Quiz 16012015

[LucienSanchez]

15. Sarkozy

[Simon Pieman]

Q2: Brit awards
Q9: Compact?
Q18: Only 1 if you use the Ox to move the turnips and it doesn't die through eating too much . It'd make sense to sell the Ox at market too.

[Sir Pissalot]

15. Sarkozy

As mentioned above, I'm pretty sure it's Berlusconi.

[Sir Pissalot]

No, but in the main they need to be quite posh....stately homes, twee chocolate box market towns, churches, cathedrals etc.

Historically Cornwall has always been a bit of a pauper.

Wilts must have a good few, but a lot of it ie Salisbury Plain is relatively empty for England, so prob rules it out.

Would Greater London be a candidate Reg?  Just a thought.

[4D]

I know the answer to the listed buildings. I did look it up though,  so won't put it down unless we are really struggling

[Reg Smeeton]

Would Greater London be a candidate Reg?  Just a thought.

London is probably where most listed buildings are, but not sure it qualifies as a county....it's not how I'd interpret the question.

[4D]

Not London or indeed greater London

[kerry red]

Lesser London?

[4D]

It's Devon

[Bob's Orange]

1.   “Never be the same again” sang MelC.  Which seasonal foodstuff could she have been singing about according to a news story this week?   Cadbury’s Creme Eggs
2.   Which major international sports tournament begins tomorrow?  Football’s Africa Cup of Nations   
3.   The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday.  Which other awards ceremony nominations were also disclosed?  The Brits           
4.   Who is this?    Stephanie Roche

5.   Which Canadian province features in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? Quebec                                                                       
6.   The only time Queen Elizabeth has had to cancel an overseas tour was in 1974.  What was the reason for the cancellation?  A general election was called 
7.   What are the two capital cities of European Union countries that start with the letter S?  Sofia & Stockholm
8.   Which country is home to the world’s largest population of wild camels?  Australia   
9.   What  links these two pictures?        400.  CD in roman numerals, and this is quiz number 400.
 
10.   Name the TV miniseries.     The Thorn Birds
11.   Which English county is home to the most listed buildings?  Devon 
12.   Which Spain and Manchester Utd footballer has a degree in sports science from the University of Madrid?  Juan Mata   
13.   Name  the famous train.    The Mallard
14.   Which actor portrayed Winston Churchill at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics?  Timothy Spall
15.   Which European political leader released an album of love songs shortly after leaving office in 2011?  Silvio Berlusconi 
16.   Which Scot has won the most Olympic gold medals by a British competitor?  Sir Chris Hoy 
17.   What shape is this?    Icosahedron

18.   I live in the town of Pompom with my ox.  I need to cross the mountain to Pimpim to sell my turnips at market.  I have 1000 turnips.  The distance from Pompom to Pimpim is 99km.  The ox can only carry 100 at a time.  Also, it eats 1 turnip for every km it travels.   What is the maximum number of turnips I can get to market?  139 (see workings below)     
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  All can be prefixed by ‘The Golden’.  (Girls; Child; Compass; Globes; Ratio)

         

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  B D E H L L O O O R R W Y Y  BERRY & HOLLYWOOD (hosts of Great British Bakeoff)


Maths workings:  It’s easiest to break the journey into multiple trips of 1 km.   If the distance was 1, the obvious maximum would be 981 (as the ox needs to travel 19 times, 9 return journeys & 1 outward journey). If the distance was 2, the result is same as if I had 981 turnips and to go only 1km, so the result would be 962. When using this method, we can calculate that the final number of turnips is 139. (Note: The result for distance of 6 is 886 but from this moment the ox needs to travel only 17 times to get all the turnips 1km further, so the result for distance of 7 is 869)

[jayohaitchenn]

That maths question is bullshit.

[Reg Smeeton]

 Pretty decent showing from the TEF....so it was Devon for listed buildings.

[Sir Pissalot]

Pretty decent showing from the TEF....so it was Devon for listed buildings.

I'm glad I didn't spend much time thinking about Q9 !  Who'd have known?

[Bob's Orange]

I'm glad I didn't spend much time thinking about Q9 !  Who'd have known?

Yeah sorry about that. I wasn't sure of the relevance of the quiz numbers until today!

[4D]

That maths question is bullshit.

And wrong