Cynon Valley

While we’re stuck indoors, why not pit your wits against our quiz? Bridgend Quiz League general secretary Steve Kingscott has put together these posers for fun – can you get them all right? For more informatio­n about the league, which is suspended during

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■ 1. What wooden sporting item has a legal maximum length of 38 inches?

■ 2. Which singer appeared in the films Captain EO, Ghosts, Men in Black II & Miss Cast Away?

■ 3. What does QUANGO mean?

■ 4. The first interracia­l kiss on American TV appeared in which cult TV series?

■ 5. Which scientific factual weekly BBC TV show was axed in January 2003 after nearly 40 years?

■ 6. Nouakchott is the capital of which African country?

■ 7. Which legendary English football captain had the middle names Frederick Chelsea?

■ 8. What type of luxury, fishy foodstuff is Almas the world’s most expensive?

■ 9. Which US musician’s personalis­ed number plate on one of his Rolls Royces was 88 KEYS?

■ 10. Which English motorway is approximat­ely 118 miles long?

■ 11. Which well known revolution­ary leader appeared in the film Holiday in Mexico?

■ 12. What do TV’s Battlestar Galactica and the book Moby Dick have in common?

■ 13. The Tugrik is the unit of currency in which Asian country?

■ 14. On which part of the face would a blepharopl­asty operation be performed?

■ 15. What furniture system did Swede Gillis Lundgren invent in 1956?

■ 16. In 1983, which male British player won the first Wimbledon title since Fred Perry in 1936?

■ 17. What did Harry Enfield’s Loadsamone­y character do for a living?

■ 18. FINA is the governing body of which internatio­nal sport?

■ 19. What is the common name for the unusually shaped Araucaria tree?

■ 20. Which poet lived in Dove Cottage at Grasmere in the Lake District?

■ 21. Which scientist was offered, but turned down, the Presidency of Israel in 1952?

■ 22. By what name was designer Gabrielle Bonheur better known?

■ 23. In the song My Darling Clementine how did Clementine die?

■ 24. 433 is the highest possible score in which TV quiz show?

■ 25. In which famous road race is the slowest man of the day called a lanterne rouge?

■ 26. Which knighted actor claimed “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl”?

■ 27. What is the secret identity of the comic book character Barbara Gordon?

■ 28. Plovdiv and Varna are cities in which European country?

■ 29. Which Welsh resort gets its name from the French word mamelles, meaning breasts?

■ 30. Urquart Castle is on the shore of which world famous body of water?

 ?? DAVID J HOGAN ?? Harry Enfield as Loadsamone­y (Q17)
DAVID J HOGAN Harry Enfield as Loadsamone­y (Q17)
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 ??  ?? Fred Perry (Q16)
Fred Perry (Q16)
 ??  ?? Men In Black
II (Q2)
Men In Black II (Q2)

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