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 Post subject: Re: Weekend Quiz 2016
PostPosted: March 5th, 2016, 12:07 pm 
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1. Seville
3.Sarajevo
4.Carmen
6. Dido
7. Dandelion
12. Herman, Morticia & co :spider2:
14 Star
15. Scimitar
16. Sadlers Wells
17. Greece (bet they wish they'd krpt it )
19. Microsoft?
22. Artemis
23. Burma
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:fp: 7. I thought Fendelion was too obvious :)

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8. Hamlet
12. The Munsters
22. Artemis

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Well done everyone.


1. What Andalusian city gave its name to a bitter orange used especially in marmalade? Seville
2. What famous headwear and safety harness brand was devised from the original raw materials silk, angora and wool? Kangol
3. Which once war-torn Balkan capital city has a world-leading human DNA analysis laboratory? Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina capital - the laboratory expertise and scale grew from the aftermath of the 1992-5 Bosnian War)
4. Georges Bizet devised the word 'toreador' for what opera? Carmen (based on the Spanish term torero, it refers to the main bullfighter, matador de toros, killer of bulls)
5. What is a remark, act, or chess move seeking advantage, from Italian for trip-up, and leg? Gambit (from gambett, trip-up, and gamba, leg)
6. Which big-selling artist 1999-2003 shares her name with the founding Queen of Carthage? Dido
7. What edible weed is named from 'lion's tooth'? Dandelion (French, dent-de-lion)
8. Disney's Lion King movie/musical is generally said to be based on what Shakespeare play? Hamlet
9. What is the UK's most senior royal palace and official residence of the monarch? St James's Palace
10. What instrument is sized according to terms such as 0, 00, 000, Grand Auditorium and Dreadnought? Guitar (acoustic)
11. What 1930s-originating genericized trademark came to refer to 'piped' background recorded music played in elevators, reception areas, airports, etc? Muzak
12. Which fictional family lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, California? The Munsters
13. Name the chemical separation process in which electricity passes through a conducting substance between two electrodes? Electrolysis
14. What shape is the highest US military award, the Medal of Honor? Star
15. The Persian shamsher, 'paw claw', inspired what name/weapon, also a 1970s sports car by the makers of the Robin and Bond Bug? Scimitar
16. What London medicinal water site, later a music hall, was the birthplace of the Royal Ballet and English National Opera? Sadler's Wells (after the founder of the original medicinal water business, Sadler)
17. The Drachma was which nation's main currency unit before the Euro in 2002? Greece
18. Which popular UK stop-motion animated children's TV character based at Fixham was given a CGI update in 2014? Bob the Builder
19. Satya Nadella, boss of which vast corporation, apologised in 2014 for suggesting female workers should rely on faith and karma instead of asking for a pay rise? Microsoft
20. Historically, malmsey wine came from what nation and its surrounding islands? Greece (the name derives via French from Monemvasia, a port town of the Peloponnese, Greece)
21. Pioneering collaborative UK/Poland surgery to repair human spinal cord was demonstrated in 2014 using what uniquely regenerating human nerve cells? Olfactory (or smell is an acceptable answer)
22. Equating to Roman goddess Diana, name Apollo's huntress chaste twin sister, also ironically a 600-customer Berlin brothel? Artemis
23. The Union of Myanmar, capital Rangoon, is traditionally (in the 'west') called what country? Burma
24. In the 1850s, what was produced using the 'open-hearth process'? Steel
25. Bullace is a thorny shrub with fruit similar what? Plum (or damson)

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Some more questions for you.


1. In Scrabble what's the only conventional English number whose spelling is its score (without bonus points)?
2. What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900?
3. Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element?
4. What two official Roman ceremonies were awarded to generals of battle victories, major and minor, which have bcome common words meaning respectively achievement, and audience appreciation?
5. What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form?
6. Common in Middle East and North Africa, what is a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc)?
7. What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979?
8. Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)?
9. Which two organic stimulants formed the basis of the original Coca-Cola drink?
10. What genericized brand, registered 1909, refers to a horn alarm, derived from onomatopoeaic Greek for making a loud sound?
11. The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport?
12. Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014?
13. What is the unit of measurement for a chemical element's combining power with other atoms to form compounds/molecules?
14. Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body?
15. Which country's coins featured images of salmon, bull, red deer, woodcock and hunter, before replacement by the Euro?
16. Cantaluppi near Rome is noted for introducing which orange food to Europe from Armenia?
17. 'Suspiral' - a waste storage/drainage invention in the 1600s - evolved into what better known term/concept?
18. What expression means: rob, support, delay, and show?
19. What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'?
20. Name the 1879-founded magazine, and religion, with reputedly the highest international circulation of any monthly printed publication (two answers required)?

