1) Everton's Goodison Park 2) Michael Owen 3) Torino 4) Perth 5) Time of her marriage 6) Roary 7) Japan 8) Patton 9) xxxxxxxxxx 10) Air is thinner the higher you go. Less drag. 11) 0 12) Nicosia. 13) Poisoned 14) Fell off his perch 15) Thumbs up 16) H2O 17) I won't cheat, but there was a fight there. 18) Plants 19) Sting 20) Rep of Ireland and Northern Ireland confident on 10.
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is French-speaking because of the country's colonial history under Belgian rule. French is the official language of the DRC and is widely spoken in the country.
January 2025 Quiz. Answers below.... 1) At which English football ground did Pele lose his only World Cup match? 2) Who is the youngest player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League? 3) Which foreign football club paid £110,000 to sign Denis Law in 1961 4) In which Scottish city is St Johnstone FC based? 5) In Dickens' Great Expectations, Miss Havisham stopped her clock at 8.40. Why? 6) Name MGM's lion 7) Kosciusko is the highest mountain in which country? 8) Which general addressed his troops in the natural hollow of Cheesefoot Head, near Winchester? 9) Which common word begins and ends in 'und'? 10) Why do planes fly at high altitudes? 11) How many aircraft carriers did Germany have in World war 2? 12) What is the only capital city in the world divided by two countries? 13) In Romeo and Juliet, what was Romeo's cause of death? 14) What happened to US President William Henry Harrison at his inauguration? 15) What was the sign for gladiators' lives to be spared? 16) What is the chemical symbol for ice? 17) What is the largest French speaking city in the world? 18) What does a nucivorous animal eat? 19) Who sings the line "I Want My MTV" on the 1985 Dire Straits' hit "Money For Nothing"? 20) In which two countries was the 1970 movie Ryan's Daughter filmed?
Answers.... 1) Pelé's only World Cup loss was at Goodison Park in the 1966 FIFA World Cup 2) Michael Owen 3) Torino 4) Perth 5) This was the time her wedding had been cancelled 6) Leo 7) In Australia 8) Eisenhower, before D-DAY 9) Underground 10) They use less fuel that way 11) Germany never had a single operational aircraft carrier during the Second World War 12) Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, is the only capital city in the world that is divided by two countries.The city is divided between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots 13) Romeo dies by taking poison 14) It rained, he caught cold and died of pneumonia shortly afterwards 15) Thumbs-up 16) H2O, the same as for water 17) Incredible but true, Paris is not the most French-speaking city in the world. That title goes to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 18) Nuts 19) Sting (Gordon Sumner), from the Police doing his little cameo for Dire Straits 20) The 1970 film Ryan's Daughter was filmed in Ireland and South Africa (because of poor weather in Ireland)
1. Wembley 2. I think it’s still Rooney 3. Juventus 4. 5. She stopped her clock at 8:40 because the day didn’t meet her expectations. 6. Lenny 7. Uzbekistan 8. Custer 9. 10. Thinner air, so less resistance, faster, use less fuel. 11. 4 or 0 12. 13. Suicide by drinking poison. 14. Heart Attack? 15. Thumbs Up 16. H2O 17. Paris, but it’s probably somewhere in Africa really. 18. Grass 19. Sting 20. England & Wales
1) Old Trafford (random guess) 2) Wayne Rooney (guess) 3) Torino (It was on TS this week) 4) Perth? 5) That was the time she heard her wedding had been cancelled. (Thank you Jesper Fforde) 6) Roary (complete guess) 7) Norway (complete guess) 8) Oliver Cromwell? 9) Underground? 10) It's more fuel efficient as the air is thinner therefore less drag. 11) None. 12) Bratislava (I don't think that's right) 13) Suicide 14) Died? 15) Thumbs up. (I bet its not LOL) 16) H2O 17) Paris 18) Nuts? 19) The drummer, who also played a bank robber in that film....it'll come to me...Phil Collins? 20) Ireland and Canada?
Head slap on question 12. If it's the one I'm now thinking of I was there twice last year and 3 times the year before. Even worse I served on the bloody green line through the middle of it for a while in the mid-90s.
A decent 12.5, though I say it myself. It would have been more if I had cheated. 1) Everton's Goodison Park 2) Michael Owen 3) Torino 4) Perth 5) Time of her marriage 10) Air is thinner the higher you go. Less drag. 11) 0 12) Nicosia. 13) Poisoned 15) Thumbs up 16) H2O 19) Sting 20) Rep of Ireland
Regarding question number 12: It would be remiss of me not to point out that Nicosia is not in fact divided by two countries, as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not recognised as such by anyone except Turkey. Nicosia is divided between one country and one de facto state with very limited global recognition. As you where.
