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Pub Quiz 93 (Answers only)

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1. A butterfly larva.

2. Pandora

3. Albert Hammond (of 'It Never Rains In Southern California' fame)

4. Baked Alaska

5. Members of Top Cat's gang.

6. Kazakhstan (2,670,000 square km)

7. John Pasche

8. Tears

9. Beatals

10. a. Stuart Sutcliffe was born in Edinburgh Scotland b. Pete Best was born in Madras India.

11. Finagle's Law (of Dynamic Negatives)

12. Iliad

13. Answers:
    a: The (electric) battery
    b: The Monkey wrench (interestingly, the device was called a monkey wrench long before Charles Moncky patented it - he sold the patent for $2000 in order to buy a house)
    c: Machine gun, first known as the Gatling gun
    d: The electric razor
    e: Margarine - named after 'margarites'.
    f: Condense it

14. Dandelion

15. a: 5kg

16. Answers
    a: Canada's
    b: The Winning Team
    c: Center
    d: Teddy Kennedy

17. Answers (Song - Artist (other versions)):
    a: Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer (Eddie Cochran,  The Who)
    b: Delilah - Tom Jones
    c: The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde - Georgie Fame
    d: Fool On The Hill - Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66  (Shirley Bassey)
    e: The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann
    f: Daydream Believer - The Monkees
    g: (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
    h: Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel
    i: Young Girl - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
    j: Lady Madonna - The Beatles
    k: Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkins

18. The Comedy Of Errors - Shakespeare

19. Marco polo

20. A grain

21. Yo  In order to prevent avalanches (According to the Oxford English Dictionary yodel means "to utter the syllable yo".)

22. Elsa Lanchester

23. Float in space. With the aid of the Manned Manoeuvring Unit (Jet Pack)

24. John Le Carre (from the novel 'Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy')

25. Kon-Tiki

26. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

27. Scandinavia

28. Will Riker

29. American War of Independence

30. A very young Robert Duvall

31. Cornucopia or Horn of Plenty

32. Steppenwolf

33. Doomsday Book

34.  C & A (From the initials of the two brothers)

35. Three answers
    a. French Guyana
    b. Mexico
    c. Australia

36. "You've got to accentuate the positive"

37. Achilles

38. L B J

39. Skiing

40. Answers:
    a: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
    b: Help - The Beatles
    c: Downtown - Petula Clark
    d: I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
    e: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
    f: Yesterday - The Beatles
    g: I'm Henry The Eighth, I Am - Herman's Hermits
    h: It's Not Unusual - Tom Jones
    i: Tired Of Waiting For You - The Kinks
    j: I Know A Place - Petula Clark
    k: Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
    l: Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers

41. Six arrows landing in Gold

42. Two extra women on the women's team

43. George Bass

 

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