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Friday Quiz October 3rd  2014

1.   Which athletics world record was broken this week ? 
2.   Who has just been voted ‘the best dressed woman in showbusiness’ ? 
3.   In Greek mythology, which female monsters had live snakes for hair and were capable of turning people to stone?             
4.   Name the film.   

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5.   In grammar, what name is given to a word used to connect words, clauses and sentences?                                                                       
6.   Which monkey gets its name because its cap of hair resembles the cowl of an order of monks? 
7.   When they first meet in ‘The Hobbit’, with which question does Bilbo Baggins finally defeat Gollum in the riddle competition? 
8.   In the nursery rhyme, who killed Cock Robin?   
9.   What links these pictures     

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10.   Name the Premiership stadium.   

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11.   The name of which car manufacturer can be loosely translated as the Latin for ‘I drive’? 
12.   Which African country was the first to join the Commonwealth without having any traditional ties to Britain?     
13.   Who is this? 

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14.   Which city in England is spelt using the fewest letters? 
15.   With the exception of the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place in which city?   
16.   Which group asked fans to pay what they liked for their 2007 chart-topping album? 
17.   The name of which style of art and architecture is believed to derive from the French word ‘rocaille’, meaning ‘shell-work’, and the Italian word for baroque? 

18.   What fifty US coins add up to exactly 1 dollar? 
 
19.   What links these pictures: 

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20.   Unscramble the two words  :  A A A A A A B B C C L N R S T 

 3. Medusa

 4 Rear Window.  Jimmy Stewart

 6. I always think of that as a connective...seems too easy though

 7. What's it got in its pockets

 10 Liberty Stadium

 15. Stockholm?

 17 Rococo (sp)

4. Rear Window

6. Cappuchin

8. The sparrow

14. Ely

14. Ely ?

Ely - cathedral city in Cambridgeshire(?)

1. Men's Marathon?
3. Gorgons
4. Rear Window
6. Capuchin
10. Liberty Stadium, Swansea
12. The Lorax
14. Ely
15. Oslo?  [Edit: I should have read the question properly - agree, it's Stockholm]
17. Rococo

3 Yep...Medusa was a gorgon.

12 Is the African country....my punt would be Cameroon.

5.  Conjunction

Yep...

20.  CASABLANCA and RABAT

9 Celeste....obscure harmonium type instrument and a relo of Babar

Ooh good work

Well got, Reg!  I was going off down a Babar/'Hammond' rabbit hole/dead end!

11. Using my Latin O Level....I something.... declines or is it conjugates...with an o on the end. On that basis the only car maker I can think of which fits is Volvo....which kind of sounds Latin when I think about it.

1. 16. 18. 19 to get then.

19 I've got Clippers...Wedding....Kittens....lamp...Black Forest Gateau

    :hmmm:

My pathetic attempt so far is musicals

Hair and Cats - cant link the others

I've been to the Nobel centre in Oslo a few times and fuck knows why they have the peace prize there. Nobody seems to know...

Fairly certain the other Nobel prize are in Stockholm

Did someone get Q2?  I offered an answer for Q1 earlier.

No....I put 1, but meant 2.   Assuming your Marathon is right

Record went recently in Berlin Marathon, I seem to remember.

Worth knowing...may come up in a quiz soon.  Who broke it?

I think Volvo is "I Roll" - close enough

 ;D  I think it was a Kenyan.  Don't recall his name.  Probably hopped on a berlinlinienbus when nobody was looking.

18. 1c x 45, 5c x 2, 10c x 2 and 25c x 1

 :clap:

16. I'd go for "Radiohead" for this one.  It rings a distant bell.

19.  Well and truly stuck on this one.  Tried US sports teams' nicknames but couldn't get beyond Clippers and Hurricane.

19 is pretty ludicrous in all honesty.

Hmmm.  It's not anything to do with "Tea" is it?  As in "Tea Clipper"; "Tea Service";  ?(Kittens), "Tea Oil" (oil lamp); "Teacake".

Can link another pic to a theatre show

Black Forest Gateau = BFG = Big Friendly Giant

Lamp could be Aladdin is that a show?

Indeed

Just need to find a spurious link for wedding....although I'm sure BO, might have given you a head's up, if youwere warm

There is a film The Wedding Planner

 :fishing:

Big time!

