PUB QUIZ

Answers on today’s solutions panel.

1 MOVIES:

Which James Bond film shares its name with the Jamaican estate once owned by Ian Fleming?

2 MUSIC:

Which singersongwriter was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar in 1946?

3 TV & RADIO:

Best known for his work on The Simpsons, which actor played Phoebe’s boyfriend David in Friends?

4 SPORT:

The name of which martial art is usually translated as ‘empty hand’?

5 FOOD & DRINK:

Imperator, Nantes, Chantenay and Danvers are varieties of which vegetable?

6 SCIENCE:

Which chemical element has the symbol Kr and atomic number 36, and can be found with other rare gases in fluorescent lamps?

7 LITERATURE:

Michael Crichton and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle both wrote novels with which title?

8 GEOGRAPHY:

The Murray is the longest river in which country?

9 WORDS:

What is the meaning of the word pantophobia? a) Fear of cooking, b) Fear of suffocating, c) Fear of everything.

10 IRELAND:

What is the largest lake within the Republic of Ireland?

11 THIS YEAR:

Which two East African countries officially declared an end to their 20-year war on July 9?

12 POT LUCK:

Which is the smallest positive whole number to require five syllables when spoken in English?