Letter round: Y

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

1. What name is often used contemptuously to describe a country bumpkin?

2. Can a Test Match end in a tie?

3. Which is the oldest and largest national park in the USA?

4. In 1929, Donald F Duncan became involved in the manufacture of a toy based on a weapon used by 16th century Filipino hunters. What was the toy called?

5. What colour is known in French as Jaune?

6. Which language is a mixture of German, Hebrew, Polish and Russian, with a few French and Italian words thrown in?

7. Translated, the name of which criminal organisation stems from the numbers eight, nine and three?

8. Which legendary English rock band had a cameo appearance in the 1966 film and "mod masterpiece" Blowup?

9. What is the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia?

10. Which European tree lives the longest?

11. Which company are the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments.

12. Which club in March 1992 was the first English County cricket side to tour South Africa since sporting relations were resumed?

13. What was the name given to the largest class of battleship ever built?

14. In golf, what is the informal name given to nervous tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance especially when putting?

15. Which Royal House ruled England from 1461 to 1485?

ANSWERS

1. Yokel

2. Yes

3. Yellowstone

4. The yo-yo

5. Yellow

6. Yiddish.

7. Yakuza (from yattsu, ku and san)

8. The Yardbirds

9. Yacuza

10. Yew

11. Yamaha

12. Yorkshire

13. Yamato

14. The Yips

15. York

Where these questions come from
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  2. Cricket Quiz 5
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