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Thread #50953   Message #774363
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
30-Aug-02 - 02:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Film Quiz
Subject: Film Quiz
Here's another quiz, use it elsewhere if you wish. Ideally, I would prefer that no answers appear in the thread for 36 hours. Feel free to claim your score, or to ask for clarification. All answers will be given in 36 hour time

Nigel

1, In higher vertebrates, what describes the parts of the skull made up of the maxilla, and the mandible?
2, What name is given to boiled potato, given a soft pulpy consistency by mixing with milk or butter?
3, Which Chaplin film takes its name from an old form of stage illumination?
4, Which 1993 film with Tom Hanks as an AIDS sufferer shares its name with a city and port in Pennsylvania?
5, Which word meaning very large, started as a description of the children of Uranus and Gaea in Greek myth?
6, What shortened term is used to describe someone who performs anti-social, and sometimes violent acts, without remorse?
7, How did the first sentence end which was sent by Neil Armstrong from a vehicle on the surface of the moon?
8, Which book by Graham Greene might have been about a seaside sweet?
9, According to those who wish to be pedantic, when did this millennium start?
10, Who were the two leaders of "The Barrow Gang" ?
11, Which people massacred 1300 British troops at Isandlwhana in 1878?
12, Which is the largest city in Morocco?
( 13, What is the name of the bird in Charles Schultz's "Peanuts" cartoon strip ?
14, According to a Glen Miller song, "Seven times he got aboard that train; and seven times he got back down to kiss his love again," What was her name?
15, Who sang "Delilah"
16, In cricket, what fielding position is "on the off side, near the boundary behind the batsman's wicket"?
17, What term is used for the man who make promises on behalf of a child at baptism?
18. Who (surname) founded Singapore in 1819?
19, What is the title of the film based on a book by H Rider Haggard about Ayesha a 500 year old queen?
20, What name is given to a spirit, believed to manifest its presence by knocking; and by moving, or throwing, furniture and fittings?