Off Topic The Saturday Quiz

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

 

Blimey, is it a type of lug worm?

 

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

 

He's 'waxing' lyrical again.

 

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

 

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

 

Figures. Not sure what they need protecting from though.

 

Gordon Ramsay

worra ****

 

Never trust a man with hair transplants.

With a face like that, what's the point

 

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 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.

 

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.

 

I beg your pardon?

 

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.