[Steve]

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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.
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After the first 24 hours there is no restriction on posts ( free for all ). 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.

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

See if you can do this without google!!

Good luck!!

QUESTIONS

1. Who was the Roman goddess of wisdom?

2. Who painted “The Execution of the Emperor Maximillian”?

3. Whose children are named Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle?

4. Who won the 1980 FA Cup?

5. Which Book of the Bible has only one chapter?

6. What is the capital of Togo?

7. What is formed by the meeting of The Strand, The Mall, and Whitehall?

8. By what name is Robert Weston Smith better known?

9. What animals did Basil Fawlty ask a hotel guest if she expected to see from her Torquay bedroom window?

10. Who was born on 18 Feb 1933?

11. What was the name of Dr. Samuel Johnson’s cat?

12. Which song was Roy Orbison's first No. 1 UK hit?

13. Which baddie in a James Bond movie was played by Christopher Lee?

14. What significant event occurred on 16 Dec 1773?

15. Who played Eliza's father in the movie My Fair Lady?

16. Who sang the line “So when the night falls, my lonely heart calls”?

17. Which capital city’s name means “muddy waters”?

18. Which radioactive isotope is used to determine the date of pre-historic material?

19. In 1990 who knocked out Mike Tyson to become undisputed World Heavyweight champion?

20. What was the title of the book on which the movie The Dambusters was based?

21. Who was the motor racing World Champion in 1980?

22. Who said "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity"?

23. What do Ada Love, Christina Drayton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Ethel Thayer have in common?

24. Where is the Eden Project?

25. Which movie won the Best Picture Oscar in 1987?

26. Who was the only actor to appear in both the film and the TV series of M.A.S.H.?

27. Which horse did Brian Fletcher ride to his (Brian Fletcher’s) first Grand
National victory?

28. Name both South American countries that have no coastline.

29. Who wrote the play Moon for the Misbegotten?

30. In which sport is the Corbillon Cup awarded for women?

31. Who succeeded Dag Hammarskjold as Secretary General of the United Nations?

32. Which city was the capital of Spain before Madrid?

33. Which king abdicated in 1951?

34. Who are Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy?

35. Which lake was created by the building of the Aswan High Dam?

36. Who sang the line “Better make it fast or else I'm gonna get pissed”?

37.How many tiles are there in a Mahjong set?

38. Which movie contains the line “I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life”?

39. Which cheese from the Auvergne region is made from ewe's milk?

40. Who thought he was Julius Caesar and so they put him in a home?

41. What is the name of Fireman Sam's fire engine?

42. Who created Rip Van Winkle?

43. What is the term for a floor made by setting marble or stone chips in mortar and polishing when dry?

44. Red Burgundy wine is produced principally from which grape?

45. From which album was the Billy Joel hit single "Allentown" taken?

46. Who is the last King of England to die in battle?

47. What is the common name of the gas comprising two atoms of nitrogen and one atom of oxygen?

48. Who was the female star of the movie "The China Syndrome"?

49. What is the geometrical term for a figure with four sides with only one pair of sides parallel?

50. In his mansion in the mountains, scran has two clocks. One gains 6 seconds in every hour, while the other loses 9 seconds in every hour. He set them to show the same time, and then set them going. How long will it be before they are exactly one hour different?

[paulh]

13 Scaramanga in "The Man with the Golden Gun"
20 The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill
32 Toledo
40 Ebenezer
44 Pinot Noir
45 Nylon Curtain

[seb_seb]

10. Jack Smith(random name)..........well you cant prove he wasnt!!!!!!!

[Michael Frankis]

6 Lomé
7 pollution
18 several - Carbon 14, Potassium 40, Uranium 238 are the most extensively used. For bonus point - the Carbon 14 timescale is inaccurate, because C14 is created at variable rates by the action of solar gamma rays on Nitrogen 14. In periods of high solar activity, more C14 is produced, making things from that time appear younger than they are, conversely things formed at times of low solar activity appear older than they are. This was corrected by measuring the C14 content of known age tree rings from Bristlecone Pines; a C14 correction scale has been made to allow accurate dating of objects now.
24 near Looe, Cornwall
28 Bolivia, Paraguay
35 Lake Nasser
39 Roquefort. For bonus: a blue cheese, 'blue' with the mould Penicillium roqueforti
47 Laughing gas (a.k.a. Nitrous oxide)

