Quiz answers to volumes 353 & 358
October, 28th 2009 18:13 PM

About bloody time...



353

1.  Is it a frog or a toad that has teeth? Frog

2.  What is a pommel a part of? Either the upper front part of a saddle (a saddlebow) or the knob on the hilt of a sword

3.  Which British all male bastion allowed women members for the first time in September 1998? The submariners

4.  What is the popular name for the anaesthetic nitrous oxide? Laughing gas

5.  In which year did Marc Bolan die? 1977

6.  What is made up of the minor arcane and the major arcana? Tarot cards

7.  How many pecks are there in a bushel? 4

8. If someone is peregrinating, what are they doing? A) Swooping down on something B) Travelling from place to place C) Complaining about something ‘B’

354

1. To which Roman Emperor did Petronious serve under? Nero

2.  Which word means ghost and also strong drinks? Now this had me thinking for about a milli-second but SPIRIT

3.  What kind of day do Scouts and Guides call the anniversary of their founder’s birth? Jamboree

4.  Which war is the first for which there are photographic records? American civil war

5.  In which US state is Death Valley? California

7.  Which word describes both a blunt sword and a very thin sheet of metal? You got me on this one, but as a guess I will say FOIL

8. The Mesozoic era is divided into three geological periods. Cretaceous and Jurassic are two. What is the third? A) Carboniferous B) Triassic C) Silurian ‘B’

355

1. What is LoretoFest? Saigon's largest international music festival

2.  Which initials did Pamela Anderson have in her ‘Baywatch’ role? C.J.

3.  Glen Cova and Malling Jewell are types of which fruit? Raspberry

4.  What is detected by a Geiger counter? Radiation

5.  Which of Scarlet, swine and tiger, is not a type of fever? Tiger

6. What colour are natural sponges? Brown

7.  Which shredded vegetable goes into sauerkraut? Cabbage

8. What is a Capuchin? A) A large coffee B) A monk C) A bell-tower ‘B’

356

1. How many species of crocodile are there? 23

2.  Who wrote the famous pirate novel ‘Treasure Island”? Robert Louis Stevenson

3.  What is made by a testator? A will

4.  Which Italian area produces Chianti? Tuscany

5.  “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a novel which argued against what? Slavery

6. What colour is puce? A reddish purple

7.  The town of Newcastle is in which Australian state? New South Wales

8. What is a centaur? A) half-human, half-bull B) Half-horse, half-griffin C) half-horse, half-human ‘C’

357

1. What year was Chuck Berry born? 1926

2.  What are your phalanges? Bones of the fingers or toes

3.  What is the collective name for a group of beavers? A lodge (or plenty of naked women in one room)

4.  Which country ruled Greece till 1830? The ottoman empire - Turkey

5.  Which letter in Braille comprises a single raised dot? A

6.  Which occupation was shared by the fathers of Roger Moore and Burt Reynolds? Policeman

7.  Who has ‘100% Blades’ tattooed on his left arm? Sean Bean

8.  A plot element in a film is often called which one of the following? A) Macbeth B) Macduff C) MacGuffin ‘C’

 


 
 

 

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