Friday Quiz

[Bob's Orange]

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

[Reg Smeeton]

1. Van Dyck
2 Paxman
5 Aphrodite
6 Fred perry
7 Jetsam
12 Atomium
 16 Anthropomorphism

[Honkytonk]

I reckon number 4 is the Kooks.

[london_red]

3 Japan

[4D]

8 Is Jetsam (not 7 Reg  )

[4D]

Is 10 the Clampetts?   

[4D]

Marlene Dietrich?

[london_red]

11 Pollyanna

[london_red]

15 Heat

[london_red]

16 Anthropomorphism

[Talk Talk]

15. Heat

Great film, on the box recently.

[Reg Smeeton]

8 Is Jetsam (not 7 Reg  )

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

[Talk Talk]

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

Can you PB the family photo?

[Bob's Orange]

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

Can you PB the family photo?

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

[Reg Smeeton]

20. is going to be May Bank Holiday