Pages: [1] 2 3   Go Down
Print
Author Topic: Friday Quiz  (Read 4371 times)
Bob's Orange
Has brain escape barriers

Offline Offline

Posts: 29099





Ignore
« on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:12:32 »

Few picture ones this week so apologies with my retardation around picture postings. (any tips on getting picture from word to be saved and I can upload into photobucket appreciated)

 Friday Quiz May 2nd 2014
1.   Whose self-portrait has been saved for the nation? 
2.   Who is quitting the hot seat after 25 years of grilling?
3.   The Yakuza are a criminal organization from which country?           
4.   Name the band   (Picture of the Kooks)

5.   Venus was the Roman goddess of love.  Who is her Greek equivalent?                                                                     
6.   Which clothes manufacturer has the symbol of a laurel wreath?
7.   Which British composer was the first to be nade a life peer in the House of Lords?   
8.   What word describes items thrown overboard by a ship in distress? 
9.   What links these two pictures?     
 
Picture of a Ballerina jumping and an ice hockey ruck

10.   Name the family   

Old black and White photo

11.   The name of which orphan, created by an American novelist, is now used for anyone of a particularly sunny and optimistic disposition? 
12.   Opened in the 1950s, what is the name of the visitor attraction in Brussels which takes the form of a giant model of an iron crystal?   
13.   Name the 1990s series. 

Picture of a blonde holding a bottle of Becks, a black fella, and 2 white guys, one a bit chunky in a checked shirt, the other guy in a leather jacket
 
14.   The name of which thick, reddish-brown Chinese sauce means ‘seafood’ although there is no fish in it ? 
15.   Which 1990s film ends with a confrontation between Robert De Niro and Al Pacino near the main landing strip of Los Angeles airport? 
16.   What word is used for the attribution of human characteristics to any non-human object, especially animals?   
17.   Which German film actress and singer’s adoption of trousers and other mannish clothes helped launch an American fashion craze in the 1930s?   
18.    Each of the letters S – Z has one of the eight values listed.  No two have the same value.  Match each value with its corresponding letter.
Values:  2, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 26
Z + S = X
V – X = Y
U + Z = T
W – V = Z
T + U = W
Y + U = S

19.   What links these pictures:

Some Books
John Wayne as Rooster Cockburn
Henry Rollins
Tony Hancock
Andrew Lincoln         

20.   Unscramble the three word phrase:  A A A B D H I K L M N O Y Y


Logged

we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
Reg Smeeton
Walking Encyclopaedia

Offline Offline

Posts: 34913





Ignore
« Reply #1 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:15:40 »

1. Van Dyck
2 Paxman
5 Aphrodite
6 Fred perry
7 Jetsam
12 Atomium
 16 Anthropomorphism
« Last Edit: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:23:18 by Reg Smeeton » Logged
Honkytonk

Offline Offline

Posts: 4415


Whoo Whoo!




Ignore
« Reply #2 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:17:15 »

I reckon number 4 is the Kooks.
Logged
london_red

Offline Offline

Posts: 2142





Ignore
« Reply #3 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:18:11 »

3 Japan
Logged
4D
That was definately my last game, honest

Offline Offline

Posts: 22704


I can't bear it 🙄




Ignore
« Reply #4 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:20:23 »

8 Is Jetsam (not 7 Reg  Wink)
Logged
4D
That was definately my last game, honest

Offline Offline

Posts: 22704


I can't bear it 🙄




Ignore
« Reply #5 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:21:49 »

Is 10 the Clampetts?   
Logged
4D
That was definately my last game, honest

Offline Offline

Posts: 22704


I can't bear it 🙄




Ignore
« Reply #6 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:22:40 »

Marlene Dietrich?
Logged
london_red

Offline Offline

Posts: 2142





Ignore
« Reply #7 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:23:02 »

11 Pollyanna
Logged
london_red

Offline Offline

Posts: 2142





Ignore
« Reply #8 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:25:01 »

15 Heat
Logged
london_red

Offline Offline

Posts: 2142





Ignore
« Reply #9 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:25:17 »

16 Anthropomorphism
Logged
Talk Talk

« Reply #10 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:33:55 »

15. Heat

Great film, on the box recently.
Logged
Reg Smeeton
Walking Encyclopaedia

Offline Offline

Posts: 34913





Ignore
« Reply #11 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:34:52 »

8 Is Jetsam (not 7 Reg  Wink)

Oh yeah....in a bit of a rush, this morning.
Logged
Talk Talk

« Reply #12 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:39:02 »

http://s9.photobucket.com/user/Edinburgh_STFC/media/Question4.jpg.html works, Bob's.

Can you PB the family photo?
Logged
Bob's Orange
Has brain escape barriers

Offline Offline

Posts: 29099





Ignore
« Reply #13 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:40:40 »


How do you get the picture to appear, rather than as a link?
Logged

we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
Reg Smeeton
Walking Encyclopaedia

Offline Offline

Posts: 34913





Ignore
« Reply #14 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 09:41:16 »

20. is going to be May Bank Holiday
Logged
Pages: [1] 2 3   Go Up
Print
Jump to: