Friday Early Evening Quiz
 

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1) What kind of fruit is a pearmain?
2) What is the thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as?
3) Which drink is sometimes refered to as "mothers ruin"?
4) What flavour is Grand Marnier?
5) Aleph. Beth. Gimel. - Of what language are they the three first letters of the alphabet
6) Who provided the narration on Jeff Wayne's album "War of the Worlds"?
7) What type of tree was Yggdrasil, the sacred tree of Norse Mythology
8) Which animals live in a Vespiary?
9) Scurvy, the sailors' disease resulted from a deficiency of which vitamin ?
10) In Greek mythology who was the daughter of King Menelaus and Helen of Troy?
11) In heraldry the term Gules refers to which colour?
12) In heraldry, if a shield is divided "per pale" what does this signify?
13) Who is Britain's youngest Chess Grandmaster?
14) In Bridge, what is the minimum bid that is worth "game"?
15) Who wrote the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
16) In computing what does the acronym SQL stand for?
17) What are formed by the process of Orogeny?
18) What tree is depicted on the Lebanese flag?
19) Which European capital city is built on nine islands connected by bridges?
20) Fusilli pasta is characterised by what shape?
21) Who was jilted on her wedding day in 'Great Expectations'?
22) A stylised version of which animal is used as the logo for various distributions of the Computer Operating Sytem, Linux.
23) Tchaikovsky wrote, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and what other ballet?
24) In which year is Halley's comet due to return?
25) In which movie did Groucho Marks play the part of Rufus T Firefly?

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2 Adam's apple

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2 adam's apple

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[QUOTE=MetaWraith]
3) Which drink is sometimes refered to as "mothers ruin"?

Gin

5) Aleph. Beth. Gimel. - Of what language are they the three first letters of the alphabet

Hebrew

7) What type of tree was Yggdrasil, the sacred tree of Norse Mythology

Ash
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[QUOTE=MetaWraith]
8) Which animals live in a Vespiary?

Bats?

9) Scurvy, the sailors' disease resulted from a deficiency of which vitamin ?

C

11) In heraldry the term Gules refers to which colour?

Red

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3 Gin

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3. Gin

4. Orange

9. C

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22 penguin

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Correct
And at the off Chimera races into the lead

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9 Vitamin C

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20 bow

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[QUOTE=MetaWraith]
5) Aleph. Beth. Gimel. - Of what language are they the three first letters of the alphabet

Hebrew.

9) Scurvy, the sailors' disease resulted from a deficiency of which vitamin ?
C.

16) In computing what does the acronym SQL stand for?

Structured Query Language

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18 cypress

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[QUOTE=MetaWraith]14) In Bridge, what is the minimum bid that is worth "game"?

Three No Trumps

15) Who wrote the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

Oscar Wilde

22) A stylised version of which animal is used as the logo for various distributions of the Computer Operating Sytem, Linux.

Penguin

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8 Wasps

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A Night at the Opera

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19. Vienna.

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18 cyprus tree

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18. Fig?

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[QUOTE=Graham][QUOTE=MetaWraith]
3) Which drink is sometimes refered to as "mothers ruin"?

Gin

5) Aleph. Beth. Gimel. - Of what language are they the three first letters of the alphabet

Hebrew

7) What type of tree was Yggdrasil, the sacred tree of Norse Mythology

Ash
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All correct
" separate posts so I accepted them :)

EDIT Bat's is incorrect - QUestion 8 still unanswered

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15 Oscar wilde

16 structured query language

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4 orange

6 Richard Burton

15 Oscar Wilde

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6 Richard bURTON

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[QUOTE=MetaWraith]
6) Who provided the narration on Jeff Wayne's album "War of the Worlds"?

Richard Burton?

12) In heraldry, if a shield is divided "per pale" what does this signify?

Separated into sections with a line?

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1) Apple

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All Correct but 3 and 9 already gone

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21 Miss Faversham

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Correct and at the first milemarker Graham has a substancial lead

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8 wasps?

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10 Cassandra

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nope

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Spiral?

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12 - The marriage of two houses?

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[QUOTE=punky]All correct, however 5 and 9 are already gone
phew this is hard work, you lot are too quick

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Rowan?

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Nope :) at least i think not
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That's the little blighters :)
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23 is correct :)

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14) 1 no trump?
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18) Oak

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Nope, No, and No :D

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18 cedar?

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Paris?

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All correct, however #4 and #15 are already gone
Ya just beat Angua and Graham to #6

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17. Mountains

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19 Stockholm?

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[QUOTE=Graham]What sort of sections,
am looking for more definition here
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WTG, I expected that to fall a lot earlier

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24.2061

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Halves

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Well done, we have a reader amongst us :)

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Correct again,
no extra points for answering it twice though :)
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Nope.
Clue, think Harry Potter

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Hermione?

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Yep
Spiral / Corkscrew
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Not necessarily

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Ah - I thought you missed the answer first time!

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So whats left?

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Nope
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Nope (GOne already its 3NT)
Nope
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Yep, another one bites the dust :)
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Nope,
CLUE : It's a rather Nobel city

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12) Diagonal line dividing shield
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Stockholm

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19 Oslo

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Both correct

#10, 12, 13, 24, 25 still available

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17) Eggs

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yep :) didnt expect that to fall until goggle time came around, which is now :)

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Is this a mistake, then? That was 25, not 23.

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Yeppers that's the one :)

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We went to a pub quiz yesterday and that question (24) came up and we got it wrong, so I wasn't going to forget it in a hurry!

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25 Duck Soup? (not googled, BTW)

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Ah ok now it's google time, I was wrong with 25, it's Duck Soup!

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Correct, just beating
just #12 and #13 left now

12) In heraldry, if a shield is divided "per pale" what does this signify?
13) Who is Britain's youngest Chess Grandmaster?

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Err, you haven't said post #46 was right yet!

(It's two halves, vertically to be precise!)
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:grind: :grind:
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David Howell

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Correct,
that's what i was looking for :)
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as for #13
CLUE : Use the force

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13 - Luke McShane

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Well done that man
That's the lot folks,
Answers and leader board in a few,when i've cross checked.
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1) Apple - Angua
2) Adam's Apple - Chimera
3) Gin - Graham
4) Orange - Homealone
5) Hebrew - Graham
6) Richard Burton - Aragorn
7) Ash - Graham
8) Wasps - Chimera
9) C - Graham
10) Hermione - Graham
11) Red - Graham
12) Vertically up the middle - Graham
13) Luke McShane - Aragorn
14) 3NT - Graham
15) Oscar Wilde - Graham
16) Structured Query Language - Punky
17) Mountains - Strzelecki
18) Cedar - Chimera
19) Stockholm - JohnHorb
20) Corkscrew / Spiral - Graham
21) Miss Havisham - JohnHorb
22) Penguin - Angua
23) The Sleeping Beauty - Graham
24) 2061 - Strzelecki
25) Duck Soup - JohnHorb

Graham = 11
Chimera = 3
JohnHorb = 3
Angua = 2
Aragorn = 2
Strzelecki = 2
Punky = 1
Homealone = 1


I hereby declare Graham the winner, and award him the dubious honour of conducting next weeks quiz.

Well done all.

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I got 2 right though!:)

Thank you!

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Thanks MetaWraith.

Well done again Graham. When are you going on holiday?

I do try, hence the single answers just to get them in before Graham.

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Thank you!

Oh damn :(


;)

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Good quiz - thanks for putting it together!

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Probably towards the end of August, I'm not sure yet.

:grind:


;)

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Thank you, You're welcome,
Good bunch of players too :)