Off Topic The Saturday Quiz

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Do ya worst
13 is just ace

The questions
1 Six Nobel prizes have involved research into which insects?
2 Where did Changeover Day take place on 14 February, 1966?
3 What was carried by Simon from Cyrene?
4 Which writer’s daughter was Princess Diana’s stepmother?
5 Which South American country has Atlantic and Pacific coastlines?
6 Stan Campbell sang which 1980s protest song?
7 What claims to be the world’s first fully vegan football club?
8 Where did liberty horses perform?
What links:
9 Milos, Greece; Arles, France; Willendorf, Austria?
10 Mercury; Rodgers; Lambert?
11 Margaret of Anjou & Elizabeth Woodville; Lucy Cavendish; Elizabeth Hughes?
12 Roll hoop; halo; Hans device?
13 Founder of Moscow; first Mr Men character; 1976 Kenner action doll?
14 Lusitania; Aquitania; Dacia; Belgica; Britannia?
15 Jennet Humfrye; Johnny Cash; Gary Player; Jonah Lomu?

 

[dennisboothstash]

4 Barbara Cartland
5. More than one surely? Columbia / Chile? (My geography is terrible…are they both technically South America?)
6. Free ee ee Nelson Mandela
7. Forest Green
8. Circus rings?

10 Queen singers
11. Head protection

15 Kidney disease? (cheerful guess!)

Think I got more than usual but not checked hence question marks

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

4 Barbara Cartland
5. More than one surely? Columbia / Chile? (My geography is terrible…are they both technically South America?)
6. Free ee ee Nelson Mandela
7. Forest Green
8. Circus rings?

10 Queen singers
11. Head protection

15 Kidney disease? (cheerful guess!)

Think I got more than usual but not checked hence question marks

I’m very pleased with 11 not your answer
Cos I worked there
You need to think about 15 a bit more den!!!!!

 

[Ric Glasgow]

4 Barbara Cartland
5. More than one surely? Columbia / Chile? (My geography is terrible…are they both technically South America?)
6. Free ee ee Nelson Mandela
7. Forest Green
8. Circus rings?

10 Queen singers
11. Head protection

15 Kidney disease? (cheerful guess!)

Think I got more than usual but not checked hence question marks

Good effort DBT!! I got 3,which is a vast improvement on my normal 'effort'...

Answers can be found in the Guardian for those who cheat

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Good effort DBT!! I got 3,which is a vast improvement on my normal 'effort'...

Answers can be found in the Guardian for those who cheat

Such a lie
Don’t look everyone
I think these up myself

 

[Ric Glasgow]

Such a lie
Don’t look everyone
I think these up myself

You are Thomas Eaton and I claim my £5

P.S,can't you post one from the Star for the more educationally challenged like me?

 

[dennisboothstash]

Such a lie
Don’t look everyone
I think these up myself

while scoffing tofu...

 

[dennisboothstash]

I’m very pleased with 11 not your answer
Cos I worked there
You need to think about 15 a bit more den!!!!!

Oh...
Smith & Nephew for 11?

15 was a wld stab in the dark just based on Lumo and Cash (my favourite 70's detective duo...)

 

[Frank Fingers]

while scoffing tofu...

I'll have a stab at Locusts for 1, or Bees.
13: Mr Happy although this seems unlikely for Moscow
Random guess of 8: Moulin Rouge for the Liberty horses or Barnum's Circus.

 

[Frank Fingers]

I’m very pleased with 11 not your answer
Cos I worked there
You need to think about 15 a bit more den!!!!!

For 15, Player used to always wear Black didn't he? Don't know much about egg-chasing but assume Lomu was an all black. And the other two ... er yeah. Them too.

 

[Frank Fingers]

For 15, Player used to always wear Black didn't he? Don't know much about egg-chasing but assume Lomu was an all black. And the other two ... er yeah. Them too.

Or they were all short-arses and only chose their careers after being told they were too short to play football.

I think this is the right answer.


Yes, has to be

 

[Ric Glasgow]

For 15, Player used to always wear Black didn't he? Don't know much about egg-chasing but assume Lomu was an all black. And the other two ... er yeah. Them too.

Guardian says yes

 

[dennisboothstash]

For 15, Player used to always wear Black didn't he? Don't know much about egg-chasing but assume Lomu was an all black. And the other two ... er yeah. Them too.

Bit rubbish if that is the answer...he also played for Cardiff Blues (Lumo not Cash)

 

[dennisboothstash]

Guardian says yes

Guardian is wrong...not for the first time

 

[AlRawdah]

2. Sweden
6. Camouflage
11. Roman amphitheatres

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

2. Sweden
6. Camouflage
11. Roman amphitheatres

Think you mean 9

 

[Frank Fingers]

Think you mean 9

9 Milos, Greece; Arles, France; Willendorf, Austria?
Camouflage.

Naah.

 

[dennisboothstash]

Is 14 the romans? Or bits of the Roman Empire?

 

[Ernie Shackleton]

3 Cross



Cross? Bet he was furious.

 

[Help!]

1 mosquitoes? Edit, no damn it, it’ll be fruit flies. Biologists love ‘em

8 the circus

13 long arms (I’ll admit to googling the founder of Moscow to verify my answer, but had got it from the other 2)