Friday Quiz carried forward until today

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11 I would have guessed some sort of spinning jenny, but you may be right. Cant really see how a goose would spin either though to be honest

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1.   Which European country elected its first female head of state last month?  Croatia  
2.   Residents of Romford will shortly be able to have home deliveries from which fast food chain?  Burger King  
3.   Which Looney Tunes rodent was billed as ‘the fastest mouse in all Mexico’?  Speedy Gonzalez            
4.   Name the current event.     Chinese New Year (horse to sheep)

5.   Who is the only person to have a football World Cup winner’s medal and to have appeared in a Best Picture Oscar-nominated film?  Frank Leboeuf                                                                        
6.   What is the oldest Japanese car manufacturer?  Daihatsu
7.   Arsenal Futbol Club won the Primera Division title in 2012.  Nicknamed ‘El Arse’, it is a football club in which country ?  Argentina  
8.   The population of which Asian country officially reached 100 million last year?   Philippines  
9.   What  links these two pictures?       Clancy (Police chief Clancy Wiggum / Abbey Clancy)
 
10.   Name the song    Fancy
11.   In medieval times, while dogs and young children were also harnessed for this job, what could a good goose keep spinning for up to 12 hours?  Roasting a joint on a spit (the goose was on a treadmill)  
12.   Name the world’s ‘Great’ ballet company, founded in the 18th century using recruits from the orphanage where the ballet company originally held classes.?  Bolshoi (means ‘great’ in Russian)    
13.   Name the building    The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
14.   What’s the event if four becomes five because of two extra players? A rugby union game.  (Rugby League uses 13 players and scores 4 points for a try, Rugby Union has 15 players and 5 points for a try)
15.   Which British artist, who died in 2008, was noted for her comic representation of plump people ?  Beryl Cook  
16.   Which American weekly magazine, first published in the 1930s, stopped producing a print edition in 2012?  Newsweek
17.   Name the film.      Blazing Saddles

18.   4 gardeners share a large garden measuring 48m x 40m.  Each  has their own rectangular plot.  Alan is the only one with a square plot.  Its area is half the area of Betty’s.  The area of Alan’s plot is 2/3 the area of Charlie’s plot.  Their plots have one side in common.  Daphne’s garden is twice the area of Charlie’s.  What are the dimensions (length and width of each person’s plot?  Alan’s is 16 x 16; Betty’s 32 x 16; Charlie’s 24 x 16 and Daphne’s 24 x 32

 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  Anthony Hopkins films (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Silence of the Lambs; Hitchcock; Thor; Hannibal)

  20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  E L M M O R R S S U U U  ROMULUS & REMUS