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1.   “Never be the same again” sang MelC.  Which seasonal foodstuff could she have been singing about according to a news story this week?   
2.   Which major international sports tournament begins tomorrow? 
3.   The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday.  Which other awards ceremony nominations were also disclosed?             
4.   Who is this? 

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5.   Which Canadian province features in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?                                                                       
6.   The only time Queen Elizabeth has had to cancel an overseas tour was in 1974.  What was the reason for the cancellation? 
7.   What are the two capital cities of European Union countries that start with the letter S? 
8.   Which country is home to the world’s largest population of wild camels?     
9.   What  links these two pictures?   

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10.   Name the TV miniseries.   

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11.   Which English county is home to the most listed buildings? 
12.   Which Spain and Manchester Utd footballer has a degree in sports science from the University of Madrid?     
13.   Name  the famous train. 

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14.   Which actor portrayed Winston Churchill at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics? 
15.   Which European political leader released an album of love songs shortly after leaving office in 2011?   
16.   Which Scot has won the most Olympic gold medals by a British competitor? 
17.   What shape is this? 

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18.   I live in the town of Pompom with my ox.  I need to cross the mountain to Pimpim to sell my turnips at market.  I have 1000 turnips.  The distance from Pompom to Pimpim is 99km.  The ox can only carry 100 at a time.  Also, it eats 1 turnip for every km it travels.   What is the maximum number of turnips I can get to market?     
 
19.   What connection links these pictures: 

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20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  B D E H L L O O O R R W Y Y

2. Presumably Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
7. Stockholm and Sofia.
8, Prob Australia
10 Thorn Birds.
13 Mallard
14  Timothy Spall
16 You'd imagine Chris Hoy
17 Icosahedron....maybe more accurately regular icosahedron

5. Quebec

4 is that Irish striker who was up for goal of the season... no idea what her name is though.

10. Thornbirds

17. Dodecahedron ?

Steph Roche

4. We have a choice of Stockholm, Sofia, Sarajevo & Skopje - don't know which is in the EU though.

18. One
20. Berry Hollywood

1.  Cadbury Creme Egg
3. The Golden Raspberry Awards ("Razzies")
12. Juan Mata (guess)
15. Silvio Berlusconi (guess)

Pisser, you got your head round 19 yet?

pic 3 seems to be a compass pic 5 is the golden spiral, or maybe a nautilus.  Stumped by the other pics.

Could have answered your own question there Reg

Golden Girls

Golden Boy

Both Tv progs

There's a book/film called "The Golden Compass".

Is there a "Golden Planet"? (4th pic)

Q6 - Anything to do with being a General Election that year?

I thought of golden....but dismissed it on the grounds that Golden Girls was about more mature ladies.

and golden compass, on the grounds of wanting a pic of a more ornamental thing.

Maybe the spheres are golden balls (Beckham) then.

There is a dreadful afternoon TV quiz called Golden Balls hosted by Jasper Carrot.

Are you reduced to watching Jeremy Kyle yet?

So, what's the answer to Q9?

Quite possible....Heath called a snap election, so maybe this meant the Queen had to stay put in Blighty.

I think she was in convict land at the time and had to return half way through

Think she was already en route to Oz.

Had to return and the Greek carried on without her

Pic 5 is a logarithmic spiral that I think is termed the Golden Arc or Golden Spiral or at least something "Golden"

Isn't the last picture a diagram of gravity assist - a sling shot. There was a programme called the Golden Shot.

Taking the question exactly as written, there is nothing that says the turnips have to be transported by the ox. So, leave the ox at home, stick all 1000 turnips in a land rover, and drive the 99km to market, taking all 1000 turnips with you  :)

There was a film called  "The Golden Child" with Eddie Murphy iirc

Laser?

Disc and printing

Don't know, I've always known it as the golden spiral, or a sort of geometric nautilus....not to be confused with a mystic nautilus.

Golden does kind of fit....in the same way that Howard did last week, but that wasn't correct.

 Don't think we've got the listed building laden county yet....I would say it has to be one of the larger counties, so prob one of Yorks, Lincs, Norfolk, Devon. 

I thought of Yorkshire, but it tends to be treated separately via West, South, North etc

It's golden.