Is it one of these change the first letter job.....so clippers becomes slippers....wedding, bedding.....kittens, mitttens....lamp, gamp (umbrella)....cake. rake

All things you'd find around the house  :)

Come on, Reg. How many mittens have you got knocking about Smeeton Towers?

Cycling mittens....every home should have some, and I've got a couple of pairs of those chopped finger things with a valcro flap, to turn them into mittens, when it gets cold...useful to carry in the ruck sack.  Aren't oven gloves technically mittens  :)

Brown paper packages tied up with string ??

Ooh....things listed in the Sound of Music song.

Maybe it's a streudel not a cake...girls in white dresses is in their somewhere

But, sadly, no mention of lamps.

It was always a long shot...

copper kettles ?

Maybe it's time for a break and a nice cup of something, Reg.

Boiled up in a copper kettle?

No, but if it's a bit gloomy in Smeeton Towers, you may need an oil lamp to see what you're doing.

 I give up....quiz tonight, so need to conserve some brain cells, don't want to over exert in the warm up.

i'll put the answers up at 5

Good idea, BO.  Something to look forward to at 'teatime'.

I thought the lamp pic was actually glow

We've had no attempt at the cartoon in question 13

Pisser got that....The Lorax.

Sorry, I wrongly numbered it as "12" in my first offering on Page 1.

19 must be musicals or theatre shows? Hair and cats maybe?

Tea Clipper
Tea Service
Tea light (candle)
Teacup persian kittens (breed)
Tea cake

1.   Which athletics world record was broken this week ?  Men’s marathon 
2.   Who has just been voted ‘the best dressed woman in showbusiness’ ?  Jennifer Lawrence 
3.   In Greek mythology, which female monsters had live snakes for hair and were capable of turning people to stone?  The Gorgons (1/2 point for Medusa)             
4.   Name the film.     Rear Window

5.   In grammar, what name is given to a word used to connect words, clauses and sentences?  Conjunction                                                                       
6.   Which monkey gets its name because its cap of hair resembles the cowl of an order of monks?  Capuchin 
7.   When they first meet in ‘The Hobbit’, with which question does Bilbo Baggins finally defeat Gollum in the riddle competition?  ‘What have I got in my pocket?’ 
8.   In the nursery rhyme, who killed Cock Robin?  The sparrow   
9.   What links these pictures      Celeste.  The musical instrument and Babar was married to Celeste
 
10.   Name the Premiership stadium.     The Liberty Stadium (Swansea)
11.   The name of which car manufacturer can be loosely translated as the Latin for ‘I drive’?  Volvo 
12.   Which African country was the first to join the Commonwealth without having any traditional ties to Britain?  Mozambique     
13.   Who is this?  The Lorax
14.   Which city in England is spelt using the fewest letters?  Ely 
15.   With the exception of the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place in which city?  Stockholm   
16.   Which group asked fans to pay what they liked for their 2007 chart-topping album?  Radiohead 
17.   The name of which style of art and architecture is believed to derive from the French word ‘rocaille’, meaning ‘shell-work’, and the Italian word for baroque?  Rococo 

18.   What fifty US coins add up to exactly 1 dollar?  There is more than one valid answer:
  1 x 25c, 2 x 10c, 2 x 5c, 45 x 1c
  2 x 10c, 8 x 5c, 40 x 1c
 
19.   What links these pictures:   All can be preceded by TEA  (clipper; ceremony; cosy; light; cake)

         

20.   Unscramble the two words  :  A A A A A A B B C C L N R S T  CASABLANCA & RABAT 

 Sort of got 19 then....but service, cosy and light....distinctly dodgy.

 Still good work from Pisser and 4D....not sure anyone got 2 mind.

 I really struggle on birds in TV, film, fashion....no idea who Jennifer Lawrence is.  Fortunately in my quiz team, there's some young fellas who deal with that shit.

 Oh and Mozambique rather than Cameroon  :(

 Cameroon, I've always considered a French colony, but believe we did have a bit of it at one time.

Mozambique, however was Portuguese, well I recall the Frelimo campaign of the mid 70's...difficult to think that both Spain and Portugal were run by nasty right wing governments well into the 1970's

Well, you've missed out on quite a good time of late.

Is she the bird of the nude photo scandal?  Of course, I wouldn't compromise someone's privacy by looking this up..... ;).

"Cosy"?  Really?   :eek:

Should have had....

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Town fan and all....

Ah, dear old Mr Powell

He sponsored a players kit in the 70/ early 80's iirc.