Pub quiz questions

[Fionn]

I do a Weds night pub quiz and without wishing to be a bore and repeat loads of questions, I thought some of you might want to try the lyric and the anagram questions from last night:

Which English word is an anagram of EARTH BORN?
We had 15 minutes to get it and and couldn't between 7 of us!

From which song does this lyric come:
I don't wanna stay (play?) in your penthouse, I'm going back to my plough...

Sobernow, I didn't have a clue on the song but have been singing it all day and thinking shhh! Elton John really did do some good songs and maybe I should buy a Best Of...Is that very sad of me? I used to love "Daniel", it made me cry as an 8 year-old!

Is it abhorrent? That's all I can come up with.

Faith, well done! How long did it take you?
Sobernow: What's the highest capital in Europe? Which holiday is celebrated annually in the US on 2 Feb?
Which poet was expelled from Eton and Oxford?
In what year (same year) were the films The Sting and The Exorcist released?
What links Elvis Presley, Carol Thatcher and Henry Cooper?
Where was The Titanic launched?

I'm off to bed, you'll have to wait till tomorrow for the answers!

Ummm.... isn't 2nd February groundhog day? Didn't know it was an official holiday though.

The capital could be Madrid perhaps? Or perhaps Andorra La Vella or Valduz if the smaller countries are included?

Guess the poets probably Shelly, and I think Titanic was built in Belfast so I'd guess launched there too.

No idea about Elvis Presley, Carol Thatcher and Henry Cooper though (unless they're all twins - Carol Thatcher certainly is, don't know about the others).

Too late at night for this - my brain hurts!!!

Titanic was built in Liverpool - remember it from the film - but sailed from Southampton.

Carol Thatcher et al - yes they are all twins, I think. Didn't Elvis's twin die as a baby?

Oh - of all of those Titanic being built in Belfast was the only one I thought I knew for certain!!!

And thinking about it a bit longer I'm pretty sure that Andorra La Vella must be the highest capital - it's over 1000m IIRC and can't think of anywhere else which would be even close to that.

Feb 2nd is Presidents' Day - I think. Was sure the Titanic was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast. The Sting & The Exorcist - I'm guessing 1977?

Now have I got time to hunt around on the net to check my answers? No, no - back to work! back to work!

Presidents day is a moveable feast not a fixed date - it's always the 3rd Monday in February

February 2nd is groundhog's day - big deal here, coming of spring and all that.

Also my dear father's birthday - so was always a big day in our house...

I think the poet might be Byron. (Mad, bad and dangerous to know.)

And I'm sure The Sting was right after Butch Cassidy - more like 67 or 68.

Carol Thatcher is a twin and I think the others are too. (Elvis's died at birth I think.)

Maybe it was just registered in Liverpool.

sobernow, I looked it up on google later - The Sting was 1973 (Butch Cassidy was 1969 - could have sworn it was earlier!) - so either it came round again where you lived or you were allowed out earlier than you remember!

How about this one, which sport has the most deaths? R

Sorry didn't come across very well I mean whilst playing the sport which sport has the highest number of deaths attached to it. r

Yes, the answers are Madrid, Groundhog Day, Shelley (Byron was at Cambridge and probably got sent down too!), 1973, all twins and Belfast.

Not sure about Madrid - think it's the highest of any of the large countries (about 600m?) but nowhere near the height of Andorrra la Vella (or perhaps Principalities don't count as countries?)

I'd have guessed something like Power Boat racing for the dangerous sports - but I've got a niggling feeling that I've heard somewhere that in the UK it's fishing?

No the sport linked with the most deaths in this country (I should have said) is bowls! tee hee! R