Re: Pub Quiz [2003/12/02]

I'll have a go at this lot without reading other followups.

Gareth Owen writes:
> 1.  Anagram of : A NATIONAL HERO, MILORDS (famous person)

Admiral Horatio Nelson

> 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?  

Using a handheld cell phone while driving.

> 3.  At what age does lamb become mutton? 
> 4.  For what is the computer known as ERNIE used?

UK national lottery.

> 5.  How many balls are used for billiards? 

3.  (Of course, to many of us, "billiards" is a general term
including all games played with that sort of equipment.)

> 6.  How many furlongs make a mile? 

8.

> 7.  How many pieces does each player have at the beginning of a game of 
>     Backgammon? 

15.

> 8.  If you had both X and Y chromosomes, what sex would you be? 

Male.

> 9.  In mythology, what animal was half lion and half eagle? 

Gryphon.

> 10. On which British Island is Beaumaris Castle? 
> 11. Today is Britney Spears' birthday.  How old is she? 

22?

> 12. What colour is a live lobster? 

Greenish brown.

> 13. What is a female fox called? 

Vixen.

> 14. What is a perfect score at ten pin bowling? 

300.

> 15. True or false : Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski have the same birthday? 
> 16. Anagram of : WORRY, I'M BANAL (famous person)

Larry Bi Woman. :-)

> 17. What is the name of the rabbit in the film Bambi? 

Thumper.

> 18. What substance is a mixture of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter? 

The original form of gunpowder.

> 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? 

Nissan?

> 23. Which organisation operated out of Tracy Island? 
> 24. Which poisonous metalloid chemical element has the symbol 'As'? 

Arsenic.

> 25. Who has been assisted by Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King? 

John Steed.

> 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? 

Ludwig van Beethoven.

> 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? 

True.
-- 
Mark Brader, Toronto   |  "...everything else in [the] list is wrong;
[EMAIL PROTECTED]            |   why should [this] be correct?"  -- Rob Novak

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