comp results to volume 289
July, 10th 2008 15:00 PM 

Here you go

1. Bar the Beatles can you name three people on their Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve? Did you know that there were actually more than 70 people depicted on that album cover?? Here are some of the most famous ones: Marlene Dietrich, W.C. Fields, Diana Dors, Bob Dylan, Marilyn Monroe, Sigmund Freud, Edgar Allan Poe, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Marlon Brando, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and Stuart Sutcliffe, so you can pick any 3 from this lot that you like!!!

2.  From which language does the word "tattoo" originate? Samoan - tatau

3.  What are the odds of rolling double six in dice-throwing? A guess at 18/1

4.  Which British newspaper was founded in 1843? News of the World, now I never realised that this sort of crappy newspaper went back that far until I was looking at a copy a few days ago!!

5.  What is the only English anagram of DISHONEST? HEDONISTS

6.  What is the first stomach of a cow called? Rumen

7.  What was mozzarella cheese originally made from? Buffalo milk (water buffalo)

8. What was banned by the king in the 15th century Scotland for interfering with archery practice? A) Golf B) Football C) Whisky drinking ‘A'

Marc

 

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