Off Topic The Saturday Quiz

[Cityzen]

And for 15 the Bermuda Petrel was once thought extinct and now isn’t, so I’d guess that’s what that list is about.

****, I really am this sad.

Could be. They discovered a coelacanth the other year after it was long thought they were extinct.

 

[DMD]

Could be. They discovered a coelacanth the other ear after it was long thought they were extinct.

Blimey, is it a type of lug worm?

 

[Cityzen]

Blimey, is it a type of lug worm?

Are you altering my posts so you can post a witticism?

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Are you altering my posts so you can post a witticism?

He's 'waxing' lyrical again.

 

[HHH]

2 is surely Cornwall but that seems too obvious so it's probably Kent.

 

[Cityzen]

2 is surely Cornwall but that seems to obvious so it's probably Kent.

It is Cornwall. They are recognised as a protected minority group.

 

[HHH]

It is Cornwall. They are recognised as a protected minority group.

Figures. Not sure what they need protecting from though.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Figures. Not sure what they need protecting from though.

Gordon Ramsay

worra ****

 

[HHH]

Gordon Ramsay

worra ****

Never trust a man with hair transplants.

With a face like that, what's the point

 

[bradymk2]

The cornish national libertarion army was a highly dangerous paramilitary group

Please let us not mock

 

[HHH]

The cornish national libertarion army was a highly dangerous paramilitary group

Please let us not mock

The insides of a freshly baked pasty is like napalm. Nobody was laughing when they were firing pasty rockets into Devon.

Some of the sights in the burns units...

 

[The B&S Fanclub]

The answers
1 UN declaration...
2 Cumbria
3 French Lieutenants Woman
4 Chrysler
5 Henry 6th/ Henry 7th
6 No idea
7 Versace
8 Wrexham

All guesses, though I reckon 4 and 8 are correct.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Good luck with this anyone who gets double figures is cheating
FACT

The questions
1 What begins: “When in the Course of human events”?
2 Which English county is a member of the Celtic Congress?
3 Which novel’s original title was Margaret Hale?
4 Which New York skyscraper has fender and hubcap decorations?
5 Emma of Normandy was the mother of which two kings?
6 Why is the Etruscan shrew a record-breaker?
7 The head of Medusa is which fashion brand’s logo?
8 Which football club is nicknamed FC Hollywood?
What links:
9 Vasa, 1628; RMS Tayleur, 1854; RMS Titanic, 1912?
10 Malibu; thruster; fish; gun; tow-in?
11 Katniss Everdeen; Hawkeye; Legolas; Daryl Dixon?
12 Heel Holland Bakt; Le Meilleur Pâtissier; Das Grosse Backen?
13 Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu; Jeannine Deckers; Wendy Beckett?
14 Wales; Belgium; double-decker buses; football pitches?
15 Bermuda petrel; Laotian rock rat; terror skink; coelacanth?

Sorry all forgot to post the answers


The answers
1 US Declaration of Independence.
2 Cornwall.
3 North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell).
4 Chrysler building.
5 Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor.
6 Smallest mammal (by mass).
7 Versace.
8 Bayern Munich.
9 Ships that sank on their maiden voyage.
10 Types of surfboard.
11 Fictional archers: The Hunger Games; Marvel comics; The Lord of the Rings; The Walking Dead.
12 International versions of the Great British Bake Off: Dutch; French; German.
13 Famous nuns: Mother Teresa (original name); Singing Nun; TV art critic.
14 Common media comparisons of size.
15 Animals once thought to have been extinct.

 

[AlRawdah]

5 Harthacnut

I beg your pardon?

 

[Cityzen]

Sorry all forgot to post the answers


The answers
1 US Declaration of Independence.
2 Cornwall.
3 North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell).
4 Chrysler building.
5 Harthacnut and Edward the Confessor.
6 Smallest mammal (by mass).
7 Versace.
8 Bayern Munich.
9 Ships that sank on their maiden voyage.
10 Types of surfboard.
11 Fictional archers: The Hunger Games; Marvel comics; The Lord of the Rings; The Walking Dead.
12 International versions of the Great British Bake Off: Dutch; French; German.
13 Famous nuns: Mother Teresa (original name); Singing Nun; TV art critic.
14 Common media comparisons of size.
15 Animals once thought to have been extinct.

The Elizabeth Gaskell one was on Richard Osman’s quiz show a couple of days before you posted that. Wouldn’t have had a clue otherwise. BTW, it was Charles Dickens who insisted she changed the title. He was the editor of the magazine it was serialised in.