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Thread #71920   Message #1233523
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
25-Jul-04 - 04:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Quiz (again)
Subject: BS: Quiz (again)
Another new quiz, posted here before taking it to the local club.
There is no underlying theme to the whole page, and yet each answer is linked!
Please do NOT post answers in the thread

Claims of scores may be posted here, but more people get a chance to try it if the answers are not posted too early.

Answers can be PMd to me for scoring if required.



1Name the original 'Cinque Ports' 3 for 1 point, all of them for 2 points.

2By what name and title is John Montague (1718-1792) remembered?

3What golf club would normally be used to escape from a 'bunker'?

4Which English potter (1730-1792) is best known for the creation of a range of white on blue pottery?

5Viscount Stansgate renounced his title in 1963 to be a politician. How is he better known?

6Who was in the 1961 charts with "Stand By Me", and again in 1987 with the same song?

7What is (probably) the best known publication of 1611

8Who conducted the theme music for Star Wars?

9What is the title of the song which starts "There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour"?

10What form will the announcement by Gabriel of the end of the world take?

11What term describes a playing card of a suit decided to outrank the other 3 suits?

12Which American millionaire owns casinos including Atlantic City's "Taj Mahal"?

13Whose nephews are Huey Dewie & Louie?

14Which fish, also called a bummalo is often eaten with curry?

15What name is given the covers of the opening in a plane's fuselage through which high explosives are dropped?

16Which Blonde bombshell starred in "Good time girl", "There's a girl in my soup" "Adventures of a Taxi Driver" and "Adventures of a Private Eye"?

17Who, famously, died 31st Aug 1997?

18Who had a state funeral on 30 Jan 1965?

19Who was shot on 8 Dec 1980?

20By what name is Karol Woytila better known?





CHEERS

Nigel