Off Topic The Saturday Quiz

no idea about the answers, other than a third of number 5 which has already been mentioned, but i thought i'd remind listeners that one of the hull city games in the 1904-5 season of friendlies, while awaiting elevation into the football league, was played against the coldstream guards (memory says 10-3, and it may have been against coldstream fc rather than the guards) and coldstream is further inland than the aforementioned berwick, on the scottish side of the river, but further south than berwick, near to kelso.

tory pm sir alec douglas-home is buried in coldstream. he is the only british pm to have played first class cricket.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/alec-douglas-home-12295

 

Sorry forgot to post the answers


The answers
1 Great Ormond Street.
2 Frankfurt.
3 Babylon.
4 Burt Bacharach.
5 Kazakhstan, Mongolia and North Korea.
6 Sumo wrestling.
7 Derby.
8 The Wolf of Wall Street.
9 Glass artists and designers.
10 Originators of early Christian heresies.
11 Main mosquito-borne diseases.
12 Po: Po in Teletubbies; Po in Kung Fu Panda; Po River flows through; Po(lonium) atomic number.
13 Englishmen who have played for Real Madrid football club?.
14 Location of US presidential assassinations.
15 Founded cryptocurrencies: bitcoin; ethereum; akoin.

 

Three and two-thirds. Not half bad for guesses. Though 14 was a banker.

 

Been a big headed **** like what I am
I was 8/8 then it went down a bit

 

Location of US presidential assassinations.
1865 Lincoln in Washington, in Ford theatre.
1881 Garfield in Washington
1901 McKinley in Buffalo
1963 Kennedy in Dallas in Dealy Plaza.

 

Erm

 

yes indeed.

 

Sorry bit late today
tough one

The questions
1 Which Filipino was assassinated at the airport later named after him?
2 Which non-feline has a scientific name meaning “fire-coloured cat”?
3 Sabrage is the technique of doing what with a sword?
4 Which Dickens novel has a female narrator?
5 Which football team has won more European Cups than league titles?
6 In the Bible, who lived to the age of 962?
7 Which dynasty originated in the second marriage of Catherine of Valois?
8 Which national opera company is based in Leeds?
What links:
9 23 in March; 73 in September?
10 Alexander Selkirk; John F Kennedy; Lucy Irvine?
11 Bears, cola bottles, fried eggs, heart throbs and rings?
12 Golden; Beaver; Evergreen; Last Frontier?
13 Oscar Wilde; David Irving; Johnny Depp; Rebekah Vardy?
14 Sharm el-Sheikh; Glasgow; Madrid; Katowice?
15 Bob Hayes (100m and wide receiver); Roger Kingdom (110m hurdles and speed coach)?

 

1 Begino Aquino
2 No idea
3 Cutting paper or toenails
4 David Copperfield
5 Nottingham For
6 Noah
7 Tudors
8 Northern
What links:
9 no idea
10 All cast away on a desert island. JFK was believed lost on a desert island during WWII
11 no idea
12 Types of trees
13 All contested a libel case in a court of law.
14 Location of G7 or G20 conferences.
15 Born in Memphis

All guesses. except 1, 5, 10

 

I really should start reading the Guardian ! 1 !!!

 

6. Jared, not Noah (though I think it’s a lie anyway)
9. New number plate year codes this year.
14. Venues for COPs.

also knew 5 and 13, as per the answers above.

 

I knew No. 9
I have some Lalique.
I also have some Beleek pottery.
I did have some Waterford Crystal that disappeared momentarily before my Decri Nisi.
Along with a lot of other stuff I didn't nail down.

 

11= Haribo sweets

 

without looking at the previoys replies:

1 (?) Aquino
2 Pass
3 Opening Champagne Bottles
4 Bleak House
5 Nottingham Forest
6 Methusalah
7 Tudors
8 Opera North
What links:
9 2023 car registrations
10 Castaways
11 Haribo
12 Nicknames of US Pacific Coast States (California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska)
13 Pass
14 COP Conference Locations
15 Won Olympic Golds and Super Bowl

 

11 has to be more specific

 

11 is the shapes in Haribo star mix
We have them for the grandkids and there is a pack next to me right now!

 

3. Opening champagne bottle? (I think the sword is a champagne sabre?)
4. Bleak House
5. Forest
6. Methuselah
8 Opera North
9. Registrations this year
11. Haribo Star Mix shapes, in a blue packet with a see through middle and Haribo in red lined with white (specific enough Chazz?)
13. libel cases
14. COP conference venues

 

Sure its not cutting toenails? Though champers bottles sounds more likely.

PS...Good quiz

 

I feel the Notts Forest answer is our Early Doors Pickles answer

 

Solid 10/10

The questions
1 Which Filipino was assassinated at the airport later named after him?

Gat Wick

2 Which non-feline has a scientific name meaning “fire-coloured cat”?

Pussy Galore

3 Sabrage is the technique of doing what with a sword?

Pegging

4 Which Dickens novel has a female narrator?

David Copperfield, it’s all about self identification.


5 Which football team has won more European Cups than league titles?

Detroit Lions

6 In the Bible, who lived to the age of 962?

Caan Dingle

7 Which dynasty originated in the second marriage of Catherine of Valois?

Carrington

8 Which national opera company is based in Leeds?

There’s actually two. Singapore’s & Bulgaria’s. Collectively known as the SingaAria National Opera Company.


What links:
9 23 in March; 73 in September?

Number of times Kemps attempted to give up smoking in the named months.

10 Alexander Selkirk; John F Kennedy; Lucy Irvine?

All named after famous comedians. Armstrong, Bishop & Beaumont.

11 Beers, cola bottles, fried eggs, heart throbs and rings?

Top of the Pops “freebies” in the 1970s

12 Golden; Beaver; Evergreen; Last Frontier?

The 4 stages of a woman’s vagina

13 Oscar Wilde; David Irving; Johnny Depp; Rebekah Vardy?

All named after famous footballers
Oscar, Beckham, Giles, Jamie.

14 Sharm el-Sheikh; Glasgow; Madrid; Katowice?

Most regretted places people have visited

15 Bob Hayes (100m and wide receiver); Roger Kingdom (110m hurdles and speed coach)?

Sex World Championship competitors.