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1.   Which store has been voted worst in the High St for two years in a row?  WH Smiths
2.   What should have lasted 311 days but was called off this week after just 141?
3.   Since 1928, athletes from which country have led the parade at the opening of the Olympic Games?          
4.   Who is this?    

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5.   What Latin legal term means ‘under judicial consideration’?                                                                  
6.   In Japanese cuisine, which name indicates a dish of meat or shellfish marinated in a soy sauce and grilled or broiled?
7.   Which British finch gets its name from its unusually shaped beak, which it uses for extracting seeds from conifer cones?  
8.   In Norse mythology, what name is given to the final battle between the gods and the powers of evil?  
9.   What links these pictures?  
 
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10.   Name the film.  

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11.   Which pungent gas is a compound whose molecules contain three atoms of hydrogen and one of nitrogen?  
12.   Which sea, the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, is named after a Danish navigator?  
13.   What this ?  

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14.   What name is given to inflammation of the thin, double-layered membrane separating the lungs from the chest cavity caused by a virus?  
15.   What Spanish name is given to the periodic warming of the Eastern Pacific that disrupts weather patterns?  
16.   Which kind of soft felt hat, popularized by King Edwrad VII, takes its name from the town in Germany where it was first worn?
17.   What was abolished in Britain initially for a trial period of five years following a Private Members bill of 1965?   British Summer Time or Greenwich Meantime?
18.    Paul went to the shop and paid 50p for a bag of crisps, but was mistakenly given four times the change to which he was entitled.  He observed that this was equivalent to twice the amount he’d given to the shopkeeper.   What was Paul’s total profit?
  
19.   What links these pictures:

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20.   Unscramble the two words:  B C C E E G I O R S

looks like some of the answers have already been given directly after the questions

9. Chippendale and Chip 'n Dale

16. Homburg

3. Greece
4. Olly Murs
5. sub judice?
7. Crossbill

10. Around the World in Eighty Days

13. Turmeric

A stab in the dark tells me the 1 is WH Smiths

8 is Ragnarok

8 Armageddon

18 is £1.50

15 El nino

 
Bollocks I forgot to take those out. Those were working notes from people    :-[

Amended now.

3. Greek

ps i didnt know that some of the miusic at the opening ceremony was by a band called the Fuck Buttons

wonder if Lord Snooty Coe knew

5: Sub Judice
11: Ammonia

14 = Pleurisy, i think

I saw Fuck Buttons live in Luxembourg.

True Story.

12. Bering Sea

2. Rory McIlroy's engagement to Caroline Wozniaki (I think)

6. Teriyaki

20. beige crocs  ;D

5. Sub ratione iudicialium

But more likely to be Sub Judice

17. I  think the question is innacurate, as year long BST was trialled for I think three years somewhere around 1970. I remember it well as it was ace in the winter.

Wrong. Power vs McCrory 2014.

Are 19 all cocktails?

17 is the death penalty for murder in this country.  

19. Perfumes?

Could be either!

Yep!

For 20, how about  Iceberg and Cos ?     ;D

Eternity,  mahattan,  French connection,  perfume corkscrew,  rhianna perfume range

I thought the 4th pic is an auger - which is both a perfume and a cocktail.  Overall, perfume is a better fit than cocktails.

I keep missing the Friday quiz  :(

Looks like they're all done now.

I was thinking: Sex on the Beach, Manhattan, Corkscrew (no idea what the others are!)

Auger/corkscrew?  I dunno now  :)

It's a toss up between:

From Here to ETERNITY v Sex on the Beach
Manhattan
French Connection
Auger v Corkscrew
Rihanna  v Zombie


Take your pick....

Popeye Doyle from French connection

Yeah, French Connection is both a cocktail and a perfume.

1.   Which store has been voted worst in the High St for two years in a row?  WH Smith – and justifiably so! 
2.   What should have lasted 311 days but was called off this week after just 141?  The engagement between Rory McIlroy * Caroline Wozniacki
3.   Since 1928, athletes from which country have led the parade at the opening of the Olympic Games?  Greece         
4.   Who is this?      Olly Murs

5.   What Latin legal term means ‘under judicial consideration’?   Sub judice                                                                     
6.   In Japanese cuisine, which name indicates a dish of meat or shellfish marinated in a soy sauce and grilled or broiled?  Teriyaki
7.   Which British finch gets its name from its unusually shaped beak, which it uses for extracting seeds from conifer cones?  Crossbill   
8.   In Norse mythology, what name is given to the final battle between the gods and the powers of evil?  Ragnarok 
9.   What links these pictures?        Chippendale / Chip n’ Dale  (I eschewed the third picture alternative)
 
10.   Name the film.     Around The World In 80 Days

11.   Which pungent gas is a compound whose molecules contain three atoms of hydrogen and one of nitrogen?   Ammonia
12.   Which sea, the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, is named after a Danish navigator?   Bering Sea 
13.   What this ?    Turmeric
14.   What name is given to inflammation of the thin, double-layered membrane separating the lungs from the chest cavity caused by a virus?  Pleurisy 
15.   What Spanish name is given to the periodic warming of the Eastern Pacific that disrupts weather patterns?  El Nino 
16.   Which kind of soft felt hat, popularized by King Edwrad VII, takes its name from the town in Germany where it was first worn?  Homburg
17.   What was abolished in Britain initially for a trial period of five years following a Private Members bill of 1965?  Death penalty   
18.    Paul went to the shop and paid 50p for a bag of crisps, but was mistakenly given four times the change to which he was entitled.  He observed that this was equivalent to twice the amount he’d given to the shopkeeper.   What was Paul’s total profit?
Paul's profit was £1.50
He gave the shop keeper £1.00 and got back £2.00 in change.
His profit so far is £1.00. But he also got a chocolate bar valued at 50p.
So his total profit is £1.50
 
19.   What links these pictures:  Cocktails (Sex on the Beach; Manhattan; French Connection; Gimlet; Zombie)

         

20.   Unscramble the two words:  B C C E E G I O R S  ICEBERG & COS

Chocolate bar? He went to buy crisps. :sherlock:

Bob's - Did you go with cocktails or perfumes for 20?

I think he was taking the piss a bit as the question was pretty ambiguous!

I went with Cocktails, although I have never heard of Gimlet!

I thought Gimlet was one of the dwarves in Lord of the Rings!