I already have the answers which I'll post around 4 if anyone wants to do the quiz today?
1. Which technology company could be said to have set the world alight this week?
2. What is the theoretical minimum number of points a team needs to progress to stage 2 of the World Cup finals? How many teams in the current competition can still theoretically achieve this minimum and progress?
3. What term, meaning an ‘entrance hall’ in Latin, is used for the two upper cavities of the heart?
4. Name the artist.
5. Which acid can build up in the muscles during strenuous exercise, causing cramp-like pains?
6. In The Simpsons, what is the name of the nearby town with which Springfield has a great rivalry in all things?
7. In which Dickens’ novel is the eponymous establishment taken over by an evil dwarf ?
8. What term for a measure of length in the Ancient World is now applied to many sporting venues?
9. What links these pictures?
10. Name the group
11. What name, from the Latin for ‘seaweed, is given to the simple plant-like organisms, that typically lack true root stems, roots and leaves?
12. Which comedy duo starred in a 1930s film about two delivery men attempting to take a piano up a flight of stairs to a house?
13. Who is this?
14. What name is given to the method of sending messages using two flags, held in different positions by a signalman, to represent individual letters or numbers?
15. In which film does Michael Palin slay the dragon that is menacing a medieval kingdom?
16. Which Earl gave his name to a mechanical model of the solar system that was designed to show the motion of the planets around the sun?
17. According to Islamic tradition, which angel dictated the Koran to the prophet Muhammad?
18. You have a traditional fizzy pop bottle, shaped so that the bottom three-quarters is a perfect cylinder and the top quarter is an irregular shape. The bottle is about half-full with limeade. Using only a ruler, how can you work out exactly what percentage of the bottle is filled?
19. What links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two words: E F G G I I M N O O R S W
