herbivorous mammal?
15. Which word of German origin is used for a fissure or narrow channel on the Moon’s surface?
16. Which Kentish town gives its name to a species of warbler?
17. Who are the only father and son combo to have both topped the UK singles chart with solo releases?
18. Using the following digits: 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5 and 6, how many 7-digit EVEN numbers less than 3,000,000 can you form ?
19. What links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two 2 connected words : A E E I N S S T U U V V
