Friday Quiz November 7th 2014
1. What is now the tallest building in the Western hemisphere?
2. The chief executive of which oil company was recently killed in a plane crash?
3. What is the name of the central family in Downton Abbey?
4. Who is this?
5. Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp have both played which character from a children’s film?
6. What is the process of splitting atoms called?
7. What is the small piece of gummed paper that is used to attach stamps in an album?
8. Which folk rock band share a name with an 18th century agriculturalist?
9. What links these two pictures?
10. Who is depicted here?
11. Which gas is used in a solution of water for preserving biological specimens?
12. Which female film icon was only ever played by males?
13. Name the film.
14. What connects the London boroughs of Hillingdon, Enfield, Havering and Croydon ?
15. ‘The White Cap’ is the English translation of the title of a monthly magazine of which military organisation?
16. In which 1970s musical is a zombie-like character found in a deep-freeze, and then subsequently runs amok?
17. Which American short story tells of a man who fell asleep for 20 years?
18. Andy said to Bill, "When we last met, our ages were both prime numbers, and when I was a quarter of the age I am now, you were that age plus half the age your mother would have been thirty years previous to when she was six times the age you would have been when I was half your age". Bill said to Andy "I'm off down the pub". How old were Andy and Bill the last time they met?
19. What links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two 2 connected words : D E E H J K L L Y Y
