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Good morning quiz fans. Try a little grey matter work out with these.

1. Whose unemployment benefits records from 1963-4 referring to "...Mr Woodward's amateur singing interests and flamboyant dress..." were auctioned in 2010?
2. Neat, kine, and beeves are old collective words for what?
3. Ben Drew achieved a 2010 number one album fronting which band?
4. Ehud Barak succeeded Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister of which country in 1999?
5. What acid occurs naturally in bee and ant venom?
6. Wiki means what in Hawaiian: Free; Quick; Easy; or Knowledge?
7. Put these ancient body units of length in order, smallest to biggest: Span Palm Cubit Digit?
8. International telephone dialling codes for Africa generally begin with what number?
9. What word for a monstrously large creature or organization derives from the original Egyptian meaning of 'water-ox', and more specifically, probably the hippopotamus?
10. Which UK government ex-minister referred to himself as a "cab for hire" when secretly filmed attempting to sell his capability to influence government policy?
11. Oxford Boat Race squad twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss became multi-millionaires after a court battle with what website that they claimed stole their idea?
12. What is two-thirds of five-eighths?
13. The UK company, Banbury Postiche, is famous for making which items that are worn on the body?
14. What traditional leatherworking tools became cockney rhyming slang for testicles?
15. How many horns does the British minotaur dung beetle have?
16. In which country did a military coup overthrow president Juan Peron in 1955?
17. Whose memoir was re-titled 'A Journey' shortly before its Autumn 2010 publication, because apparently the publishers were concerned that the author's chosen title 'The Journey' might seem too 'messianic' and arrogant?
18. The United States Bullion Depository in Kentucky was formerly known by what name, which has become a metaphorical reference for an impregnable building?
19. What number is a hurricane-force storm on the conventional Beaufort Wind Force Scale?
20. Globo Esporte, which carried the headline 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA' following Argentina's 4-0 defeat by Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is a newspaper in which country?
21. What is the vivid blue semi-percious stone, historically mined in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and prized by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans?
22. Cape Wrath is on the coast of which country?
23. A 'bible bump' is an old colloquial term for what medical condition?
24. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) was more commonly known as whom?
25. What element, whose symbol derives from its Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watery silver, melts at minus 38.83 °C and yet boils at 356.73 °C ?
26. What would a person normally do with perique?
27. What is the traditional name of the woven tape used in dressmaking or millinery for stiffening fabric?
28. If under consistently fair conditions, a tossed coin lands heads upwards twice in succession, what are the strict theoretical mathematical chances that the next toss will land tails upwards?
29. In Richard Sheridan's 1770s play The Rivals what appropriately named character is noted for her amusing misuse of words?
30. What US state's capital city is named after gold prospector Joseph Juneau (1836-99)?
31. Who was the first female presenter on UK TV's Top of The Pops, who made only one appearance in 1982 to celebrate BBC Radio One's 15th birthday?
32. In boxing what does RSC stand for?
33. What colourless odourless liquid, E number E422, is used in foods as a sweetener, thickener and humectant (to maintain moistness)?
34. The Galapagos Islands lie in which body of water?
35. In Scrabble what points value is a letter K tile?
36. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is in which country?
37. What is a small lift called which carries food and other goods between floors in a building?
38. UK politicians David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, known as The Gang of Four, defected from the Labour Party in 1981 to form which party?
39. What is the main stock market index of Hong Kong?
40. Name the sportsman who replaced 'Scotty', breaking a relationship enduring over 10 years and 72 victories including several world championships - and what/who is Scotty?

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2. cattle
4. Israel
5. Formic
7. Digit, Palm, Span, Cubit
9. Behemoth
11. Facebook
12. 5/12
14. Awls (cobblers awls)
16. Argentina
18. Fort Knox
19. 12
24. The Queen Mother
25. Mercury
30. Alaska
34. pacific
36. Spain?
37. Dumbwaiter (sometimes the ones that come to your table are too!)
39. Hang Seng

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You mean yopu knew exactly the same ones? Now there's a coincidence! Has anyone ever seen both of us at the same time?

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Yes, your white van has....

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Shhhhhh

I think the suspension is knackered now

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because 1BB already answered all the ones i actually knew...

6. im guessing free
15. got to be 2, right?

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1BB gets full marks for the answered questions.

Doc, I'm afraid, has 2 wrong.

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as long as your ignition still works...

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thats what i get for guessing

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20. Brazil?
28. Fifty-Fifty?
29. Mistress Malaprop
31. Annie Nightingale?
38. The SDP

Very good. All correct.

