Friday Quiz November 28th 2014
1. Who was engaged in a love match this week?
2. Which former boyband star opened this week in a West End musical?
3. Which term has been taken from the game of bridge to indicate a player or team winning all the major matches or tournaments in the same year?
4. Name the cartoon.
5. In physics, which lower-case letter is conventionally used to denote the speed of light?
6. What name is given to a pizza which is folded in half before cooking to contain the filling?
7. The four main characters of which award-winning comedy series were teenage boys called Will, Simon, Jay and Neil?
8. Which cartoon couple were the first to be shown in bed together on US prime time TV?
9. What links these two pictures?
10. Who is this?
11. What name is given to a loaf made from two rounds of dough; a smaller one placed on top of a larger one?
12. In Hinduism, a leaf of which herb, closely related to a plant used in Italian cooking, is laid on a dead body to ensure its safe arrival in Paradise?
13. Name the film.
14. What name is given to the mass of lymphatic tissue between the back of the nose and the throat that can inhibit breathing and speaking, especially in children?
15. Which nineteenth-century American social reformer’s name was given to an outfit consisting of a skirt worn over loose trousers gathered at the ankle?
16. Which colourful, tender plant often with reddish-purple papery bracts, and popular in the Mediterranean, is named after a French navigator?
17. Which famous writer sounds like sources for quicksilver?
18. I have ten numbers (no decimals, fractions, negatives etc), two of which are the same. By adding any nine of the ten together, I can arrive at the following totals:
82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92
What is the largest number of the ten?
19. What literary connection links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two 2 connected words : A A C L M P R S T U Y
