New Pub Quiz questions

[Fionn]

These are some of the questions from the pub quiz I went to last night:

Anagram: VILE NECTAR (the answer is one word)

Lyric: ...the sea is blue, I've seen it in the movies...

1 Which TV series featured the character Charlie Hungerford?

2 What is the name of Carlos Leon's daughter?

3 What is the state capital of Vermont?

4 Who is the current Secretary General?

5 What type of creature is a dace?

6 Food and Drink - Which spirit is used to make a Screwdriver?

7 In which novel does Bathsheba Everdene appear?

8 Which actress played Tommy's mother in the film Tommy?

9 Which sport was originally known as battledore?

10 Which British actor won a Golden Globe recently?

11 In which battle of the Crimean War did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place?

12 Five events have appeared at every modern summer Olympics: cycling, swimming, athletics, gymnastics and...?

13 Which South American country owns the Galapagos Islands?

14 In which language was The Emperor's New Clothes originally written?

15 Which group sang the theme tune to the Bond film The World is not Enough?

Answers tomorrow...

Thanks Fionn, only got a minute or so, so won't get very far but..

Lyric : Summer Holiday by Cliff
2. Lourdes
5. fish?
6. vodka
13. Ecuador?

Sorry, no good at anagrams

Summer holiday

2. Lourdes

3. European freshwater fish of the carp variety (according to my dic)

4. Vodka?

7 Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy) - lovely book

12 Showjumping ? (no idea, really!)

13 Ecuador

14 Danish (Hans Christian Andersen)

Anagram: Cantilever

3 montpelier

4 umm - the Secretary General of What?

9 Badminton
10 Albert Finney
11 Balaclava
12 fencing?
15 Garbage

1. Bergerac

4. Kofi Annan 5. Fish 7. Far from the Madding Crowd 8. Ann-Margret 9. Badminton 10. Albert Finney, for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm 11. Battle of Balaclava

1. Montpelier

Sorry, no. 4 should read Solicitor General - couldn't read my own scribble!

I'm too late, they've all gone. Bum.

Sorry Rhiannon - we need a way of adding to a thread without having to read the other posts first!

in that case 4. is harriet harman. didn't get to this in time today and everyone has already got the other ones i know! bum!

Yes no.12 is fencing, and you all got all the others. Marina, did you watch the Gathering Storm? I thought it was excellent, Finney was so believable as Churchill. Don't know why Vanessa Redgrave didn't portay his wife as Americanm though.

Fionn, yes I did, and thought it was very interesting and moving (the sub-plot about Linus Roache and Lena Headey's disabled son, for example). Did wonder whether Finney's sympathetic and charismatic interpretation contributed to Winston doing so well in Great Britons!
Despite O level history had also forgotten how many people thought WC had got the wrong end of the stick about Hitler before the war started.
Also wondered in passing about Clementine's accent.

er, ladies, his wife was british i think! his mother jennie was american. hope i have got that right now having raised head above general knowledge parapet. roy jenkins biography is really excellent if you want to pursue your interest in the great man.

I think you are right, bk. Wife, mother...sometimes hard to tell the difference in our house

Bossykate - I stand corrected then, it must have been his mother I was thinking of.

Try this little puzzler for fun
What is greater than God?
Rich people need it
Poor people have it
If you eat it you die.
What is it?

Nothing!

Well done Janh.How long did it take you?It took me about 15 mins.

Um, well, star, I might possibly have seen it before...!

(sorreee!)

Bet you can't wait for my next one then

Here's one that got me - what was sold on the ground floor of Grace Bros? (Are you being served?)

Well remembered, sobernow! I think it may have also been "stationery and leathergoods, underwear and shoes..."
(Takes me back! )

Ground floor perfumery,
stationery and leather goods,
wigs and haberdashery
kitchenware and food...going up

First floor telephones,
gents ready-made suits,
shirts, socks, ties, hats,
underwear and shoes...going up

Second floor carpets,
travel goods and bedding,
material, soft furnishings,
restaurant and teas. Going down!

Fantastic, GillW! Mind you, I don't think me and sobernow did at all badly considering it was, what, 20-odd years ago.