August Bank holiday Friday Quiz

[Angua]

Results as follows

1) (Urania) Danielf
2) (Rabies) Homealone
3) (Erich Hartmann) Danielf
4) (West Brom) Gazzae
5) (Andrea Levy, Small Island) Cookie
6) (Norman Jackson) Cookie
7) (Morgan Freeman) Cookie
8) (Isis) Cookie
9) (Thera) Danielf
10) (Vespasian) Cookie
11) (And why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings) Cookie
12) (Cozy Powell, Dance with the Devil)
13) (Orange) Marky
14) (Ariadne) Cookie
15) (Denmark or Republic of Ireland) Cookie
16) (Jewish) Marky
17) (A substance in blood to help with coagulation) Homealone
18) (Blackboard Jungle) John Horb
19) (The Falkland Islands) Cookie
20) (Jennifer Saunders) Homealone
21) (216) Danielf
22) (Tanzania) Cookie
23) (Cats Eyes) Cookie
24) (Valentina Vladimirova Tereshkova) John Horb
25) (Rocket Range/Rocket testing) Homealone


I therefore declare Cookie_365 The winner and setter of next weeks quiz (please contact Metawraith or Graham if you cannot do it in good time )
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Originally Posted by cookie_365

cosy cole - topsy ??

Did I say I'd given up?? I'm way too competitive to do that ....

Close but no cigar

[marky]

(his office, a bar, a back alley, and a rooftop
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i got 2 thats 2 more than ever

[Angua]

Homealone and Danielf were joint second
With Marky and John Horb Joint 3rd

[cookie_365]

Acceptance speech !!!

I'd like to thank Angua, my agent, my 'no-one, but no-one, beats me at anything!' rather disturbing character trait, all the other quiz contestants who deserved to win much more than me, my parents, the bloke who presented Sale Of The Century (from Norwich!) for inspiring me to take up professional quiz question answering, and finally, most importantly, !!!

[Angua]

Originally Posted by marky

(his office, a bar, a back alley, and a rooftop
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i got 2 thats 2 more than ever

Correct And Well done
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Apologies for question 12, I messed up, it only got to no 3

[marky]

Originally Posted by Angua

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Apologies for question 12, I messed up, it only got to no 3

good job nobody got it right then

[MetaWraith]

Congrats on running your 1st CF Quiz, Angua.
Sorry I wasnt able to stick around for it.

[danielf]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Acceptance speech !!!

I'd like to thank Angua, my agent, my 'no-one, but no-one, beats me at anything!' rather disturbing character trait, all the other quiz contestants who deserved to win much more than me, my parents, the bloke who presented Sale Of The Century (from Norwich!) for inspiring me to take up professional quiz question answering, and finally, most importantly, !!!

Most of us run for second place you know! There's a fine art in getting as many correct answers as possible in without have to set the set next one

Well done Cookie! I look forward to your quiz next week. And thanks to Angua for setting this one

oy - pass that joint

<edit> I meant joint second place in the quiz, of course

[Graham]

Originally Posted by Angua

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

Oh well, missed another one, still, let's have a go for a laugh...

(Addendum: Blimey, some tricky ones here!!)

2) Hydrophobia is an alternative name for which infection?

Rabies

3) Highest scoring fighter ace of WW2?

An American whose name I can't recall...!

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

Dee? (Not sure that's what you meant)

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?

The one that Caligula killed, I think.

11) What line of poetry follows †œOf shoes and ships and sealing wax--and cabbages and kingsââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚ÂÂÂ�?

Damn, I know it *starts* The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things...!" and it ends something like "... and whether pigs have wings", but that's all I can remenber

14) Who was it the Athenian hero Theseus went to rescue from the minotaur?

His father?

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

Judaism?

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

Clotting agent for haemophiliacs

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

Blackboard Jungle.

19) Tumbledown Mountain is on which group of islands?

Falklands

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

216

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

Windscreen wipers

24) Who was the first woman in space?

Valentina Tereschkova (sp?)

25) For what is Woomera in Australia famous?

Rocket testing and launches.