Off Topic Baldrick's Summer Quiz - Part 2

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Baldrick's Cunning Plan

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Answers next week - no cheating...

1) What year was the Concorde’s first flight?
2) Which company developed the first mobile phone?
3) Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
4) What is the name of the ship that rescued Titanic passengers hours after the ship went down?
5) In Greek mythology, who was known as the messenger of the gods?
6) What alcoholic beverage is made from juniper berries?
7) What song was behind the very first music video to ever premiere on MTV?
8) How did Otis Redding die?
9) What was the first — and still only — horror movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
10) What is the cube root of 64?
11) Who is the author of "The Sun Also Rises"?
12) What is the most common blood type in humans?
13) Which is the largest desert in the world?
14) What does the MP stand for in the term MP3 player?
15) Which planet is known as the Dwarf Planet?
16) Who was the Prime Minister of Britain at the outset of World War I?
17) Which is the only body part that is fully grown from birth?
18) What is the main ingredient in sauerkraut?
19) Which country has the most volcanoes?
20) Which Duran Duran song opened with a sample of laughter from the keyboardist’s girlfriend?
 
1. 1969. i assume this doesn't include test flights.
2. sony.
3.. cheetah,
4.
5. hermes.
6. sloe gin.
7. dire straits - money for nothing.
8. plane crash.
9. the exorcist.
10. 4.
11.
12. o minus.
13. antarctica.
14. machine protocol
15. pluto maybe.
16.
17. eyes.
18. cabbage
19 malaysia
20. hungry like the wolf.
 
1) 1968
2) Nokia
3) Horse
4) Carpathia
5) Hermes
6) Gin
7) Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
8) Drowned in the dock of the bay
9) Psycho
10) 8
11) J.G. Ballard
12) O
13) Sahara
14) music protocol
15) Saturn
16) Lord Beaverbrook
17) Spleen
18) Cabbage
19) Iceland
20) Save a Little Prayer
 
Answers below...

1) What year was the Concorde’s first flight?
2) Which company developed the first mobile phone?
3) Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
4) What is the name of the ship that rescued Titanic passengers hours after the ship went down?
5) In Greek mythology, who was known as the messenger of the gods?
6) What alcoholic beverage is made from juniper berries?
7) What song was behind the very first music video to ever premiere on MTV?
8) How did Otis Redding die?
9) What was the first — and still only — horror movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
10) What is the cube root of 64?
11) Who is the author of "The Sun Also Rises"?
12) What is the most common blood type in humans?
13) Which is the largest desert in the world?
14) What does the MP stand for in the term MP3 player?
15) Which planet is known as the Dwarf Planet?
16) Who was the Prime Minister of Britain at the outset of World War I?
17) Which is the only body part that is fully grown from birth?
18) What is the main ingredient in sauerkraut?
19) Which country has the most volcanoes?

20) Which Duran Duran song opened with a sample of laughter from the keyboardist’s girlfriend?

1) 1969
2) Motorola
3) Horse
4) The Carpathia
5) Hermes
6) Gin
7) “Video Killed the Radio Star”
8) A plane crash
9) Silence of the Lambs
10) 4
11) Ernest Hemingway
12) O Positive
13) Antarctica Desert
14) Moving Picture
15) Pluto
16) Herbert Asquith
17) Eyes
18) Cabbage
19) Indonesia
20) Hungry Like the Wolf

 
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