Pub Quiz No. 54

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Pub Quiz No. 54

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  • 1. Which creature has the longest tail of all land mammals ?
  • 2. From which country is Blue Mountain coffee ?
  • 3. The controversial British 1992 Halloween mockumentary Ghostwatch was presented by Sarah Greene and which veteran TV host ?
  • 4. What was the former name of Sri Lanka ?
  • 5. In Greek mythology, what type of creature killed Adonis ?
  • 6. Which 1967 film stars Sean Connery as James Bond and Donald Pleasence as Blofeld ?
  • 7. Which Spanish singer topped the UK singles chart in 1981 with Begin The Beguine ?
  • 8. A medieval jester named Timothy Claypole was a character in which children's comedy TV series ?
  • 9. Which two English cricketers have scored more than 12,000 runs in Test cricket ?
  • 10. Which South Korean author, whose works include The Vegetarian, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature ?
  • 11. Marc Chagall's 1950 painting La Mariee (The Bride) features what type of animal playing a cello ?
  • 12. Bark, striped-tail and desert hairy are types of which stinging arachnid ?
  • 13. Which chemical element was discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in samples of platinum ore and named after an asteroid ?
  • 14. What is the meaning of the word hibernal ?
    A. Drowsy
    B. Plump
    C. Wintry
  • 15. Which river flows through the towns of Maidstone, Tonbridge and Rochester ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

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2 Jamaica
7 Julio Iglesias
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4. Ceylon
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8 Rentaghost
11 A goat
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12 Scorpion
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ANSWERS

1. Giraffe
2. Jamaica
3. Michael Parkinson
4. Ceylon
5. Wild boar
6. You Only Live Twice
7. Julio Iglesias
8. Rentaghost
9. Alastair Cook and Joe Root
10. Han Kang
11. Goat
12. Scorpion
13. Palladium
14. C. Wintry
15. River Medway

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