BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)

Subject: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:47 PM

This month's quiz had 3 pages (of 26 questions each) on the subject(s) Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral.
This means a total of 78 questions.
My usual request Don't post answers in the thread scores can be claimed, or you can say which questions are causing problems. But if you want a score, PM me.
My usual caveat, I have taken liberties with spelling and pronunciation!
Unlike at the club, the three rounds do appear in the obvious order.

1 By what nickname is Jack Nicklaus known?
2 What name is given to a golf score of two strokes under par on a hole?
3 Who is the religious leader (in exile) of Tibet?
4 Who, collectively, were Michaelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo?
5 What term describes doors, such as those on the DeLorean sports car?
6 What creature is closely associated with Christian Bale, Michael Keaton, and Adam West?
7 What was the theme music for the film "Rocky IV"?
8 What term describes a lake formed from a loop in a river which has been cut-off from the main flow?
9 What term describes a golf fairway which turns at almost 90o to its original course?
10 How might one describe a card player who plays outside the rules, (dealing from the bottom etc.,)?
11 Which Coventry car plant are Ford considering closing?
12 What word means "To harass or pester persistently", but not necessarily as a wife?
13 Who "went out on a chilly night, and prayed to the moon to give him light"?
14 What hangover remedy involves a type of homeopathy? (where a small amount of something which produces the symptoms alleviates them)
15 Which British Caribbean dependency has George Town as its capital?
16 Tenerife is the largest island in which group of islands?
17 What name is given to Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Malus, native to North America and Eurasia and having clusters of white, pink, or reddish flowers. Also to the small tart fruit of such a tree, sometimes used to make jelly and preserves. Also a temptress for Bart Simpson?
18 Who was the main male character in the first series of "The X-Files"?
19 How is a person described who lends money at usurious rates?
20 In which boat did Francis Chichester circumnavigate the world?
21 Who is remembered as the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world?
22 By what name is Yusuf Islam more commonly remembered?
23 What is often used to move the cursor around a computer screen?
24 How, collectively are Cleese, Idle, Chapman, Gilliam, Jones & Palin remembered?
25 Who is The Muppet's drummer?
26 What name is given to the 'tongue' of land bounded by the Thames on which Canary Wharf stands?

1 What word describes a beer, a wine, an ale and a hair colour?
2 Which sport is also known as 'Rackets'?
3 Which is the third largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands?
4 What word is used to describe any heavy, motive machinery?
5 Who would 'look sweet' on a tandem?
6 What is the name for the old English letter which looks like a 'Y', giving rise to Ye Olde English Tea Shoppe'?
7 By what name is Mrs Cripps, a bumboat woman, more commonly known in HMS Pinafore?
8 What emblem of Wales appears on the 1985 pound coin?
9 What emblem of Scotland appears on the 1984 pound coin?
10 What emblem for Ireland appears on the 1986 pound coin?
11 And what emblem (for England) appears on the 1987 pound coin?
12 What word can describe an informer, or an illegal substance?
13 Who had a 1973 hit with "Walk On The Wild Side"?
14 What plant is particularly potent at warding off vampires? (and suitors)
15 Where was Brer Rabbit 'born and bred'?
16 What was the source of Popeye's strength?
17 Which war was fought between the houses of York And Lancaster?
18 What name is given to an association of eight universities and colleges in the northeast United States, comprising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.
19 What name was given to a league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883?
20 Which 'modern folk song' has become the anthem of Scottish sports teams?
21 If any tree is completely burnt, what tree remains?
22 What symbol appears on the Canadian flag?
23 According to the song, what gift will I bring "When It's Spring Again"?
24 What word describes part of a court, or a harbour?
25 What are one selection of Cadbury's mixed chocolates called?
26 What name was given by John Wyndham to an ambulatory plant?


1 What measure is 1/8th of a hundredweight?
2 What name is given to the centre of America's computer industry?
3 What nickname was given to British sailors, based on their method of avoiding scurvy?
4 What is the technical name for pencil lead?
5 What name is given to a 60th anniversary?
6 What name is given to a form of recording credit at a bar?
7 What measures are 40 fluid ounces (UK)?
8 Which light, porous, glassy lava, is used as an abrasive?
9 Who won a light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1960 Olympics?
10 Who wrote "Begin The Beguine" & "My Heart Belongs To Daddy"?
11 Which Graham Green novel sounds like a seaside confectionary?
12 What was Kenny Rogers' first UK hit (No 2 in 1969)?
13 What colourful name is often given (poetically) to Ireland?
14 Which is the only planet in the Solar System not to take its name from a god?
15 What comes in varieties numbered 235 & 238?
16 What name is given to small change, or a policeman?
17 What was the name of the Lone Ranger's horse?
18 What implement is used for smoothing linen?
19 What is awarded to artists who sell more than 600,000 singles or 300,000 albums?
20 Which theatre was used for a show launched in 1955 by Val Parnell, with Tommy Trinder as compere?
21 What should you do 'by example'?
22 What is iron or steel usually plated with if described as 'galvanized'?
23 What was partnered by 'old lace' for an Ealing comedy?
24 What name is given to an American 5 cent coin?
25 What character was played by Joanna Lumley, alongside David McCallum playing "Steel"?
26 Which girl character was created for the first issue of "Topper" comic, although she later appeared in "The Dandy", replete with long pigtails & dressed in black and red?



CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:49 PM

Of course, feel free to attack the 3 quizzes one at a time!

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 07:55 PM

4=they was all famous decorators
7=he was a boxer.

[i dont knoew any more.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 03:09 AM

7 I suppose a 'Boxer' is a type of dog, but wasn't nigel after the music?

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Snuffy
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 08:55 AM

Well I've submitted 78 answers - just wait ing for them to be marked now.

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:41 PM

Yep, Snuffy weighs in with a creditable 73/78. With full marks in the mineral section

CHEERS

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 03:54 PM

I have 78 answers but 5 were good guesses which needed confirmation and 6 more had to be looked up. I think I have got them right but pound coin questions could be wrong.

Doug C

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Raedwulf
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 04:52 PM

I can't be bothered to do the entire lot, but I will claim two bonus points. One for a valid alternative answer to one question, and another for correcting a question!

Subject: RE: BS: 3 Quizzes (animal/Veg/mineral)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 03:34 PM

22/26 for Fergie on animals

73/78 For Doug Chadwick

The coins are causing some problems. It is tempting to go for the obvious emblems, but would I make it that easy?

Pound Coin Designs Link for those who can't wait for the answers!

Raedwulf added an valid optional answer to Animals Q1, But I haven't agreed to his correction of another question

CHEERS

Nigel