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 Friday Quiz January 9th 2015
1.   New Year.  Name the relevant unique property of the word EXCOMMUNICATIVE. 
2.   Which supermarket’s TV advert was the most remembered of 2014 in a recent poll? 
3.   What was the name of the short-lived BBC soap opera set on Spain’s Costa del Sol?             
4.   Who painted this? 

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5.   Which word that describes a clay water mixture used in pottery is also a fielding position in cricket?                                                                       
6.   What two martial arts were in the 2012 Olymic Games? 
7.   What is the telephone number for non-urgent enquiries to the police in England and Wales? 
8.   Prior to ‘The Artist’ in 2012, which was the last black-and-white film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?     
9.   What two words link these two pictures? 

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10.   Where would you find this wondrous creature? 

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11.   What branch of medicine deals with the problems and management of pregnancy? 
12.   Which word describes the representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface?     
13.   Name  this film from last year.

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14.   Which English Twitter philosopher moved to Marseille in 2012? 
15.   In 2009, which body succeeded the House of Lords as the highest judicial authority in Britain?   
16.   Which US food conglomerate took over British chocolate producer Cadbury in 2011? 
17.   Soap star turned film star.  Who is this? 

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18.   I have a meadow in Zambia with three animals, a zebra, a gazelle and a wildebeest.  When the zebra and gazelle graze together, all the grass is gone in 45 days.  When the zebra and wildebeest graze together, all the grass is gone in 60 days.  When the zebra grazes alone there is no more grass after 90 days.  When the gazelle and wildebeest graze together the grass is also gone after 90 days.  For how long can all three graze together before the grass is gone?     
 
19.   What connection links these pictures: 

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20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  A A D E E H I N N P P T V Y

3 El Dorado
4. Jackson Pollock
5 Slip
6. Judo, Tai-Kwando
11 Obstetrics
16 Kraft

4. Elderado

14. Joseph Barton

6.   Judo and tae kwondo? 
8.   Schindler's List?     
9.   Second picture's Nadia Comaneci...
11.   Obstetrics     
13.   Grand Budapest Hotel
15.   Supreme Court   
16.   Kraft

10 is Singapore

The first picture is The Beautiful South, still cant get the connection though

Edit: Its the Perfect 10 (song by Beautiful South, Comaneci was the first to get a perfect 10)

She's not a 36D is she?

7. 101
17. Liam Hemsworth (Hunger Games)

19.  So, we've got: Emlyn Hughes, Frank Carson, Anthony Perkins, Warren Beatty, and Daisy Duck.  Still thinking about what connects them...

Bit of a long shot this one.....

1 Is it the only word to contain all of the Roman numerals of 2015 ie MMXV ?

2 Sainsburys ?
13 Grand Budapest Hotel

20.  epiphany, advent

Did they all captain Liverpool??

 
 :D

20. Advent Epiphany

Edit. It's happened again  :doh:

After the first 2 I thought jockeys, but it fails on the next 3.... :hmmm: unless AP....McCoy....nah

Question 19.

do they all have a link to Lady Gaga

18. 36 days

I was thinking Cockney Rhyming Slang, but then again, no...   :)


...maybe for pics 3 and 4, we should be thinking about the characters (Norman Bates and Dick Tracy).   :hmmm:

Unless it's Norman Bates and Dick Tracey

19. Nile Ranger....he is a footballer, joker, physcho, gangster...who fucked a woman called Daisy. :D

Emlyn Hughes nickname was crazy horse, could there be a dimension from that?

I thought maybe native Indian names, but you''d want pictures of Cheyenne Dunkley, Siouxie Sioux, and Moyes' keeper at Sociedad.

Or maybe Osmond's hits

Emlyn Hughes also played for Melchester Rovers, as did Martin Kemp and Bob Wilson

Not the answer but a very good question for the future.

12. Is going to be something like orthography....

19. How about Howard.

 Howard Hughes. Frankie Howard, Anthony Howard think some journo chappie, Howard the Duck. 

Brilliant, Reg!     :clap:

12 is perspective.

What about Warren Beatty? (Though he is apparently making a film about Howard Hughes.)

Clever of you to know the original spelling of Frankie Howerd's name.

1.   New Year.  Name the relevant unique property of the word EXCOMMUNICATIVE.  It is the only word to contain the letters MMXV 
2.   Which supermarket’s TV advert was the most remembered of 2014 in a recent poll?  Aldi 
3.   What was the name of the short-lived BBC soap opera set on Spain’s Costa del Sol?  Eldorado             
4.   Who painted this?     Jackson Pollock

5.   Which word that describes a clay water mixture used in pottery is also a fielding position in cricket?  Slip                                                                       
6.   What two martial arts were in the 2012 Olymic Games?  Judo & Taekwondo 
7.   What is the telephone number for non-urgent enquiries to the police in England and Wales?  101 
8.   Prior to ‘The Artist’ in 2012, which was the last black-and-white film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?  Schindler’s List     
9.   What two words link these two pictures?        Perfect Ten (Beautiful South hit / Nadia Comaneci, first gymnast to score this)
 
10.   Where would you find this wondrous creature?    Singapore
11.   What branch of medicine deals with the problems and management of pregnancy?  Obstetrics
12.   Which word describes the representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface?  Perspective     
13.   Name  this film from last year.     Grand Hotel Budapest
14.   Which English Twitter philosopher moved to Marseille in 2012?  Joey Barton 
15.   In 2009, which body succeeded the House of Lords as the highest judicial authority in Britain?  Supreme Court   
16.   Which US food conglomerate took over British chocolate producer Cadbury in 2011?  Kraft 
17.   Soap star turned film star.  Who is this?     Chris Hemsworth

18.   I have a meadow in Zambia with three animals, a zebra, a gazelle and a wildebeest.  When the zebra and gazelle graze together, all the grass is gone in 45 days.  When the zebra and wildebeest graze together, all the grass is gone in 60 days.  When the zebra grazes alone there is no more grass after 90 days.  When the gazelle and wildebeest graze together the grass is also gone after 90 days.  For how long can all three graze together before the grass is gone? 36 days (see proof below)   
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  Servants in Downton Abbey (Hughes; Carson; Bates; Barrow; Daisy) 

         

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  A A D E E H I N N P P T V Y  ADVENT & EPIPHANY


Maths answer in full:  The zebra, the gazelle, and the wildebeest eat grass with a constant speed (amount per day): v1 for the zebra, v2 for the gazelle, v3 for the wildebeest.
The grass grows with a constant amount per day (k).
The amount of grass at the beginning is h.