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7. BIC?
8. Cocaine and :think:
11. Cricket
20. Jehovah Witness and The Watch Tower?

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3. carbon
16. cantaloupe

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2. K-Mart?
3. Carbon
4. Triumph and Ovation?
6. A market place/bazaar
7. Tipp-ex
9. Cocaine and caffeine
12. Brazil
14. Neck
15. Republic of Ireland
16. Cantaloupe (melons)
17. Cess pit
18. Hold up
19. Acapella

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8. Cocaine and :think:
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8. Cocaine and :think:
Is Pasty answering the question before again? :pcsun:
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10. Klaxon?

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7. BIC?
8. Cocaine and :think: :yes: and See 1BB's answer below
11. Cricket :yes:
20. Jehovah Witness and The Watch Tower? :yes:
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3. carbon :yes:
16. cantaloupe :yes:
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2. K-Mart? :yes:
3. Carbon :yes:
4. Triumph and Ovation? :yes: and :yes:
6. A market place/bazaar :yes:
7. Tipp-ex :no: Close, though.
9. Cocaine and caffeine :yes: and :yes:
12. Brazil :yes:
14. Neck :yes:
15. Republic of Ireland :yes:
16. Cantaloupe (melons) :yes:
17. Cess pit :yes:
18. Hold up :yes:
19. Acapella :yes:
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10. Klaxon? :yes:
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7. If not Tipp-ex, I'm certain it was some sort of correction fluid :shock:

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And the answers are:

1. In Scrabble what's the only conventional English number whose spelling is its score (without bonus points)? Twelve
2. What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900? K-Mart
3. Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element? Carbon
4. What two official Roman ceremonies were awarded to generals of battle victories, major and minor, which have bcome common words meaning respectively achievement, and audience appreciation? Triumph and Ovation (originally Latin, triumphus and ovatio)
5. What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form? Vermouth (from 'wermut', via French)
6. Common in Middle East and North Africa, what is a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc)? Marketplace
7. What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979? Liquid Paper (or less accurately, 'correction fluid', or equivalent)
8. Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)? Esperanto (the world's most successful artificial constructed international language)
9. Which two organic stimulants formed the basis of the original Coca-Cola drink? Cocaine (from the coca leaf) and Caffeine (from the cola nut)
10. What genericized brand, registered 1909, refers to a horn alarm, derived from onomatopoeaic Greek for making a loud sound? Klaxon (from klaxein - similar to English clang)
11. The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport? Cricket (a lower-order batsman brought into bat at the end of a day, so as not to expose a higher-order batsman to poor light, tiredness, etc)
12. Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014? Brazil
13. What is the unit of measurement for a chemical element's combining power with other atoms to form compounds/molecules? Valence or Valency (which produces the numbers alongside the letter symbols in chemical formulae)
14. Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body? Neck (hence collar)
15. Which country's coins featured images of salmon, bull, red deer, woodcock and hunter, before replacement by the Euro? Ireland
16. Cantaluppi near Rome is noted for introducing which orange food to Europe from Armenia? Melon (or specifically the Cantaloupe melon, hence its name)
17. 'Suspiral' - a waste storage/drainage invention in the 1600s - evolved into what better known term/concept? Cesspool (or by extension, Cesspit)
18. What expression means: rob, support, delay, and show? Hold up
19. What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'? A Cappella (voices only, without instruments)
20. Name the 1879-founded magazine, and religion, with reputedly the highest international circulation of any monthly printed publication (two answers required)? The Watchtower published by Jehova's Winesses (2000s distribution exceeded 50million copies/mth)

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And the answers are:

