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Old 28-01-2011, 12:04 PM   #1
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Default Sunday Quiz for 30th Jan

This is a mixed questions one so hope you have fun, entries by 9pm sunday please.

Military Theme

1 In which month of 1066 was the Battle of Hastings fought?
October
2 Who was the captain of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Thomas Hardy
3 What was the famous nickname of Manfred von Richthofen?
The Red Baron
4 Which plane dropped the atomic bomb Fat Man on Nagasaki on August 9th 1945?
Bockstar
5 The Exocet Missile is named after which type of animal?
Flying Fish

Geography

6 In London what are Tyburn, Effra, Fleet, Walbrook and Westbourne?
Underground Rivers
7 In which English county are there places called Ham and Sandwich?
Kent
8 The Grand National is at Aintree but where is the Scottish Grand National held?
Ayr
9 On which Greek Island was Prince Phillip the Duke of Endinburgh born in 1921?
Corfu
10The famous Copacabana beach is in which South American city?
Rio de Janeiro

General

11 Captain Hook, Bertie Wooster, James Bond and David Cameron all have something in common, what is it?
All went to Eton
12 " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" which U.S. president said that?
Franklin D Roosevelt
13 In 1999 a large ginger and white tom cat called Mandu was elected joint leader of which British political party? he served until July 2002 when he was run over by a car?
The Monster Raving Loony Party
14 Which of the five senses is measured by an aesthesiometer?
Touch
15 What do cruciverbalists like doing?
Crosswords
16 What two-word term is used for the second full moon within a given calendar month? it only happens once every two or three years
Blue Moon
17 A Basenji is the only breed of dog that can't do what?
Bark
18 By what other name is the reindeer known in North America?
Caribou
19 Ghost-faced, leaf-nosed, funnel-eared and sucker-foot are types of which mammal?
Bat
20 Which Australian Marsupial has three living species, the common, the southern hairy-nosed and the northern hairy-nosed?
Wombat
21 Which peanut-filled chocolate bar was named after the Mars family's favourite horse?
Snickers


Congratulations to

Purple lyn 20
The hand of omega 18
Mishelley 18
Writer Nick 13
16 Shells 13
Linda 11
Caledonia 8

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Old 28-01-2011, 09:56 PM   #2
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done it. well done, good quiz, mostly guesses but did know quite a few
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Please don't forget entries in to me by 9pm tonight please.
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Good quiz, well done all. If I took my time I reckon I could get a lot more right but I just do it in minutes
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Well done everyone involved
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Thankyou Ann and well done all.
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Is there anyone who can do this week's quiz - have got a nasty cold, eyes and head hurts, really don't have the energy to put one together - would be really grateful

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