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Shhhhh, don't mention it

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Took me a while to think of this

32. Referee stops contest.

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33. Glycerine?

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How did you get in this week?


1. Whose unemployment benefits records from 1963-4 referring to "...Mr Woodward's amateur singing interests and flamboyant dress..." were auctioned in 2010? Tom Jones
2. Neat, kine, and beeves are old collective words for what? Cattle
3. Ben Drew achieved a 2010 number one album fronting which band? Plan B
4. Ehud Barak succeeded Binyamin Netanyahu as prime minister of which country in 1999? Israel
5. What acid occurs naturally in bee and ant venom? Formic acid
6. Wiki means what in Hawaiian: Free; Quick; Easy; or Knowledge? Quick
7. Put these ancient body units of length in order, smallest to biggest: Span Palm Cubit Digit? Digit, Palm, Span, Cubit (basically, a digit was a fingerwidth, a palm was four of these, a span was three palms or twelve digits, and a cubit was the forearm or the forearm including the outstretched hand, anything between 6-9 palms or 24-36 digits, depending on the country/era/interpretation)
8. International telephone dialling codes for Africa generally begin with what number? 2
9. What word for a monstrously large creature or organization derives from the original Egyptian meaning of 'water-ox', and more specifically, probably the hippopotamus? Behemoth (the original Egyptian word was pe-ehe-mau)
10. Which UK government ex-minister referred to himself as a "cab for hire" when secretly filmed attempting to sell his capability to influence government policy? Stephen Byers
11. Oxford Boat Race squad twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss became multi-millionaires after a court battle with what website that they claimed stole their idea? Facebook
12. What is two-thirds of five-eighths? Five-twelfths (or 0.41666666... etc, or recurring or repeating, to use the technical terms)
13. The UK company, Banbury Postiche, is famous for making which items that are worn on the body? Wigs
14. What traditional leatherworking tools became cockney rhyming slang for testicles? Cobblers awls (cobblers = balls - see cockney rhyming slang - an awl is a piercing tool)
15. How many horns does the British minotaur dung beetle have? Three
16. In which country did a military coup overthrow president Juan Peron in 1955? Argentina
17. Whose memoir was re-titled 'A Journey' shortly before its Autumn 2010 publication, because apparently the publishers were concerned that the author's chosen title 'The Journey' might seem too 'messianic' and arrogant? Tony Blair
18. The United States Bullion Depository in Kentucky was formerly known by what name, which has become a metaphorical reference for an impregnable building? Fort Knox
19. What number is a hurricane-force storm on the conventional Beaufort Wind Force Scale? 12 (see the weather and climate quizballs 38)
20. Globo Esporte, which carried the headline 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHA' following Argentina's 4-0 defeat by Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is a newspaper in which country? Brazil
21. What is the vivid blue semi-percious stone, historically mined in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province and prized by the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Greeks and Romans? Lapis lazuli
22. Cape Wrath is on the coast of which country? Scotland (interestingly, apparently the only place in the northern hemisphere where all British armed forces train together)
23. A 'bible bump' is an old colloquial term for what medical condition? A ganglion cyst (a swelling on or around tendons of the hand or wrist - it was believed that hitting such a cyst with a bible would cause it to disperse)
24. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002) was more commonly known as whom? The Queen Mother (or Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother - wife George VI, and mother of Elizabeth II)
25. What element, whose symbol derives from its Greek name hydrargyrum, meaning watery silver, melts at minus 38.83 °C and yet boils at 356.73 °C ? Mercury (symbol Hg)
26. What would a person normally do with perique? Smoke it (usually in a pipe - it's a strong flavoured high quality black tobacco grown in Louisiana USA)
27. What is the traditional name of the woven tape used in dressmaking or millinery for stiffening fabric? Petersham
28. If under consistently fair conditions, a tossed coin lands heads upwards twice in succession, what are the strict theoretical mathematical chances that the next toss will land tails upwards? One-in-two (or 50%, just as theoretically it would be after any number of consecutive heads)
29. In Richard Sheridan's 1770s play The Rivals what appropriately named character is noted for her amusing misuse of words? Mrs Malaprop (a malapropism - from the French phrase mal à propos, meaning ill-suited - is a mistaken and usually funny word or expression, for example "It's great to be back on terracotta.." attributed to John Prescott, and Del Boy from TV's Only Fools and Horses)
30. What US state's capital city is named after gold prospector Joseph Juneau (1836-99)? Alaska (Juneau)
31. Who was the first female presenter on UK TV's Top of The Pops, who made only one appearance in 1982 to celebrate BBC Radio One's 15th birthday? Annie Nightingale
32. In boxing what does RSC stand for? Referee Stopped Contest
33. What colourless odourless liquid, E number E422, is used in foods as a sweetener, thickener and humectant (to maintain moistness)? Glycerol (or glycerine or glycerin)
34. The Galapagos Islands lie in which body of water? Pacific Ocean
35. In Scrabble what points value is a letter K tile? Five
36. The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is in which country? Spain (Galicia)
37. What is a small lift called which carries food and other goods between floors in a building? Dumbwaiter
38. UK politicians David Owen, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers, known as The Gang of Four, defected from the Labour Party in 1981 to form which party? Social Democratic Party
39. What is the main stock market index of Hong Kong? Hang Seng Index
40. Name the sportsman who replaced 'Scotty', breaking a relationship enduring over 10 years and 72 victories including several world championships - and what/who is Scotty? Tiger Woods - his putter

