[Steve]

Questions are general – no particular subject.

Read the rules carefully.
The objective of the new rules is to try to give those that use their grey matter more of a fair chance against the speed googlers.


RULES
1. Questions posted on Thursday Answers posted on Sunday.
2. 2 points for each correct answer. Multi-part questions require all parts answered correctly for the 2 points. 1 point will be awarded for answers that are significantly on the right track. The 2nd point will be awarded to the first person to “fill in the gaps”. Bonus points may be awarded additional relevant information.
3. There is no Rule 3
4. Judge's decision final.
5. During the first 24 hours from the quiz being posted
- you are allowed ONLY ONE POST (containing answers to as many questions as you like).
- Additional posts (within the first 24 hours) will be ignored.
- Edited posts (within the first 24 hours) will be disqualified.
- Complete answers will take precedence over earlier partial answers
6. After the first 24 hours there is no restriction on posts (usual free for all rules). It is better not to edit your posts. If you want to add or correct something post a new reply. The points go to the first person to get the correct answer. "First" is taken as the posting time. If you edit a post, the editing time will be used as the posting time for all answers in the post.

GOOD LUCK ENJOY


QUESTIONS

1. What is the Inca heavenly paradise called?

2. Which sport introduced the term southpaw meaning left-handed?

3. Who is the subject of the movie Love Is The Devil?

4. Who was the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500?

5. Who was Starsky and Hutch’s flamboyant informant?

6. What is Crockfords a directory of?

7. Who was the sixth person to walk on the moon?

8. Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature?

9. What is the capital of Alabama?

10. Who was born on 04 Aug 1900?

11. What movie contains the line “Men are rats. Listen to me, they're fleas on rats. Worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats”?

12. Who was the old man in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"?

13. By what name is Brian Rankin better known?

14. Name the title and author of the book that starts with the line “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.”

15. Who brought the Holy Grail to England?

16. Who said "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."?

17. How many gold medals did Mark Spitz win in his first olympics?

18. Who played Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza?

19. Who painted “Bathers at Rest”?

20. What was the B side of the Beatles 1970 single “Let It Be“?

21. In the Bible who is Enoch’s father?

22. What was the rank and name of the policewoman played by Angie Dickinson?

23. Who was the last person to be hanged as a traitor in Britain?

24. Who wrote the book MASH?

25. Who was shot by John Bellingham?

26. Who has a UK No.1 hit in 1967 with “Let The Heartaches Begin”?

27. What are Millennial Dawnists more often known as?

28. Who has recently launched a polio immunisation drive in Andhra Pradesh?

29. In WW2 who was second in command of the Nazi SS?

30. Whose daughters are Kate, Edith, lsabel and Mabel?

31. What is the name of the indentation above the upper lip immediately below the nose?

32. Who was Professor Popkiss’s assistant in Supercar?

33. Name the title and author of the book that starts with the line “Call me Ishmael.”

34. What is the term for a front somersault with 3½ twists in trampolining?

35. In TV’s Charlie's Angels who was the voice of Charlie?

36. Name the author and title of the work that won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for literature?

37. In Muriel’s Wedding, which band is Muriel a fan of?

38. Where would you find Mavis Grind?

39. Who played Marshal Matt Dillon in the radio series Gunsmoke?

40. Who sang the line ”When you give me all your love and do it”?

41. What was the name of the first balloon to cross the Atlantic?

42. Who is the Italian Prime Minister?

43. Where would you find an oval window and a round window?

44. What is the name of the cat that retired from 10 Downing Street in 1987?

45. What does SECAM stand for?

46. Which TV station features in The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

47. How much do you get for winning second prize in a beauty contest?

48. Who was the Scotland Yard detective who vainly pursued Simon Templar?

49. What is a killick?

50. The Forum Football Club has arranged a tournament to be played as a round-robin, i.e. each team plays one match against every other team. There are 28 matches to be played in total. How many teams are there?

[alan_rymer]

Well after two glasses of F Grouse and also reading the questions, I can confidently say I know the answers to two!.
5 and 12. But wasn't Gunsmoke No 39 a TV programme?. Or, was it also a Radio programme?.

[Andrew]

A bit late in the night but here's my best shot!

2 - Baseball
3 - Espionage
5 - Huggy Bear
10 - Lots of people!
15 - This is assumption not fact!
17 - Seven
19 - The pointilism guy, can't think of his name.
27 - Druids
31 - It was in a recent advert! Won't come to me!!!
42 - Silvino Berlusconi
43 - Playschool?
47 - £10

[Karl J]

I reckon -

15 . Monty python
41. Virgin something-or-other
43 . Playschool
49 . An anchor

[Paul Rule]

Neck on the block time, I recon the 50 answers are:

1. Hanan Pacha
2. Boxing
3. Francis Bacon
4. Janet Guthrie
5. Huggy Bear
6. Clergy
7. Edgar Mitchell
8. Ernest Miller Hemingway
9. Montgomery
10. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
11. Grease
12. Santiago
13. Hank Marvin
14. Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
15. Joseph of Arimathea
16. Albert Einstein
17. 2
18. Dan Blocker
19. Paul Cezanne
20. You know my name (look up the number)
21. Cain
22. Sargent. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson
23. William Joyce
24. Richard Hornberger
25. Spencer Perceval (British PM)
26. Long John Baldry
27. Jehovah's Witnesses
28. Bill Gates
29. Reinhard Heydrich
30. The Major General (Pirate of Penzance)
31. Filtrum
32. Dr. Beaker
33. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
34. Adolph
35. John Bosley played by David Doyle
36. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
37. ABBA
38. Shetland Islands
39. William Conrad
40. KC and the Sunshine Band
41. Double Eagle II
42. Silvio Berlusconi
43. The Ear
44. Humphrey
45. Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire (alt answer System Even Crappier than the American Method)
46. WJM
47. £10
48. Inspector Teal
49. A knot
50. 8 Teams

