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QUIZ October 2012

1.If Ganymede and Lo are numbers 3 & 4, what are Nos 1 & 2? Titan & Callisto--Aggers
2. What did Anthony Gormley make?[color=#FF0000]Angel of the North--JoM[/color]
3. What did Bill Moggridge design?First Laptop--Debih
4. What have silver, purple, orange and month have in common? [color=#FF0000]No words rhyme with them--Kaz[/color]
5. What is chalara fraxinea? [color=#FF0000]Disease of ash trees--Louise[/color]
6. What was Ostia Antica?Harbour City for Ancient Rome--Cromwell
7. What is a wisent?A bison--Louise
8. Who painted the ceiling of the Banqueting House in London?Peter Reubens--Debih
9. What are Tyndale and Coverdale versions of?Bible translations-Cromwell
10. Which playwright was born in Zlin?Tom Stoppard--Cromwell
11. Which is the oldest independent private railway?[color=#0000FF]Ffestiniog[/color]
12. Who was the first FA Cup Final referee? [color=#0000FF][color=#0000FF]Alfred Stair[/color][/color]
13. What was unusual about the referee in 1956?He only had one arm--Debih with help from Mike
14. Who was the first player sent off in an FA Cup Final?-- Kevin Moran of MU
15. Who was the longest serving Prime Minister in the 20th Century?Margaret Thatcher--JoM[color=#FF0000][/color]
16. Who is the father of the world wide web?Tim Bernero-Lee--Kaz
17. If the Northumbrian was the last, what was the name of the first?Rocket
18. What year was the first Christmas card sent?1843
19. What is the connection between a frog, a helicopter and a horse drawn carriage?.Road signs
20. What is Frank Baum famous for?Wrote Wizard od Oz--Kaz
21. What is special about Walter Tull?First black army officer
22. What would you hunt with smiles and soap?A Snark--Nana
23. How many senators sit in the US Senate?100-Aggers
24. What does Laura Harvey manage?Arsenal Ladies football team--JoM
25. What did Eddie Thornalley get in October?An expensive sheep dog--Debih
26. What is the real name of “Bunty Bagshaw”?Sarah Kennedy--Molly
27. What did William Huskisson become?First railway fatality--Cromwell
28. Eugene Cernan was the last one do do what?Walk on the moon-Cromwell
29. What connects Mary Pickford, Kim Wilde & Sugar Ray Robinson?All named Smith--Debih
30. What started life in 1793 and finished in 1957?
31. What have Ebb & Flow done? Crashed into the surface of the moon--JoM
32. Which is the odd one—Silver, gold, red, blue?Silver-Others are archery targets
33. Who wrote “The Young Visitors”?Daisy Ashford--Louise
34. What well known song is in Nabucco?Chorus of the Hebrew slaves
35. What were the first names of “Red” Adair, the oil well firefighter?
36. What is the German city of Solingen known as?City of Blades
37. Lee Bouvier was better known as? Jackie Kennedy--Molly
38. What is the diameter of an ice hockey puck?Three inches--Cromwell
39. What was a Junkers JU87 aircraft also known as?Stuka bomber-Cromwell
40. What is an “Ament”?Flower of a catkin--Aggers

37. Jackie Kennedy's sister?

20) Writing The Wizard of Oz

16) Tim Berners-Lee

Kaz & Nanna,
Please read the rules!!
I did say the quiz only starts at 5.p.m

I am not saying if the answers are correct until after 5.00 p.m

27. William Husskison was the first man to be run over by a train.
39. The Ju87 was the Stuka.

But you did`nt say what time the Qiz would start

21 First Black professional Footballer

lissie wrote:But you did`nt say what time the Qiz would start

Yes I di. If you read the rules it does say %.00 p.m on 26th December 2012.