Pub Quiz 93 (Answers only)
ANSWERS
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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