On your marks, get set... Here's your Friday Quiz...!
The rules are the same as always:
No Googling or otherwise looking up answers before 1:30pm (or asking your dad!)
No more than three answers per post
Beware of booby traps...!
Here we go...
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1) "It's just past noon, half past monsoon..." On the banks of which river?
2) What did a Chinese Imperial dragon have that distinguished it from other dragons?
3) Who wrote Pilgrim's Progress?
4) By what name is the Hotchiwitchi more commonly known?
5) What do the expressions "Gazooks" and "Zounds" refer to?
6) Who was William Bonney better known as?
7) When Francis Drake set off on his circumnavigation of the world, what was the name of his flagship?
8) If you read a "hagiography" who or what would you be reading about?
9) Who created the etching "Gin Lane"?
10) What is commonly referred to "Good in parts" according to the Curate?
11) Which TV character was known for the phrase "I love it when a plan comes together"?
12) Which vehicle was often referred to as a "Tin Lizzie"?
13) If an object is moving away from you, towards which colour would its spectrum be biased?
14) Which tennis tournament is named after a WWI fighter pilot?
15) Which Hungarian inventor's name is commonly applied to the ball-point pen?
16) What creatures were originally kept in a "Mews"?
17) Which road feature has a name that means "End of a bag"?
18) What kind of creature is a "Laughing Jackass"?
19) Who was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel?
20) According to legend who, with just two companions, defended a bridge over the Tiber to protect Rome against an invading army?
21) Specifically whose last words were "Fly you fools!"?
22) What is an "earth apple" better known as?
23) What would you learn from an "Abecedarian"?
24) Which film suffered an attack by its supporting feature that was only stopped by the toppling of a large office building?
25) According to superstition the presence of what are required at the Tower of London to preserve the Tower, the Monarchy and Great Britain?