A quiz for a Thursday some easy - some difficult - some downright fiendish

[Bosscat]

1 Which group had a hit with 'The Pushbike Song'?

2 What is the state capital of Maine?

3 What would you do with a sarape?
eat it - plant it - wear it

4 If you were 65 miles from Northampton, 80 miles from Lincoln, and 89 miles from Coventry in which city would you be?

5 What is the collective name for the islands of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and a small part of Indonesia?

6 What is the name given to a power structure in which the power rests with a small number of people?

7 The scientific name for which well known extinct creature means 'rapid thief' when translated?

8 In which European country are The Cliffs of Moher?

9 Who was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters?

10 Who is the only actor to have received two posthumous acting award nominations?

11 Which Viking is said the have discovered America?

12 Which chemical element has the atomic number 53?
chlorine - iodine - fluorine

13 What were the names of the three storms which battered the UK in December 2015?

14 In the northern hemisphere, an area of low pressure produces what wind direction? clockwise or anti-clockwise

15 Apart from 'Chaser' Shaun Wallace, who was known as The Dark Destroyer?

16 How was singer/songwriter Allan Smethurst better known?

17 What was the former name of the kitchen paper now known as Plenty?

18 What are cuisses de grenouilles?

19 Whose debut album in 1989 was 'Ten Good Reasons'?

20 Where can you buy a copy of Penguin News?

[Nonayforever]

Isn't it Wednesday ?

[lakedistrictclaret]

1. The Mixtures

[Bosscat]

No idea the days just flow ino each other these days

[Vino blanco]

1. The mixtures
2 Augusta
7 velociraptor.
9 Anne
11. Eric
12 Nigel Benn
16. Laughing Postman
18 frogs legs
20 Falklands.
Will now think about the rest for a moment.

[Bosscat]

1. The mixtures
2 Augusta
7 velociraptor.
9 Anne
11. Eric
12 Nigel Benn
16. Laughing Postman
18 frogs legs
20 Falklands.
Will now think about the rest for a moment.

[spadesclaret]

16. The Singing Postman

[Vino blanco]

6 oligarchy.

[Vino blanco]

10 James Dean

[spadesclaret]

5. Polynesia?

[spadesclaret]

17. Bounty

[Bosscat]

5. Polynesia?

No... its part of Oceania which includes Polynesia Micronesia etc etc. But its also not "Oceania" as that covers more than is included in the question ... I know thats as clear as mud but thats how it was explained to me

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

8. Ireland

[ralphdpomeroy]

4. Ely ...

Where I have played Subbuteo on several occasions...see I knew it would come in useful one day ...

[LeadBelly]

Just decided Ely myself, certainly somewhere over there- maybe Bury St Edmonds if that's a city.

[tiger76]

I'll get back to you with my answers tomorrow,gives me some thinking time.

[LeadBelly]

13 Anticlockwise (If I remember A level Geography (meteorology) correctly 52 years after the event).

[Bosscat]

13 Anticlockwise (If I remember A level Geography (meteorology) correctly 52 years after the event).

[Bosscat]

4. Ely ...

Where I have played Subbuteo on several occasions...see I knew it would come in useful one day ...

thats the one that had us scratching our heads here too ... I said Cambridge or Bury-St-Edmunds never thought of Bloody Ely

[Bosscat]

1 Which group had a hit with 'The Pushbike Song'?
The Mixtures

2 What is the state capital of Maine?

Augusta

3 What would you do with a sarape?
Wear it

4 If you were 65 miles from Northampton, 80 miles from Lincoln, and 89 miles from Coventry in which city would you be?
Ely

5 What is the collective name for the islands of Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and a small part of Indonesia?
Melanesia

6 What is the name given to a power structure in which the power rests with a small number of people?
Oligarchy

7 The scientific name for which well known extinct creature means 'rapid thief' when translated?
Velociraptor

8 In which European country are The Cliffs of Moher?
Republic of Ireland

9 Who was the youngest of the three Brontë sisters?
Anne

10 Who is the only actor to have received two posthumous acting award nominations?
James Dean

11 Which Viking is said the have discovered America?
Leif Erikson (went on to star in The High Chaparral as Big John Gannon)

12 Which chemical element has the atomic number 53?
Iodine

13 What were the names of the three storms which battered the UK in December 2015?

Desmond, Eva and Frank (Fact )

14 In the northern hemisphere, an area of low pressure produces what wind direction?

Anti-clockwise

15 Apart from 'Chaser' Shaun Wallace, who was known as The Dark Destroyer?

Nigel Benn

16 How was singer/songwriter Allan Smethurst better known?

Singing Postman

17 What was the former name of the kitchen paper now known as Plenty?

Bounty

18 What are cuisses de grenouilles?

Frogs Legs

19 Whose debut album in 1989 was 'Ten Good Reasons'?

Jason Donovan

20 Where can you buy a copy of Penguin News?

Falkland Islands