August Bank holiday Friday Quiz
 

Here goes my first (and probably last) attempt at the Friday Quiz!

Usual rules apply:

1) No :google: before 7:00pm, and that includes using other search engines, or asking other people! :D

2) No more than three answers per post.

3) If more than 3 answers are posted I will disregard the last even if they are the first correct one (unless of course the system adds it in as no one else has posted in the mean time)! ;)

1) Who was the muse of astronomy?

2) Hydrophobia is an alternative name for which infection?

3) Highest scoring fighter ace of WW2?

4) Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Everton, Burnley, Accrington, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, NottsCounty, DerbyCounty and Stoke, were 11 of the 12 teams which started the Football League, which was the 12th?

5) Who won the Whitbread Prize Book of the Year in 2004 (Author and Title)?

6) Who was awarded the VC for climbing out on to the wing of a Lancaster at 22,000 feet with a fire extinguisher to put out an engine fire? 7) Vittorio Cramers original film part was re-done by which Oscar winning actor in the recent remake of War of the Worlds?

8) Which British river has has one vowel and one consonant repeated?

9) What is the modern Greek alternative name for the island of Santorini?

10) Which Roman Emperor is said to have uttered the words †œWoe, I think I'm turning into a godââ‚Âà ‚¬Ãƒâ€šÃ‚ÂÂ� on his deathbed? 11) What line of poetry follows †œOf shoes and ships and sealing wax--and cabbages and kingsââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ�?

12) Who was the artist and tile of the only drum based single to reach no 1 in the UK?

13) What colour is the Boohbah, Zing Zing Zingbah? 14) Who was it the Athenian hero Theseus went to rescue from the minotaur?

15) Name a country (besides Britain) which joined the Common Market in 1973?

16) Which religion celebrates itâ₠¬ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¾Ã‚¢s †œNew Yearââ‚ ¬Ã‚ÂÂ� during September or early October.

17) What is †œFactor 8â₠¬ÃƒÆ’‚ÂÂÂ� (not suntan lotion)?

18) Which film featured Bill Haleyââ‚ƚ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s †œRock around the Clockââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ�?

19) Tumbledown Mountain is on which group of islands?

20) Who did the voice for the Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2?

21) What number did a gross and a half represent?

22) Dodoma is the capital of which country?

23) What did Percy Shaw invent to aid motorists in 1934?

24) Who was the first woman in space?

25) For what is Woomera in Australia famous?

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2 Rabies

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2 fear oif water

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25 - The radio telescope?

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15 Ireland?

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17 a component of blood

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Correct :tu:

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19 Falklands

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Correct :tu:

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23 cats eyes?

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21< 36

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:tu:
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Both correct

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4 West Brom

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Sorry no

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3> barnum

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Correct

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8. Isis

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25 A firing range

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Sorry not the answer I'm looking for
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Correct and you are romping ahead at the moment well done
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Sorry no

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Struggling with the rest though ;)

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Not the answer I was looking for at all

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21. 216?

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:shrug: wrong
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Correct :tu:

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10. Nero?

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21 216

ah well, gone already ...

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Sorry no
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Danielf beat you to it

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1. Apollo?

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20 Jennifer Saunders

25 Rocket testing range

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25 - The rocket testing range? (Hopeing now :))

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7 Tom Cruise?

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Correct for both and you pipped dilly for no 25

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25 Nuclear test explosion?

Aaarghh !! Not again !!:dunce:

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not even close
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Too young

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16 Buddism ?
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13 Brown ??

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Sorry no to both

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16> jewish

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Ok then -

16 Islam
13 Black

:)

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Correct
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16 has now gone and still no for 13

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13>yellow

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don't know about you lot but I'm waiting for googletime :)

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what is left

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Still left

1,3,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,18,22,24

five minutes to Google
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Close but no cigar

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13> gold

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Keep trying only 2 minutes to :google:

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13 ginger?

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10. Caligula

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24. Valentina Tereskova?

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13>golden

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Sorry no
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Correct :tu:

Cookie and Homealone are neck and neck at the moment

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10 Vespasian

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:google:is now allowed (please mention though)

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22 Tanzania

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Correct
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Correct and now in the lead

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18. Blackboard Jungle

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11
And why the sea is boiling hot --
And whether pigs have wings

Lewis Carrol

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3, Douglas Bader?

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Correct

And Cookie for no 11

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7 Morgan Freeman

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No

Hint

He wasn't British

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3> Johnny Johnsongoogle

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12. Sandy Nelson? (but can't remember the title).

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Correct "Googling well there"

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needless to say its non stop google now !!

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9. Thera

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Sorry no (who on earth was he)?
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Correct

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whats left ?

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3> Fighter Ace McConnell ... Guiness book of records states that Joseph McConnell is the worlds highest scoring jet fighter ace (post WW2) with 16 ...

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to go

1,3,5,6,12, 13,14,

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3. Erich Hartmann

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no
3) Highest scoring fighter ace of WW2?

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(remembered the title - 'Let there be drums')

Was it Gene Krupa then? (Can't think of any other drummers!)

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1. Urania

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Well done

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5 Small Island by Andrea Levy

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Correct

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3>The highest scoring ace of all time was the great German Luftwaffe experte Erich Hartmann with 352 aerial kills on the Eastern Front.

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14 Ariadne ?

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Correct

Not many left now

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You're a bit late mate :PP: :) :angel:

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Correct

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6 Sergeant Later Warrant Officer N.C. Jackson, Royal Air Force

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only 6, 12 and 13 to go

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only coz i pasted the wrong one :dunce:

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Correct

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See, I don't even pause to clear the formatting when I cut & paste ;-)

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Cookie is resorting to straight cut & paste from the web. I think he wants to win :)

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12 Hint
Killed in a car crash

Come on Marky you are so close with no 13

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13>orange

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13 Orange?

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James Dean

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Correct

Only the drummer to get now

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Rollocks I did it again... :rolleyes:

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There is still no 12 to go

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I've no idea... :shrug:

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12> u2?

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I will give you until 7.30pm for no 12 (I am really surprised no one has got this yet)!

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phil collins

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wishful thinking ? ;)

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12. Wipe out - The Safaris?

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no one has got 12 yet Keep going (think of the 70s)