Pauls Quiz 457
1. Which French card game did James Bond play at the casino?
2. If you can gleek, what are you capable of propelling?
3. With four words, complete the following famous speech.
"and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ......."
4. What is the most commonly fractured bone in the human body?
5. Which month and year was top of the singles charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1976?
6. Interrobang, pilcrow and octothorpe are all names for what?
7. Who is the only male tennis player to have won three consecutive 'Channel Slams' (French Open plus Wimbledon)?
8. Moscow excluded, what were the four most populated European cities in 1900?
9. Which Russian painter (1866-1944) is often credited with painting the first purely abstract works?
10. The following lyrics are all from songs with the word "Sweet" somewhere in the song title. Can you name the song? One point for each correct answer.
a. I'm a million different people
b. And the spring became the summer
c. Was ridin' alongside the highway
d. I've been making a man with blonde hair and a tan
11. Which pale small town doctor with the initials C. C. is ranked number three on Forbes list of the 15 wealthiest fictional characters?
12. What is the name of Ebola's deadly 'sister' virus named after a German university town?
13. Which 1960 film was the first to show a flushing toilet?
14. What are the names of the four longest European rivers ending with the letter "e"? (English language names) One point for each correct answer.
15. What is the full name of the Ferrari Formula One racing team? (two words)
16. What is the electronically generated caption superimposed on a TV screen called?
17. Nollywood refers to the film industry in which country?
18. Which European capital lies on the banks of the Tagus river?
19. At the beginning of the 1986 film Aliens Ripley is awoken from her hyrpersleep. Plus or minus 10, how many years was she asleep?
20. Which two No 1 albums in the 1976 UK charts began with the words "A Nght"?
ANSWERS
1. Baccarat
2. Saliva (propelling a stream of saliva from out of your mouth)
3. "Ich bin ein Berliner"
4. Clavicle (collar bone)
5. December, 1963 (Oh, what a night) (Four Seasons)
6. Typographic symbols
7. Bjorn Borg
8. Four answers. London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna
9. Kandinsky
10. Four answers.
a. Bitter Sweet Symphony (Verve)
b. Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
c. Sweet Hitch-hiker (CCR)
d. Sweet Transvestite (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
11. Carlisle Cullen
12. Marburg
13. Psycho
14. Four answers. Danube, Rhine, Elbe, Loire.
15. Scuderia Ferrari (scuderia means stable)
16. Chyron
17. Nigeria
18. Lisbon
19. 57
20. Two answers. A Night At The Opera (Queen) and A Night On The Town (Rod Stewart)