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Quiz Answers 1/12/09

 

Station Hotel Pub Quiz

Question 01/12/2009

 

1

Name the capital city of the Ukraine?

 

2

Who was the wife of Louis xvi of France?

 

3

In which country is the Algarve?

 

4

Who was known as the lady with the lamp

 

5

In show jumping how many faults are incurred for a refusal

 

6

Which song did Rick ask Sam to play in Casablanca?

 

7

What is a marsupial?

 

8

What is curious about the words abstemiously and facetiously?

 

9

Who was spandau jail`s last prisoner?

 

10

Translate  veni vidi vici!

 

11

In Winnie the Pooh stories what is Kanga`s baby called?

 

12

What is thrown into a boxers ring to stop a fight?

 

13

How many geese were a-laying?

 

14

Has the Swiss flag a red cross on a white background? True/false?

 

15

In which month does pheasant shooting start?

 

16

Who was shot in front of the Biograph Theatre in Chicago on July 22 1934?

 

17

What is the name of the capture African whose life story is told in Roots?

 

18

To which country do the Canary Islands belong?

 

19

Name the Liverpool night club from which the Beatles sprang to fame

 

20

Risk Hat For Oldest Era? (anagram)

 

21

Who played the title role in the film ‘Shirley Valentine’

 

22

What merchant bank collapsed in 1995 due to unauthorised debts accumulated by trader Nick Leeson?

 

23

Who composed Pomp and Circumstance No.4 in 1907?

 

24

. Which Scottish City is known as ‘The Granite City’?

 

25

Which breed of spotted dog is named after an Adriatic Coastal region?

 

26

With which English county cricket club did Ian Botham finish his playing career?

 

27

Apart from being rivers, what do Shannon, Forth; Tyne and Humber have in common?

 

28

Which British prime minister resigned in 1940?

 

29

Which of the British armed forces is known as the Senior Service?

 

30

What is the name of the opera house, which opened in Milan in 1778?

 

31

Where on the human head would you find an epicanthic fold?

 

32

Which Wiltshire Cathedral has the highest spire in England?

 

33

Which soul singer had a hit with ‘You’re My First, My Last, My Everything’?

 

34

Which word can go before the following to make 3 more words; Pet, Ton and Mine?

 

35

What is the birthstone for November?

 

36

What sort of fruit is a russet?

 

37

In the Bible, who cut off Samson’s hair?

 

38

Who are Anastasia and Drizella?

 

39

Name Inspector Morse’s assistant

 

40

What is the square root of 81?

 

41

How long will an average mans face whiskers grow in one year?