A Sunday Quiz - 07/09/2008

[i]Scot who made his mark in the motor industry…[/i]

:?: 1 — David Dunbar Buick, founder of the Buick Manufacturing Company that became General Motors, was born in which Scottish town.
:?: 2 — Which creatures are used as mallets and balls during the game of croquet in Alice In Wonderland.
:?: 3 — Which is America’s “Buckeye” state.
:?: 4 — Vitamin K helps our blood do what.
:?: 5 — Which group of islands west of Benbecula is also the name of a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
:?: 6 — Rearrange the name of the US firm that makes Photoshop software to create another name for a home.
:?: 7 — How did the expression “to cry wolf” originate.
:?: 8 — Which former world heavyweight champion boxer was nicknamed “the baddest man on the planet”.
:?: 9 — After which borough of New York was the US atomic bomb project named.
:?: 10 — A monopoly is when one company or individual has sole rights to a market. What is an oligopoly.
:?: 11 — What type of window might remind you of a famous European art gallery.
:?: 12 — Pyrophobia is a fear of what.
:?: 13 — Give the real names of the following authors — a/- George Orwell, b/-George Eliot, c/- Lewis Carroll, d/- Mark Twain.
:?: 14 — An icosahedron is a three-dimensional form with how many faces — five, 10, 15 or 20?
:?: 15 — In which year was David Beckham named FIFA World Player Of The Year.
:?: 16 — Where might you find a dhole — a/- on a roulette wheel, b/- in a gymnasium, c/- running wild in Asia, d/- growing in a garden.
:?: 17 — Name The Goons.
:?: 18 — What was Buffalo Bill’s real name.
:?: 19 — Rearrange MARSH STAR CENTREPIECE to reveal a chart-topping Welsh rock band.
:?: 20 — Cavies make good pets but what’s their more common name.

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Quiz Answers

:m_55: 1 — Arbroath in 1854.
:m_55: 2 — Flamingoes and hedgehogs.
:m_55: 3 — Ohio, because of the many buckeye trees that grew there.
:m_55: 4 — Clot.
:m_55: 5 — St Kilda.
:m_55: 6 — Adobe to abode.
:m_55: 7 — From Aesop’s fable of the bored shepherd boy who amused himself by falsely crying wolf. When a wolf did attack nobody responded because they thought it another hoax.
:m_55: 8 — Mike Tyson.
:m_55: 9 — Manhattan.
:m_55: 10 — A commercial activity dominated by a few large suppliers.
:m_55: 11 — A louvre window and The Louvre, Paris.
:m_55: 12 — Fire.
:m_55: 13 — a/- Eric Arthur Blair, b/- Mary Ann Evans, c/- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, d/- Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
:m_55: 14 — 20 faces.
:m_55: 15 — He wasn’t. He has been runner up twice — in 1999 and 2001.
:m_55: 16 — Running wild in Asia — it’s a wild dog.
:m_55: 17 — Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine.
:m_55: 18 — William Frederick Cody.
:m_55: 19 — Manic Street Preachers.
:m_55: 20 — Guinea pigs.

  1. Flamingos = mallets, hedgehogs = balls.

great concept :thumbsup:

if you can hold off on the answers though :smiley: was fun racking my brains on a Sunday morning though :clap:

DT.

Its a good idea, maybe put the answers up later in the week and we can have a go on sunday /monday :slight_smile:

Your wishes are my command. Could produce answers up on the following Sunday… how does that sound???

Sounds good to me :nod:

and me and if its popular then we could have a weekly list of those who got answers correct and have it updated each week, see who is brainy and who is not.

Those on the bottom could end up at the top with a enough digs may be.

Yes in deed… it would have been fun to work on… Cavie one was easy though… I have one named Honey, but do you know why they are called Guinea Pigs…
Two interesting possibilities.
Heidi

:trophy: Easy / hard??? … they’re only easy when you know the answers.

[QUOTE=Vortex;427389]Yes in deed… it would have been fun to work on… Cavie one was easy though… I have one named Honey, but do you know why they are called Guinea Pigs…
Two interesting possibilities.
Heidi[/QUOTE]

1/ They come from New Guinea

2/ They are pigs

3/ :smiley: Spot the incorrect answer/s