Friday Quiz 12122014

Friday Quiz December 12th 2014
1.   What won best single of the year at the inaugural BBC Music Awards? Happy by Pharrell Williams
2.   What two-word phrase, relating to the dramatic drop in pressure leading to severe meteorological conditions in the UK, has been severely overused this week? Weather bomb
3.   What flat, currant biscuit is named after an Italian statesman and soldier? Garibaldi
4.   Name the film. Funny Girl

5.   What is generally recognized as the most expensive spice in the world? Saffron
6.   Chopin’s Minute Waltz is the theme music to which radio programme? Just a Minute
7.   What Latin named Roman Catholic organization translates into English as Work of God? Opus Dei
8.   What is the name of the electronic score board on Family Fortunes? Mr Babbage
9.   What links these two pictures? White House (literal translation of Casablanca)

10.   Name the character this actor is most famous for playing. Howard (Wolowitz) from The Big Bang Theory
11.   Which foodstuff is typically sourced from the pancreas of a young animal? Sweetbreads
12.   In what month is the earth closest to the sun? January
13.   Name the saint. Santa Lucia
14.   Where did The Drifters like to spend Saturday Night? At the movies
15.   Which Wimbledon tennis champion also danced on Strictly Come Dancing? Martina Hingis
16.   A 1958 film about a group of National Service recruits launched which series of films? The Carry On films
17.   Which prefix denotes a multiplying factor of 10-to-the-minus-12? Pico

18.   Andrew drinks white coffee andsmokes. He is totally consistent with his habits. Every day, apart from 29th February he smokes the same number of cigarettes, uses the same amount of coffee beans and the same amount of milk in his coffee. He buys the daily newspaper, which he purchases more often than a packet of 20 cigarettes. The cigarettes are purchased more often than the pint of milk, which in turn is purchased more often than the bag of coffee beans. On June 14th he bought all four items. The next time he bought all four items on the same day was 4th July the following year. How many cigarettes does he smoke each day? 4 – see below for full explanation

19.   What connection links these pictures: EDGAR (the computer from Electric Dreams; Degas; Allen Poe (the Pit & the Pendulum); Davids)

20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words : B D E E I L N N N O R T Z DONNER & BLITZEN

Maths answer: The purchases are made according to 4 different cycles. There are 385 days from June 14th until July 4th of the following year excluding 29th Feb. These purchasing cycles intersect every 385 days and are thus in the set of factors for 385 (1, 5, 7, 11, and 385). Since the newspaper is purchased every day, and the coffee and milk are purchased more often then the pack of cigarettes, then the pack is purchased either every 5 days or every 7 days. The pack contains 20 cigarettes which only has the factor 5 in common with the possible cycle for the cigarettes. Therefore a pack of 20 is purchased every 5 days.