Pub Quiz thread

[yorkshirehornet]

What film creature is literally spineless?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

What film creature is literally spineless?

The Blob?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The Blob?

nooooo

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Not a bone in their big body

 

[colognehornet]

Not a bone in their big body

Are we talking about a giant squid ? Or something from Lord of the Rings ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Are we talking about a giant squid ? Or something from Lord of the Rings ?

not a squid but you are in the right territory........

 

[yorkshirehornet]

I would not want to swim with these

 

[Bolton's Boots]

I would not want to swim with these

Jellyfish?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Jellyfish?

I would swim in the seas with jellyfish around but not these fish....

 

[Bolton's Boots]

I would swim in the seas with jellyfish around but not these fish....

Lamprey?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Think.... Australian seas

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Blue-ringed octopus? Although I've never seen a film about them...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

no... we need some teeth in this one

 

[colognehornet]

Piranhas ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Bigger................... I was really surprised

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Surely not sharks? They do have spines - just not made out of bone...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Surely not sharks? They do have spines - just not made out of bone...

Yes that is it... sorry I was being too crpytic! yes made out of cartilage and not bone...
over to you.... and well done!

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Cheers yorkie.

Which sports stadium is generally considered to have been the first to have a rectractable roof?

 

[colognehornet]

Cheers yorkie.

Which sports stadium is generally considered to have been the first to have a rectractable roof?

I think this was the civic arena in Pittsburgh which was a multi purpose stadium - the retractable roof was built in 1961, but the stadium no longer exists. If you're talking about existing stadiums then I would guess at the Montreal olympic stadium.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

I think this was the civic arena in Pittsburgh which was a multi purpose stadium - the retractable roof was built in 1961, but the stadium no longer exists. If you're talking about existing stadiums then I would guess at the Montreal olympic stadium.

Sorry - wrong country, wrong era.