peter H
LIFE MEMBER
Here with the results of the quiz.
So That makes 'Hollyberry' next weeks quiz setter. My congratulations or my sympathy (please delete as appropriate)
For information here are the questions :
Q1 - Which country's King was the Prisoner of Zender ?
Q2 - What was the name of the dog in Enid Blyton's Famous Five series ?
Q3 - Caliburn is an alternative name for what ?
Q4 - How long is a Dog Watch ?
Q5 - What nationality was the composer Rachmaninov ?
Q6 - What fruit have varieties called Bosana, Kalamata and Picholine ?
Q7 - What is the minimum age a US President has to be ?
Q8 - Who broke Roger Bannister's mile record ?
Q9 - Metric crown, metric demy and metric royal are all what ?
Q10 - Which Saint's Cathedral is in Red Square in Moscow ?
Q11 - In what year were Nobel Prizes first awarded ?
Q12 - Which musical includes the songs: GEE, OFFICER KRUPKE and AMERICA ?
Q13 - What is the State Capital of South Carolina ?
Q14 - Which English City is named after Snot and his Tribe ?
Q15 - How many 'points' does a compass have ?
Q16 - What is the last event in the Decathlon ?
Q17 - If you were a 'hippophobe' of what would you be afraid ?
Q18 - What one word fits the discriptions : to transplant, bribery & hard work ?
Q19 - Which empire builder's last words were : "So little done, so much to do" ?
Q20 - Which Criminal was made into a romantic chatracter by the novel 'Rookwood' ?
and here the answers:
A1 - Ruritannia
A2 - Timmy
A3 - Excalibur (Arthur's Sword)
A4 - two hours
A5 - Russian
A6 - Olive
A7 - 35
A8 - John Landy (june 21, 1954)
A9 - Sizes of paper
A10 - St Basil's
A11 - 1901
A12 - West Side Story
A13 - Columbia
A14 - Nottingham Link Removed
A15 - 32
A16 - 1500 metres
A17 - Horses
A18 - Graft
A19 - Cecil Rhodes
A20 - Dick Turpin
How would you have done ?
Peter
So That makes 'Hollyberry' next weeks quiz setter. My congratulations or my sympathy (please delete as appropriate)
For information here are the questions :
Q1 - Which country's King was the Prisoner of Zender ?
Q2 - What was the name of the dog in Enid Blyton's Famous Five series ?
Q3 - Caliburn is an alternative name for what ?
Q4 - How long is a Dog Watch ?
Q5 - What nationality was the composer Rachmaninov ?
Q6 - What fruit have varieties called Bosana, Kalamata and Picholine ?
Q7 - What is the minimum age a US President has to be ?
Q8 - Who broke Roger Bannister's mile record ?
Q9 - Metric crown, metric demy and metric royal are all what ?
Q10 - Which Saint's Cathedral is in Red Square in Moscow ?
Q11 - In what year were Nobel Prizes first awarded ?
Q12 - Which musical includes the songs: GEE, OFFICER KRUPKE and AMERICA ?
Q13 - What is the State Capital of South Carolina ?
Q14 - Which English City is named after Snot and his Tribe ?
Q15 - How many 'points' does a compass have ?
Q16 - What is the last event in the Decathlon ?
Q17 - If you were a 'hippophobe' of what would you be afraid ?
Q18 - What one word fits the discriptions : to transplant, bribery & hard work ?
Q19 - Which empire builder's last words were : "So little done, so much to do" ?
Q20 - Which Criminal was made into a romantic chatracter by the novel 'Rookwood' ?
and here the answers:
A1 - Ruritannia
A2 - Timmy
A3 - Excalibur (Arthur's Sword)
A4 - two hours
A5 - Russian
A6 - Olive
A7 - 35
A8 - John Landy (june 21, 1954)
A9 - Sizes of paper
A10 - St Basil's
A11 - 1901
A12 - West Side Story
A13 - Columbia
A14 - Nottingham Link Removed
A15 - 32
A16 - 1500 metres
A17 - Horses
A18 - Graft
A19 - Cecil Rhodes
A20 - Dick Turpin
How would you have done ?
Peter