Michael

[Andrew Whitehouse]

4. West Ham United with Trevor Brooking scoring the only goal in the victory against Arsenal
9. Herds of Wildebeast sweeping majectically across the plain
12. Pretty Woman
19. James 'Buster' Douglas
25. Platoon
26. Loretta Swit
34. The Scooby Gang from Scooby Doo
46. Richard III
48. Jane Fonda
49. Trapezium

I'm guessing at quite a few of those.

[Cuckoo-shrike]

5.Obadiah
15. Stanley Holloway
27. Red Rum
31. Henry Kissinger

[erik]

5. Philemon, Obadiah, 2nd letter of John, 3rd letter of John, Judas
9. Gulls?
13. Dr. No?
16. Whitney Houston
17. Rio di Janeiro
19. Mohammed Ali
28. Bolivia and Paraguay
31. Kofi Annan
32. Barcelona
33. King Albert I of Belgium
35. Wasn’t that somewhere in Egypt?
44. Red Grape
50. 4 hours

[erik]

hmm i should read the rules first i guess before entering a competition :)

I edited my post to add some more biblical book to the question, but i think that's allowed because the question was incorrect

[Michael Frankis]

Hi Erik,
Your edit is OK, because it was more than 24 hours after the quiz was posted (rule 3)

Michael

[Tim Allwood]

3 Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
how sad is knowing that! feel free to comment as my girlfriend knew it NOT me.

4. already done but I will point out that it was from a header - the only time Clever Trevor (he had several 'o' levels) ever headed a ball in his career I think and even that one was nearly on the ground!

[steve_nova]

Without looking at Google or anyone else's answers,

9. Wildebeest
13. Scaramanga
14. Outbreak of the American war for independence.
15. Rex Harrison
17. Kualar Lumpar
18. Carbon 14
21. Nigel Mansell
24. Cornwall
28. Paraguay and Equador
32. Toledo
34. Scooby Doo gang
35. Nasser
46. Harold II
47. Laughing gas
48. Jane Fonda
49. Paralellegram

[Elizabeth Bigg]

OK, Steve - I could only get 7 without doing any research - but you have number 47 wrong - a parallelogram has both pairs of opposite sides parallel.

[steve_nova]

Hi Elizabeth, I'm not sure of my answers for 14,17,21,28 and 46 either!!!

[birdman]

21. Alan Jones
26. Gary Burghoff (Radar O'Reilly)
37. 144 (4 flowers {plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum}, 4 seasons {winter, spring, summer, autumn}, 12 dragons {4 chung=red, 4 po=white, 4 fat=green}, 16 winds {4 north, 4 south, 4 east, 4 west}, 36 bamboos {4 each of number 1 to 9}, 36 circles{4 each of number 1 to 9}, 36 characters {4 each of number 1 to 9})
50. 10 Days

[pduxon]

14 Boston Tea Party - don't know if Dec 16 but it took place in 1773
17 - Oh come on this is a cheat, lucky I sub to a Canadian magazine or two!! Winipeg
46 Definitely Richard III

I'll set you one Steve

who was the last English King to lead his troops into battle.

[steve_nova]

Hmmmmmmm?...

...would that be...Charles I, I'm really guessing mind and showing my ignorance here. I think it was probably a Stuart?
...James I, naw! I'll stick with my first...

[steve_nova]

I think you are right with the Boston Tea Party though.

[Beverlybaynes]

Can't believe are a few questions unanswered! So I"ll try a couple:

7. Trafalgar Square

33. Farouk of Egypt

42. Washington Irving

43. Terrazzo


And when do we get to find out the answers, right or wrong???

[Beverlybaynes]

Oops! One more:

1. Hera