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Quiz 2 - Answers: A complete Pub Quiz

Written by Bill Turnbull

1       ENSURES QUOTA (anagram of a place in London)

Euston Square

2       In which film did Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall in love via the Internet

You've Got Mail

3       What flavouring is added to brandy and egg yolks to make advocaat

Vanilla

4       Which song was a hit for Anne Murray in the seventies and Boyzone in the nineties

You Needed Me

5       In Greek mythology who placed Callisto in the heavens as the constellation of Ursa Major

Zeus

6       Weka, cassowary and snoring rail are birds which do not do what

Fly

7       Which British aircraft company made the twin engined Buccaneer jet bomber

Blackburn

8       Which American president allegedly was born in a log cabin in 1809

Abraham Lincoln

9       Which country's flag used to be just a green rectangle

Libya (not since Ghaddafi was deposed)now)

10    What is sodium sesquicarbonate used for in the home

Bath salts

11    Where would you find the Marsh of Decay and the Marsh of Sleep

On the Moon

12    What is the name of the high school in the TV series Glee

William McKinley High School

13    By what name is the foodstuff lactobacillus bulgaris more commonly known

Yoghurt

14    On which island was Freddy Mercury born

Zanzibar

15    Stephen Island's Wren has the shortest interval from being discovered to going extinct, what happened to cause the extinction

A cat killed the lot

16    Who is the patron saint of The Czech Republic

Wenceslas

17    In which battle did the Sioux defeat General Custer (his last stand)

The Little Bighorn

18    Since the Norman invasion who is the only king of England never to have married

William 11

19    Which country celebrates Victoria Day every May

Canada

20    The Bernstein and Sondheim song Somewhere was written for which musical

West Side Story

21    Of what is Dendrophobia the unreasonable fear of

Trees

22    Which country disintegrated following the outbreak of civil war in 1992

Yugoslavia

23    What bay does the Golden Gate Strait lead into

San Francisco Bay

24    Which conveyance was first seen on the streets of London in 1861

Tram cars

25    By what name did we come to know actor Walter Williams

Bill Maynard

26    What is the collective noun for groundhogs

Repetition

27    What number on the Beaufort Scale describes the wind as near gale

Seven

28    Which planet in the Solar System is closest in size to Earth

Venus

29    What is the name of the great palace in Granada Spain, built by the Moors in the 13th century

The Alhambra

30    Which historical event is depicted on the Bayeux tapestry

The Norman Conquest Of

SPORTING TERMS

31    In which game are the terms cannon, peg-out and triple peel used

Croquet

32    In which sport can you suffer a wipe out

Surfing

33    In which sport are the officials nicknamed zebras

American football

34    In what sport would you hear bacon, hamburgers, chips, prunes, and spuds used

Mountain biking to do with injury / damage etc

35    Boss, flex, and vane are terms used in which sport

Archery

36    In the game of quoits what is the word for a quoit that circles the pin

Ringer

37    What ancient sport gave us the phrase "turning point"

Chariot racing

38    What sport are the terms crumb gatherers, followers, rovers and wings used

Australian rules football

39    What are large snow bumps known as in skiing terms

Moguls

40    Bump, hook, neck shot and wraps are all terms used in which sport

Polo


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