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Old 15-05-2010, 06:22 PM   #1
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Here's this week's quiz. As I am late posting I will keep it open until 9pm Monday.

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1. How many triangles are on a backgammon board? 24
2. What condiment brand features the Palace of Westminster on its label? HP Sauce
3. A symbol comprising three dots, which if joined form an upright equilateral triangle, represents what word? Therefore
4. What is the main element of pewter, used for tableware and vases, etc? Tin
5. The tennis club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships was founded originally in 1868 for playing which sport? Croquet
6. What word, from Latin meaning 'I shall please' refers to a control substance used in drug trials which has no chemical effect? Placebo
7. In which city is the Galileo Galilei airport: Barcelona; Zurich; Pisa; or Helsinki? Pisa
8. Who is the only woman, up until 2010, ever to have run for leadership of the British Labour Party? Margaret Beckett
9. Richard Beckinsale's character Alan Moore featured in which in UK TV series? Rising Damp
10. Fremantle prison, which was closed in 1991 and is now a heritage site, is in which country? Australia
11. Bibliomania is the compulsive collecting or hoarding of what? Books
12. What is the technical term for the hollow at the back of the knee, sometimes called the knee pit? Popliteal fossa
13. Name the Green Party leader and its first parliamentary MP, who won the Brighton Pavilion seat in the UK May 2010 general election? Caroline Lucas
14. The Hundred Years War, during the 13th and 14th centuries, was fought between which two countries? England and France
15. IPO - the UK government agency responsible for the protection of ideas, patents, copyright, etc., stands for what? Intellectual Property Office
16. In 1834 who invented raised point writing using a six dot system enabling the blind to read? Louis Braille
17. The archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy is in which country? Turkey
18. Whose state funeral was on 15 December 1840, nineteen years after his death and burial in an unmarked grave? Napolean Bonaparte
19. In Japan the word Mikado originally referred to what: the emperor; a theatre; an early form of electoral proportional representation; or sushi rice? Emperor
20. What country's name derives from an Iroquois word for village? Canada
21. What is a car marque, a software company and the national flower of Egypt? Lotus
22. Which Shakespeare character is known as The Moor of Venice? Othello
23. What is the previous and common alternative name of the Indian city Mumbai? Bombay
24. Which city, home to Coca-Cola HQ, hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic games? Atlanta
25. Loosely translated, Aleph Beth Gimel Daleth are the first four letters of what alphabet: Inuit; Hebrew; Portuguese; or Tellytubby? Hebrew

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Old 15-05-2010, 08:23 PM   #2
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My answers are in
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Old 15-05-2010, 10:13 PM   #3
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Mine are also in, many thanks
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Old 16-05-2010, 09:39 AM   #4
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oops blunder

I posted the answers on here by mistake

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Old 16-05-2010, 12:19 PM   #5
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Luckily I didn't see them, Alan!

Great quiz Lynn, but hard I'll have a good job researching the answers But my Mum can help I'll definitely have the answers in by tonight x
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Old 16-05-2010, 04:45 PM   #6
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Mine are in, was pretty hard, had to get my mum to help lol
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Old 16-05-2010, 05:36 PM   #7
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It's so hard that I'm on the sixth question after all this morning lol
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Old 16-05-2010, 09:19 PM   #8
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Thanks for all the answers so far - everyone has done really well. Keep going EB you'll be fine
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I find that 'don't know' is a good answer sometimes, well a lot of times
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Old 16-05-2010, 10:10 PM   #10
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Lol Well, have PM'd my answers. Good luck to me lol
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