Pub Quiz No. 99

[Carl]

• 1. What connects pat, rub and salmon ?

• 2. Which sculptor may stay at ANTARCTIC BOSUN'S INN (anagram) ?

• 3. Which is the odd one out: teak, pine, ash, oak ?

• 4. Starting with the letter A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach ENDEARING

• 5. What is the capital of Jordan ?

• 6. Which element is used in nuclear reactors ?

• 7. Who won the men's singles at Wimbledon in 2013 ?

• 8. What vowel does not appear in any number under a thousand ?

• 9. Which UK town hosts the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships ?

• 10. Which unit of pressure is equal to 100,000 newtons per square metre ?

• 11. Author Louis L'Amour is chiefly associated with which genre of books ?

• 12. Who was the premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missle Crisis ?

• 13. A statue of which peace campaigner, who camped in London's Parliament Square from 2001 to 2011, was unveiled in 2025 opposite London's Imperial War Museum ?

• 14. Castries is the capital city of which Caribbean island ?

• 15. Belonging to the genus Pithecia, what sort of animal is a saki ?

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

[Carl]

ANSWERS

1. They all form new words with the suffix -ella (patella, rubella, salmonella)
2. Constantin Brancusi
3. Pine; the others are hardwoods
4. One way is:
A
An
Ran
Rang
Range
Danger
Grenade
Regained
Endearing
5. Amman
6. Uranium
7. Andy Murray
8. A
9. Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester
10. Bar
11. Western
12. Nikita Khrushchev
13. Brian Haw
14. St Lucia
15. Monkey