Pub Quiz thread

Which medical term literally means 'an eye-witnessing'?

 

I believe it's autopsy because originally they had to look at the body with their own eyes to see what someone had died of.

 

Certainly is - it comes from the Greek autos, meaning self, and opsis, meaning a sight.

Over to you...

 

Who changed his name from Vivian as a result of 'Gone with the Wind'?

 

Clue: he had something in common with a hornet keeper.

 

Which one?

 

That would be telling...something in common with a Carry On star too...

 

Hmm - anything to do with Sid James/David James?

 

Think that Skilly Williams/ Kenneth Williams is not possible. Too early.

 

Clive James (and I write that with some misgivings because I have to think up a question!)
Vivian became considered solely a girl's name after Vivien Leigh appeared in Gone with the Wind.

 

That's it, NZ. I guess life in an Aussie school might have been tough for a boy named Vivian.

 

Not so - it's a fairly common boy's name over there.

 

Fair enough, BB...I'm not sure how well Clive would have gone down in my school, marginally safer than Cedric or Cecil perhaps...

 

At school, we usually looked at what people's middle names were - one of my friends had the middle name Irvin. In 6th form we found out that the teacher who was Head of 6th form had the middle name Dudley, and in the 6th form we had a bit more leeway with what we could and couldn't say to teachers outside of lessons. Luckily for him, it was 6 years after my year left school that the first Harry Potter book was published. I couldn't take part in any of the comments as he was also Head of my house and most of the times I saw him was in House meetings or at House events and as House captain I couldn't make any comments in front of the younger pupils.

 

What do the following people have in common?
Xavi Hernández, Luis Enrique, Eugeny Zemeriak, Javier Soler,
Xavier Pascual

 

As today is El Clasico, they've all scored winners in that fixture when playing on the away side?

 

No but you are on the right track with Barcelona.

 

FC Barcelona are involved in more than football.

 

They are all tax dodgers whom the Spanish tax authorities refuse to chase?

 

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They may well be, but that is not what I had in mind.