peter H
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Here are tonights Quiz questions, answers are further down.
How would you have done?
Q1 - Current Affairs - Who was named this week as the next Governor of the Bank of England ?
Q2 - Current Affairs - Rebel Tory MP Nadine Dorries returned to the UK this week and attended a meeting with the Chief Whip. But who is the Chief Whip ?
Q3 - Current Affairs - Who has been named as the designer of the next Brit Awards Statuette ?
Q4 - Current Affairs - Sport - Ricky Ponting has announced his retirement from international cricket. How many Test Match runs did he score in his career ?
Q5 - Current Affairs - A small earth quake hit Cumbria on Wednesday Evening (about 9:30pm), what magnitude was the quake ?
Q6 - Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends?
Q7 - What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
Q8 - Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
Q9 - Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
Q10 - Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
Q11 - Of which country is Santa Anna the second largest city ?
Q12 - In the world of Pop Music, how is William Perks better known ?
Q13 - Robert Fitzroy was the Captain of which research ship ?
Q14 - Besides being occupations, what connects the words Carpenter, Plasterer & Digger ?
Q15 - Which is the only miracle performed by Jesus that is chronicled in all four gospels of the Bible ?
Q16 - Who is the archenemy of the Tracy family in Thunderbirds ?
Q17 - In which decade was the first criminal executed using the electric chair ?
Q18 - What is the more common name for Myeloid Tissue?
Q19 - What film role connects Robert DeNiro, Rod Steiger and Edward G Robinson ?
Q20 - By what one word name is the sporting superstar Luiz de Nazario di Lima better known ?
Answers:
A1 - Mark Carney
A2 - Sir George Young
A3 - Damien Hirst
A4 - 13,366 runs
A5 - 2.1 With the epicentre some 3.1 miles underneath Patterdale.
A6 - Boxing
A7 - Niagara Falls .. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
A8 - Asparagus and rhubarb
A9 - Dwarf, dwell and dwindle
A10 - Lettuce
A11 - El Salvadore
A12 - Bill Wyman
A13 - HMS Beagle - Darwin's research ship
A14 - All species of Bees
A15 - The feeding of the 5000
A16 - The Hood
A17 - 1890's
A18 - Bone Marrow
A19 - Al Capone
A20 - Ronaldo
Peter
How would you have done?
Q1 - Current Affairs - Who was named this week as the next Governor of the Bank of England ?
Q2 - Current Affairs - Rebel Tory MP Nadine Dorries returned to the UK this week and attended a meeting with the Chief Whip. But who is the Chief Whip ?
Q3 - Current Affairs - Who has been named as the designer of the next Brit Awards Statuette ?
Q4 - Current Affairs - Sport - Ricky Ponting has announced his retirement from international cricket. How many Test Match runs did he score in his career ?
Q5 - Current Affairs - A small earth quake hit Cumbria on Wednesday Evening (about 9:30pm), what magnitude was the quake ?
Q6 - Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends?
Q7 - What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
Q8 - Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
Q9 - Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
Q10 - Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
Q11 - Of which country is Santa Anna the second largest city ?
Q12 - In the world of Pop Music, how is William Perks better known ?
Q13 - Robert Fitzroy was the Captain of which research ship ?
Q14 - Besides being occupations, what connects the words Carpenter, Plasterer & Digger ?
Q15 - Which is the only miracle performed by Jesus that is chronicled in all four gospels of the Bible ?
Q16 - Who is the archenemy of the Tracy family in Thunderbirds ?
Q17 - In which decade was the first criminal executed using the electric chair ?
Q18 - What is the more common name for Myeloid Tissue?
Q19 - What film role connects Robert DeNiro, Rod Steiger and Edward G Robinson ?
Q20 - By what one word name is the sporting superstar Luiz de Nazario di Lima better known ?
Answers:
A1 - Mark Carney
A2 - Sir George Young
A3 - Damien Hirst
A4 - 13,366 runs
A5 - 2.1 With the epicentre some 3.1 miles underneath Patterdale.
A6 - Boxing
A7 - Niagara Falls .. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
A8 - Asparagus and rhubarb
A9 - Dwarf, dwell and dwindle
A10 - Lettuce
A11 - El Salvadore
A12 - Bill Wyman
A13 - HMS Beagle - Darwin's research ship
A14 - All species of Bees
A15 - The feeding of the 5000
A16 - The Hood
A17 - 1890's
A18 - Bone Marrow
A19 - Al Capone
A20 - Ronaldo
Peter