Re: Wigan Peers Friday Night Pub Quiz 15-5-20

by ramiejamie Sat 16 May 2020, 1:50 pm

Gassey, I think the answer is LITTORAL

L + IT + ORAL (examination)

The definition of littoral is.of or relating to the shore of a lake or sea.

by ramiejamie Sat 16 May 2020, 1:57 pm

jo anne wrote:Evening, Ray & thanks
1) Cyndi Lauper
2) costa del sol
3) warren Mitchel
4)
5) Mormons
6) mushrooms
7)
8 )
9) 4
10) angles
11) west side story
12) Peru
13) Beatrix potter
14)
15) rain man
16)
17) ub40
18) 144
19) Handel
20) hundred years war
21) haricot
22) New Zealand
23) Jamaica inn
24)
25) windmills of my mind

BQ1)
BQ2) wet wet wet
BQ3) Pete best
BQ4)
BQ5) sex pistols
STINKER) iambic
TRICKY) joule

Good afternoon Jo Anne.
It was a little late to mark you last night.
What a cracking bit of quizzing you did, very well done indeed.

by gassey Sat 16 May 2020, 2:04 pm

Thanks Ray, Yed floating back to normality now Very Happy

by gassey Sat 16 May 2020, 2:51 pm

Spot on Ray ,
I'd spelled honAlulu with an A instead of honOlulu Shocked

by ramiejamie Sat 16 May 2020, 3:48 pm

gassey wrote: Spot on Ray ,
I'd spelled honAlulu with an A instead of honOlulu

Gassey, to be honest, I think I would've spelled it the way you first did.

by ramiejamie Sat 16 May 2020, 3:53 pm

I'm a little late with the answers today, I've been asleep all morning and been for a walk down to Hindley Cemetery this arvo.

Very well quizzed last night everybody.

Wigan Peers Friday Night Pub Quiz Answers 15-5-20

1) Which female singer had a 1983 hit with “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
Cindi Lauper

2) Geography, on which Spanish Costa is Torremolinos?
Costa Del Sol

3) TV, who played Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part?
Warren Mitchell

4) Film, Which 1972 film starring Burt Reynolds and John Voight featured the music called “Dueling Banjos”?
     Deliverance

5) Followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are more commonly known by what single-word name?
      Mormons

6) Food and drink, what are “Champignons”?
   Mushrooms

7) Science, Parkesine and Bakelite are early examples of what?
     Plastic

8 ) Which European car maker produces the popular family car ‘Octavia’ model?
    Skoda

9) Sport, how many points for the brown ball in snooker
   Four

10) History, which ancient Germanic tribe gave the country of England and the English people their name?
            Angles

11) ) From what 1961 film musical does the song “I Feel Pretty” come?
West Side Story

12) Which country does Paddington Bear come from?
   Peru

13) Literature, who was the author of the children’s book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”?
Beatrix Potter

14) Which political party's name literally translates into English as "we ourselves"?
Sinn Fein

15) Film, in which 1988 film does Tom Cruise kidnap his autistic brother played by Dustin Hoffman?
Rain Man

16) TV, which actor played Uncle Albert in ‘Only Fools and Horses’?
Buster Merryfield

17) Written by Neil Diamond, which group had a 1983 UK hit with “Red Red Wine”?
UB40

18) Science, how many square inches are there in a square foot?
      144

19) Classical music, who wrote the famous ‘Water Music’ which premiered on July 17^th 1717?
George Fredric Handel

20) ) History, which war between England and France, lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453?
‘The Hundred Years' War was a long-running struggle from 1337 to 1453 between two royal dynasties, the Plantagenets of England and the Valois of France, for the throne of France

21) Food and drink, what type of beans are used to make baked beans?
   Haricot Beans

22) Geography, Wellington is the capital city of which country?
New Zealand

23) Literature, what 1936 novel did Daphne Du Maurier write about Cornish shipwreckers?
         Jamaica Inn

24) Who is the current UK Chancellor of the Exchequer?
   Rishi Sunak

25) ♪♫Round, Like a circle in a spiral
            Like a wheel within a wheel
            Never ending or beginning
            On an ever-spinning reel♪♫

From what song are those the opening lines?
   The Windmills of Your Mind

POP GROUPS BONUS QUESTIONS

BQ1) Eric Burdon was lead singer with which 1960’s group?
The Animals

BQ2) Which group had a 1994 hit with ‘Love is all around’, where it stayed at number one for 15 weeks?
Wet Wet Wet

BQ3) Who was The Beatle’s first drummer, being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962?
Pete Best

BQ4) Which group hada 1973 hit with ‘Part of the Union’?
The Strawbs

BQ5) Which progressive rock group were founded by Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, and later joined by Dave Gilmour?
Pink Floyd

STINKER) What is the name of the style of prose with which William Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets. consisting of ten syllables in a specific pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, or a short syllable followed by a long syllable.
    Iambic Pentameter

TRICKY) Science, what unit of energy is defined as the heat required to raise one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius?, think weight loss
One Calorie

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