Letter round: Z

Every answer is one word beginning with Z. Tell the teams, it is half the fun.

1. Under what name did Artur Artunes Coimbra achieve fame?

2. What was the name of the New York City park that was home to thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters?

3. Which element is extracted from the ore Sphalerite?

4. Which number cannot be expressed in Roman figures?

5. Alphabetically-speaking, what is the last element?

6. What kind of stepped brick pyramid was built in ancient Babylonia and Assyria as the base of a shrine?

7. By what name is Southern Rhodesia now known?

8. What is the unit of currency of Poland?

9. Which dashing fictional character rode a jet black horse named Toronado?

10. The French call it sabayon, what do the Italians call it?

11. What African country was formerly known as Northern Rhodesia?

12. What is the name of the string instrument heard throughout the 1949 film noir classic 'The Third Man'?

13. Which island off the east coast of Africa was once independent?

14. Burchell?s, mountain and Grevy?s

15. What is the grated rind of a citrus fruit also known as?

ANSWERS

1. Zico

2. Zuccotti

3. Zinc

4. Zero

5. Zirconium

6. Ziggurat

7. Zimbabwe

8. Zloty

9. Zorro

10. Zabaglione

11. Zambia

12. Zither

13. Zanzibar

14. Zebra

15. Zest

Where these questions come from
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  2. Quiz of the Year 2011
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  14. Creature Collectives Quiz 1
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