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 Friday Quiz November 28th 2014
1.   Who was engaged in a love match this week? 
2.   Which former boyband star opened this week in a West End musical? 
3.   Which term has been taken from the game of bridge to indicate a player or team winning all the major matches or tournaments in the same year?             
4.   Name the cartoon.   

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5.   In physics, which lower-case letter is conventionally used to denote the speed of light?                                                                       
6.   What name is given to a pizza which is folded in half before cooking to contain the filling? 
7.   The four main characters of which award-winning comedy series were teenage boys called Will, Simon, Jay and Neil? 
8.   Which cartoon couple were the first to be shown in bed together on US prime time TV?     
9.   What links these two pictures?     
 
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10.   Who is this?   

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11.   What name is given to a loaf made from two rounds of dough; a smaller one placed on top of a larger one? 
12.   In Hinduism, a leaf of which herb, closely related to a plant used in Italian cooking, is laid on a dead body to ensure its safe arrival in Paradise?     
13.   Name the film. 

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14.   What name is given to the mass of lymphatic tissue between the back of the nose and the throat that can inhibit breathing and speaking, especially in children? 
15.   Which nineteenth-century American social reformer’s name was given to an outfit consisting of a skirt worn over loose trousers gathered at the ankle?   
16.   Which colourful, tender plant often with reddish-purple papery bracts, and popular in the Mediterranean, is named after a French navigator? 
17.   Which famous writer sounds like sources for quicksilver?

18.   I have ten numbers (no decimals, fractions, negatives etc), two of which are the same.  By adding any nine of the ten together, I can arrive at the following totals:
82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92
What is the largest number of the ten?     
 
19.   What literary connection links these pictures: 

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20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words  :  A A C L M P R S T U Y

3. Grand slam

7. In-betweeners?

10. Martin Peters

6. Calzone

5. c

14. Adenoids

9. They are both Pretenders

 1. Andy Murray

 11 Cottage loaf

20. Malta, Cyprus

8 Fred & Wilma Flintstone

19. Has to be Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Reaper Man, Night Watch, Snuff, ?, Pyramids

2. Ronan Keating?

2.Ronan Keating

Eric Idle has played a Discworld character

11. Is it Cottage loaf?

18. Fourteen

4 is Josie and the Pussycat's

Never heard of it!Did they rip off Scooby do, or was it a spin off?

The cast look younger, batch. I'd say spin off

Actually its 15

Agreed. The numbers are

5,6,7,7,8,10,12,13,14,15  ;)

No idea
Just remember it from kids watching it
Amazing the crap you retain in the old noggin

Noggin...previous talk of norse adventurers, can't pass without mention of the truly wonderful Noggin the Nog, first encountered in my 50's childhood...amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bKAYH3Sl8s

Not forgetting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzVjsu9XvM

Still cant tell if he says Master Bates or not

Apparently, Pugwash was an old sailor's term for oral sex and also present day Aussie slang for a tit wank

1.   Who was engaged in a love match this week?  Andy Murray and Kim Sears 
2.   Which former boyband star opened this week in a West End musical?  Ronan Keating 
3.   Which term has been taken from the game of bridge to indicate a player or team winning all the major matches or tournaments in the same year?  Grand Slam             
4.   Name the cartoon.      Josie and the Pussycats

5.   In physics, which lower-case letter is conventionally used to denote the speed of light?  c                                                                       
6.   What name is given to a pizza which is folded in half before cooking to contain the filling?  Calzone 
7.   The four main characters of which award-winning comedy series were teenage boys called Will, Simon, Jay and Neil?  The Inbetweeners 
8.   Which cartoon couple were the first to be shown in bed together on US prime time TV?  Fred & Wilma Flintstone     
9.   What links these two pictures?       Pretenders (Bonnie Prince Charlie – The Young Pretender; Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders)
 
10.   Who is this?     Martin Peters
11.   What name is given to a loaf made from two rounds of dough; a smaller one placed on top of a larger one?  Cottage loaf 
12.   In Hinduism, a leaf of which herb, closely related to a plant used in Italian cooking, is laid on a dead body to ensure its safe arrival in Paradise?  (Holy) basil     
13.   Name the film.    The Tin Drum
14.   What name is given to the mass of lymphatic tissue between the back of the nose and the throat that can inhibit breathing and speaking, especially in children?  Adenoids 
15.   Which nineteenth-century American social reformer’s name was given to an outfit consisting of a skirt worn over loose trousers gathered at the ankle?  (Amelia) Bloomer   
16.   Which colourful, tender plant often with reddish-purple papery bracts, and popular in the Mediterranean, is named after a French navigator?  Bougainvillea 
17.   Which famous writer sounds like sources for quicksilver?  HG Wells  (Hg is the chemical symbol for mercury aka quicksilver)

18.   I have ten numbers (no decimals, fractions, negatives etc), two of which are the same.  By adding any nine of the ten together, I can arrive at the following totals:
82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92
What is the largest number of the ten?  15 (full answer below)     
 
19.   What literary connection links these pictures:  Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett (Reaper Man; Night Watch; Snuff; Eric; Pyramids)

         

20.   Unscramble the two 2 connected words  :  A A C L M P R S T U Y  CYPRUS & MALTA


Maths Answer
There are ten possible sums, arrived at by alternately excluding each one of the ten numbers. Two of the sums are equal. If we add the ten sums, it should equal nine times the sum of the ten numbers, as each number will be present within all of the sums nine times.

82+83+84+85+87+89+90+91+92=87*9=783, which is divisible by 9, therefore the repeated sum must be divisible by 9. The only sum which meets this criteria is 90.

The sum of the ten numbers is (783+90)/9=97. The largest number is found by subtracting the lowest sum of nine numbers (which excluded the largest of the ten numbers) from the sum of all ten numbers. Thus: 97-82=15. 15 is the largest number of the ten.

 16. for some reason I interpreted "tender" to imply edible, so rejected bougainvillea, named after de Bougainville. Oh well.

 similarly 17.....sources for mercury,  I'm thinking meant ores of mercury like cinnabar,  and no writers there.

I always thought that Bloomers were a baggy underwear trousers thing, not a skirt worn over loose trousers.  In my head they look like underwear versions of plus-fours, no skirt and not long enough to be gathered at the ankle.

I thought the same....always had Mrs Bloomer down as being a Brit....with a Victorian sense of knickers.