Pub Quiz No. 73

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Pub Quiz No. 73

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  • 1. A Mae West is an example of what safety garment ?
  • 2. Born on the 30 January 1925, Douglas Engelbart is widely credited as the inventor of what computer input device ?
  • 3. Which 13th century poet composed the Masnavi, widely regarded as one of the greatest poems in the Persian language ?
  • 4. Cassiterite is an ore of which metal ?
  • 5. Teacher Vicky started the day with the same number of reports to write as her colleague Rob. If, at the end of the day, Vicky had written two-fifths of her reports, while Rob had written only a quarter of his, and the difference between the remaining numbers of reports was 45, how many reports did Vicky write ?
  • 6. What connects awe, hand and win ?
  • 7. Which TV detective may have been a VENOMOUS READER (anagram) ?
  • 8. Which is the odd one out: Rankine, Kelvin, Mohs, Celsius ?
  • 9. Starting with A, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach DEGENERATE
  • 10. Which planet in our solar system is named after the Roman messenger of the gods ?
  • 11. What nationality was the artist Edvard Munch ?
  • 12. Which Commonwealth country celebrates Waitangi Day on 6 February ?
  • 13. Which Egyptian queen was a mistress of Julius Caesar ?
  • 14. Which group had a hit single in 1980 with the song Don't Stand So Close To Me ?
  • 15. How many U.S. states have names beginning with the letter O ?

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1. Floatation aid
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2 Mouse
5 120
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12. New Zealand
14. Police
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6 Some
10 Mercury
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4 Tin
7 Endevour Morse
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13 Cleopatra
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ANSWERS

1. Life jacket
2. Mouse
3. Rumi
4. Tin
5. 120
6. They all form new words with the suffix -some (awesome, handsome, winsome)
7. Endeavour Morse
8. Mohs, the scale of mineral hardness; the others are temperature scales
9. One way is:
A
An
Ran
Near
Range
Danger
Enraged
Renegade
Generated
Degenerate
10. Mercury
11. Norwegian
12. New Zealand
13. Cleopatra
14. The Police
15. 3

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