1. In Scrabble what's the only conventional English number whose spelling is its score (without bonus points)? Twelve
2. What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900? K-Mart
3. Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element? Carbon
4. What two official Roman ceremonies were awarded to generals of battle victories, major and minor, which have bcome common words meaning respectively achievement, and audience appreciation? Triumph and Ovation (originally Latin, triumphus and ovatio)
5. What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form? Vermouth (from 'wermut', via French)
6. Common in Middle East and North Africa, what is a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc)? Marketplace
7. What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979? Liquid Paper (or less accurately, 'correction fluid', or equivalent)
8. Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)? Esperanto (the world's most successful artificial constructed international language)
9. Which two organic stimulants formed the basis of the original Coca-Cola drink? Cocaine (from the coca leaf) and Caffeine (from the cola nut)
10. What genericized brand, registered 1909, refers to a horn alarm, derived from onomatopoeaic Greek for making a loud sound? Klaxon (from klaxein - similar to English clang)
11. The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport? Cricket (a lower-order batsman brought into bat at the end of a day, so as not to expose a higher-order batsman to poor light, tiredness, etc)
12. Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014? Brazil
13. What is the unit of measurement for a chemical element's combining power with other atoms to form compounds/molecules? Valence or Valency (which produces the numbers alongside the letter symbols in chemical formulae)
14. Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body? Neck (hence collar)
15. Which country's coins featured images of salmon, bull, red deer, woodcock and hunter, before replacement by the Euro? Ireland
16. Cantaluppi near Rome is noted for introducing which orange food to Europe from Armenia? Melon (or specifically the Cantaloupe melon, hence its name)
17. 'Suspiral' - a waste storage/drainage invention in the 1600s - evolved into what better known term/concept? Cesspool (or by extension, Cesspit)
18. What expression means: rob, support, delay, and show? Hold up
19. What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'? A Cappella (voices only, without instruments)
20. Name the 1879-founded magazine, and religion, with reputedly the highest international circulation of any monthly printed publication (two answers required)? The Watchtower published by Jehova's Winesses (2000s distribution exceeded 50million copies/mth)

15. :shock: Did they use our forum smileys on their coins? :fishfry: :mechbull: :deer2: :stiffy: :deer:
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And the answers are:

1. In Scrabble what's the only conventional English number whose spelling is its score (without bonus points)? Twelve
2. What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900? K-Mart
3. Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element? Carbon
4. What two official Roman ceremonies were awarded to generals of battle victories, major and minor, which have bcome common words meaning respectively achievement, and audience appreciation? Triumph and Ovation (originally Latin, triumphus and ovatio)
5. What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form? Vermouth (from 'wermut', via French)
6. Common in Middle East and North Africa, what is a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc)? Marketplace
7. What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979? Liquid Paper (or less accurately, 'correction fluid', or equivalent)
8. Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)? Esperanto (the world's most successful artificial constructed international language)
9. Which two organic stimulants formed the basis of the original Coca-Cola drink? Cocaine (from the coca leaf) and Caffeine (from the cola nut)
10. What genericized brand, registered 1909, refers to a horn alarm, derived from onomatopoeaic Greek for making a loud sound? Klaxon (from klaxein - similar to English clang)
11. The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport? Cricket (a lower-order batsman brought into bat at the end of a day, so as not to expose a higher-order batsman to poor light, tiredness, etc)
12. Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014? Brazil
13. What is the unit of measurement for a chemical element's combining power with other atoms to form compounds/molecules? Valence or Valency (which produces the numbers alongside the letter symbols in chemical formulae)
14. Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body? Neck (hence collar)
15. Which country's coins featured images of salmon, bull, red deer, woodcock and hunter, before replacement by the Euro? Ireland
16. Cantaluppi near Rome is noted for introducing which orange food to Europe from Armenia? Melon (or specifically the Cantaloupe melon, hence its name)
17. 'Suspiral' - a waste storage/drainage invention in the 1600s - evolved into what better known term/concept? Cesspool (or by extension, Cesspit)
18. What expression means: rob, support, delay, and show? Hold up
19. What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'? A Cappella (voices only, without instruments)
20. Name the 1879-founded magazine, and religion, with reputedly the highest international circulation of any monthly printed publication (two answers required)? The Watchtower published by Jehova's Winesses (2000s distribution exceeded 50million copies/mth)

15. :shock: Did they use our forum smileys on their coins? :fishfry: :mechbull: :deer2: :stiffy: :deer:
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And the answers are:

