Answers next week, no cheating. If you Google the answers don't post. 1) Who became the first football player from Britain to command a transfer fee of £50,000? 2) Dundee United have played Barcelona 4 times. How many games did they win? 3) Only two national teams in the world have never lost a football match against Brazil. Name either one? 4) What is the highest horse racing course above sea level in the UK? 5) Ray Davies sung which top hit by The Kinks during the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony? 6) Whom did Robert E. Lee surrender to at Appomattox? 7) In 1976, Concorde's first commercial flight from Paris was to where? 8) How many prisoners were executed at Alcatraz penitentiary? 9) Who is the Roman God of War? 10) In Oliver Twist, what do ***in's boys call the handkerchiefs they pickpocket? 11} What is petrology the study of? 12) What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere? 13) Which trees produce acorns? 14) During World war 2, Operation Chastise is better known as what? 15) What part of a sailboat does the tiller move? 16) Which mountain range separates Europe and Asia? 17) Who was the first male actor to be paid $1 million for a role in "Bridge on the River Kwai"? - an extra point for the first actress to be paid the same fee for another film? 18) Christiania was a former capital of which country between 1624-1924? 19) Two records have the shortest title for a UK top 10 hit. Name either one? 20) What two disasters did Violet Jessop remarkably survive in the early part of the 20th century?
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Mars 10) 11} Rocks (I think) 12) CO2 13) Oaks 14) Dambusters Raid 15) Rudder 16) Caucasus 17) 18) 19) 20) Titanic and then another ship sinking in the First World war. Very slim picking from me this month. LOL
1) John Charles 2) 2 3) Croatia 4) Uttoxeter 5) Waterloo Sunset 6) U.S Grant 7) Rio de Janeiro 8) 0...sure Calif never as implemented the death pen.. 9) Trojan 10) Silks 11} Learning 12) Carbon Dioxide 13) Chestnut 14) Battle of the Bulge 15) Rudder 16) Carpathians 17) William Holden / Sophia Loren 18) Norway 19) She 20) Titanic....was one...Lusitania for 2nd. All guesses...NO use of Google for any......
Q20 - Answer -Jessop is best known for having survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been aboard the eldest of the three sister ships, RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
1. Dennis Law 2. 1 3. Qatar 4. Musselborough 5. You Really Got Me 6. Abraham Lincoln 7. New York 8. 0 9. Mars 10. 11. Alcohol 12. Carbon Dioxide 13. Oak 14. D Day Landings 15. The Rudder 16. Himalayas 17. Alec Guinness - Marilyn Monroe 18. Turkey 19. I 20. Titanic & San Francisco earthquake.
5 Watreloo Sunset 7 Bristol 9 Mars 11 Shells 12 Carbon Dioxide 13 Oak 15 Rudder 16 Urals 18 Norway 19 SOS (Abba) FBI (The Shadows)
1 think this must have been late 1950s. iirc, denis law joined torino for £110k circa 1962, so someone earlier. i'll guess brian clough. 2 guess: four 3 benin probably haven't played brazil so haven't lost against them. 4) What is the highest horse racing course above sea level in the UK? 4 5 waterloo sunset 6) Whom did Robert E. Lee surrender to at Appomattox? 6 7 new york 8 none 9 mars 10) In Oliver Twist, what do ***in's boys call the handkerchiefs they pickpocket? 10 11 rocks 12 carbon dioxide 13 oak 14) During World war 2, Operation Chastise is better known as what? 14 15 the rudder 16) Which mountain range separates Europe and Asia? 16 17 richard attenborough 18) Christiania was a former capital of which country between 1624-1924? 18 19 da da da by trio 20 guess: the sinking of the titanic and the sinking of the lusitania
