Friday Quiz April 17th 2015
1. Which Nobel Prize winner died this week?
2. Which James Bond has taken on the role of a life-saver?
3. The surname of which veteran female radio DJ is also the name of a familiar singing bird?
4. Name the film
5. What was the first full-length feature film produced by Nick Park and the team at Aardman Animation?
6. Which 19th century British civil engineer designed the main drainage system for London?
7. Which artist features on three of the ten biggest selling singles of the 2010s?
8. Which Central American fruit, named after a mythical creature can resemble a mini-pineapple crossed with a banana?
9. What links these two pictures?
10. Where might you have seen this chap displaying his prowess recently?
11. With a dark green tinged fur, along with flashes of yellow, black, and white, and with a red and blue snout, what is the most colourful primate?
12. In the 1950s, which was the first African country to gain independence?
13. Name the character.
14. What is the emergency telephone number most commonly used in European countries?
15. What do you call the special kind of x-ray that is used to examine the veins and arteries in the human body?
16. Which drink derives its name from an old Gaelic word which translated means ‘the drink that satisfies’?
17. What is this?
18. At my last Scrabble tournament every player played one game against everybody else (games are always played one-against-one). The total number of games that oldies played between themselves exceeded those played between oldies and youngsters by 18. There were 4 youngsters at the tournament, so how many games were played in total?
19. What connection links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two words : A C D L M N O S U Y
