Friday Quiz January 9th 2015
1. New Year. Name the relevant unique property of the word EXCOMMUNICATIVE.
2. Which supermarket’s TV advert was the most remembered of 2014 in a recent poll?
3. What was the name of the short-lived BBC soap opera set on Spain’s Costa del Sol?
4. Who painted this?
5. Which word that describes a clay water mixture used in pottery is also a fielding position in cricket?
6. What two martial arts were in the 2012 Olymic Games?
7. What is the telephone number for non-urgent enquiries to the police in England and Wales?
8. Prior to ‘The Artist’ in 2012, which was the last black-and-white film to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
9. What two words link these two pictures?
10. Where would you find this wondrous creature?
11. What branch of medicine deals with the problems and management of pregnancy?
12. Which word describes the representation of three-dimensional objects on a flat surface?
13. Name this film from last year.
14. Which English Twitter philosopher moved to Marseille in 2012?
15. In 2009, which body succeeded the House of Lords as the highest judicial authority in Britain?
16. Which US food conglomerate took over British chocolate producer Cadbury in 2011?
17. Soap star turned film star. Who is this?
18. I have a meadow in Zambia with three animals, a zebra, a gazelle and a wildebeest. When the zebra and gazelle graze together, all the grass is gone in 45 days. When the zebra and wildebeest graze together, all the grass is gone in 60 days. When the zebra grazes alone there is no more grass after 90 days. When the gazelle and wildebeest graze together the grass is also gone after 90 days. For how long can all three graze together before the grass is gone?
19. What connection links these pictures:
20. Unscramble the two connected words : A A D E E H I N N P P T V Y