Girls
Child
Compass
Globes
Spiral

Which prob rules it out....Lincs apart from Lincoln isn't full of historic type places, and has loads of spud and carrot fields.

Devon has to be a shot....Plymuff would have many more historic buildings, but got bombed to buggery by the Luftwaffe.

Norfolk has Norwich, which is historic and places like Kings Lynn....also it has a stupid amount of huge churches from the wool trade, in loads of tiny villages packed quite close together.

Is Cornwall too small? Lots of old looking buildings there :)

No, but in the main they need to be quite posh....stately homes, twee chocolate box market towns, churches, cathedrals etc.

Historically Cornwall has always been a bit of a pauper.

Wilts must have a good few, but a lot of it ie Salisbury Plain is relatively empty for England, so prob rules it out.

15. Sarkozy

Q2: Brit awards
Q9: Compact?
Q18: Only 1 if you use the Ox to move the turnips and it doesn't die through eating too much . It'd make sense to sell the Ox at market too.

As mentioned above, I'm pretty sure it's Berlusconi.

Would Greater London be a candidate Reg?  Just a thought.

I know the answer to the listed buildings. I did look it up though,  so won't put it down unless we are really struggling

London is probably where most listed buildings are, but not sure it qualifies as a county....it's not how I'd interpret the question.

Not London or indeed greater London

Lesser London?

It's Devon

1.   “Never be the same again” sang MelC.  Which seasonal foodstuff could she have been singing about according to a news story this week?   Cadbury’s Creme Eggs
2.   Which major international sports tournament begins tomorrow?  Football’s Africa Cup of Nations   
3.   The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday.  Which other awards ceremony nominations were also disclosed?  The Brits           
4.   Who is this?    Stephanie Roche

5.   Which Canadian province features in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? Quebec                                                                       
6.   The only time Queen Elizabeth has had to cancel an overseas tour was in 1974.  What was the reason for the cancellation?  A general election was called 
7.   What are the two capital cities of European Union countries that start with the letter S?  Sofia & Stockholm
8.   Which country is home to the world’s largest population of wild camels?  Australia   
9.   What  links these two pictures?        400.  CD in roman numerals, and this is quiz number 400.
 
10.   Name the TV miniseries.     The Thorn Birds
11.   Which English county is home to the most listed buildings?  Devon 
12.   Which Spain and Manchester Utd footballer has a degree in sports science from the University of Madrid?  Juan Mata   
13.   Name  the famous train.    The Mallard
14.   Which actor portrayed Winston Churchill at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics?  Timothy Spall
15.   Which European political leader released an album of love songs shortly after leaving office in 2011?  Silvio Berlusconi 
16.   Which Scot has won the most Olympic gold medals by a British competitor?  Sir Chris Hoy 
17.   What shape is this?    Icosahedron

18.   I live in the town of Pompom with my ox.  I need to cross the mountain to Pimpim to sell my turnips at market.  I have 1000 turnips.  The distance from Pompom to Pimpim is 99km.  The ox can only carry 100 at a time.  Also, it eats 1 turnip for every km it travels.   What is the maximum number of turnips I can get to market?  139 (see workings below)     
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  All can be prefixed by ‘The Golden’.  (Girls; Child; Compass; Globes; Ratio)

         

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  B D E H L L O O O R R W Y Y  BERRY & HOLLYWOOD (hosts of Great British Bakeoff)


Maths workings:  It’s easiest to break the journey into multiple trips of 1 km.   If the distance was 1, the obvious maximum would be 981 (as the ox needs to travel 19 times, 9 return journeys & 1 outward journey). If the distance was 2, the result is same as if I had 981 turnips and to go only 1km, so the result would be 962. When using this method, we can calculate that the final number of turnips is 139. (Note: The result for distance of 6 is 886 but from this moment the ox needs to travel only 17 times to get all the turnips 1km further, so the result for distance of 7 is 869)

That maths question is bullshit.

 Pretty decent showing from the TEF....so it was Devon for listed buildings.

I'm glad I didn't spend much time thinking about Q9 !  Who'd have known?

Yeah sorry about that. I wasn't sure of the relevance of the quiz numbers until today!

And wrong

The turnip answer is indeed bullshit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJz7FxCNNho

That is what I meant.