Proper Friday Quiz 13022015

[Sir Pissalot]

Assuming all the suggestions are right, that only appears to leave 10 and 16. Pretty good work TEF.

Agreed, Reg.  Pretty good, indeed.  16 looks a bit tricky, though!

[Red Frog]

16. Well Valentine is an anagram of Levantine, meaning people from the Levant...

[Red Frog]

Agreed, Reg.  Pretty good, indeed.  16 looks a bit tricky, though!

I've got that bad, have I?

[Sir Pissalot]

16. Well Valentine is an anagram of Levantine, meaning people from the Levant...

Sounds good to me!

And, as Reg has already answered No 10, looks like a full house.

Good work, chaps!

[Bob's Orange]

1.   Who won most Grammys at this year’s ceremony?  Sam Smith 
2.   What food led to a yearlong prison sentence this week?  (Macadamia) Nuts
3.    What is the name of the Channel 4 documentary set in a maternity ward at a Leeds hospital?  One Born Every Minute             
4.   Name the film.      Boyhood

5.   The genre of music known as grunge originated in which American city?  Seattle                                                                       
6.   Venezuela and Ecuador are the two South American members of which multinational organisation?  OPEC
7.   What name is given to a plant that lives more than two years?  Perennial
8.   Which warm beverage is the only one to have made the UK Top Ten hit parade in the 70s, 80s and 90s?  Hot Chocolate     
9.   What  links these two pictures?       Gene Simmons / Jean Simmons
 
10.   Name the story     The Steadfast Tin Soldier
11.   Why don’t lions and tigers mate in the wild?  They live on different continents 
12.   Which major river gives its name to a delta that is Europe’s most extensive wetland and the world’s largest reed bed? Danube   
13.   What major food fish is this?     Halibut
14.   Which film concerned a mysterious al fresco meal that supposedly took place on Valentine’s Day in the early 20th century on the side of a mountain near Melbourne?  Picnic at Hanging Rock 
15.   Whose arms have three legs?  Isle of Man     
16.   In the 1980s on Valentine’s Day, why did smart anagrammists hold parties where everyone dressed up as people from the eastern Mediterranean countries?  Valentine is an anagram of Levantine which relates to the Levant, another name for the Eastern Med. 
17.   Who is this?     Wallis Simpson / Duchess of Windsor

18.   There are a number of pupils in the classroom.  Some have 28 books, some have 30 and others have 31.  Altogether they have 365 books.  How many pupils are there?  12.   
 
19.   What connection links these pictures:  All can precede FACE (chalk; clock; type; baby; poker)

           

20.   Unscramble the two connected words  :  E E I J L M O O R T U  ROMEO & JULIET

[Red Frog]

I got 6 wrong. Sorry TEF.