Off Topic The Saturday Quiz

Dare I say a little easier than usual?


The questions
1 Three-year-old Eliza Armstrong was the first patient at which hospital?
2 What is the world’s largest trade book fair?
3 Marduk was the chief god of which city?
4 Which songwriter was musical director for Marlene Dietrich?
5 Which three countries border both Russia and China?
6 Hakuhō Shō is considered the greatest ever competitor in which sport?
7 Where is England’s only statue of Bonnie Prince Charlie?
8 How is the boss of Stratton Oakmont described in a film title?
What links:
9 Labino; Lalique; Lipofsky; Liskova; Littleton?
10 Arius; Marcion; Nestorius; Pelagius; Sabellius?
11 Zika virus; chikungunya; West Nile virus; dengue; malaria?
12 Pui Fan Lee; voice of Jack Black; Turin and Piacenza; 84?
13 Cunningham; Owen; Beckham; McManaman; Woodgate?
14 Washington DC (1st and 2nd); Buffalo (3rd); Dallas (4th)?
15 Pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto; programmer Vitalik Buterin; singer Akon?

 

Impressed by the early start Chazz.
1/15
( but only if the answer to number 1 is HRI?)

 

got 1/15, number 13, all England internationals who have played for Real Madrid

 

Good shout, I should have got that.

 

1/15

2. Frankfurt Book Fair. I go for work every year.

 

Oh I think I might know 8 too.

 

I knew 7 cos I’ve worked there

 

I knew number 6.... SUMO..

I think number 10 are players from Turkey we are currently looking at but have not appeared on the transfer thread...

 

1 Hull Children's Hospital
2 Toronto..or is that the film festival?
3 Gotham?
4 Irving Berlin?
5 *****lia, Afghanistan and one more of them there Stans
6 Sumo
7 Berwick
8 Wolf of Wall Street
What links:
9 names of theatres
10 made up deities.
11 illness for which there is no known cure?
12 Disney films
13 All English guys who have played for Real Madrid
14 places where US Presidents have been assassinated.
15 Named after places.

 

Clue to #10 ? But no smoking gun ! There's a second clue on the same album (song title related). Maybe two more?

 

#2 would be Frankfurt maybe?

 

never heard of Frankfurt book festival...btw.....Its not Ross-on-Wye is it...?

edit..trade book fair... New York City has a big'un.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Book_Fair

 

# 7. Quite a few from North of the border may dispute that

 

Berwick is defo in England...or did Nicola Sturgeon move the border?
ie which English team knocked Glasgow Rangers out of the Scottish cup? Berwick Rangers.

 

True, it now is, but control of the area around the current area of Berwick changed hands between the Scots and the English a number of times in the past. Similar to Alsace/Lorraine between France and Germany (treaties of Frankfurt and Versailles reversed).

 

See post #5

 

3. Babylon

 

You need to purchase some Neal Hardin books...He's great...