Pauls Quiz 199 (Questions only)

1. Once upon a time the heavenly body BPM 37093 (or 'Lucy') was a star. Today, with a diameter of 4,000 km and 10000000000000000000000000000000000 carats, it is the largest diamond in the milky way. Why is it called Lucy?

2. Plus or minus 1, how many centimetres in height does a woman lose (on average) between her 40th and 70th birthday? 

3. What was both the poetic name for the Netherlands and the old name for Jakarta?

4. What superseded the autogiro (or autogyro) in the late 1940s?

5. Each of the following had a song that spent more than 8 weeks in the number one position in the UK charts. Name the song.  
    a. Wet Wet Wet  (1994, 15 weeks)
    b. Wings  (1977, 9 weeks)
    c. Doris Day  (1954, 9 weeks)
    d. Bryan Adams  (1991, 16 weeks)
    e. Frankie Lane  (1953, 18 weeks)

6. According to Plato, what was found just beyond the Pillars of Hercules?

7. Which heavenly fortified dessert wine is one of, if not the oldest wine from California?

8. The name of which country means 'go and milk it'?   
    a. Italy
    b. India
    c. Somalia
    d. Brazil

9. The spelling of which bands name often contains two inverted Sig runes? 

10. Philadelphia is the old name for the largest city in which country?