Pub Quiz No. 84

[Carl]

• 1. Who composed the opera La Traviata ?

• 2. Which La Liga football club in the 2023/2024 season became the first in the world to register €1bn in revenue in a single season ?

• 3. Which group released the 1979 single I Don't Like Mondays ?

• 4. Which British TV series stars Ricky Gervais as the head of feature stories at the Tambury Gazette ?

• 5. The markhor and the ibex are examples of what ruminant mammal ?

• 6. What do the initials stand for in the name of musician B.B. King ?

• 7. What is the U.S. Government equivalent of foreign secretary ?

• 8. Which French novelist wrote the first World Theatre Day message, which was read out in auditoria around the globe on March 27, 1962 ?

• 9. What is the capital of Costa Rica ?

• 10. What is the thickest and most powerful tendon in the human body ?

• 11. A tiny box has a length three times its height, which is three times its width. If its volume is 216 cubic millimetres, what is the length of the box ?

• 12. What connects eagle, football and revolution ?

• 13. Which British composer may have written a CALAMINE HYMN (anagram) ?

• 14. Which is the odd one out: Timmy, Abigail, Nuts, Shaun ?

• 15. Starting with I, add a letter and shuffle to make a new word each time until you reach IMPERSONAL

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

[stowie39]

3. Boomtown Rats

[gail]

5. Goat

[Carl]

ANSWERS

1. Guiseppe Verdi
2. Real Madrid
3. Boomtown Rats
4. After Life
5. Goat
6. Blues Boy
7. Secretary of state
8. Jean Cocteau
9. San Jose
10. Achilles tendon
11. 18 millimetres
12. They may all be American
13. Michael Nyman
14. Abigail; the others appear in Shaun the Sheep
15. One way is:
I
In
Nil
Nail
Alien
Menial
Seminal
Semolina
Normalise
Impersonal