1) Ian Rush 2) Stockport County....Until the new Everton stadium opens for business. 3) True 4) Dundee Utd and Dundee 5) Backbone 6) 69 7) Life is Good 8) Verona 9) Polio 10) Canada 11) Ten Commandments or Gandhi 12) You Can Drive my Car 13) Greece 14) Sharks 15) In the British crown 16) None 17) Melbourne in Australia 18) Bird 19) BARack Obama 20) Japan All guesses and no use of Google.
Seen a few answers for 11 but seem to remember mention of it being Gandhi on a television programme. Auckland is further south than Melbourne. The John Lennon one was A Day In The Life. I am old enough to remember him mentioning it at the time,
i know several of these, for a change. 1. the welsh one whose name i can't remember (just saw his name when scrolling through and i'm pretty sure it's who i thought, but i couldn't remember it) 2 ha! the trick question i've known for ages! stockport county 3 false 4 dundee and dundee united 5 6 37 7 lucky goldstar 8 verona 9 cow pox 10 11 zulu 12 a day in the life 13 the moon 14 tsetse flies, though they might not be considered animals 15 tower of london 16 none 17 johannesberg 18 bird 19 20 japan
He injected the first patients with matter collected from sore of a milk maid infected with cow pox. However, he was inoculating them against Small Pox as he'd noticed people who'd been infected with cow pox were immune to small pox. The word vaccine is derived from the Latin word for cow - Vacca. *Sorry blame what ever BBC podcast on vaccines I listened to
I always thought it was Ben-Hur so I just looked it up and I was wrong that's only tenth. Spoiler: The 1982 movie version of Gandhi had a cast of 300,000....credits must have taken hours Doubt it'll ever be exceeded now when you can just CGI in crowds.
If you add together all those things, it's still well below the almost 1m people a year killed by mosquitos.
1 Robbie Earnshaw 2 Stockport County 3 True 4 Nottingham Forest and Notts County 5 Coccyx 6 37 7 8 Verona 9 Smallpox 10 Canada 11 12 13 Mars 14 Mosquito 15 Tower of London 16 0, just cartilage 17 Auckland 18 Bird 19 Reagan 20 India
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11) Which movie holds the record for the most extras ever? Answer: https://collider.com/gandhi-movie-most-extras-record/ 20) Which country replaced France as the world's biggest buyer of Scotch whisky by volume? Answer: https://www.scotch-whisky.org.uk/newsroom/2024-export-figures/
April 2025 Quiz. Answers below... 1) Who is the only UK footballer to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and for his country? 2) Which football club's ground is closest to the River Mersey? 3) Sheffield United won the FA Cup final in 1915 at Old Trafford. True or false? 4) What are the 2 closest football grounds in the UK? 5) Which bone are babies born without? 6) What is the square root of 1369 7) What does LG stand for in LG Electronics? 8) Which Italian town is the setting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? 9) The first vaccine was developed for which disease? 10) In which country was Bruce Willis born? 11) Which movie holds the record for the most extras ever? 12) John Lennon (mainly) found unlikely inspiration from The Daily Mail, reporting a car crash involving 21-year-old Guinness heir Tara Browne in Earl’s Court. What song did he write? 13) Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain found where? 14) What animal kills the most humans each year? 15) Where is the largest diamond ever found kept? 16) How many bones do sharks have? 17) What is the southernmost city in the world with a population over one million 18) What type of animal is the Australian Kookaburra? 19) What US president was a bartender? 20) Which country replaced France as the world's biggest buyer of Scotch whisky by volume?
Answers... 1) Robert Earnshaw 2) Stockport County's Edgeley Park (not Liverpool, not Everton and not Tranmere Rovers) 3) True 4) Dundee United's Tannadice and Dundee's Dens Park 5) Knee cap 6) 37 7) Lucky-Goldstar 8) Verona 9) Smallpox 10) West Germany 11) Ghandi 12)‘A Day in the Life’ 13) Mars 14) The mosquito 15) The Cullinan Diamond, the largest gem-quality diamond ever found, is kept in the Tower of London as part of the British Crown Jewels 16) Zero 17) The southernmost city in the world with a population exceeding 1 million is Santiago, Chile 18) Bird 19) Abraham Lincoln 20) India