[KCFoggin]

6. Clerical directory
8. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
9. Montgomery
10. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - Queen Mother
11. Grease
12 An old cuban fisherman
13. Mr. Shins
17. 2 gold
18. Dan Blocker
19. Paul Cezanne
21. Jered
22. Sgt Pepper Anderson
33. Call me Ishmael - Charles Olson
36. To Kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee
38. Shetland Island - Scotland
40. Rosalinda
41 Double Eagle II
42 D'Alema
45.sequential coleur avec memory
49. dictionary

[birdman]

2. Boxing
5. Huggy Bear
7. There's only been 5
9. Birmingham
10. Loads of people
15. Joseph of Aramathea
17. None
19. Rubens
31. Filtrum
37. ABBA
47. £10
50. 8

[Eddie]

I think the wording in question 2 should be "right handed".

Eddie

[andythomas]

35. John Forsythe

[jeff]

Originally posted by Eddie
I think the wording in question 2 should be "right handed".

Eddie

Eddie, Southpaws are left handed, they may lead with the right, but in boxing you lead with your weak hand, usually throwing jabs leaving your good un for that killer punch.

[Eddie]

Jeff,
I was thinking in a different context but I stand corrected.

Eddie

[Steve]

Questions and Answers


1. What is the Inca heavenly paradise called?
Hanan Pacha ('higher world')

2. Which sport introduced the term southpaw meaning left-handed?
Baseball

3. Who is the subject of the movie Love Is The Devil?
Francis Bacon

4. Who was the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500?
Janet Guthrie

5. Who was Starsky and Hutch’s flamboyant informant?
Huggy Bear (played by Antonio Fargas)

6. What is Crockfords a directory of?
Clergy

7. Who was the sixth person to walk on the moon?
Edgar D. Mitchell

8. Who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Ernest Miller Hemingway

9. What is the capital of Alabama?
Montgomery

10. Who was born on 04 Aug 1900?
Queen Mother (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite)

11. What movie contains the line “Men are rats. Listen to me, they're fleas on rats. Worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats”?
Grease (Frenchie)

12. Who was the old man in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"?
Santiago

13. By what name is Brian Rankin better known?
Hank Marvin

14. Name the title and author of the book that starts with the line “In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.”
A Study In Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle

15. Who brought the Holy Grail to England?
St. Joseph of Arimathea

16. Who said "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."?
Albert Einstein

17. How many gold medals did Mark Spitz win in his first olympics?
Two

18. Who played Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza?
Dan Blocker

19. Who painted “Bathers at Rest”?
Paul Cezannes

20. What was the B side of the Beatles 1970 single “Let It Be“?
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)

21. In the Bible who is Enoch’s father?
Cain

22. What was the rank and name of the policewoman played by Angie Dickinson?
Sgt. Pepper Anderson

23. Who was the last person to be hanged as a traitor in Britain?
Private Theodore William Schurch (04 Jan 1946)
24. Who wrote the book MASH?

Richard Hooker (Capt. H. Richard Hornberger)
25. Who was shot by John Bellingham?
Spencer Percival

26. Who has a UK No.1 hit in 1967 with “Let The Heartaches Begin”?
Long John Baldry

27. What are Millennial Dawnists more often known as?
Jehovah’s Witnesses

28. Who has recently launched a polio immunisation drive in Andhra Pradesh?
Bill Gates

29. In WW2 who was second in command of the Nazi SS?
Reinhard Heydrich

30. Whose daughters are Kate, Edith, lsabel and Mabel?
Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance

31. What is the name of the indentation above the upper lip immediately below the nose?
Philtrum

32. Who was Professor Popkiss’s assistant in Supercar?
Dr. Beaker

33. Name the title and author of the book that starts with the line “Call me Ishmael.”
Moby Dick - Herman Melville

34. What is the term for a front somersault with 3½ twists in trampolining?
Adolph

35. In TV’s Charlie's Angels who was the voice of Charlie?
John Forsythe

36. Name the author and title of the work that won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for literature?
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

37. In Muriel’s Wedding, which band is Muriel a fan of?
Abba

38. Where would you find Mavis Grind?
Shetland Islands

39. Who played Marshal Matt Dillon in the radio series Gunsmoke?
William Conrad

40. Who sang the line ”When you give me all your love and do it”?
KC and the Sunshine Band (That's The Way, I Like It)

41. What was the name of the first balloon to cross the Atlantic?
Double Eagle II

42. Who is the Italian Prime Minister?
Silvio Berlusconi

43. Where would you find an oval window and a round window?
In the ear

44. What is the name of the cat that retired from 10 Downing Street in 1987?
Wilberforce

45. What does SECAM stand for?
Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire

46. Which TV station features in The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
WJM-TV

47. How much do you get for winning second prize in a beauty contest?
10

48. Who was the Scotland Yard detective who vainly pursued
Simon Templar?
Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal

49. What is a killick?
A small anchor

50. The PPRuNe Football Club has arranged a tournament to be played as a round-robin, i.e. each team plays one match against every other team. There are 28 matches to be played in total. How many teams are there?
8

[Charles Harper]

THIS is a bird forum??!!

[Paul Rule]

Yes Charles it is, but that does not mean that all threads HAVE to be bird related. BF is a forum for like-minded people to share information and have some fun. Most birders are interested in other wildlife and conservation issues and therefore these subjects are covered here as well as other "off subject" matters such as jokes, quizzes (bird related or not) even the odd astronomy thread. If these treads don’t interest you then just ignore them, but please don’t suggest removing "Ruffled Feathers", or other non-Birding forums from this site they are part of what makes BF such a great site.

Paul