Pub Quiz [2003/12/02]

1.  Anagram of : A NATIONAL HERO, MILORDS (famous person)
2.  At 2am on Monday morning a woman from Dundee, stopped for drunk driving
    became the first person in the UK charged with what offence?  
3.  At what age does lamb become mutton? 
4.  For what is the computer known as ERNIE used?
5.  How many balls are used for billiards? 
6.  How many furlongs make a mile? 
7.  How many pieces does each player have at the beginning of a game of 
    Backgammon? 
8.  If you had both X and Y chromosomes, what sex would you be? 
9.  In mythology, what animal was half lion and half eagle? 
10. On which British Island is Beaumaris Castle? 
11. Today is Britney Spears' birthday.  How old is she? 
12. What colour is a live lobster? 
13. What is a female fox called? 
14. What is a perfect score at ten pin bowling? 
15. True or false : Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski have the same birthday? 
16. Anagram of : WORRY, I'M BANAL (famous person)
17. What is the name of the rabbit in the film Bambi? 
18. What substance is a mixture of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter? 
19. What was the name of Michael Jackson's chimp? 
20. When the UK national lottery started, there were only two machines in use. 
    Name either of them?
21. Where are Valentine's Brook, Beecher's brook and the Melling Road? 
22. Which Japanese car company make the Lexus marque? 
23. Which organisation operated out of Tracy Island? 
24. Which poisonous metalloid chemical element has the symbol 'As'? 
25. Who has been assisted by Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King? 
26. Who is president of the Republic of Ireland? 
27. Who were the first german group to have a UK #1 single? 
28. Whose works in the Eroica and Pastoral Symphonies and the 
    Emperor Piano Concerto? 
29. Why was Lieutenant General Sir Michael Willcocks on the News, if not
    necessarily *in* the news, last week? 
30. True or false : In poker, a flush beats a straight? 

-- 
Gareth Owen
In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero,
Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.