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Friday Early Evening Quiz
Usual rules and disclaimers apply.
On your marks, get set, goooooooooooooooo.............
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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