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40...TW has used his putter successfully on plenty of holes...

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More questions for you.

1. What board game name is the Latin word meaning 'I play' ?
2. What is the cube root of 8000 (eight thousand)?
3. Potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur (sulfur, US-English) are the traditional ingredients of what substance?
4. A heptad is a group or set of how many?
5. What is the international telephone dialling code for Germany?
6. A narthex is part of which type of building?
7. What is the corolla of a flower commonly known as?
8. For what is www.letour.fr the official website?
9. What make of Wellington boots did Samantha Cameron buy President Obama's children for the 2010 British Prime Ministerial visit to the USA?
10. Name the refugee camp near Calais close to the French side of the Chanel Tunnel?
11. A sequence of numbers beginning 0, 1, in which each number is the sum of the previous two numbers is named after what Italian mathematician who devised the system?
12. A nanosecond equates to what fraction of a second?
13. Fines of £5.3m, criticized as paltry and insulting, were imposed on Shell, Total and BP, five years after the huge 2005 explosion and fire at what UK oil storage depot?
14. Angelos Epithemiou ex-burger-van proprietor, replaced what quirky drumming baby character on a popular UK TV comedy quiz show?
15. Name the UK budget holiday company specialising in Turkey and Greece which went bust in July 2010?
16. If an atom were the size of a football pitch its nucleus would be approximately the size of a: Zeppelin; Olympic swimming pool; Squash court; or Football?
17. What is the name of the trimmed tree trunk tossed in competition in the Highland Games?
18. Who wrote the poem 'Jabberwocky', which originally featured in one of his novels?
19. Arrange these notes according to normal violin tuning, highest to lowest: D A G E ?
20. The mnemonic 'Heaven Never Asked Kriegspiel's Extra Rent' helps people remember what chemical group of six elements - and what are they?
21. In July 2010 Amazon announced that their quarterly volume sales of digital books (ebooks) had exceeded their sales of what in the US for the first time?
22. A philtre (in US-English, philter) - pronounced 'filter' - is a potion for what?
23. Which type of clay takes its name from the Italian for 'baked earth'?
24. In rugby union, which position is known only by the number on the shirt?
25. The Canadian city of Montreal lies on which river?
26. Who or what is Laura Chinchilla?
27. Wenlock and Mandeville were the mascots of which sporting event?
28. Israel Zangwill wrote the 1892 novel 'Children of the ...' what, depicting Jewish life in London?
29. Who succeeded John Major as leader of the UK Conservative Party in 1997?
30. The avocado fruit is named after which part of the body?

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4. 70?
8. Tour de France
9. Hunter?
12. Fibonacci
12. Billionth
13. Buncefield
16. football?
17. cabre
20. Noble Gasses
23. earthenware?
24. 8
27. London Olympics and Paralympic Games
29. William Hague?

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PK was up early

1. Ludo
2. 20
3. Gunpowder
5. +49
6. Church
7. Petals
8. Tour De France
9. Hunter
10. Sangatte (now The Jungle)
12. Millionth?
13. Hemel Hempstead (I think PK has the correct name)
14. Shooting Stars (repaced George Dawes)16. Football
16. Football
17. Caber (although there's probably a lot of tossing goes on at other times too )
18. Lewis Carroll
20. Noble gasses Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Rayon
21. Books
23. Terracotta
25. St Lawrence
27. 2012 Olympics
29. William Hague
30. Oh bollox, I'm trying to remember

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Not bad at all.

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Good work, 1BB

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12. Millionth? see PK's answer

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