PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES: Who starred as Peter LaFleur in 2004’s Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story?

2 MUSIC: John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot and Michelle Phillips were the four members of which 1960s folk rock group?

3 TV & RADIO: The charts music show Top Of The Pops ended in which year? 4 SPORT & LEISURE: Which US city was accused of bribing voters in its successful bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics?

5 GEOGRAPHY &

HISTORY: In which country is the northernmost permanently inhabited settlement in the world? 6 SCIENCE & NATURE: The Vitruvian Man is a 1490 drawing by which famous artist and inventor? 7 ART & LITERATURE: Tomatoes, olive oil, capers, olives and anchovies form the basis of which Italian Neapolitan pasta sauce? 8 CELEBRITIES: Things Fall Apart was the debut novel by which acclaimed Nigerian writer?

9 WORDS: What is the meaning of troglodyte? a) a beer drinker b) a cave dweller c) an athlete.

10 IRELAND: How many terms did Éamon de Valera serve as taoiseach? 11 THIS YEAR: Following his success in the election, for how many successful terms has Vladimir Putin been elected president? 12 POT LUCK: The viral disease mumps causes extreme swelling in which part of the body?