Friday Quiz 23012015

[Leggett]

6 wiki?

[timmyg]

17 is the guy trying to win the election in GREECE

[blah blah]

7 I've a feeling that Drew Barrymore has something to do with a wine producer, not sure if shes won awards though

[ghanimah]

16. Has to be the GUM store in Moscow on Red Square

[Batch]

10. Looks like Papillon

Definitely.

[Batch]

Oh, and number 1 is "123456". I read that yesterday!

[Bob's Orange]

1.   What is the most common password for logging in online?  123456 
2.   Who wore an orange bow tie to collect his award this week?  Bredan O’Carroll (Mrs Brown) at the National Television Awards 
3.   In a court case, what are the three verdicts that can be delivered by a Scottish jury?  Guilty, not guilty or not proven             
4.   Who is this?    Anne Boleyn

5.   Costing around £85 billion, what is the most expensive object ever made?  International Space Station                                                                       
6.   Which four-letter word is used to describe a website that allows anyone to add or amend its content?  Wiki 
7.   Which ‘Charlie’s Angels’ actress has enjoyed success in the wine world after launching an award-winning white wine?  Drew Barrymore 
8.   What is the only one of the four great offices of state in British politics that has never been occupied by a woman?  Chancellor of the Exchequer     
9.   What  links these two pictures?       AVALON (where Excalibur was forged; Roxy Music hit single)
 
10.   Name the film.     Papillon
11.   In the 14th century, the papacy was temporarily situated in which French city?  Avignon 
12.   Which team has played a record nine football World Cup finals matches without victory?  Honduras     
13.   What kind of sleeve is shown here.   Raglan sleeve
14.   Which Swedish sci-fi TV drama is set in an alternate version of modern-day Sweden where humanoid robot servants are commonplace ?  Real Humans
15.   Which colour was traditionally used to indicate a saint’s day or other Christian festival in the calendar?  Red (hence Red Letter Day)   
16.   Which ‘ultimate department store for oligarchs’ has a steel-and-glass domed roof containing more than 20,000 panes of glass?  GUM – Moscow’s major department store 
17.   Where is this man hoping to triumph?     In the Greek general elections (Alexis Tsipras of Syriza)

18.   Three people picked 65 lemons altogether.  At the first tree they all picked the same number of lemons.  At the second tree they all picked 3 times as many as they had at the first tree.  When they finished at the third tree, the group had five times as many lemons as they had when they started at that tree.  At the fourth tree they picked just five lemons in total.  How many lemons did each person pick at the first tree?   1   
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  Prince singles (Kiss; Little Red Corvette; 1999; Cream; Diamonds and Pearls)

         

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  B E E K L O O N N Q R S U Y  BROOKLYN & QUEENS

[Reg Smeeton]

 Nobody got 2 then.....can't say I'm surprised.

 The saints day colour though you'd have thought somebody from the Catholic fringe might have known.