1. In Scrabble what's the only conventional English number whose spelling is its score (without bonus points)? Twelve
2. What slightly eponymously US discount store brand/corporation was founded by Farmer's son Sebastian Kresge c.1900? K-Mart
3. Atomic weight is expressed/measured to a standard based on the common isotope (12) of which element? Carbon
4. What two official Roman ceremonies were awarded to generals of battle victories, major and minor, which have bcome common words meaning respectively achievement, and audience appreciation? Triumph and Ovation (originally Latin, triumphus and ovatio)
5. What type of aperitif is named from German 'wormwood', the additive in the original medicinal form? Vermouth (from 'wermut', via French)
6. Common in Middle East and North Africa, what is a souq (also souk, shuk, suk, sooq, suq, etc)? Marketplace
7. What popular office product/brand did Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith) invent and later sell to Gillette for nearly $50m in 1979? Liquid Paper (or less accurately, 'correction fluid', or equivalent)
8. Ido is the relatively unpopular improved version of what, first devised by Polish physician Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917)? Esperanto (the world's most successful artificial constructed international language)
9. Which two organic stimulants formed the basis of the original Coca-Cola drink? Cocaine (from the coca leaf) and Caffeine (from the cola nut)
10. What genericized brand, registered 1909, refers to a horn alarm, derived from onomatopoeaic Greek for making a loud sound? Klaxon (from klaxein - similar to English clang)
11. The term and tactical use of a 'nightwatchman' arises in which sport? Cricket (a lower-order batsman brought into bat at the end of a day, so as not to expose a higher-order batsman to poor light, tiredness, etc)
12. Which 'BRIC' country re-elected female president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party, 2014? Brazil
13. What is the unit of measurement for a chemical element's combining power with other atoms to form compounds/molecules? Valence or Valency (which produces the numbers alongside the letter symbols in chemical formulae)
14. Latin 'collum' refers to which part of the human body? Neck (hence collar)
15. Which country's coins featured images of salmon, bull, red deer, woodcock and hunter, before replacement by the Euro? Ireland
16. Cantaluppi near Rome is noted for introducing which orange food to Europe from Armenia? Melon (or specifically the Cantaloupe melon, hence its name)
17. 'Suspiral' - a waste storage/drainage invention in the 1600s - evolved into what better known term/concept? Cesspool (or by extension, Cesspit)
18. What expression means: rob, support, delay, and show? Hold up
19. What vocal musical term means literally 'in the style of the church/chapel'? A Cappella (voices only, without instruments)
20. Name the 1879-founded magazine, and religion, with reputedly the highest international circulation of any monthly printed publication (two answers required)? The Watchtower published by Jehova's Winesses (2000s distribution exceeded 50million copies/mth)

15. :shock: Did they use our forum smileys on their coins? :fishfry: :mechbull: :deer2: :stiffy: :deer:
:pbank: :gold1:

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Something to exercise the little grey cells.

1. The ischium, related to 'sciatic', is the lower part of which human bone?
2. Sound reflected back within c.50 milliseconds is technically called what, commonly abbreviated as a sound production effect?
3. Glycyrrhizin, from the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant, used in medicine, is more generally known for the distinctive sweet characteristic of what confection, famously produced (among other varieties/sources) in Pontefract, W Yorkshire?
4. Name Bette Midler's early-career pianist and co-producer of The Divine Miss M debut album, who became a major star in his own right?
5. What controversial process uses a 'proppant' with 'slickwater' or gel/foam including additives such as hydrochloric acid, guar gum, radioactive tracers?
6. Name the mothership and lander craft which achieved the first ever comet landing, on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014?
7. The words lyceum and academy referred originally to the garden 'schools' of respectively which two great seminal thinkers?
8. Built 1723-25, the famous Spanish Steps are in which capital city?
9. Harvard and MIT universities are in which Massachusetts city, named after a famous English university/city?
10. What old Japanese battle cry and emperor greeting means 'ten thousand years of life (to you)'?
11. The award of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to which country prompted international concerns about corruption and related FIFA investigation and governance?
12. 'Picaboo' was the 2011 launch name of what popular online application, whose logo is based on Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan?
13. What root vegetable, Pastinaca sativa, was used in Europe as a sweetener before cane sugar and sugar beet?
14. Messina, founded by ancient Greeks, site of a 1908 seismic disaster, is the main port of which island?
15. The last Russian monarchy, ended by the 1917 revolution, was the House of what?
16. What means throw and vomit, is a term of endearment, and a radial clamp?
17. Name Finnish writer Tove Jansson's Hippo-like children's character franchise, originally in Swedish books 1945-93, TV/film and the popular '(What?) World' theme park in Naantali, Finland?
18. The traditional English exclamation 'Strewth' is an 1800s abbreviated form of what older expression?
19. Who announced in 2014 intention to sue the BBC for privacy breach, in broadcasting a police raid on his home?
20. Althaea officinalis, an ancient African medicinal plant and sugar sweet ingredient, is commonly known as (What popular confection)?
21. The old British 'threepenny bit', the Australian 50c (1969-2000s), and the 2017 redesigned British £1 coin each have how many sides (not including the two faces)?
22. Under standard conditions, what is the lightest and least dense of all metallic elements?
23. Lanugo, vellex and terminal refer to what on the human body at different life stages?
24. What Italian originating pasta is most popularly consumed in 'elbow' variety in US/Canada?
25. Planchets, flans and blanks are synonyms for pieces of metal used to make what?

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